Cornerstone Theater's Food Cycle continues with "Love on San Pedro," by James McManus, staged by Shishir Kurup. Citizens of Skid Row join the Cornerstone pros to examine their community.
Ellis Williams, playing one of the jurors in the black and white-cast "Twelve Angry Men" at Pasadena Playhouse, looks back on 35 years of acting, growing up in the South, and being on a jury.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix.
Six of the seven Ovation Awards winners from "The Nether" discuss their collaboration, along with director Neel Keller. It won more Ovations Sunday than any other production.
Jerry Mayer recalls how his TV writing career expanded into playwriting, as Santa Monica Playhouse brings back his "Aspirin & Elephants" on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
Companies to the southeast of Los Angeles dominate the musicals categories at the Ovation Awards. But where are the brand-new made-in-LA musicals?
LA STAGE Times garnered five nominations today for the 2013 National Entertainment Journalism Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club.
Photos from the 2013 Ovation Awards ceremony, produced last night at San Gabriel Mission Playhouse by LA STAGE Alliance...
Jennifer Haley's "The Nether" won seven Ovation Awards, helping Center Theatre Group win a total of 12 -- more than any other company. But "The Nether" didn't win in its production category.
Tracy Lore got a late start in musicals, but she has barely stopped since then. She's playing Frau Blucher in "Young Frankenstein" for the second time -- this version is Musical Theatre West…
Furious Theatre returns to its longtime Carrie Hamilton home at Pasadena Playhouse with only one of its founders, Vonessa Martin, in "Gidion's Knot." Darin Anthony directs.
Bitter Lemons' Colin Mitchell turns playwright for a revised revival of his "Breaking and Entering"...Skylight's LAb Works...Ovation nominee Gigi Bermingham...Preston Sturges' Sunset Strip s…
Deborah Puette maintains that David Lindsay-Abaire's "The Rabbit Hole" isn't a total trail of tears. She's starring in it at La Mirada Theatre.
Joe Iconis has been developing his garage-band musical "The Black Suits" for nearly a decade.. It receives its premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Pat Towne's staging of Ionesco's "Exit the King" for a new company at NoHo Actors' Studio uses the Geoffrey Rush/Neil Armfield translation. Its theme reminds Towne of the AIDS crisis.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix.
The "Intergalactic Nemesis" live-action graphic novel is passing through UCLA (Book 1) and Costa Mesa (Book 2). Touring Foley artist Cami Alys discusses the show's sound effects.
LATC goes to the Great Plans for "the road weeps, the well runs dry" and the better "Wild in Wichita." Plus "4000 Miles" at South Coast Rep and musicals about Walt Disney and Eva Peron.
Christian Levatino writes about his "Sunny Afternoon," at Theatre Asylum, which takes audiences into the world of JFK assassination theories.
MainStreet Theatre commissioned Luis Alfaro to write "Aesop in Rancho Cucamonga" for its youth audience. Director Robert Castro joined the process.
Bruce Norris' dark comedy "The Pain and the Itch" played Pasadena before his "Clybourne Park" fame. Now, a revival is set in Pacific Palisades. Jennifer Chambers directs Eric Hunnicutt and B…
Leslie Hardy approached her fear of death by riding a play, "A Good Grief," about four grieving people. Fierce Backbone is producing it at the Lounge.
Chance Theater announces its first season in its larger quarters...LA's version of "Annapurna" scheduled for Off-Broadway...Ovation nominee Burt Grinstead...Whitefire Theatre history.
Ann Noble shuttles between roles in "The Laramie Project -- Ten Yeats Later" and "The Liar," even as she maintains that she's first and foremost a writer.
Shirley Jo Finney believes she was destined to direct Marcus Gardley's "the road weeps, the well runs dry". She explains why as the play opens the LA leg of a rolling world premiere, at LATC.