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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland

Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also Bill Raden had good things to say about S.O.E. -- Jami Brandli's clever, three-character riff on the venerable ... More >>

S.O.E.

Amber Benson, a Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer Star, Now Writes Supernatural Novels

See also: *Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos *Our interview with Joss Whedon and Felicia Day Years ago, Amber Benson was battling supernatural forces on television. The actor/author played Tara Maclay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These days, Benson is busy creating her own supernatural charac ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

Radar L.A. Returns Next Year, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September, 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, Executive Director of L.A. city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, Director of ... More >>

Arsenic Levels in Fruit Juice Cause Concern

Flickr/Ben Garney​Thanks a lot, Mott's. Dr. Oz threw down the gauntlet a couple months ago when he commissioned a study that found that 10 of three dozen apple juice samples had a total arsenic level exceeding federal safety standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb). Now a new study from Consume ... More >>

Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior

A play of ideas or a sitcom, or both?

Orson Welles' Moby Dick, a Beatles Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

Craig SchwartzThis​ The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>

The Porters of Hellgate's Oedipus and Actors Co-op's King Lear

The eyes have it

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Puzzler

PaDraic Duffy's Puzzler and Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith's Adding Machine: A Musical

The sum of life's parts

I was a Texas Jewboy

They ain't makin' Americans like Kinky Friedman anymore

Eric Greenspan Dishes on The Next Iron Chef: No Spoilers, No Grasshoppers, Part 2

When last we checked in with Eric Greenspan, chef-owner of The Foundry on Melrose and the first chef (and only Los Angeles contestant) to be eliminated in The Next Iron Chef, there were seven contestants. Now there are four (imagine an Agatha Christie story, in a locked kitchen). Last week, Dominiqu ... More >>

Movie Reviews: A Woman in Berlin, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart

Also, Fragments, 12 in a Box and more

The Nuclear Family and One-Night Stand

On a Wig and a Prayer and Musical Improvisation

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Cinderella the Musical, Equus, Eternal Equinox, Monkey Madness

Also, True West, My Three Sisters, Death, Lies & Alibis and more

Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin Misses His First Deadline!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSBREAKING NEWS: The entire staff of Stage Raw was disappointed that Mr. Merkin missed the filing deadline for his first column: a review of Spamalot at the Ahmanson. Mr. Merkin apologized profusely, but explained that it was impossible to file electronically from the pol ... More >>

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

The Enchanted Forest: Dear Brutus

J.M. Barrie’s 1917 play braves the metaphysical wilderness

Film Reviews

Movie Reviews: Bee Movie, Darfur Now, Primo Levi's Journey

Also Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Phil Noir: The Left-Handed Gun

Spector trial mirages, red herrings and no shows

Theater Listings

For the week of August 31-September 6

Theater Listings

For the week of February 9 - 15

Theater Reviews

Including Dvorak in America, Grace, The Grey Zone and more

Jim Henson's Fantasy Film Collection: The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirrormask

Who Says We're Not in Kansas Anymore?

Scribes in Ojai, and Kander and Ebb’s final musical, Curtains. plus a preview of Theatre Unlimited's Static

Smokey and the Bandit: Special Edition

Theater and Comedy Listings

For February 10 - 16 cvc

Theater Listings

For February 10 -16, 2006

Theater Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Jesus, You Know

Double Fault

Match Point’s moral melodrama

Servicing Their Country

Women on the rack, from Sacramento to Istanbul

Lewd Mechanics: Stage Highlights

The Shallow End

Devices and desires in Swimming Pool, plus The Girl From Paris

We Talked and Talked and Talked

Jonathan Safran Foer on Paul Muldoon

When He Was King

Michael Mann’s Ali; plus, Gosford Park and Kate & Leopold

Just Mild About Harry

Potter putters through

A Few of Our Favorite Things

Fleas, flying fish, glass eyeballs, dissected Japanese criminals. Rimbaud and Hammett, too

The Beast

Bruce Chatwin and the stories he told