Bill Jones

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Stage Raw: Ivanov

IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Cocks of the Walk

COCKS OF THE WALK The same people who brought us Naked Boys Singing are at it again -- this time showing considerable more restraint with a musical revue subtly named Hangin' Out -- described as "a celebration of the human body . . . exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance." Now ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Little Dog Laughed

>NEW REVIEW THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED As Gertrude Stein once put it (but not about this play), "It's almost about something, and then it's just not." Douglas Carter Beane's comedy brings with it the New York cast that put the play on the map, and secured Julie White a Tony for her role as a Holly ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck

Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>

Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>

Stage Raw: One Sucker's Lament

Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>

How the Hall Changes Spring Awakening and The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Hot ice and Strange Snow

Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ovation Awards Tonight (Monday)

THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fake Radio Sing Along

Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

Theater Reviews: Lions, Spring Awakening, A Man's A Man

Also, Gem of the Ocean, Mary's Wedding and more

Shock Therapy

DWP’s powerful union sues over control issues

Uprising in the Water Colonies

DWP board goes in search of peace in Owens Valley

Dirty Prices

Governor and Barbara Boxer push ethanol

The L.A. Weekly’s Endorsements

A New Umpire

Reforming the state’s three-strikes law

Foul Justice

After 10 years, critics of Three Strikes may get another chance with voters

Arnold’s True Lie

Recallus Interruptus

Republicans on memory lane, Clinton on the pulpit and the Supremes on the spot

Near-Perfect Recall

Politics of Dung

Simon smells questions he can’t answer on farm beat; Davis prepares to shovel dirt

So Long, Mr. Mayor

Welcome, Mr. Long Shot, Bill Simon

Party Animals

Gray has a blast; Dick, a sour time

A Fading Gray

The governor’s uphill charge for another term

Reforming Riordan

High time for change in California

See Riordan Run

The ex-mayor lines up his team for the governor’s race

Power Play

SCE has influence from governor on down

Darkness at Noon

Everything Gray Davis touches seems to short out

Gray Unplugged

The power crisis may do in the governor

Waiting for Gray

Our reluctant leader may be forced to act to keep the lights on

On the Move

Pot Parlor Tricks

Dropped Bombs

Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown and Armand Assante On the Beach; James Woods on the Mapplethorpe front line

Stretching the Medium

A month of Bill T. Jones, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Joe Goode

UnLucky Strike

The story behind California's worst law

Man With a Mission

When Mike Reynolds — the author of “three strikes” and “10-20-Life” — proposes, the state Legislature disposes

Our selections in Tuesday's General Election

Endorsements 98