85 stories by "Steve Julian"
As Mark Troy prepares to open his new play Anxiety at the Odyssey, he discusses some of his own anxieties and his obsessions over one minutia or another. On opening night, take a look at his…
Jonathan Groff was Tony-nominated for Spring Awakening and an Obie winner for two Craig Lucas plays. But now he's an LA actor, too, working not only in TV's Glee and Boss but also in the Mar…
Chance Theater, on the east side of Anaheim, tackles West Side Story with plans to make the audience feel more intimately rooted in gang turf and with borrowed LED lighting that promises to …
After two award-winning collaborations in the past year, actress Anne Gee Byrd and director Cameron Watson aim for a trifecta as they approach The Savannah Disputation, at the Colony. Watson…
A group of Native American playwrights speaks to the personal and the universal in offerings on display in free readings this weekend at the Autry. READ MORE
Playwright Vanessa Claire Stewart and actor French Stewart reveal the softer side of Buster Keaton in Stoneface. It premieres Friday night at Sacred Fools Theater. READ MORE
Tim Dang infuses East West Players' production of A Little Night Music, opening tonight, with a bit of Chinese culture and a lot of heart. READ MORE
Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo collaborate yet again to bring East LA history to the stage, this time with Louie Perez of Los Lobos. Their play Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, focus…
Richard Chamberlain, playing a stern father in The Heiress at Pasadena Playhouse, remembers his own "repressive" and "terrifying" father, as well as his own sunnier life since he came out of…
Director Brian Kite focused on casting young for his new revival of Miss Saigon. He also discusses his role as La Mirada's municipal theater maven " coming next season, Next to Normal. Can y…
Danielle Kennedy and Beth Kennedy, mother and daughter, discuss their separate specialties within the trenches of LA theater comedy. Danielle is about to open in Bart DeLorenzo's staging of …
Matthew Leavitt was once a neighbor of playwright Del Shores -- and the son of Shores' late producer. Now Leavitt is a playwright himself, and Shores is doing the producing -- of Leavitt's c…
The saga of casting Cleopatra for A Noise Within's Antony and Cleopatra also involved two of LA's other classical companies. Former Antaeus artistic director Jeanie Hackett wanted a role…
The new leaders of Antaeus, the classical theater company, include John Sloan, Rob Nagle and Bill Brochtrup. Discussing the changes at the company and its future prospects are Sloan and Nagl…
Kieren van den Blink, producing and starring in Bekah Brunstetter's Mine for her Little Beast Theatre at Elephant Lab, discusses the twists and turns and celebrity encounters as she "follows…
Bradley Whitford and Michael O'Keefe argue over art at lunch in Pasadena, while Roger Bart cracks jokes -- not far from what their characters do in Yasmina Reza's Art, at the Pasadena Playho…
Tony-winning actress Julie White wants to meet a guy who loves women, who isn't married, and who wouldn't inspire a sequel to the play Bad Dates --which her friend Theresa Rebeck wrote, base…
Throughout the Pasadena Playhouse's recent bankruptcy, the Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse, an organization of volunteer workers, tenaciously kept the faith. They have done so since 1979, …
The house managers of LA theaters have many roles to play and many stories to tell. They encounter texters, chicken eaters, sing-along specialists, surreptitious pets, fountain splashers, fa…
Producers Dan Friedman and Jessica Hanna discuss what happened behind the scenes at Monday's Ovation Awards ceremony. Then the two young siblings, David and Rachael Kartsonis, who streamed t…
The fifth of 17 siblings, Rochelle Duffy coaxed stories out of most of them, ultimately focusing on her conversations with one of her brothers when he was incarcerated. This material comes t…
Since its initial appearance at the small Hudson Theatre, Roger Bean's Life Could Be a Dream has graduated to bigger theaters for each of the last two years. Now it's at La Mirada Theatre. B…
Alan Alda, Gordon Davidson, Michael Ritchie, Susan Loewenberg and Sheldon Epps recall the warmth and versatility of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse producing director who died Monday. READ M…
A Noise Within finally moves into its long-awaited new home in east Pasadena, with a Twelfth Night opening Saturday. Artistic directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott show off the…
Noel Coward didn't spend all his time examining the foibles of the witty rich. In Peace in Our Time, he also imagined what might have happened in England if it had been taken over by the Naz…
