COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>
Also, Crimes of the Heart, The Maids, Skylight and more
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATRE LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON AUDIENCESNEW REVIEW GO TRACERS ​ Photo courtesy of the Loft Ensemble Thirty years after its Los Angeles debut, writer John DiFusco's anti-war drama retains its relevance and power. Written collaboratively in the 1970s by DiFu ... More >>
L.A. Stage Alliance looks into what, exactly, is going on
Also, No-No Boy, The Wake, Lascivious Something and more
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>
Postapocalyptic plays by Henry Murray and Eugene Ionesco
Plus, Harold Pinter, R.I.P.
HAROLD PINTER DIES ON CHRISTMAS EVE The most fitting obituary for the second greatest dramatist of the 20th century (behind Samuel Beckett, whom Pinter emulated) would be to say almost nothing, or perhaps something cryptic, or trivial, that's mere ice on a lake of dread. Because the man f ... More >>
Reading Is fundamental
Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's M.O., but who cares?
Empire and its discontents
Military theater
The National Theatre of Scotland peeks under the Black Watch Regiment’s kilts; playwright Donald Margulies unmasks Louis de Rougemont
For the Week of Sept. 21-27
One Fell Swoop imagines politics in 2009
Perverted truth and kinky sex in Shem Bitterman’s new play about Iraq
A musical comedy sums up our grave new world
How Fences divided a community
David Hare’s sneer tactics play to the converted
Tom Jacobson’s brilliant new play takes us to church
The Oscars give peace a glance
Kidman, Streep and Moore in The Hours
Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller
A sampling from the city’s stages
Wit from woe
Director Mike Leigh
Mendes' Cabaret comes to L.A.
Larry Atlas' new play about moral eclipse
Of toffs, twits and yobs
