Alan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review
Simone PazBrett Schlank, left, Natalie Lynch and & Tara Jayn, producers of A Drinking GameNever let it be said that the actors in A Drinking Game refused to suffer for their craft. A…
​Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein ​Jacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alice?m at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick o…
Dan O'ConnorRyan Smith in Chekhov UnscriptedIn 1999, after 11 years of wringing laughs from willing audiences through competitive comedy and newfangled styles of longform improvisatio…
Courtesy Diavolo Dance Theater "Here are our rock stars!" shouts a grinning Jacques Heim, artistic director of Diavolo Dance Theater Heim is like that, full of jolly bluster and Fren…
Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Mo…
Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs with a production of Twelfth Night -- this week's Pick of the Week. Good not…
Jeremy Fremaux It's a party, it's theater, it's a "happening"...or wait, is it fancy art talk? According to Sneaky Nietzsche's creator, Sheila Vand, it's a little bit of all of thos…
Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare…
Michael Lamont"Chekhov Unscripted"​ ​This week, we recommend Theatre Impro's Chekhov Unscripted at the Pasadena Playhouse (see Theater Pick, below); The Groundlings' recurring …
Photo by Tyler HubbyParty Favor by Ed Ruscha In a way, every wedding is a multimedia theatrical production. Each detail is managed, choreographed, and rehearsed; from rings, to cakes,…
Courtesy Busting Out!Emma Powell and Bev KillickIn Busting Out!, creator Emma Powell goes topless. "They're not just sitting there," she says in an interview over the phone. "If they'…
Samantha StrattonGo Grease Cycling! The song "96,000" from the musical In The Heights blasts over a loud speaker. Twenty or so eager performers face the instructor, Graham LaBass, who…
Courtesy Busting Out!Emma Powell and Bev Killick​Also check out this week's Stage Features on John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown and Catherine Trieschmann's How The World Began; plus all t…
Hide your kids. Hide your wife. John Waters has escaped from Baltimore. On Friday, Waters will appear at the University of Southern California for a discussion and screening of his…
EnciWay to Heaven (Himmelweg)​See all this week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS (after the jump), including recommendations for I Love Lucy, Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre; â€ 
For the print headline for this week's stage feature on the new Saved by the Bell musical in Burbank, written by our theater critic Steven Leigh Morris, the challenge was: how do you combine…
Carol RoseggGhetto Klown​Leguizamo opened his one-man show, "Ghetto Klown" on Sunday. See review later this week, along with the extended feature on Bayside High School Musical, at Vi…
Actors on the set of the live action Simpsons porn parody...really. What's the old adage? "If it exists, someone's made porn out of it." I suppose it's not really an old adage...but …
Thomas MikuszEdward Albee's "Seascape", at Theatre West​In this week's paper, our critics are recommending Edward Albee's Seascape, at Theatre West; William Finn's Falsettos at the Th…
Photo by Michael Lamont from the Geffen PlayhouseJustin Leeper in the West Coast premiere of Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse No religio…
Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate af…
Ed KriegerJustin Tanner's "Day Drinkers" at the Odyssey Theatre​Check out this week's Stage feature on Justin Tanner's Day Drinkers, and Cody Henderson's Wonderlust,. Also -- the curr…
Darrett SandersBlackboard jungle in Cody Henderson's latest, "Wonderlust," premiering at Theatre of NOTE​Cody Henderson's intriguing new play, Wonderlust, follows a high school …
Ron FrederickBrian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa" continues through Aug. 28 at The Complex​Ghost Road Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Ronnie Clark's Stranger Things. "A …