IN THE NEWS The 2017 opening night party for the Hollywood Fringe Festival will be held on June 7th at Fringe Central. To get a head-start on the Fringe experience, attend preview…
IN THE NEWS South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, with productions on its Segerstrom and Julianne Argyros Stages, will launch its 2017-18 season Sept. 2"30 with the mult…
by JULIO MARTINEZ the first 130-plus years of the United States' existence, the apex of upscale cultural life in the nation was live theater. By the 1880s, the introduction of formulaic …
IN THE NEWS The 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival guide is now available for you to view online. There are still pre-festival Fringe events to attend, including the final Workshop…
IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group has added to the considerable list of talent set for its 50th Anniversary Celebration, a one-night-only production from writer/director/produce…
IN THE NEWS Playwright and screenwriter Josefina López (Real Women Have Curves), founding artistic director of Casa 0101, will celebrate her 30th anniversary as a writer with t…
IN THE NEWS Laura Zucker has announced her plans to leave her 25-year position as Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission as of July 31, 2017. Under Ms. Zucke…
IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie has announced separate co-commissioning partnerships with four internationally renowned theatres. Chicago's Good…
IN THE NEWS Lythgoe Family Panto (LFP), in association with The Pasadena Playhouse, expands its annual Panto at the Playhouse for the holiday season, this year premiering Beauty a…
IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group announced its 50th-Anniversary Celebration, paying homage to 50 years of excellence and spotlighting CTG's education and community outreach progra…
IN THE NEWS Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena continues its free Community Engagement programming with a poetry reading and book signing with Dan O'Brien on Apr 9. P…
IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group invites current undergraduate and graduate-level college and university students to attend the Going Pro Career Fair, hosted by East Los Angeles C…
IN THE NEWS Building the Wall, a two-person play by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle, All the Way), will open on Mar 18 at the 99-seat Fountain …
IN THE NEWS Westwood's Geffen Playhouse will present Backstage at the Geffen, a 15th annual fundraising event including an online auction featuring luxury vacations, one-of-…
IN THE NEWS Westwood's Geffen Playhouse couldn't wait until the exact performance dates and directors were in place to announce its 2017/18 season, which will open with the Wes…
by JULIO MARTINEZ 1852, the great British tragedian Junius Brutus Booth was touring Northern California with a small troupe that included his sons, 21-year-old Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.…
IN THE NEWS Bootleg Theater announces its 10th Anniversary Mardi Gras Grand Bal Masque. Hosted by comedian Al Madrigal, Bootleg's Mardi Gras party features the talents of chanteur…
IN THE NEWS Artists at Play (founded in 2011) will present Chay Yew's drama Question 27, Question 28, in association with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center …
IN THE NEWS New York-based The Wooster Group will be touring The Town Hall Affair, based on Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's film, Town Bloody Hall, documenting a rowdy 1…
IN THE NEWS Rose Portillo, Daniel Valdez, Jeanine Mason, and Jeremy Ray Valdez will join previously announced Demián Bichir in the cast of Center Theatre Group's revival of Lui…
IN THE NEWS Sacred Fools Theatre has launched its 20th season, beginning with the West Coast premiere of Rose and the Rime"the tragic and magical story of the frozen town of Radio…
IN THE NEWS In its first LA performance since the early 1950s, Kurt Weill's rarely produced social indictment of apartheid-era South Africa, Lost in the Stars, will be staged by A…
by JULIO MARTINEZ 1950, noted stage and screen thesp Charles Laughton was about to go on the road with the four-person play Don Juan in Hell, which he adapted from the third act of Georg…
IN THE NEWS Theatre of Note in Hollywood has announced its 22nd Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, featuring more than 50 performers in an all-day, all-night extravaganza of c…
IN THE NEWS LA theater vets Gregory Crafts and Jenn Scuderi Crafts have launched the venue management firm StageCrafts LLC, officially taking control January 1 of local theatre sp…