Julian Sands moves from being the one performer in a Pinter evening to directing the one performer, Neil Dickson, in Stephen Wyatt's The Standard Bearer. Inspired by the Falklands War, the p…
The Shakespeare authorship dispute comes to a head as the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles bestows its Crystal Quill Awards on three adherents of different positions in the debate -- fi…
The theme for this year AxS Festival, a project by the Pasadena Arts Council in conjunction with the city's scientific institutions, is "Fire and Water." In one of the shows, a site-specific…
Best known to America as Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart began her career on the stage. As she prepares to perform the role of Nora in A Doll House for LA Theatre Works, she recalls some of h…
Michelle Duffy isn't just for musicals. The Ovation winner for Can Can is co-starring in Steven Dietz's non-musical Shooting Star at the Colony Theatre. What's next -- a reality TV show? REA…
Ghost Road Company's Ronnie Clark updates French philosopher Albert Camus' Le Malentendu or The Misunderstanding via a creative collaboration between composer David O, sound designer Cricket…
A month and a half in as Center Theatre Group's new managing director, Edward Rada could not be happier. "For me this goes back to being eight years old and going to the Pasadena Playhouse. …
Zoe Perry is neither French nor Irish. Yet she successfully took on the accent and the brogue this past year, performing as a French teenager in Lillian Hellman's Autumn Garden with the A…
Cabrillo Musc Theatre occupies a venue that Cabrillo artistic director Lewis Wilkenfeld describes as the largest theatrical house between Los Angeles and San Francisco -- the 1,800-seat Kavl…
A chance meeting a few years ago between Broad Stage director Dale Franzen and David Babani, her counterpart at London's Menier Chocolate Factory [pronounced men-YAY], has culminated in the …
Kathleen Freeman's 1945 Code of Ethics for stage actors, the subject of an article on LA stage Times in 2009, has been raising additional comment in the blogosphere recently. Meanwhile, …
Nothing about Charles Dillingham's decision to leave Center Theatre Group after 20 years was planned, nor is it retirement. "I don't use the 'R' word," says Dillingham, dressed in blue je…
Ellen Geer, turning 70, is eyeing a younger generation for possible successors to her role as artistic director of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum. Meanwhile, the company's upcoming season …
One of theater's triple threats " actor, singer, musician Michael Paternostro " sums up approaching his musical direction of Reprise's Kiss Me, Kate like this: "You're working for …
When Lee Melville smiles, his eyes beat him to it. The Editor-in-Chief of this publication, LA STAGE Times, smiles frequently as he reminisces over his 50-year career in theater: actor, s…
For a playwright who has enjoyed some 70 productions of his 51 or 52 plays " he's lost count " Tom Jacobson can take a moment to smile as two of his works go up over the same weekend…
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage director Dale Franzen is about to enter her fourth year leading the 499-seat main theater and the more intimate 99-seat companion, The Edye Second Space,…
Ask established actors when they got their first break, and many may say it came when they were children. They devised a skit and performed in the living room for their family, anxious for t…
For three weeks in 1966, Allan Miller left New York to teach actors in Ireland. The invitation came from a former student, Deirdre O'Connell, who had opened the Focus Theatre in …
In 1981, years before his roles in Top Gun, Bull Durham and The Shawshank Redemption, actor Tim Robbins and fellow actors from UCLA founded an experimental theater group in Los Ange…
It's a musical Nick Blaemire [pronounced BLAY-mire] began writing in 2003 as a freshman at the University of Michigan where he was studying musical theater performance. "It's about the…
No one can claim Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a comedy, so it is not the fare classically trained actor Stacy Keach would lean toward for relief. "I love comedy," Keach sa…
Part Cherokee, Seminole and Muskogee Creek on her father's side, Carolyn Dunn is among a growing cadre of Native American playwrights. Her play The Frybread Queen opens Saturday in the…
A 55 degree afternoon in Studio City is balmy for Chicago transplant George Wendt. He steps out of his black four-door in a black T-shirt and black shorts. He never appears chilly as he r…
Gigi, the movie, swept the Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture. Â The script was adapted in 1973 for the stage, but what you may see this month by the Reprise Theatre Comapny at UCLA's F…