The 29th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards Nominees Announced by Mark Doerr

We're thrilled to announce this year's LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards nominees. For the unacquainted, the Ovation Awards are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles, created …

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Christian Levatino's "Big Event" Brings Mid-20th Century History to the Stage by Brian Marks

By Brian Marks Christian Levatino began his career as an actor, then director, but it's his shift into playwriting that has revealed his greatest artistic ambitions. In fact, "ambitious" is…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival is announcing that applications are now available to receive a Fringe Scholarship. Ten Fringe Scholarships will b…

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French Stewart on "Finks", the Hollywood Blacklist, and Working with his Wife for the First Time by Ed Rampell

By Ed Rampell Actor French Stewart may be best known to national audiences for his roles in TV sitcoms, including as Harry Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun and as Chef Rudy in the current s…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:06pm on November 14, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The official 2018-2019 National Academic Decathlon literature selection is Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, wherein Shakespe…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 9:18pm on November 8, 2018☆⚑

Immigration Crises, Through a Polish Lens: Martyna Majok's "Cost of Living" at the Fountain by Brian Marks

By Brian Marks Martyna Majok is originally from Poland, but she and her mother immigrated to the United States when she was five years old. Though Majok (pronounced MY-oak) has spent the ma…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:40am on November 7, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Tony, Grammy, Emmy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer/lyricist/actor Lin-Manuel Miranda and his father, Luis A. Miranda Jr., founding presid…

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Fight the Power, Tell the Story: Tim Robbins on 'Johnny Got His Gun' by Ed Rampell

By Ed Rampell The Actors' Gang's "2018/19 Hellzapoppin Season" opens with an adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun, an anti-war classic about a World War I soldier ter…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:10pm on October 31, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Tracey Paleo, founder of Gia On The Move, will join special guests at the Los Angeles Better Lemon's Meet The Critics II Panel in a discussion of th…

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Stardust to Strayhorn: Twenty Years of David Roussève by Lara J. Altunian

by Lara J. Altunian Despite The New York Times' recent declaration of Los Angeles' status as a dance city, companies and choreographers have long been making LA a hub for captivating and or…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Independent Shakespeare Company has been named the 2018 recipient of the Paul Robeson Citation Award from Actors' Equity Foundation and Actors' Equi…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS In honor of the 100th year of Veterans Day and the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University, t…

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Michael Michetti Paints a New Picture of Dorian Gray by Brian Marks

How does a stage director handle a classic in a swiftly changing culture?  By Brian Marks The Picture of Dorian Gray is the major dividing line in the life of Oscar Wilde, the work that…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Road Theatre in NoHo is continuing its recurring The Word At The Road readings with Angela J. Davis's The Spanish Prayer Book, inspired by true …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:04pm on October 4, 2018☆⚑

Daniel Talbott and Chris Fields Put "What Happened When" on Repeat by Brian Marks

By Brian Marks I meet Daniel Talbott and Chris Fields for coffee at an Atwater Village shop they're familiar with. It's a breezy day, with a piercing light barely obscured by the table's um…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 2:24pm on October 2, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The 5th annual Cabaret is Alive and Well and Living in Los Angeles, in support of The Actors Fund, will take place over three nights, featuring thre…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:42pm on September 27, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Gordon Davidson Award Presentation, honoring its inaugural recipient, Oskar Eustis of The Public Theater, for "Lifetime Achievement and Distingu…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:06pm on September 20, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Actors' Gang Theater kicks offs its 2018/19 season with The Madwoman of Chaillot, the 1943 satire written by Jean Giraudoux, celebrating "love, …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:36pm on September 13, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Humanitas announces that its 3rd Annual Play LA Festival, at CASA 0101 Theatre in Los Angeles, Sep 7-9, will include a new play by Pulitzer Pr…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Musical Theatre Guild will open its 23rd anniversary season with Jerry Herman's 1966 Tony-nominated musical, Mame, based on Patrick Dennis' novel an…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:42pm on August 29, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN MEMORIAM Nancy Hereford, longtime Press Director for the Center Theater Group, passed away on August 14. Originally assigned as press representative for the …

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Stage Raw Announces its 2018 Theater Awards Recipients by @ This Stage Staff

The 2018 Stage Raw Theater Awards celebrate excellence on the Los Angeles stages in venues of 99-seats or under. This fourth annual edition included productions that opened between January 1…

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LA STAGE: A Season of Silver Linings by Steven Leigh Morris

Dear Members and Friends, These are exciting times for LA STAGE Alliance. Call it a season of silver linings. As you may have heard, in June our landlord raised our rent 50% on short n…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Once Upon A Canyon Night, Treepeople's summer entertainment series at S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre in Coldwater Canyon Park (12601 Mulholla…

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This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS East West Players announces Counter-Culture, a new series of community conversations and readings, as part of its 53rd anniversary season, Culture S…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:34am on August 12, 2018☆⚑