Inside LA STAGE History: Lobero Theatre and Arthur J. Beckhard
by JULIO MARTINEZ 1950, noted stage and screen thesp Charles Laughton was about to go on the road with the four-person play Don Juan in Hell, which he adapted from the third act of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Despite a successful trial run at downtown LA's Biltmore Theater, creatively nervous Laughton worried about the show's viability for a general audience, especially with a schedule that would even…