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Ben Hecht

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Sarah's War, Other New Reviews, and L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Info

    Jordan Elgalby"Sarah"s War is this week's Pick. Go to the jump for all other new stage reviews.​The nominees for the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards will be posted Wednesday evening here. ​ Lauren Ludwig directs Lost Moon Radio, host of the bash, with an ancient Greek theme. (Wear your to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    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

    February 17, 2011

    Theater Reviews: The Cradle Will Rock, Alceste, 100 Days

    Also Love Letters to Women, Dangerous Beauty, Camino Real and more

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2011

    Moonlight and Magnolias

    Also Love Letters to Women, Dangerous Beauty, Camino Real and more

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Stage Raw: Alceste

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW REVIEW GO ALCESTE ​ Photo by Nicholas SayaanEuripides' version of a Greek myth serves as ground zero for playwright B. Walker Sampson's surreal comedy about the otherworldly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    L.A Times' Slippery Slope: Front Page Ad Draws Fire

    If Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur had written The Front Page today they'd have to make sure their audiences understood they were talking about editorial copy and not a front-page ad. Or at least that's a difference they'd have to make clear to L.A. Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein, who seems to hav ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 15, 2009
  • Calendar

    July 24, 2008

    The Accomplices

    If you can make it there ...

  • Stage

    July 24, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Betrayal, Eh Joe, An Attic an Exit

    Also, deLEARious, Life in a Marital Institution, and more

  • Stage

    July 5, 2007

    Theater Reviews: Dogs of Baghdad, Famine Plays and More

    Also Five Course Love, Lansky, Out Late

  • Film+TV

    December 7, 2006

    The Holiday: Trading Spaces

    The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

  • Stage

    September 14, 2006

    Going, Going, Gone With the Wind

    Ron Hutchinson’s play about a legendary rewrite

  • Stage

    September 7, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    August Wilson's Fences, Buddy and this week's pick, Because They Have No Words

  • Stage

    July 7, 2005

    He’s Still Here

    Friday at the Bowl with Steve

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    The Misfits

    Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2001

    Homage to Catatonia

    A history of drugs and the movies

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