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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 >>

Alfred Hitchcock Before America

LAMCA revisits eight British thrillers from the young but hardly innocent Psycho director

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

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 >>

Theater Review: A Christmas Carol

Plus, Harold Pinter, R.I.P.

Wooster Group's Hamlet; Alex Lyras' The Common Air

All the world's a remix

Hamlet

Past Masters

Royal Shakespeare Company walks a familiar path with Lear and Seagull

Becket

Apt Pupil

With The History Boys, Alan Bennett stays at the head of the class

The Isherwood Equation

Peter Parker’s massive biography considers the life, the literature and Los Angeles

French Toast

A pretty, soggy night of Molière

Or Watch It on TV

Echo Chambers

Sounds from the young 20th century

Remembering John Gielgud

1904–2000

Luv Hurts

The Labyrinths

The films of Alain Resnais

In appreciation of the Bard, recorded

Lèse-Majesté

Racy Elizabethans, speedy Cruise