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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 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 >>

Theater Issue 2013: Why Be a Playwright in L.A.?

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

Terrence Malick at LACMA

Filmmaker gets retrospective in advance of upcoming Tree of Life

Terry Allen at L.A. Louver

Texan artist offers a Western take on the patron saint of artistic madness, Antonin Artaud

L.A. Theater's Moment of Truth

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

Theater Reviews: Lemon Durang Pie, Hyperbole: Origins, Lucia Mad

Also, Into the Woods, Barrymore and more

Stage Raw: Hyperbole: Origins

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on John Steppling's Phantom LuckNEW REVIEW  GO HYPERBOLE: ORIGINS ​ Photo by Rogue Theatre Ensemble It's not easy to wrap sentences around this fantastical storytelling spectacle created by a collaboration of artists under Sean T. Calwelti's direction, a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ruined

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterNEW REVIEW GO RUINED ​Photo by Chris BennionThe structure of Lynn Nottage's powerful drama is like that of so many play set in bars and brothels - there's the owner, the employees and the denizens. They tell ... 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 >>

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon, Co-Founder of Hollywood's MET Theatre, Dead at 70

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore JAMES GAMMON DEAD AT 70James Gammon, actor and producer, died July 16 in Costa Mesa, died July 16 of complications from cancer of the adrenal glands and liver. Gammon co-founded the MET Theatre in Hollywoo ... More >>

Sparks Notes on Modern Romance

A guide to the mind-set behind the new model of cash-cow chick flick

Patti Smith Talks Harry Smith at the Hammer Museum

Harry Smith, inventor of the mixtape​The Hammer museum's Smith On Smith event last Thursday night paid tribute to the eccentric artist and music collector Harry Smith through exploits that Patti Smith recounted from her new book, Just Kids. Patti befriended Harry at the Chelsea Hotel during it ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

Stage Raw: ZAR

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

Song and Angst: The Rise (and Fall?) of the New, Dark L.A. Musical

“Dark times engender dark works — not just in musical theater but in all art”

Behind the Talents of Stormy Weather and Bridezilla Strikes Back!

Touched by Oprah: The divine ascents of Cynthia Silver and Linda Twine

Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

Movie Reviews: Max Payne, Sex Drive, What Just Happened?

Also, Morning Light, Secrecy and more

Theater Reviews: Hillary Agonistes, Of Mice and Men, Flora the Red Menace

Also Indecent Acts, I'd Rather Be Right and more

Theater Listings

For the week of March 28-April 3

I’m Not There: Tackling Pop Culture’s Greatest Enigma

One of us must know

Canned Peaches in Syrup: Eat Me

Alex Jones dines on disaster

Anatomy of a Murder

The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast and an epic movie that’s as stylized as it is insane

Shoot 'Em Up: Owen, Clive Owen

He could have been a killer Bond

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Beastly Men

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and Love Tapes

American Idols: Director Jack Hill, Grindhouse Guru

Adventures in Fabulousness: When Club Kids Come West

Life Studies

Legends urbane and urban

Air Guitar

Steven Dietz’s soft rock drama

Poww!

Kenneth Tynan, demolition man

Call of the Wild

John Steppling's Dog Mouth

Or Watch It on TV

The Playwright’s Playwright

The persistence of Murray Mednick

Raising Robbie

Playwright Jon Robin Baitz on his youthful skip through L.A.

Just the Fates

Sean Penn’s The Pledge

Blood Writes

Plays about the high cost of seeking the truth

Grin 'n' Spin

Millennial yarns from the Holy Modal Rounders

Teenage Crush

In praise of A Noise Within

The Disquieting

DUIs, denial and turkey