520 stories by "Julio Martinez"
Nearly $300,000 of NEA grants go to LA-area stage companies....Miki Shelton is Antaeus Company's new executive director...Valery Ortiz plays a new role in Casa 0101's "In the Heights"...
The small-company Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles and its midsize counterpart are merging...Hollywood Fringe Festival dates are June 12-29...Kila Kitu directs...
Most of the area's major artistic directors will appear on a diversity panel at Pasadena Playhouse on Dec 16...Hal Landon tackles Scrooge #34...Edward Everett Horton's LA theater connection.…
Actor Dan Gerrity, who won LA awards in the '80s and '90s, dies in Santa Fe...LATW records "Reasons to be Happy"...Rubicon's four holiday attractions...Sandy Yu...Don Eitner.
Ticket prices for Midler's Mengers show break a Geffen Playhouse record...David Hyde Pierce will direct Taper's and Durang's "Vanya..."..."Newsies" en route to LA..."Stoneface" rescheduled...
Mayor Eric Garcetti's dismissal of Olga Garay-English from her job as head of LA's Cultural Affairs Dept. angers some of LA's theatrical leaders...KCET embellishea "Invisible Cities"...
Bitter Lemons' Colin Mitchell turns playwright for a revised revival of his "Breaking and Entering"...Skylight's LAb Works...Ovation nominee Gigi Bermingham...Preston Sturges' Sunset Strip s…
Chance Theater announces its first season in its larger quarters...LA's version of "Annapurna" scheduled for Off-Broadway...Ovation nominee Burt Grinstead...Whitefire Theatre history.
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…
Jim Royce leaves CTG...Antaeus announces its 2014 season...Changes in Laguna Playhouse season...Irene Diaz...Gene and Toni Bull Bua...
Theatre Unleashed moves to a new home, above Crown City Theatre in NoHo, and opens Steven Diet'z's "Trust." Gregory Crafts and Carlos Martinez talk.
Latino Theater Company wins $225,000 in Doris Duke money for next year's Encuentro festival..."Smokey Joe's" without the shimmy...Darin Anthony at Moving Arts...Alliance Rep history...
South Coast's buildings re-named after David Emmes and Martin Benson...Boston Court's 2014 season...Elyse Mirto from A Noise Within's "The Guardsman"...Oliver Hinsdell...
Matthew McCray and Deaf West adapt "Flowers for Algernon" into a signed-and-spoken story in which Charlie (Daniel Durant) is deaf, at Whitefire Theatre.
After a medical and academic career, Marthe Rachel Gold returned to the theater as a writer. Her onetime director John Frank Levey, now a prominent casting director, stages her "Lake Anne."
Bette Midler in John Logan's Sue Mengers show replaces "Coney Island Christmas" at the Geffen...Furious Theatre returns to the Carrie Hamilton with new artistic directors...
Paul McCartney and Tom Hanks are expected to participate in Shakespeare's Center's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" fund-raiser...Kevin Stidham plays Sherlock Holmes...Looking back at tiny Califor…
Chance Theater moves down the block and expands...Pasadena Playhouse reports bright 2012-13 figures...Theatre Unleashed moves...A look back at Richard Basehart Theatre...
Joyce Carol Oates' short play "Tone Clusters" receives its West Coast premiere at Theatricum Botanicum, featuring Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James, plus four Oates monologues.
New seasons for the Mark Taper Forum and 24 STreet Theatre...Deaf West tackles "Flowers for Algernon" at the Whitefire...Rmembering the Golden Theatre...
New seasons are announced for LA Theatre Works, CalRep and Native Voices. A glance back at the Golden Mall Playhouse in Burbank.
The long-awaited Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will open in October. Programming has been announced in its two theaters.
The Radar L.A. lineup will include the use of three of LA's vintage movie palaces...International City Theatre's season...Skylight honors McNally...West Coast Ensemble history...
French Stewart TV series delays Stoneface at Pasadena Playhouse...Hershey Felder's Rockstar at Laguna...Joyce Carol Oates at Theatricum...Gary Austin of Groundlings fame...
Musical Theatre West's new season...No more theater in Downey Civic season...A new name for the Pantages?...Francesco Vitali's brief moment as Hamlet...
