Mark Baer, 2009 You might say that Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring has gone there and back again. After originating at NoHo's El Portal Theatre in 2004 and winn…
Mark BerndtUSC School of Dramatic Arts Dean Madeline Puzo What's in a name? Would that which we call the USC School of Theatre by any other name smell as sweet? Sweeter, apparently, or so i…
Alissa Walker When someone asks me if they have to rent a car when visiting L.A., I really, really, really, really want to say no. Of course you can experience L.A. without a car. I do it ev…
Tim NorrisA sacrifice to the godsBlending droll wit and broad farce, sketch-comedy troupe Lost Moon Radio hosted the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night in a taut show at Ava…
Star ForemanThis week is our annual theater issue, which looks at ensemble-created work -- work that's not written by a playwright typing by themselves on a computer, but created duri…
Brian GuillianClick on the image to make it bigger Zipping from Malibu to Manhattan, spending a month in Europe, regrouping and conferring with like-minded colleagues in a state-of-t…
Craig SchwartzAlan Mandell and Barry McGovern star in "Waiting for Godot" at the Taper​Lovell Estell III, a veteran aficionado of Samuel Beckett's works in general, and Waiting for Go…
Craig SchwartzAlan Mandell and Barry McGovern star in "Waiting for Godot" at the Taper​Lovell Estell III, a veteran aficionado of Samuel Beckett's works in general, and Waiting for Go…
Flickr/Deepwater Horizon Response When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010, most Angelenos experienced the oil spill's devastation secondhand through TV news reports, …
California Arts Council You've likely noticed this sun setting behind an iconic row of palms as it darted in front of you on the 405. But unless you've got one of these specialty pla…
Craig SchwartzRene Millan and Stepahnie Beatriz in Richard Montoya's "American Night," now playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre​Richard Montoya's American Night opened ​Sunday n…
Barry WeissCelebration Theatre's "The Color Purple"​Celebration Theatre's intimate-theater rendition of the musical, The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's novel, ​ is this …
Alexandra Goodman​Antaeus Company's double-cast production of Chekhov's The Seagull scored this week's Pick of the Week.​ Click here for all of this week's New Theater Reviews,…
Human ResourcesStill from My Barbarian's video Shakuntala DuBois Opening night of My Barbarian's new show, Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater, artist Anna Sew Hoy rolled and writ…
Kevin SharpThe tawdriness of family life, in "Figure 8" at Theatre of NOTE​Phinneas Kiyomura's discerning family drama, Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE, is this week's Pick of the Week. Å
Photo courtesy of the artistsThe Internationalists In 2007, a ragtag company of young CalArts grads by the name of Poor Dog Group made its debut on the stage of REDCAT's New Works Fes…
Rebecca HaithcoatSheri SandersInside the Lyric Theatre on La Brea, the compact Sheri Sanders is curled in a chair, squinting her eyes and smiling almost apologetically at the nervous …
Screenshots courtesy of StarcastThe "best performances" screen on StarcastStartups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. OK,…
Mariano Pensotti Argentinian theater auteur Mariano Pensotti has staged performance pieces on a Cologne train station platform, on the sidewalk of a Buenos Aires street and inside a b…
Aaron Morgan"Candida," produced by Crysalis Stage at The Complex​Chrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. ​ Our crit…
Steven Leigh MorrisMorris' chicken, Fortinbras​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publis…
Courtesy Jonathan ViguersJose Rivera's "Marisol" (Art of Acting Studio) is being reviewed this weekend. Check out all new stage reviews on Tuesday​Thanks for the comments on prior blo…
John FlynnCorryn Cummins and Sam Anderson in Blackbird, nominated for multiple awardsOn April 2, L.A. Weekly will honor the best work on our small stages from 2011 at the 33rd annual …
Jordan Elgalby"Sarah"s War is this week's Pick. Go to the jump for all other new stage reviews.​The nominees for the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards will be posted Wednesday ev…
Nanette Gonzales William Shatner, as you can imagine, has a lot to say. Now 80, the Star Trek legend opens his one-man show Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, on Broadway Fe…