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Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

A Parallelogram Shows Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris' Very Bleak View of Humanity

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Why Be a Playwright in L.A.? 5 Writers Share their Reasons

The pay stinks. Hollywood is more glamorous (and pays more). And Broadway is 3,000 miles away. So why be a playwright in L.A.? That's the question posed by our theater issue this year, which comes out just in time for our theater awards on Monday. Check out Steven Leigh Morris' main story in the i ... More >>

Nina Raine's Play Tribes Depicts a Family That Talks a Lot But Doesn't Listen

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unusual Look at Motherhood

This week, our critics enjoyed composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical The Trouble With Words (Coeurage Theatre Company at the Unknown Theatre) as well as a quartet of one-acts at the Lillian under the collective title Unscreened. This week's Pick goes to Dorothy Fortenberry ... More >>

L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

Jon Robin Baitz's Play Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, Reviewed

Ovation Awards 2012: Center Theatre Group Leads L.A. Theater Prizes Announced Last Night

Center Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Culver City, got lots of love at the 2012 Ovation Awards Monday night at downtown's Los Angeles Theatre. The company was awarded Best Season, while the Michael Arabian's staging of Wai ... More >>

10 Political Things to Do in L.A. Before (and After) the Election

This year's election has the public voting for everyone from Roseanne Barr to Hello Kitty, with Mitt Romney's Binders of Women the projected costume-winner for Halloween. While the 2012 presidential election is the biggest reason people are hitting the polls, we all know that local campaigns can be ... More >>

Why Is Martin McDonagh So Captivated By Villains Who Love Their Pets?

Vito Corleone has his cat. Dr. Evil has Mr. Bigglesworth. Jabba the Hut has whatever this thing is. Even Hitler had a German Shepard named Blondi. Villains throughout history have had pets. It's an easy way to humanize them, so that they're not just mustache-twisting caricatures. Sometimes they're ... More >>

November Review: David Mamet Skewers the Presidency at the Mark Taper Forum

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Red, The Return to Morality, and the Artist as Subject

John Logan and Jamie Pachino's plays examine the concept of true self for artists with false names

The Immigrant

Los Otros at the Mark Taper Forum

Fluffy Bunnies, Santa Ynez Wine Country in Sideways: The Play and More New Theater Reviews

Rex Pickett's stage adaptation, Sideways: the Play (over at Ruskin Theatre Group) of his own novel about life in the Santa Inez Valley wine country, gets this week's Pick. Also admired is Matt Chafee's comedy, Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies, over at Hollywood's Arena Stage.Click here for this ... More >>

Why Clybourne Park Is Overrated

I have a dirty theater secret: I thought Clybourne Park was pretty good. As in merely pretty good. As opposed to the modern classic it's now perceived to be, after its premiere Off-Broadway brought it the Pulitzer Prize, followed by runs at the Mark Taper Forum, a hop to Broadway, and finally, on Su ... More >>

What Fantasy Production Would L.A. Artistic Directors Put On If They Had Unlimited Money?

Billy Elliot, In Paris and Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG

Seminar, Maple and Vine and The Mountaintop in New York

Jerker, Have You Seen Alice?, The Romance of Magno Rubio, and more new stage reviews . . .

​Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein ​Jacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alice? at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also recommend Jerker at the Celebration Theatre and The Romance of Magno Rubio For all the lates ... More >>

Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior

A play of ideas or a sitcom, or both?

Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door

Burn This

Stage Raw: LAWEES on Monday

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESLAWEES ON MONDAY The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards take place on Monday night. Doors open at ... More >>

L.A. Theater's Moment of Truth

In the national spotlight this summer, will we show we've grown up, or just embarrass ourselves?

Stage Raw: Lanford Wilson dies

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Edward Antony's Wish I Had a Sylvia PlathL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEES                          &n ... More >>

Stage Raw: LADCC Awards and Quiz3

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS DURING 2010 The 42nd annual ceremony takes place on Monday, March 14 at Burbank's Colony Theatre. Details will be posted at ... More >>

John Lithgow: Stories by Heart

Stage Raw: Big Prizes, Ovations and Stage Raw Theater Quiz

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS2011 OVATIONS AWARDS at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, Jan. 17Thirty-six awards were handed out to 21 different Southern California theater companies. Leading the pack, tied with ... More >>

Somewhere, Under the Rainbow

Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-Fest

Harps and Angels

The Glass Menagerie

Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, The Good Boy, Stepping on a Few Toes

Also Beast on the Moon, Martyrdumb and more

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

One Foot Out the Door

Grandpa John Steppling comes home, for a while

Bloodbaths and Shadows

The Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an Idiot

Haunted Houses

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Holy Ghost

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

Flying Under the Radar: The Best of L.A. Theater in the '00s

Tripping on the Rez: Richard Montoya’s Palestine, New Mexico at the Taper

Stage Raw: Palestine, New Mexico

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyNEW REVIEW PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO ​Photo by Craig Schwartz When U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler (Kirsten Potter) stumbles into "Bumfuck" -- a New Mexico Indian reservation -- she ... More >>

Going to the Parade and Then Going Home

Bigotry lite and the real deal

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

Pippin

John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves: Renewal at the Mark Taper Forum

Is it all skin deep?

The Lunatics and the Asylum