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From cultural icon Maya Angelou's visit to UCLA Live's Spoken Word Series, to L.A. new INKubator, Julio Martinez covers it all in this week's LA STAGE Insider. READ MORE
"I think we're just as surprised as anybody that it's worked so smoothly," Ron Orbach says with glee of co-directing Room Service with Bjorn Johnson, opening at Open Fist Jan. 21. READ M…
This is Barbara Lindsay's Free, a whimsical comedy that defies gravity, presented by Neo Theatre Ensemble at [Inside] the Ford. LA Stage Times had the opportunity to speak with director Wend…
I was rediscovering a lost Muse. And I don't mean Jeffrey. Jeffrey's not a Muse; just ask him. But rather it was the Muse he summoned in class. It was part of the deal. Inspiration, whethe…
A theatrical adding machine, perhaps? Now, in his long-running role as artistic director of Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Sossi is gearing up to present the West Coast premiere of Ad…
Let's look at the Ovation Awards and their ceremony in Thousand Oaks on MLK Day -- the good, the bad and the loud. Also, LA is suddenly enjoying an inadvertent circus festival in thre…
Photos from the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards Ceremony held at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center. All photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging. SEE MORE
As a designer, Ann passionately espouses ideas of using recyclable and thrift store materials in her work, and has pioneered agreements between theatres to share costumes. READ MORE
LA Stage Alliance thanks our sponsor Green Hasson Janks for sponsoring the 2009/2010 ceremony and serving as tabulators for the Ovation Award program. READ MORE
The white big top began to rise weeks ago " you come upon it suddenly if you rattle through Burbank on Metrolink " as Normand Latourelle once again prepares to open his horse-dominant show C…
"I first wrote the title as a joke," playwright Kim Rosenstock remembers. "I just thought it would be funny to hand my fellow students a title page that said 99 Ways to F**k a Swan." …
The winners of the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards are here! READ MORE
The Los Angeles premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre of Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited garnered across-the-board critical acclaim and sold-out houses during the initial weeks of its r…
Tweet it, Fbook it, and Livestream it! Be a part of the Ovation Awards Ceremony! READ MORE
The Ovation Awards ceremony ventures outside LA County, Gustavo Dudamel resembles a great mime from the best theater fan's seats in Disney Hall, and persistence pays off for the 24th Street …
What would make a theater company that produces only two plays a year choose, for its first production of 2011, a show about a couple who gives birth to something so formlessly screwed up …
From world premieres to an opening back in 1927, Julio Martinez covers it all in this week's LA STAGE Insider. READ MORE
Many of my actor friends think I spend way too much time trying to figure out what makes theater relevant in an age when the entire world is literally available in the palm of your hand. T…
It was one of seven plays sent to us by the prestigious English agent Jenne Casarotto. All were literate, provocative and well-written but none quite fit the bill. Why, you may wonder, onl…
Richard Tatum relates a happy series of circumstances that brought him into the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble fold as director of Group: A Musical, written by Adam Emperor Southard with m…
Watching Sammie Wayne maneuver his way around a stage, one would never guess that while studying at DePaul University he "didn't have the guts to major in theater." He says, "My dad wanted…
Amid the charming shops in the heart of Sierra Madre, a brilliantly lit marquee above the entrance of the Sierra Madre Playhouse lights up the night. Inside, a lobby lined with benches leads…
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a comedy of manners, is replete with hypocrisy, supposed infidelity, mistaken identities and eavesdropping. READ MORE
This year's seven Ovation Award nominees for Best Lighting Design in an Intimate Theatre are from productions at only three theaters- Theatre @ Boston Court, The Chance, and Antaeus.…
A haircut is part of John Lithgow's Stories by Heart at the Mark Taper Forum, where we see a big actor in a small but intricate ode to storytelling. The touring Hair fills the Pantages Th…
