Michael Ritchie

Love, Actually: Our 2013 Couples Issue

Kate Burton and Michael Ritchie: L.A.'s Theater Power Couple Keeps the Drama Onstage

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here Kate Burton and Michael Ritchie spend a quarter of their time living in different cities, a situation that can be difficult for any couple. But they feel it shows the strength of their relationship. Besides, for the first few days of each trip, they can ... More >>

The Candidate

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

We Don't Need No Playwright: How Ensemble-Created Work Is Changing L.A. Theater

Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG

Bruce Dern, Udo Kier, M. Emmet Walsh

The stars of Cinefamily's "That Guy!" series divulge their secrets

Why Theater Matters

And how our local stage can seize a national leadership role

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

Polish Theater, Unmasked

West Meets East, On Stage and Off

Stage Raw: Coming Home

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSFor the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS and an update from the Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, press the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK COMING HOME Photo by Ed KriegerA sequel to his 1995 post apartheid play Valley Song, ... More >>

The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Actors and chickens and bears, oh, my!

Stage Raw: Actors and Chickens and Bears, Oh My!

THE WEEKEND'S NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSCo-hosts Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder at the 20th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. Photo by Tim NorrisTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSCo-hosts Jake Broder and Vanessa Claire Smith wer ... More >>

Stage Raw: The List Keeps Growing

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ON MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP (310) ... More >>

Stage Raw: Don Shirley and City Beat

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe news that L.A.'s City Beat is folding leaves the prospect of the former L.A. Times arts reporter and City Beat theater columnist/critic Don Shirley without gainful employment -- temporarily I hope. It also mutes the opinions of one of L.A. theater's m ... More >>

Stage Raw: Luke Perry and Haaz Sleiman Confirmed for LAWEES

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ON MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY ... More >>

Stage Raw: Photograph 51

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS.BRODER AND SMITH ... More >>

Stage Raw: Economic Downturn Hits CTG

Gigi Otalvaro--Hormillosa performs next weekend at Highways' Fringes -- Margins -- Borders performance festival. See item below. Photo by Heather CarducciIT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE DOWNTURN HIT THE NON-PROFITS The press office at the Mark Taper Forum announced yesterday that the the ... More >>

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

Is it all skin deep?

The Wizard of REDCAT: Mark Murphy presents ...

The performance curator, with the likes of UCLA Live's David Sefton, makes all the world his stage

More Notes From the Gay Marriage Wars: Robert Weiss Responds

On June 25, this blog reported on a mass email sent around the city by Robert Weiss calling for a boycott of the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, until Center Theatre Group, which administers the three theaters, makes a policy statement vigorously opposing the co ... More >>

Note From the Gay Marriage Wars: Bombing Innocent Civilians

Robert Weiss was outraged upon reading Tim Rutten's Op-Ed in the L.A. Times that Howard Ahmanson had contributed $400 million to California Protect Marriage – the organization sponsoring the State ballot initiative on the November ballot that will attempt to reverse the California Supreme Court's ... More >>

The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Rock & rollin' at Hollywood's Avalon

An American Realist

Robert Redford and the façade of a nation

American Theater's Failure of Nerve

The Pacific Playwrights Festival showcases what’s going wrong

The 28th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Gordon Davidson, the killer among us

Fireworks in a Dark Sky

Theater 2006

A Theater Lover's Lament

Confessions of a critic trying to keep the bottle at bay

Big Deal – No, Really

365 Days/365 Plays sweeps the country

Monday in the Diner With Ed

Hopper’s Nighthawks, live onstage

Blood and Hubris at the Paradise Motel

The making of Richard Montoya’s Water & Power

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

East Riverdance

The Michael Ritchie era opens at the Ahmanson

Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 2

In the shadow of Michael Ritchie’s new CTG, local artists look for sunlight

Confrontations in a Con-Art World

CTG fallout, and threatening the president

The Great White Way

Minority labs booted from Center Theater

Glittering Prizes

The 26th annual L.A. Weekly Theater awards

Man of Faith

MacArthur genius Luis Alfaro believes L.A. theater is heading for greatness

Shackles and Flight

Charlayne Woodard’s play about getting through the dark

Honoring a Legend

Gordon Davidson

From Rags to Ritchie

The man taking over for Gordon Davidson

Queens of the Angels

Polly Warfield, 1914–2003. Pamela Gordon, 1937–2003

Also Ran

Not quite Drop Dead Gorgeous enough

Of Chimps and Men

TV makes a monkey of itself