Sophocles

Foraging, A Feast of Weeds A Wild (And Confused) Infused Grappa Recipe

Forage much? Chefs do it, Pascal Baudar does it (feel free to join him). Even UCLA professor of Italian and culinary history Luigi Ballerini does it, judging by his latest book, A Feast of Weeds: A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Plants, with recipes by Ada De Santis (translated by Gianp ... More >>

The Coarse Acting Show and Dirty Filthy Love Story, Reviewed

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...

Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>

The Government Inspector at Boston Court, and REDCAT's New Original Works Festival

Casting Call for 'Asian Man' With 'Extremely Small Penis': Racist? Or Just Unfunny?

Wikimedia CommonsFor no relevant reason whatsoever, here are some baby carrots next to a ruler. Thanks, Wikipedia.​ The following description appeared in a recent casting call for an indie television pilot, as identified by the blog angry asian man: [ CHANG ] MALE: 20's - 40's. Asian. Petite, ... More >>

Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance

Mumbai cougar at the Bollywood Zoo

Joe Hernandez-Kolski's Awake and Jed Mills' Choices

The Porters of Hellgate's Oedipus and Actors Co-op's King Lear

The eyes have it

Oedipus the Tyrant

Stage Raw: A Star is Hatched

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESA STAR IS HATCHED​Meet Gertrude Stein (right), and her girlfriend, Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude and Alice were rescued from extermination at an an ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Titus Andronicus, Debbie Reynolds: Alive and Fabulous

Also, The Phantom of the Opera, State of the Union and more

Oh, Those Riotous Comedies

The Marriage of Figaro and The Playboy of the Western World

Theater Reviews: Cave Quest, Lobby Hero, Broads!, Wirehead

Also, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Forgiveness, Oedipus El Rey and more

Stage Raw: Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURE On The Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett Till THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW KHARMFUL CHARMS OF DANIIL KHARMS ​Photo by Taso PapadakisHere's a fascinating oddity:  A series of short works by a now almost ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Subject Was Roses and Emmett Till

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSUnderstating the ObviousThe Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett TillBY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS​No bed of roses: Sheen and Conroy on a sterile promontory: ... More >>

Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

A thriving year for stage in L.A.

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... 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 >>

Theater Reviews: Nibbler, Polyester the Musical, The Ghost Building

Stage Raw: The Browning Version

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK THE BROWNING VERSION​Photo by Victor MartinsThough not as widely known or acclaimed as his contemporary British playwrights, Terence Rattigan was a superb dramatist and chronicler of hum ... More >>

Troubadour Theater Company’s Oedipus the King, Mama! and Chekhov’s The Seagull

Mama’s boys

Oedipus the King, Mama!

Stage Raw: Hanks a Lot

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Also, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' Festival HANKS A LOTTom Hanks and Rita Wilson piggy backing with The Comedy Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Festival/L.A.On Monday, May 1 ... More >>

Agamemnon at the Getty Villa

Sound and Fury

Theater Reviews: Bury the Dead, Coriolanus, Inherit the Wind

Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

Agamemnon

Coriolanus

Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

The U.S. Marine Corps Discovers the Greeks

1001: Jason Grote and his Arabian Nights

Ancient Persia collides with modern NYC at Pasadena's Theater @ Boston Court

The Mission Position

San Gabriel and San Fernando missions

Theater Listings

For the week of February 9 - 15

Theater Reviews

Includng Varla Jean Merman Is Anatomically Incorrect!, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and Small Tragedy

Officers’ Mess

Sophocles goes to Baghdad

La Vida Loca in Ancient Greek

Mourning becomes Electricidad, at the Taper

The Other Texan

Dan Rather’s Evening News exit

For All Seasons

Another Day in Paradise

Five plays in 28 hours

Happy Land Jubilee

Living right with the Blind Boys of Alabama

The Coffee Table

Carrying On at the Atreus Motel

Letters

Complex Oedipus

Rita Dove spins Sophocles’ tragedy into a Great American Saga

Cause Without a Rebel

A beautiful, pointless Antigone Story

Puppet Regimes

Political-themed theater across the city

Enter Smiling

Facing my second millennium of theater

Dream Weaver

Director Ron Sossi on Kenneth Cavander's compendium of ancient Greek plays

OedTV

A telegenic Oedipus and a leering Lear

Classic Antics

Jamming on Sophocles and The New Bozena

The Real Deal

Freddie Roach, baby-faced trainer