Neil LaBute

What Critics -- and Theater Artists -- Are Feeling When Critics Come See a Show

How the Crossfit Homeless Photo Scandal Connects to Neil LaBute's Play in Hollywood

Earlier this month the L.A. Weekly broke a troubling story that starkly illustrates the growing chasm between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' in today's society. The article brought to light the callous actions of Ronnie Teasdale, owner of L.A.'s Crossfit Mean Streets gym, who plastered his gym's Fa ... More >>

Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain and Beautiful Lighting Can't Save The Exorcist, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab. For shows you may have missed in June, see the complete schedule following New Theater Reviews aft ... More >>

Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays

Theater Reviews: The Birthday Present, Broken Glass, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

Also, Endgame, Girls Talk, Bonded and more

Stage Raw: Eccentricites of a Nightingale

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Free $$$ and TrioL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE ​Photo by Craig Schwartz It's New Year's Eve in Tennessee Williams' drama, and Alma Winemiller is enchanted by the crisp snaps ... More >>

Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon and Crack Whore Galore — Live!

Prophets and profits

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

THE GAY'S THE THING

Strange Death Fellows

How do you go from In the Company of Men, to remaking The Wicker Man, to directing a Martin Lawrence/Chris Rock comedy? Neil LaBute explains himself

Wrecks

Stage Raw: Wrecks Coming to the Geffen

WRECKSThe Geffen Playhouse announced yesterday that Ed Harris will revive his acclaimed performance in Neil LaBute's 2005 play Wrecks, which premiered in Ireland and transferred to the New York Public Theatre in 2006, where Harris appeared in it as Edward Carr, a used-car salesman who has just lost ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored

Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones 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 >>

Theater Reviews: Eclipsed, Naked Boys Singing, Scarecrow, Underground Woman

Also, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Shining City, Gogol Project and more

The Something-Nothing

Theater Reviews: Liquid, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The New Testament/Helter Skelter

Also, This Is My F-Ing Wedding, Influences of the Spirit and more

The New Testament/Helter Skelter

Stage Raw: Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the latest NEW REVIEWS and the current STAGE FEATURE on Adeline's Play at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa MonicaNEW REVIEW PICK ANITA BRYANT DIED FOR YOUR SINS ​Photo by Ty DonaldsonThe title of Brian Christopher Williams play suggests a slick, sassy gay com ... More >>

Stage Raw: West

The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on Adeline's Play at the PowerhouseECLIPSED in rehearsal​Bahni Turpin and Miriam F. Glover in rehearsals for the West Coast premiere of Danai Guria's Eclipsed, playing September 13 ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

Stage Raw: Introducing Mr. Merkin

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSBreaking News: Actor Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. INTRODUCING MR. MERKINMr. Merkin, writing his theater review of a production in Chicago, from the vantage of Wroclaw, PolandStage Raw is happy to welcome ... More >>

Role Models: Big Daddies

A boys-to-men movie not made by Judd Apatow

Lakeview Terrace: Samuel L. Jackson Is the Cop Next Door

Director Neil LaBute mounts stealth attack on viewer sensibilities

New Theater Reviews: Cartoon, Li'l Abner, and The Brig

Also, Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield

When Theater Is Sanctuary and not Temple

Dancing butterflies

SOME GIRL(S)

Theater Reviews: One Fell Swoop, Eddie Kill the President, Pterodactyls

And remembering artist and activist Joel Bloom

Theater Reviews

Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Joe Orton's Loot, Neil LaBute's Fat Pig and more

Theater Reviews

Including Sweet Charity, Autobahn and The America Play

Film Reviews

Reviews of Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, The Bridesmaid, this week's pick, Mutual Appreciation and more

Film Reviews

Including Lassie, Princesas and Crossover

Theater Listings

For the week of May 26 - June 1

New Theater Reviews

Reviews of Neil LaBute's Bash, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde

Hello Surfer

Form and Dysfunction

Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things and Jordan Melamed’s Manic

Cause Célèbre: Green Carpets and Ancient Elves

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

Isn't It Romantic?

LaBute's Possession may be; Chabrol's Merci Pour Le Chocolat's anything but

Off Center and in Control

On the set with Neil LaBute

Letters

Amazing Gracie

Renée Zellweger makes Neil LaBute’s dizzy Nurse Betty her own

The Moralist

Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

B-Pictures

Bull, Bash, Blonde Bombshells and a Sandy Bottom

Enter Smiling

Facing my second millennium of theater

Letters

Whatever

The new nihilism

No Easy Pieces

Neil LaBute's sexual healing