Scenic Design Challenges for Five Ovation-Nominated Shows
Scenic designer Tom Buderwitz discusses the five shows he designed that received Ovation Award nominations in 2012-13..
Scenic designer Tom Buderwitz discusses the five shows he designed that received Ovation Award nominations in 2012-13..
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The most-nominated individual women for this year's Ovation Awards, with four apiece, are the mid-career director and choreographer Tina Kronis and the young actress Micaela Martinez.
Non-profit theaters added nearly $2 billion to the US economy and appear to be bouncing back from some of the effects of the recession, according to a TCG study.
It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween -- witness "Wait Until Dark," "Urban Death Tour of terror," "The Afflicted," "Wicked Lit." But "Invisible Cities" is a different story.
See photos from the gathering of the 2013 Ovation Awards nominees.
Darryl Archibald, the musical director of "Kiss Me, Kate" with Davis Gaines and Victoria Strong,speaks out on behalf of big bands and Cabrillo Music Theatre.
Elena Hartwell's "A Strange Disappearance of Bees" compares a Vietnam vet's son and his new acquaintances with disappearing honeybees, for Collaborative Artists Ensemble.
Tucker Smallwood keeps riding "The Sunset Limited," now with Joe Spano at the Rubicon..."Earnest" at Athletic Club...Readings at Boston Court...Katie Rubin in "Why I Died"...Santa Monica Pla…
Steven Leigh Morris, best known as the LA Weekly theater maven, dons his playwright's cap for "Moskva," an adaptation of Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" at City Garage.
The transformation of Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery into a site for "Wicked Lit"'ss four dramatizations of horror stories requires a lot of planning by the production's designers.
The site-specific opera "Invisible Cities" turns Union Station into a setting for a tale involving Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, as well as travelers passing through LA. Director Yuval Sharon …
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As they re-set Frederick Knott's "Wait Until Dark" in 1944, director Matt Shakman and his designers at Geffen Playhouse discuss how to stage parts of the thriller in the dark.
Deception isn't so shameful in some comedies -- witness "Fast Company," "Don't Dress for Dinner," "The Guardsman" and "The Liar."
"Falling," by Deanna Jent, was inspired by an artistic director's own experiences as mother of a young man with autism. The West Coast premiere opens at Rogue Machine.
Philip Dawkins' "The Homosexuals", opening in Atwater, is Celebration Theatre's first production since leaving its previous home. Executive director Michael Kricfalusi talks about the move.
Playwright Carla Ching and director Bart DeLorenzo discuss "Fast Company," her new play about a family of grifters, o[pening at South Coast Repertory.
Jim Royce leaves CTG...Antaeus announces its 2014 season...Changes in Laguna Playhouse season...Irene Diaz...Gene and Toni Bull Bua...
New American Theatre begins its third partnership with and at the Odyssey, beginning with Strindberg's "Creditors," translated by David Greig. Jack Stehlin and Ron Sossi speak.
Denise Blasor, who directed Lina Gallegos' "Wild in Wichita" at the Bilingual Foundation and now brings the English version to LATC, enjoyed choosing the Latin music that plays between scene…
LA small-theater veteran actor and producer Don Boughton directs Jason Grote's "Civilization," which the playwright has made more LA-specific for Son of Semele.
Director Casey Stangl returns to Antaeus Company after her "Peace in Our Time" triumph to direct David Ives' "The Liar," a "translaptation" of Corneille's "Le Menteur."
Center Theatre Group has announced three finalists for its Richard Sherwood Award: Sean Cawelti, Yuval Sharon and Miranda Wright. The winner will receive $10,000; the others will receive $2…
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