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We are days away from the end of 2015 and "What a ride it's been!" This year the greater Los Angeles Theatre Community discovered it was more than just the sum of its parts. We came to reali…
2015 was a big year for Los Angeles Theatre and here at FootLights, we couldn’t be more proud. Every step of the way brought enormous upheaval and sometimes difficult change for the co…
Huffington Post writer Brad Schreiber gives his 10 best theater productions in Los Angeles for the year 2015. Both the Geffen Playhouse and the Fountain Theatre score twice on his list.
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Playbill: The Off-Broadway musical Daddy Long Legs made theatre history December 10 by being the first-ever Off-Broadway performance to be broadcast online to the world for free. The broadca…
Bitter Lemons:Â As a site that aggregates reviews of Los Angeles theater, Bitter Lemons offers a unique perspective in what was the most compelling " or at least the most enthusiastically…
The New Yorker provides a glimpse of the world of the Broadway Understudy: Understudies suffer the artistic frustration of not being able to make a role entirely their own, even should they …
LA Weekly’s Bill Raden wants theater not just to be beautiful. He wants it bold: And while 2015 offered its share of scintillating Los Angeles stage riches, to this temperamental o…
Redmoon Theater, the innovative and ambitious company that has brought free art to the Windy City for 24 years will shutter in early 2016. Â The site-specific company, known for its large-…
"I've been producing the Holiday Celebration for ten years, so I'm most excited about the sounds and groups that have never been on the show before," said producer Adam Davis. Â "This year…
Playbill believes it knows how an American National Theater should look… and why America needs one: …unlike most nations (the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, China, and India among…
Miami is not particularly known for being a theater center for the US which is all the more reason why Christine Dolen’s thoughts on the scene there, after 36 years of watching it as a…
Deadline Hollywood: A sobering look at the “new normal” where roles once billed as “Guest Stars” are now day players. If actors don’t have television to…
Time Out:Â Long time critic Bob Verini gives his assessment of LA theater in 2015. …a lot of first-class work managed to find its way to LA's stages… the kind of ambitious, so…
ThisStage.LA:Â In a year that has been full of surprising twists and turns for the Los Angeles Theater Community, Sacred Fools has announced it will be moving into the space recently vaca…
When a new baby is born, everybody gushes and compliments and speaks of the promise of youth. In most cases for the next 25-30 years, the only people that usually continue with that optimist…
The New York Times:Â Actress Leslie Uggams is doing in New York what often happens in Los Angeles: opting for a well-paying gig, a recurring roll on television, over a theater roll. …
LA Times: Charles McNulty reflects on the theater highlights of 2015. Fun Home and Hamilton:Â These musicals, both of which began at the Public Theater, have brought new currency to an ar…
Keeping the lights (and their clothes) on in a non-profit theatre isn't always easy as Antaeus Theatre Company proves in their latest video.
The post Antaeus: “Turn Off The Dark!”…
The New York Times interviewed actors Viola David and Edie Falco: New York Times: You'd rather be struggling still? Viola Davis: I look back on those early days in the theater like the begin…
American Theatre: The Theatre @Boston Court is profiled in this month’s print issue. Like all intimate theaters in Los Angeles, its future will be heavily determined by its res…
Every Patron In LA Liked Theater a lot… But the Critic Who lived in his head Did NOT! The Critic hated Theater! The whole LA scene! Yet no one was certain why he thought it obscene. It…
Actors’ Equity, the union for stage actors and managers, released some interesting membership data today. According to their analysis: “Over the [2005-2015] decade, paid memb…
In a filmed on-site interview at the Old Town Ale House, Shannon and Fitzgerald talk about the history behind A Red Orchid, the challenges of celebrity and why Chicago storefront theat…
Theatre Communications Group, the publisher of American Theatre, has taken an official position on color-conscious casting. You can co-sign this letter by going to their web form. Decemb…
So, it's December in Los Angeles and the ubiquitous holiday music " playing since mid-Novmber " reminds us that Christmas is just around the corner. I've always been troubled by one part…
