This Week in LA Stage by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Ojai Playwrights Conference announces honorees and guest artists for its 21st Annual Gala Benefit, at a ranch in upper Ojai on May 19. Festivities, which …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 2:49pm on May 10, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] Benefit Performance of "The Vagina Monologues" Raises Funds for Women on V-Day by @ This Stage Staff

            Twenty years ago, Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V"Day, a global activist movement to end violence again…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:18am on May 10, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] Tickets Now On Sale for the 9th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival by @ This Stage Staff

380 Fringe Shows Available - A New Fringe Record! Los Angeles " Tickets are now on sale for the 9th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival, taking place June 7th " 24th, with previews Ma…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 11:04pm on May 8, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Stage by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS L.A.-based playwright Tom Jacobsen has chronicled the troubled history of Bimini Baths (1902-1951)"the premiere but segregated hot springs resort in…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 9:45pm on May 3, 2018☆⚑

Reaching Critical Mass: A Conversation With Nancy Keystone by Ashley Steed

By Ashley Steed For over 30 years Nancy Keystone has been the driving force behind Critical Mass Performance Group. The company is known for their devised work that embodies a multiplicity …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 2:54pm on April 28, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Stage by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS A Noise Within has announced its 2018-2019 season, themed "Let Me In," opening with Man of La Mancha, based on the Cervantes classic, Don Quixote…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 8:04pm on April 26, 2018☆⚑

Applications Now Being Accepted for CTG's 3rd Annual Block Party at the Kirk Douglas by @ This Stage Staff

APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR CENTER THEATRE GROUP'S THIRD ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY AT THE KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Center Theatre Group Will Remount Three Local Productions for Block Party …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:36pm on April 19, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group is inviting current high school students to attend Reimagine Your American Dream, a teen youth summit inspired by David Henry H…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:36pm on April 19, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Ford Theatres has announced its schedule for 2018, its first full season since the venue closed in 2014 for renovations, now under the guidance …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 6:04pm on April 12, 2018☆⚑

Come One, Come All: Funding Available to Help Sustain L.A. Theater by Steven Leigh Morris

By Steven Leigh Morris On Mondays April 16 and April 23, from 7-10 p.m., LA STAGE Alliance is hosting community meet-ups aimed to help guide those interested in participating in funded oppo…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 6:00pm on April 9, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's 2018 summer season opens Jun 2 with William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, co-directed by Ellen Geer and Melora Mars…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:53pm on April 5, 2018☆⚑

Theater Evangelizing: A Conversation with Melissa Chalsma and David Melville by Robbie McDonald

by Robbie McDonald Melissa Chalsma and David Melville met on Broadway some twenty years ago and married shortly thereafter. Very shortly. Melissa jokes that, upon telling her father that sh…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 11:07am on April 4, 2018☆⚑

Once More Unto the Breach: Rafael Goldstein Takes the Crown at A Noise Within by Vanessa Cate

by Vanessa Cate In 2012, I accepted a small part in Hamlet at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group because I heard that Rafael Goldstein would be playing the lead. I wanted to witness his…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:00pm on March 30, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS For those performers who would like to be included in this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival and the printed Festival guide, the deadline is April 1.…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:48am on March 29, 2018☆⚑

Seeing Allegiance as a High School Senior and Re-Visiting it Five Years Later by Michaela Bulkley

By Michaela Bulkley In 2012 I saw Allegiance at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. I was 17 and it changed my life. Five years later, I got to see it again and be reminded of why I became a sto…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 8:27pm on March 22, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Independent Shakespeare Co. (ISC) will soon be enjoying expanded performance areas. At the conclusion of ISC's upcoming 15th-anniversary presentatio…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:56am on March 22, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Announces Recipients of 2017 Awards by @ This Stage Staff

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced the recipients of its 49th annual awards for distinguished achievement in theatre last night, Monday, March 19, 2018, at A Noise Within i…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:47pm on March 20, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] Steven Leigh Morris Receives Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Gordon Davidson Award by @ This Stage Staff

LA STAGE Alliance Executive Director Steven Leigh Morris will receive the Gordon Davidson Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatrical Community from the LA Drama Criti…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:41pm on March 19, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Josefina López, founding artistic director of CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, announced that the theater has secured 134 financial donors of …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:58am on March 15, 2018☆⚑

The Patriotism of Resistance: George Takei Pledges Allegiance to Human Rights by Ed Rampell

By Ed Rampell Star Trek's Sulu From the Screen to the Stage George Takei may be best known for playing helmsman Lt. Sulu in the original Star Trek sci-fi series and six of the franchise'…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:47am on March 14, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Circle X Theatre Co. announced that Kate Jopson will become the new Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed theatre company effective May 1. She ser…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:57am on March 8, 2018☆⚑

Slurring Towards Bethlehem: Ronnie Marmo Brings Lenny Bruce's Foul-Mouthed Fury to Life by Brian Marks

By Brian Marks If there's one thing that Ronnie Marmo doesn't do in his one-man show, I'm Not a Comedian … I'm Lenny Bruce, it's hold back. Early in the performance he launches into one o…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 9:52pm on March 7, 2018☆⚑

Phase I of Sustaining the Los Angeles Theater Community: A Report by LA STAGE Alliance by Steven Leigh Morris

written by Steven Leigh Morris Summary This report is on Phase I of the "Sustaining the Los Angeles Theater Community" program, a three-year, three-phase project conceived by The Ahmans…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:50am on March 2, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Geffen Playhouse has announced the nine productions that will make up its first full season under new Artistic Director Matt Shakman. The 2018-1…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 2:27pm on March 1, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] CTG Block Party 2018 Kick-Off Event March 7th by @ This Stage Staff

CENTER THEATRE GROUP TO HOLD BLOCK PARTY 2018 KICK-OFF EVENT AND COMMUNITY CONVERSATION AT THE KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE ON MARCH 7 Block Party Will Remount Productions from Celebration Th…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 11:27pm on February 23, 2018☆⚑