520 stories by "Julio Martinez"
IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group celebrates 50 years at the Mark Taper Forum with a 2017-18 season that Artistic Director Michael Ritchie describes as "five plays that represent t…
IN THE NEWS
Ojai Playwrights Conference announces its ninth season, Aug 4-14, featuring new works by playwrights Robert Askins, Jon Robin Baitz, Aziza Barnes, Bekah Brunstetter, D…
IN THE NEWS
Venerable Long Beach Playhouse has not slowed down in its 88th year of production. Its eight-production, 2016-17 Mainstage season (dates TBA), begins with F. Andrew Le…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
Stock Market Crash of 1929 did not affect the Hollywood film industry, which flourished with the advent of talking pictures. But the early years of the Depression did t…
IN THE NEWS
On Tuesday, June 28, Actors' Equity Association (AEA) published a statement regarding the ongoing Asner v. Actors' Equity litigation. The full text can be found in @ T…
BEYOND THE FRINGE
The end of Hollywood Fringe Fest 2016 is upon us, but it's not the finale for a select number of Fringe shows chosen to extend their runs in conjunction with …
by JULIO MARTINEZ
evening, a small but focused contingent of Los Angeles theater professionals gathered at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights to listen to and take part in a panel discus…
IN THE NEWS
For its opening salvo as the first resident theatre company at Greenway Court Theatre, the Not Man Apart Theatre Ensemble"led by new Co-Artistic Directors Jones Welsh,…
FRINGE PODIUM
Actress/author Michelle Jewsbury developed the one-woman show, But I Love Him, based on her own experience with domestic violence. Jewsbury's Domestic Violence Semin…
IN THE NEWS
Latino Theater Company at Downtown's Los Angeles Theatre Center has garnered a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support capacity building activit…
IN THE NEWS
The 7th annual Hollywood Fringe Festival officially opened yesterday, following a week of previews. There were over 800 attendees at last night's 2016 Opening Night Pa…
IN THE NEWS
Last week's Center Theatre Group release announcing the upcoming Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2016-2017 season made intriguing mention of the launch of Block Party: Celebrat…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
1986, I interviewed character actor King Donovan, who was in the midst of a bus-and-truck tour of On the Twentieth Century co-starring his wife, Imogene Coca. My per…
ENSEMBLE SURREAL
Sacred Fools Black Box Space is hosting two large cast revivals during Fringe Fest: Loft Ensemble, still renovating its new home in Sherman Oaks (former home of L…
IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group continues its 50-year sojourn in LA, announcing Kirk Douglas Theatre's 13th season, which includes: four premiere regular season productions, two …
NEWS
This year's Hollywood Fringe Fest is underwriting five 2016 Fringe Scholarships, selected from nearly 40 applicants. In this debut grant, the winners are Disrupted, written a…
IN THE NEWS
It is surprising that broadcast TV juggernaut CBS is not underwriting this effort, but Deaf West Theatre"whose production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's Spring Awa…
NEWS
Academy Award nominee/Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison, in a pre-recorded cameo, has joined the cast of Grey Ensemble Theatre's premiere of Fuck My Life, focusing on how the…
IN THE NEWS
Construction is underway to convert an empty commercial building into Antaeus Theatre's new cultural arts center at 110 East Broadway in Glendale. When complete, this …
NEWS
After seven short years, Hollywood Fringe Festival has managed to garner what venerable Edinburgh Fringe (founded in 1947) has not accomplished in 69 years: financial recogni…
IN MEMORY OFÂ WILLIAM SCHALLERT
(July 6, 1922"May 8, 2016)
August 2000, I was invited to the home of actor William Schallert, where he graciously allowed me to mine the memories o…
NOTEWORTHY
Making its Hollywood Fringe debut is writer/artist Charlotte Dean's collection of short fiction, Charlotte's Shorts, spotlighting "the most loveable, self-centered, …
IN THE NEWS
The Laguna Playhouse Board of Directors has selected Ellen Richard to be its Interim Executive Director. She will assume the position while the Playhouse is underta…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
 1984 Summer Olympic Games were awarded to Los Angeles in 1978. And, as stipulated by the Olympic Charter, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC) was ma…
On Sunday, May 1st, tickets go on sale for all productions participating in the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
AT THE NEW RESIDENCE
Sacred Fools is not only supp…
