Ahmanson Theater

Poor Dog Group: Anti-Theater

10 Best Cheap Bastard Things to Do in L.A.

(Note: An earlier version of this post said that parking at the Getty was free after 5 p.m. It used to be free, but is actually now $10, a new policy implemented in Nov. 2011) Are you the person who secretly doesn't put down enough cash for the check, leaving all your friends to scramble to cover i ... More >>

Bring It On: The Musical Director Andy Blankenbuehler's Crash Course in Cheerleading

Craig Schwartz​When director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler signed on to turn the movie Bring It On into a big, splashy musical-theater event, now premiering at the Ahmanson Theatre, he knew he was in for an education but didn't realize just how massive the world of competitive cheerleading ... More >>

Ray's: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Craig Schwartz​When director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler signed on to turn the movie Bring It On into a big, splashy musical-theater event, now premiering at the Ahmanson Theatre, he knew he was in for an education but didn't realize just how massive the world of competitive cheerleading ... More >>

South Pacific

Craig Schwartz​When director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler signed on to turn the movie Bring It On into a big, splashy musical-theater event, now premiering at the Ahmanson Theatre, he knew he was in for an education but didn't realize just how massive the world of competitive cheerleading ... More >>

Cumbia de Mi Corazon, Dementia, An Evening With Sutton Foster

Also, Jawbone of an Ass, Starmites: An Intergalactic Musical and more

Stage Raw: LADCC Winners

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on gay politics in Halam Iran and Salam Shalom THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS coming March 29! Nominees RSVP now to (310) 574-7208. Public tickets available at http://laweekly.comTHE 41ST ANNUAL LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWAR ... More >>

August: Osage County

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on gay politics in Halam Iran and Salam Shalom THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS coming March 29! Nominees RSVP now to (310) 574-7208. Public tickets available at http://laweekly.comTHE 41ST ANNUAL LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWAR ... More >>

Stage Raw: August: Osage County

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and this week's STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUNEW REVIEW GO AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ​Photo by Robert SafersteinTracy Lett's 2007 Great American Family Drama, or so we'd believe from ... More >>

Wrinkles in Runkle Canyon

50 Years After a Santa Susana Nuclear Accident Holds Up Land Development

Stage Raw: Bingo and Natives

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on Oleanna at the TaperBINGO WITH THE INDIANS, a late night entry by Adam Rapp at Rogue Machine, is among the new productions being reviewed this coming wee ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ten to Life

Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

Ain't Misbehavin'

Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ain't Misbehavin'

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS(THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE LISTINGS)Also, this week's INTERVIEW with playwright Richard GreenbergAIN'T MISBEHAVIN'Debra Walton and Eugene Barry-Hill in Ain't Misbehavin' Photo by Craig SchwartzGO NEW REVIEW AIN'T MI ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards recipients

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES 40TH ANNUAL L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS LAST NIGHT Vicki Lewis and Wenzel Jones co-hosted with considerable charm an awards show last night that was sweet, simple and too long -- probably due to ... More >>

Stage Raw: Frost/Nixon

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FROST/NIXON Alan Cox and Stacy Keach in Frost/Nixon Photo by Carol RoseggAfter Stacy Keach as Nixon in Frost/Nixon, which opened last night at the Ahmanson, finished a late night pho ... 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 >>

Minsky's

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 >>

Minsky's and the Art of Burlesque

Dick jokes and pasties in church

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stage Raw: Awards, Awards on Every Corner

Minsky's Photo by Craig Schwartz MINSKY'S The world premiere of Charles Strouse, Susan Birkenhead and Bob Martin's new '30s musical opens to the press tonight (Friday) at the Ahmanson. Director-choregographer Casey Nicholaw took The Drowsy Chaperone from the Ahmanson to Broadway, and has much ... More >>

How the Hall Changes Spring Awakening and The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Hot ice and Strange Snow

Working Girls

Hot ice and Strange Snow

Gay Marriage Wars: Robert Weiss Gets the Last Word(s)

A note from Robert Weiss received July 5 sought to clarify his position regarding his call for a boycott of all the theaters associated with Center Theatre Group, after Weiss had claimed (mistakenly) that CTG donor and board member Howard Ahmanson, Jr. had contributed $400,000 to the anti-gay marria ... More >>

The Gay Marriage Wars: Wrong Ahmanson, Again!

An email just received from Robert Weiss, director of L.A.'s Sexual Recovery Institute, defends his attack of Center Theatre Group (which administers the Ahmanson and Kirk Douglas theaters, and the Mark Taper Forum) by arguing that Howard Ahmanson, Jr. gave $400,000 to the group sponsoring the ant ... More >>

More Notes From the Gay Marriage Wars: Robert Weiss Responds

On June 25, this blog reported on a mass email sent around the city by Robert Weiss calling for a boycott of the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, until Center Theatre Group, which administers the three theaters, makes a policy statement vigorously opposing the co ... More >>

Note From the Gay Marriage Wars: Bombing Innocent Civilians

Robert Weiss was outraged upon reading Tim Rutten's Op-Ed in the L.A. Times that Howard Ahmanson had contributed $400 million to California Protect Marriage – the organization sponsoring the State ballot initiative on the November ballot that will attempt to reverse the California Supreme Court's ... More >>

L.A. Theater 2006: The Thinning Gray Line

Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

LA Weekly Theater Survey

Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

The Importance of Being Earnest

Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

Love, Death and Confetti

Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème

Letters

Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème

Earthly Secrets

Ahmanson foes want ground-water tests

Dance While You Can

Ahmanson foes want ground-water tests

Letters

Ahmanson foes want ground-water tests

No Room at the Ranch

Ahmanson won’t have truly affordable units

Selling the Ranch

Massive project brings home the issue of open space

Musical, Schmusical

A hybrid work flowers at the Ahmanson

A Cradle of Nostalgia

Even Marc Blitzstein’s opera looks over its shoulder

Outer Limits

Twyla Tharp and the Holy Body Tattoo investigate endurance

Testy, Testy

L.A. theater toffs have each other for brunch

Robespierre’s Follies

A dandy solution to the French Revolution

Soap Operetta

Les Misérables loves company

Stanley Soble,1940 - 1999

Les Misérables loves company

Engaging in Consexual Text

Sir Peter Hall's rep of Shakespeare's comedies at the Ahmanson

If the Shoe Retrofits . . .

AMP's blitzed Cinderella

The Best Feet Forward

The year in dance

Razzle Shmazzle

Chicago hits town

Black Magic, White Funk

A Broadway hit and a pair of new plays