520 stories by "Julio Martinez"
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the 2010-14 HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Eddie Cantor (played by Stephen DeRosa) is prominently featured as an up-and-coming song-and-dance entertainer plying his tr…
For the final LA STAGEÂ Insider column of year 2015, I would like to spotlight the thoughts, reflections and hopes of varied members of our LA theater community.
Evelyn Rudie (who c…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
'Tis the season to believe in angels, and Sacred Fools Theater Company certainly has cause to affirm their existence " two of them, at least.
a potential crisis of oc…
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To inaugurate its second 50 years of underwriting, the National Endowment for the Arts is awarding $27.7 million in support of 1,126 projects in 49 states, plus America…
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The previously announced tuner, Titanic, has sunk out of Ahmanson Theatre's 2016 season lineup. Replacing it is the 2007 Tony-nominated Grey Gardens"Doug Wright (book),…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
father owned a restaurant, The Stage Coach Café, in the Trailways Bus Depot, located at 6th and Main Streets in Downtown Los Angeles for close to 40 years. On Friday a…
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Rubicon Theatre's 2016 mainstage season, Fair Ladies, Fine Gentlemen (and Others), begins with See Rock City, Arlene Hutton's 2007 second installment of the Nibro…
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Orange County's Chapman University will officially inaugurate its new $78-million, 88,000 square-foot performing arts complex, the Musco Center for the Arts"named for O…
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Renowned architect Frank Gehry, thinking a bit smaller than his Downtown LA Disney Concert Hall, is making his 99-seat debut as set designer for the West Coast premiere…
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In response to the lawsuit filed against Actors Equity Association by 18 members of the LA theater community, including Ed Asner, AEA issued this brief statement on Nov…
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A plethora of stage and screen notables"Jason Alexander, Barbara Bain, Shelley Fabares, Mike Farrell, Ed Harris, Gregory Harrison, Sharon Lawrence, Amy Madigan, Alan Ro…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
ever a theater could be cursed by a single event, it just might be the luxurious Majestic Theatre at 845 S. Broadway, built in 1908 by the firm of Edelman & Barnett…
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On October 16, eighteen members of the Los Angeles-area branch of Actors' Equity Association filed suit in LA federal court challenging AEA's decision to eliminate i…
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Skylight Theatre's hit premiere musical farce, El Grande CIRCUS de Coca Cola, closes down this weekend on Oct 18. That doesn't mean it is going away. This zany tuner by…
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Latino Theater Company (housed at downtown LA's Los Angeles Theatre Center) and Road Theatre Company in NoHo, are the only local recipients of the 2015 ICWP 50/50 Appla…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
obert Thaddeus (R. Thad) Taylor is born in Wendell, Ohio, on August 29, 1925. Moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, he trains as an electrical engineer prior to servin…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the final weeks of November 1930, when architects S. Charles Lee and S. Tilden Norton were in the announced final stages of constructing the monumentally ambitious, …
*Note: LA STAGE Insider is ordinarily published on Thursdays. We've bumped it to Wednesday this week because tomorrow we'll be announcing the 2015 Ovation Awards nominees.
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Following a five-year relationship with Sterling Events/The Fold concert promoters, Bootleg Theater, the downtown LA-adjacent performing arts center, is unifying all pr…
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Center Theatre Group announces the Mark Taper Forum's five-play 49th season, beginning with three West Coast premieres: The Mystery of Love & Sex by Bathsheba Doran…
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To celebrate its 25th year as a major live theater presence in LA, Fountain Theatre's 25th Anniversary Gala and Auction will honor Co-Artistic Director and award-winnin…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
1902, fledgling entrepreneur Charles A. Tegner opens a small real estate and insurance office in downtown Santa Monica. As he and the community around him begin to pros…
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This year's LA STAGEÂ Alliance Ovation Awards will be held Monday, Nov 9 at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre in Downtown LA. Entertainment trade magazine Varie…
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REDCAT at Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA has revealed a program of contemporary performing arts events for 2015-16 that includes a generous sampling of Internationa…
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The Latino Theater Company has announced its upcoming 2015 Fall season at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown LA, beginning with the West Coast premiere of In Lo…
