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Ahmanson Theater

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2013

    Who Was Howard Ahmanson, Sr. And How Did He Change L.A.? A New Book Tries to Answer

    Much as been made of the look and feel of post-War Southern California -- be it the mid-century modern décor, the urban sprawl, the Googie architecture of restaurants and shops or the tailfin cars. But what about the people who helped finance it all? Howard Ahmanson, Sr. (1906-1968) is remembered ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 6, 2012

    Anything Goes

    Much as been made of the look and feel of post-War Southern California -- be it the mid-century modern décor, the urban sprawl, the Googie architecture of restaurants and shops or the tailfin cars. But what about the people who helped finance it all? Howard Ahmanson, Sr. (1906-1968) is remembered ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 5, 2012

    War Horse at the Ahmanson Doesn't Live Up to the Hype

    Much as been made of the look and feel of post-War Southern California -- be it the mid-century modern décor, the urban sprawl, the Googie architecture of restaurants and shops or the tailfin cars. But what about the people who helped finance it all? Howard Ahmanson, Sr. (1906-1968) is remembered ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 29, 2012

    Poor Dog Group: Anti-Theater

    Much as been made of the look and feel of post-War Southern California -- be it the mid-century modern décor, the urban sprawl, the Googie architecture of restaurants and shops or the tailfin cars. But what about the people who helped finance it all? Howard Ahmanson, Sr. (1906-1968) is remembered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Stage

    May 6, 2010

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

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

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    July 23, 2009

    Wrinkles in Runkle Canyon

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

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Stage

    February 12, 2009

    Minsky's and the Art of Burlesque

    Dick jokes and pasties in church

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Stage

    November 20, 2008

    How the Hall Changes Spring Awakening and The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

    Hot ice and Strange Snow

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2008

    Working Girls

    Hot ice and Strange Snow

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    April 6, 2006

    L.A. Theater 2006: The Thinning Gray Line

    Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

  • Promotions

    February 23, 2006

    LA Weekly Theater Survey

    Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

  • Stage

    January 26, 2006

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

    Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

  • Stage

    January 29, 2004

    Love, Death and Confetti

    Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Letters

    Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Earthly Secrets

    Ahmanson foes want ground-water tests

  • Stage

    January 3, 2002

    Dance While You Can

    Ahmanson foes want ground-water tests

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Letters

    Ahmanson foes want ground-water tests

  • News

    November 29, 2001

    No Room at the Ranch

    Ahmanson won’t have truly affordable units

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Selling the Ranch

    Massive project brings home the issue of open space

  • Stage

    July 26, 2001

    Musical, Schmusical

    A hybrid work flowers at the Ahmanson

  • Stage

    July 26, 2001

    A Cradle of Nostalgia

    Even Marc Blitzstein’s opera looks over its shoulder

  • Stage

    June 21, 2001

    Outer Limits

    Twyla Tharp and the Holy Body Tattoo investigate endurance

  • Stage

    January 4, 2001

    Testy, Testy

    L.A. theater toffs have each other for brunch

  • Stage

    May 18, 2000

    Robespierre’s Follies

    A dandy solution to the French Revolution

  • Stage

    January 20, 2000

    Soap Operetta

    Les Misérables loves company

  • Stage

    August 5, 1999

    Stanley Soble,1940 - 1999

    Les Misérables loves company

  • Stage

    April 22, 1999

    If the Shoe Retrofits . . .

    AMP's blitzed Cinderella

  • Stage

    May 28, 1998

    Razzle Shmazzle

    Chicago hits town

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