Elia Kazan

Gregg Ostrin's Kowalski

One-Hit Wanda

UCLA restores Barbara Loden's sole directorial effort

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 >>

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

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

Camino Real

Moving Pictures, Dede Allen

Stage Raw: Harvey Perr Booted from Actors Studio West

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON BENGAL TIGER AND HOLY GHOSTHARVEY PERR, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPEAKING OUT Playwright-critic Harvey Perr has been dismissed from the Playwrights/Directors unit of the Actors Studio (West Coast branch), because of an email he ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored

Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more

Budd Schulberg, 1914-2009

Wikipedia/Dartmouth CollegeBudd Schulberg in the mid-1950s​"The first time I saw him he couldn't have been much more than sixteen years old, a little ferret of a kid, sharp and quick. Sammy Glick." So begins What Makes Sammy Run?, the quintessential, mid-20th century novel about Hollywood ambition ... More >>

Wood + Beatty = A Whole Lotta Splendor

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 >>

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 >>

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

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: 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 >>

Inside Private Lives

Theater Reviews: Red Scare on Sunset, Miracle in Rwanda

Also, Going to Meet the Man, The House of Blue Leaves and more

Leatherheads: There Will Be Mud

Clooney tackles preglory gridiron

Into the Woods

A supernatural view of theater in L.A.

Brando: The Molecule Jiggler

TCM’s bio-doc Brando is cinephile catnip

The Big Stuff

Talking art, acting and life with L.A.’s grande dame of theater

Theater Reviews

Including Strangers on a Train, 13 and this week's pick, Inside Private Lives

It's a Wonderful Life?

Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

Wanda

Old Is the New New

UCLA fest shows why some films should never be forgotten

A Face in the In Crowd

Piano Greats

Tête Offensive

One brainy farce and an angry debate

The Contender

Elia Kazan, with a smile

London Falling, Hollywood Calling

Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

Criminals of the Heart

Road kills and clerical errors

People Whose Passing We Lament

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

Clean and Sober

And heading straight to Dubai

Eyes Wide Open

Todd Field watches and learns

James O’Rear, 1914-2000

Beauty and the Beast

French cinema battles Hollywood’s global movie offensive

Persecution Complex

Martin Guerre comes back from the dead

Cutter's Way

Editor Dede Allen

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much

Letters

Blacklist Backlash

And the Winner Is -- HUAC

Elia Kazan will have the statue, but the victory belongs to the blacklist

Statement of Elia Kazan

Before The House Committee on Un-American Acitivities

Unforgiving

Abraham Polonsky's remembrance of things past

Letters

...Great goddamn article about LSD ["The Trip," July 3-9]. You consistently outperform any other L.A. publication. Kudos...

No Mercy

The supes find a way