78 stories by "Charlotte Stoudt"
Messy, bold, desperately funny and deeply felt: "Neighbors" is worth getting to know.
Leading lighting designer Jennifer Tipton turns 73 on Saturday, and she'll probably spend her birthday working.
Hitchcock. King Lear. C.S. Lewis — Dakin Matthews has played his share of hefty dramatic roles on Los Angeles and Orange County stages as well as in television and film. Theatergoers f…
Talk about a fairy tale: “General Hospital” supercouple Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) were a Harlequin Romance on steroids. Now Geary finds equally fractured enc…
It was all done with bamboo skewers, recycling and free pizza. The ambitious set of "The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder," a play about the struggle to compile the Oxford English Dictionary…
Shrug off that fur, have a cocktail and dish the dirt with “Fallen Angels,” Art Manke’s irresistible production of a rarely seen Noel Coward comedy, now at the Pasadena Pla…
Does anyone in Ireland have a happy childhood? From Frank McCourt to Martin McDonagh, the Emerald Isle seems to eat its young with alarming frequency. And according to “Silent,” …
This December, celebrate sleight of hand — and I don’t mean shopping online. “Nothing to Hide,” the new magic show at the Geffen Playhouse featuring Derek DelGaudio a…
Dorothy isn’t the only one who got lost in Kansas. After World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese women married American GIs and resettled across the United States. We meet five of tho…
She dressed elephants and Audrey Hepburn, and apparently preferred the elephants. Hollywood’s most legendary costume designer dishes the dirt in a nostalgic one-woman show, “A Co…
It looks like “Mad Men,” but you’d never catch Don Draper at this shindig. The City Garage staging of Eugene Ionesco’s midcentury absurdist farce “The Bald Sopr…
The House of Atreus looks good on leather. Leather couches that is -- part of the seating at T1, the Bergamot Station Arts Center and new home of City Garage. The company’s inaugural p…
Shame and the British. They go together like tea and crumpets, Sandhurst and Sid Vicious. But South Coast Repertory’s broad staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s exercise in indignity,…
One percenters, hide those offshore accounts: Occupy LA—or something a lot like it—has been spotted at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center. The corruption of the privileg…
Come for the cupcakes, stay for the play. The Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival offers tasty concessions, but its onstage revels serve up plenty of eye candy.
In December 1988, the residents of a small Scottish town hosted unusual guests: dozens of corpses that lay for days in streets, fields and gardens until investigators could process them as f…
All the best stories are told in the kitchen — even the darkest ones. Think of Hélène Cixous’ “Oy!,” now at the Actors' Gang, as the rise and fall of the Third Reic…
They’re looking for a few good denouements. The Promenade Players Theater Company’s “Six Characters Looking for an Author” and Katselas Theatre Company’s solo s…
Join the actors in Room 28 at the Western Plaza for this up close and personal take on Stephen Belber's cult drama.Sex, drugs and a cheap motel for $15 an hour: Who says L.A. doesn't know an…
Sex, drugs and a cheap motel for $15 an hour: Who says L.A. doesn’t know anything about culture? The Smith and Martin Company and needtheater have taken the stage directions of “…
Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed” follows four people who, as one of them puts it, couldn’t identify their feelings in a police lineup. Translation: the…
It’s the end of the world as they know it, but the characters of George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” feel positively giddy. In Ellen Geer’s fleet, bouncy s…
Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy’s mom. Trouble ensues. This familiar love-hate triangle shapes “No Way Around but Through,” Scott Caan’s linguistically contorted dark …
He’s holy, he’s handsome, he’s dead. The good works — and good looks — of Pope John Paul II form the touchstone of “Charity: Part III of a Mexican Trilogy…
Like the man said, always be closing. In Cody Henderson's "The Bewildered Herd," now at Greenway Arts Alliance, everyone's after someone else's mental real estate. When he's not helping win …
