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Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including Broadway's Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson

Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration saga Long Way Go Down at the Art of Acting Studio, and for the silly Aussie import Priscilla Queen of ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Richard III In Overdrive

Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and comprehensive theater listings, see below. Beauty to be found in ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pulitzer Finalist About the Iraq War

Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they come in. Christopher Shinn's drama Dying City, about a family in the wake of the Iraq War, being performed a ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter Pan, presented by the Blank Theatre at Second Stage, and Falling for Make Believe, a play about the theater at ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

A Pair of Two-Person Shows, One Starring Comedy Couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

Annapurna and Years to the Day, Reviewed

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Celebrate 10 Years Together By Returning to Where They Met: the Stage

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the answer you get won't contain words like "stable" or "secure" or "long-term" or "a good bet." The longstanding tr ... More >>

Zach Galifianakis Helps Nick Offerman Discuss His New Film Somebody Up There Likes Me at Cinefamily

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best City in America *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. Last night Zach Galifianakis helped close an opening weekend of showings and conversations about Nick Offerman's film and 2012 SXSW darling Somebody Up There Likes Me ... More >>

They Act! They Sing!

Which One's Beth?

Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview

The Ron Swanson food pyramid.​Like the character he plays on Parks & Recreation, Nick Offerman is a man with a magnificent mustache. Something of a libertarian, most certainly a contrarian and definitely not a vegetarian, Ron Swanson is the gruff but goofy patriarch who viewers have come to id ... More >>

Hey Cancer — Is That Your Face or Did Your Neck Throw Up?

Rob Corddry: Childrens Hospital Will 'Never' Do a Musical Episode

​Medical drama spoof Childrens Hospital began its third season last night on Adult Swim. To commemorate the event, Rob Corddry, who plays healing clown Dr. Blake Downs (or, more precisely, who plays actor Cutter Spindell playing Dr. Blake Downs) took to Twitter. Corddry tweeted commentary and ... More >>

Rob Corddry's Web Series 'Childrens Hospital' Comes to Adult Swim

Childrens Hospital, comedian Rob Corddry's series that began life on the web and launched its cable television debut on Adult Swim Sunday night, is what might happen to your favorite medical show if you left in all of the steamy relationships and cut out the medical bits. Erin Broadley​

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, Paranormal Activity

Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

Movie Reviews: Fame, Pandorum, Surrogates

Also, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, The Most Dangerous Man in America and more

Theater Reviews: The Receptionist, Legally Blonde the Musical

Also, Outside of the Box, Block Nine and more

Stage Raw: Pee Wee Forever?

The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on Hair, at the Chance TheatrePEE WEE FOREVER?​Photo by Greg GormanNot quite "forever," but Stage Raw just learned that The Pee Wee Herman Show, originally slated for Nov. 8 - 29 at the ... More >>

Rob Corddry Talks Clowns and New Web Series Childrens' Hospital

By Liz OhanesianHave you ever wondered what would happen if the self-absorbed, hypersexual doctors on Grey's Anatomy were staffed at a children's hospital? After spending some time in the emergency room at L.A.'s Children's Hospital, former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry asked himself that sam ... More >>

Notes From the Underbelly’s Great Expectations

Birth of a notion

Surf Report

Pass the Salty

The Shock of Recognition

Britain’s wicked comedy oddballs, from the Beyond the Fringe crowd to thoroughly absurd Catherine Tate

The 25th Annual LA Weekly Theater Award Nominees

Including A Clockwork Orange, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union and more

The Breast Is Yet To Come

Edited by Kateri Butler

Werewolves of Hollywood

Edited by Kateri Butler

Meet John and Jane Doe

The year of living famously

David Schweizer, Theater Maker

Bart DeLorenzo, the Evidence Is In

L.A. Weekly’s 23rd Annual Theater Award Information

Fire and Fire Marshals

The 22nd Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

The 22nd Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominations

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

Brechtmachine

When the wall came tumblin’ down

Private Lies, Public Lives

Aldrich Ames, Walter Winchell, Harry Houdini