For its eighth annual Common Ground Festival this weekend at UCLA, ASK Theater Projects is scaling back, though arguably probing deeper -- inviting six experimental theater groups (a 33 percent drop from the past average of nine), of which only fo...

CHAY YEW plants his hands on his front pockets, wrists twisted forward with subtle effeminacy. He is an artist and academic with a jovial attitude toward his openly gay sexuality and his Chinese-Singaporean ethnicity. That curious blend seeps into...

DOG MOUTH | Written and directed by JOHN STEPPLING | Presented by PADUA PLAYWRIGHTS PRODUCTIONS and EVIDENCE ROOM | At EVIDENCE ROOM, 2220 Beverly Blvd. (213) 381-7118 | Through February 17 anne fishbein John Steppling still directs his own work, ...

The aptly named Common Ground Festival -- the Audrey Skirball--Kenis Theater Project’s seventh annual free-to-the-public festival of innovative, extratextual theater -- began as a way for ASK to welcome under its umbrella companies that trans...

Art by Santiago UcedaTHE EDGE OF THE WORLD THEATER FESTIVAL, A CITYWIDE network of performances by mostly local troupes and individuals (50-plus attractions in one week), may be the first such festival that's the progeny of the Internet: born from...