National Endowment for the Arts

No-Buck Chuck

Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door

Belarus Free Theatre, Free Speech and Thought Control

BFT’s Natalya Kolyada, and Tim Crouch’s The Author

David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly Comes to L.A.

Censored by the Smithsonian, now at the Hammer

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Caught, The Santaland Diaries, Julia

Also, Remembering the Ladies, Cyrano de Bergerac and more

Stage Raw: Caught

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on Vieux Carre at REDCATNEW REVIEW GO CAUGHT ​Photo by Michael LamontIn the aftermath of Proposition 8 passing in November 2008, one of the regrets of those who fought valiantly for gay marriage and against the p ... More >>

Why Theater Matters

And how our local stage can seize a national leadership role

Hollywood's Catered Stimulus

Why $23 million creates just 21 jobs

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Chesapeake

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Kooza, Chesapeake, Private Eyes

Also, Stray, Wonder of the World, and more

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 >>

Stage Raw: Wonder of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsNEW REVIEW GO WONDER OF THE WORLD ​Photo by Ed KriegerContemporary American farce has a hero in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who skews old-fashioned two-dimensional absurdity by surreptitiou ... More >>

Yosi Sergant Loses NEA Post

Kevin ScanlonOusted: NEA's Yosi Sergant​Probably no one was more surprised by the news of Yosi Sergant's pending resignation from his National Endowment for the Arts post than fright-wing commentator Glenn Beck. Last week the Fox News personality went after Sergant, the NEA's director of communica ... More >>

Stage Raw: NEA and John Fleck, Back Together Again

THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHESIVE THEATER LISTINGS ARE EMBEDDED WITH THE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSAlso at your fingertips, this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupLUMINOUS BIRCHRandy Sean Schulman applies the convention of silent film to live theater. With a group called The Collective, ... More >>

GO LA: Dead Poets, Dead Writers and Denis Leary

Plus lots more to mourn and celebrate in town (not necessarily in that order), April 3-9

FANTE'S ETERNAL

Plus lots more to mourn and celebrate in town (not necessarily in that order), April 3-9

Sundance Shocker

This just over the wire from the Sundance Institute:"Sundance Institute today confirmed that effective February 28, 2009, Geoffrey Gilmore is resigning his position as Director, Sundance Film Festival. Gilmore joined Sundance Institute in 1990. As Director of the Sundance Film Festival he has w ... More >>

Five for the Road: The California Touring Project

Five dance troupes from around the state join together

Five for the Road

The California Touring Project draws together troupes from around the state

Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

The California Touring Project draws together troupes from around the state

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted

L.A.’s august Pulitzer honoree says it was never about censorship

Film Reviews: The Reaping, Are We Done Yet? and More

Alsoo reviews of Firehouse Dog, Sacco and Vanzetti and Operation Homecoming

Theater Reviews

Including the Aboriginal Treatment Center, Hogan's Goat, Feed and more.

A Theater Lover's Lament

Confessions of a critic trying to keep the bottle at bay

Young at Heart

Future: Last chance for our theater

I Art the '80s

Pettibon, Ocampo, Foulkes, Rath and Deen at Track 16; Herman at INMO

Squinting Into the Sun

How our theater will change over the next decade

Theater in Exile

What does it mean when we send our theater companies packing?

The Kansas Conundrum

Thomas Frank, pontificating tightwads and the great white-male blogosphere

Reality Show

Lawrence Weschler on the very beautiful truth

Who Are the Black Sheep Now?

NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

The Buck Starts Here

Why two private investors are gambling on the theater

Destiny Manifesto

L.A. theater lurches into the future

What Is It Like To Be a Fish?

L.A. theater lurches into the future

O Pioneer!

Dorothy Arzner's all-girl universe

Family Man

John Fleck comes home

ASK Won’t Tell

Turmoil and uncertainty rock an L.A. art mainstay

Where the Man Began

The Nixon birthplace at resignation-plus-25