Steppenwolf Theatre Company

A Parallelogram Shows Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris' Very Bleak View of Humanity

Further Proof That an L.A. Weekly Theater Award Can Lead to a Successful Career

L.A. Theater's Moment of Truth

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

Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited

Into the horizon

August: Osage County

Theater Reviews: Friends Like These, The Crossing, Peace, Somebody’s Somebody

Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

The Diminished Returns of August: Osage County

When drowning oneself seems like a good option

Stage Raw: Baby It's You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUTHE LATEST NEW REVIEWSBABY IT'S YOUThe jukebox musical that's been playing since the spring at the Coast Playhouse, will be the final entry in the Pasadena P ... More >>

Stage Raw: August: Osage County

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and this week's STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUNEW REVIEW GO AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ​Photo by Robert SafersteinTracy Lett's 2007 Great American Family Drama, or so we'd believe from ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ten to Life

Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

The Idea Man: Motherfuckers of Invention

Razor-thin loyalties in Kevin King’s comedy-drama

The Idea Man

Stage Raw: New Troupes on the Block

NEW TROUPES ON THE BLOCK Under the umbrella of Cornerstone Theatre Company, a new company called Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras (Day Laborer Theater Without Borders) launches at the Hollywood Community Job Center, 5669 De Longpre Avenue; December 20 at noon. The 15-member troupe will voice the s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Your Source for Free and Discount Theater Tickets

FREE AND DISCOUNT THEATER TICKETS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Plays411 is offering FREE & Discount Tickets: You only pay $3.50 Service Fee, or Half-off where indicated. Advance Reservations only: Go to: plays411.com, then select the show, use Promo Code: "LETMEIN" (unless otherwise instructed ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leslie Jordan's Trip Down the Pink Carpet

This Week's Theater Pick Leslie Jordan's Autobiographical Trip Down the Pink Carpet If a zest for life is infectious, there's probably no more delightful a carrier than Leslie Jordan. A diminutive stage, film, Emmy Award-winning TV actor, and fugitive from the Bible Belt, Jordan regales us ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ivanov

IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Cocks of the Walk

COCKS OF THE WALK The same people who brought us Naked Boys Singing are at it again -- this time showing considerable more restraint with a musical revue subtly named Hangin' Out -- described as "a celebration of the human body . . . exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance." Now ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Little Dog Laughed

>NEW REVIEW THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED As Gertrude Stein once put it (but not about this play), "It's almost about something, and then it's just not." Douglas Carter Beane's comedy brings with it the New York cast that put the play on the map, and secured Julie White a Tony for her role as a Holly ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck

Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>

Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>

Stage Raw: One Sucker's Lament

Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>

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: Fake Radio Sing Along

Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

Eat the Runt

Theater Reviews: Eat the Runt, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Cute With Chris

Miss Witherspoon, The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and more

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

American Dead

Theater Reviews: American Dead, Alice in Wonderland 2: Behind the Looking Glass

Also, Summer Camp at Sacred Fools, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and more

Broadway Crowd Pleasers: August: Osage County, Gypsy, November, Top Girls

Great White Way getaways

John DiFusco Returns to His Roots

Working class hero

Origin of a Species: Sky Pilot Theatre

They came, they saw, they started a theater

Big Deal – No, Really

365 Days/365 Plays sweeps the country

Living Treasures

Why L.A. theater matters

Millennium Reproaches

Tony Kushner, back on the Left Coast

Working on the Fringe: A Local Runt Wows the Scots

Grin and Bare It

Nudity on local stages re-examined

Dead of Night

Conor McPherson’s weir tales

Happy’s Times Are Here Again

Death of a Salesman, and a gothic lampoon

Deep River

Navigating Mark Twain's great divide

Star Struck

Getting hit on the head in Tina Landau's Space