520 stories by "Julio Martinez"
IN THE NEWS
Loft Ensemble has lost its space at 929 E. Second Street (the former home of the City Hearts arts outreach program) in downtown LA's Arts District. Not to be deterred,…
The upcoming Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016 will spotlight a plethora of new theatrical faces gracing our local stages. It is also providing an outlet for local stages to introduce their war…
IN THE NEWS
Following 21 months of renovations and an expenditure of $65.8 million, the historic, LA County Arts Commission-administered, 1,200-seat John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in…
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016 will descend upon Los Angeles anon (June 9-26). As the pre-Festival activities move forward, @ This Stage will provide newsworthy weekly updates leading up to …
IN THE NEWS
Seldom utilized for live theater, the Montalban Theatre in Hollywood is dusting off its stage and orchestra pit for the premiere of I Only have Eyes For You, highlighti…
IN THE NEWS
The Broad Stage has revealed a 2016-2017 season with a skimpy, two-production live theatre schedule. Solo performance diva Anna Deavere Smith takes the stage with Notes…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
famed European dance ensemble, The Berkoff Family, emigrated to the U.S. from Odessa, Russia, in the early 20th century, youngest daughter Frieda (1903-1976) became ena…
IN THE NEWS
AIDS Project Los Angeles' much-traveled, yearly Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E) is taking up residence at Beverly Hills' Wallis Annenberg Center fo…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the historic El Portal Theatre (built in 1926) was taken over by North Hollywood-based theatre ensemble, Actors Alley, in 1997, the space was converted into a 360-seat …
IN THE NEWS
Cabrillo Music Theatre, which has resided at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza for the last 22 years, is shutting down. Citing "escalating theatre costs, unmet commitments…
IN THE NEWS
In April 2007, Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances made its New York debut in Cherry Lane Theatre's Primary Stages season, following its premiere production at Fountain …
IN THE NEWS
Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre will inaugurate its new black box performance space, the 1700 Theatre, with Justin Tanner's Ovation Award-winning, three-chara…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the 1850s, eight newly arrived Jewish merchants spoke the first words of mamaloshen (Yiddish mother tongue) in the City of Angels. Fifty years later, the Jewish populat…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
October, 1985, highly motivated Artistic Director Bill Bushnell marshaled enough city, county, corporate and public support to move Los Angeles Actors Theatre (founded …
IN THE NEWS
LA's independent public TV broadcaster KCET, national satellite network Link TV (KCETlink), and visual media outlet explore.org are collaborating with Long Beach Opera …
IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group and Cornerstone Theater Company have both been accorded $115,000 grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's (DDCF) 2016 Building Demand for…
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NBC 4's favorite weatherman is reviving his one-person show, An Evening With Fritz Coleman, on March 5 as a fundraising event for the Colony Theatre in Burbank. Unfortu…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
, Community Television of Southern California, first signed on the air on September 28, 1964, as an affiliate of National Education Television (NET). When James Loper ca…
IN THE NEWS
Ron House, co-creator of the monumentally successful farces El Grande de Coca Cola and Bullshot Crummond, passed away Friday, January 29. House had re-created his iconi…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
Theatre Group has extended its Community as Creators Project " engaging LA communities in the creation of live theatre " to Leimert Park in the southern area of L…
IN THE NEWS
LA Opera at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will launch its six-production 2016-17 MainStage season with Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth, starring Artistic Director Plácido Domin…
THE THING IS
Hollywood has a new outlet for live theater. The Basement at Mack Sennett Studios will inaugurate its new space with the premiere of Salome, "a radically queer reinventio…
IN THE NEWS
Sheldon Epps is leaving his position as Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse at the end of the 2016-17 season. Epps joined the "State Theatre of California" in 1…
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La Mirada Theatre, in association with Sue Vaccaro, Ricky Stevens & The Rivet Gang, is hosting the pre-Broadway outing of Empire"a new Depression-era tuner focusing…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
an eight-season tenure there, Rogue Machine"one of LA's most successful 99-seat houses"is moving out of Theatre/Theater on West Pico Boulevard by the end of January. Th…
