This Week in LA Theatre
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS L.A.'s Latino Theater Company, in association with Latinx Theatre Commons, is hosting Encuentro de Las Américas, a three-week live theater festival fea…
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS L.A.'s Latino Theater Company, in association with Latinx Theatre Commons, is hosting Encuentro de Las Américas, a three-week live theater festival fea…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Sierra Madre Playhouse has obtained the services of Tim Dang, the former Ovation Award-winning Artistic Director of East West Players, to direct …
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Board of Trustees of South Coast Repertory (SCR) and Artistic Director Marc Masterson have determined that, after seven years of service, Master…
by Julio Martinez Playwright Oliver Mayer first came onto the L.A. theater scene in 1996 with the Mark Taper Forum's production of Mayer's Blade to the Heat, a highly expressionistic look a…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS East West Players (EWP) and the Robey Theatre Company (RTC) are reuniting to produce Philip Kan Gotanda's Yohen, about the struggles of an interraci…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks will host the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' 27th Annual Simply Shakespeare benefit performance on Sep 18 at the…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Los Angeles Theatre Works is kicking off its 2017-18 season with a special one-night only event honoring E. Randol Schoenberg, the attorney who succ…
By Julio Martinez From July 1943 until August 1949, I grew up in downtown Los Angeles, where my father managed the twelve restaurants in Downtown LA's Whelan's Drug Stores. He was headquart…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Theater, film, and television director Matt Shakman has been named Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse by the theater's Board of Directors and…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Magician/actor Albie Selznick has amalgamated twenty-five acts"drawn from The Magic Castle, America's Got Talent, Penn and Teller's Fool Us and more"int…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS East West Players announces its 52nd anniversary season kick-off fundraising event, One Night Only: EWP Night Market, to be held Sep 9 at East West …
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Celebration Theatre, under the artistic direction of Michael Matthews and Michael A. Shepperd, has announced its 2017-18 season of shows, beginning …
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS 24th Street Theatre kicks off its 20th year with the 2017-18 season opener, La Razón Blindada, ArÃstides Vargas' Spanish language political…
By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Dr. Dianne F. Harrison, president of California State University, Northridge, announced the renaming of CSUN's Valley Performing Arts Center as the …
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Lamenting the passing of director John Slade, who died Friday from injuries he sustained in a car accident that occurred last Thursday night as he…
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Falcon Theatre in Burbank is changing its name to the Garry Marshall Theatre. Relaunching as a non-profit operation, the new theater will be l…
By Julio Martinez The conclusion of Julio Martinez's two-part history of the 99-seat/AEA Wars. In case you missed it, you can catch up on Part One here. By the 1970s, Actors' Equity Asso…
By JULIO MARTINEZ One evening in February 1981, I ventured to the Solari Theatre at 205 N. Canon Drive in Beverly Hills to see Arthur Miller's The Price. The classic four-hander, directed b…
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS In early 1972, Bill Bordy, a young actor from Pittsburgh, published the first Hollywood Drama-Logue Casting Sheet"a single, mimeographed, 8 1/2 x …
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Hollywood Bowl has announced the cast and creative team for a benefit performance of Sondheim On Sondheim, with music and lyrics by Stephen …
by Julio Martinez ABSURDISM... In Abby Schroering's Paper Flowers, directed by Dalin Tone, secrets, cellos, and farms all come together in one comedic hour. June 17, 18 at Sac…
by Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Impro Theatre's 11th anniversary season continues with the company's 2nd annual Pledge Drive UnScripted benefit, encompassing a 30-hour improv ma…
IN THE NEWS Los Angeles Stage Alliance's @ This Stage magazine continues its coverage of the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival through its complete run. DRAMA Friedrich…
IN THE NEWS At Fringe Central (6510 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood), mingle, network, and party at one or all of the following events: Fringe Opening Party (June 7, 7:30 pm)"Requi…
IN THE NEWS The deadline to apply to Center Theatre Group's 2017-2018 Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre has been extended to June 6. Block Party aims to highlight remar…