Alan Mandell

10 Most Memorable L.A. Theater Moments of 2012

Ovation Awards 2012: Center Theatre Group Leads L.A. Theater Prizes Announced Last Night

Center Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Culver City, got lots of love at the 2012 Ovation Awards Monday night at downtown's Los Angeles Theatre. The company was awarded Best Season, while the Michael Arabian's staging of Wai ... More >>

Billy Elliot, In Paris and Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

God's Sabbatical

John Sinner's Happy Ending and Marios Stilianakis' Water

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Theater Reviews: In a Garden, Through the Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Also, Playing Jordan Goldman, The Diviners and more

Stage Raw: In a Garden

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on gay politics in Halam Iran and Salam Shalom THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO IN A GARDEN ​Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR In 1989, a foreign bureaucrat (Mark Harelik), representing the Ministry of Culture in some (ficti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ovations on Monday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the Frog OVATIONS ON MONDAYThe LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards Ceremony for the 2008/2009 theatre season will take place Monday, January 11, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts C ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

Stage Raw: ZAR

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Bleeding Through, Answer the Call, Exit Strategy, The Changeling

Also, Growing Up With Uncle Miltie, No Man’s Land, Saturn Returns and more

No Man's Land

Also, Growing Up With Uncle Miltie, No Man’s Land, Saturn Returns and more

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bleeding Through

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Crime and Punishment and The Conquest of the South PoleNEW REVIEW GO BLEEDING THROUGH ​Photo by Theresa ChavezAdapted from Norman Klein's novella of the same title, this world premiere, co-written and co-directed by Theresa Chavez a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Arts Investments -- The Wallace Foundation and Alan Mandell

ARTS INVESTMENT: WALLACE FOUNDATION AND ALAN MANDELL The Wallace Foundation just announced a new study by the Rand Corporation that confirms what anybody with even half a brain already knows: The effects of arts programs in schools really do trickle up to the adult society in terms of quality o ... More >>

Howling Over "Wolf Songs" and other letters

ARTS INVESTMENT: WALLACE FOUNDATION AND ALAN MANDELL The Wallace Foundation just announced a new study by the Rand Corporation that confirms what anybody with even half a brain already knows: The effects of arts programs in schools really do trickle up to the adult society in terms of quality o ... More >>

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Aging Disgracefully

Trying and Quartet look at the costs and benefits of growing old

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

Trying and Quartet look at the costs and benefits of growing old

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Classical Gas

Why Chekhov is fading and Shakespeare isn’t

10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

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Company Town

How a big city became America’s small-theater mecca

L.A. Weekly’s 23rd Annual Theater Award Information

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Echo Chambers

Sounds from the young 20th century

The 21st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Sounds from the young 20th century

Heil! Heil! The Gang’s All Here

Theater’s hate crimes of the heart

Living in Solitary

Samuel Beckett and the San Quentin Drama Workshop