520 stories by "Julio Martinez"
Robert Patrick, the off-off-Broadway pioneer and author of Kennedy's Children, has lived a life on the edge. As he prepares to be honored by the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights next Tues…
Musical Theatre West hosts a memorial service and starts a scholarship fund in honor of frequent leading man John Bisom, who apparently took his own life last weekend...A Mamet and a Quaid j…
Spring Awakening, the musical, finally reaches one of LA's smaller theaters, where director Kate Sullivan hopes that an audience will be awakened to more of the details, while paying less. A…
More details on LA Theatre Works' move to KPFK...Latino Theater keeps planning for an LATC spring despite an eviction notice from the city of LA...Steven Fales brings his Mormon Boy trilogy …
LA premieres of Catch Me If You Can and Priscilla Queen of the Desert will be among the Broadway LA offerings...Theatricum announces season...Another show with Barbara Bain planned...Nomi Ly…
His Riverside childhood was rich in deaf culture. He went from Gallaudet to Hollywood and North Hollywood. Now, Deaf West's new artistic director David Kurs is bent on expanding …
Re-Animator the Musical is re-animating...Elephant Theatre suspends production activity for the rest of 2012 while strengthening the management and board...Deaf West's new artistic director …
Now it can be told --Â the story of an incident from veteran raconteur Burke Byrnes' youth in the '50s that he felt he couldn't tell in public as long as his father was alive. His father …
Sleepless in Seattle is taking a nap and won't be available for its previously scheduled Pasadena Playhouse gig...Fountain and Deaf West theaters collaborate on a new version of Cyrano...Amy…
Zina Bethune killed by hit-run driver...A season of premieres at the Colony, plus details on seasons at LA Opera and Musical Theatre West...KPFK to air LATW radio plays...Richard Chamberlain…
Stephen Eich discusses his experiences at Pasadena Playhouse, where's he about to exit his job as executive director, and his hopes for the playhouse and his own career...Wililam Shatner and…
Jane Lanier is no longer dancing, but she's choreographing and directing. Currently she's re-creating movement for non-dancers in Jason Edwards' staging of the Johnny Cash bio-musical Ring o…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival accepts applications and moves Fringe Central to the Open Fist...LA Opera news...Conan O'Brien headlines a Geffen fund-raiser...stage photographer and sometime …
Latino Theater Company announces a spring season at LATC despite a City Council vote to evict the company...CTG offers sections of Tweet Seats for Twitter users at two performances tonight..…
Latino Theater Company evicted from LATC...LA Opera focuses on outreach...CTG's Clybourne Park moving to Broadway, Mary Poppins returning to LA...The 1941 musical Let's Face It! faces a brie…
Ovo costume designer Liz Vandal consulted her own feelings about spiders in order to begin the designs for Cirque du Soleil's touring extravaganza, which focuses on insects and arachnids. A …
Victoria Clark will take over Bernadette Peters' role in the Follies import...Dany Margolies is laid off at Back Stage...Jordan Monsell of the returning Pulp Shakespeare speaks...From Hazard…
Raymond J. Barry's Awake in a World That Encourages Sleep attempts to explore economic inequity, war, power and other global themes through a three-character one-act. Barry, who also directs…
Jane Kaczmarek will start in the Geffen's Good People, directed by Matt Shakman...Hershey Felder steps behind the scenes of Mona Golabek's show...January is a big month for free readings ser…
A Noise Within's Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott receive A.C.T. honors while Bess Rous joins cast of The Jacksonian at the Geffen.  A new foursome of "adults b…
George Clooney to hit the boards...for one night. South Bay CLO introduces a new series at El Segundo Playhouse,while still searching for a hoe for it larger musicals series. Sloane Robinson…
The Ahmanson gets Follies but Book of Mormon goes to Hollywood's Pantages. Ojai not ready for full Equity theater. Nerve and Expecting to Fly debut in January while Peter Gallagher morphs in…
Jose Fructuoso is convicted of murdering Fountain Theatre's Ben Bradley. Two recently opened shows suspend performances but plan to return. Rubicon Theatre announces most of its 2012 program…
Raymond J. Barry writes, acts and directs at Electric Lodge while Gigi Bermingham displays her chanteuse talents at Boston Court. Michael Kearns spotlights World AIDS day; Tracy Letts an…
Michael Leoni's The Playground -- A Street Rock Musical was produced at several LA venues from 2004 to 2007, telling stories based on life in the New York streets. Now it's back, in a revise…
