Tennessee Williams

Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty

Emancipation Proclamations

Ingmar Bergman's Nora and two plays by Horton Foote at Open Fist Theatre present defiant women, in ways that feel almost nostalgic

Icons & Legends: The Photography of Michael Childers,

How Do You Create a Fake Theater Troupe? Art Collective My Barbarian Pulls it Off at Human Resources

Opening night of My Barbarian's new show, Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater, artist Anna Sew Hoy rolled and writhed on the floor while a backup band played. She'd been selected from the audience along with at least 15 others, costumed in a togalike, patterned gown and given a card with a "pers ... More >>

The Jacksonian With Ed Harris and Bill Pullman, at Geffen Playhouse

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre, Reviewed

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

I Can See You: What's With Those Scrims Separating David Smith's Sculptures at LACMA?

2011 Museum Associates/LACMADavid Smith exhibit at LACMA​ "I don't make boy sculptures," said artist David Smith, interviewed in 1964. All the willowy, boxy or shiny metal beings he built were girls, some explicitly modeled after his own adorable daughters, others more vaguely female. However ... More >>

Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Norm Foster's The Motor Trade

Innocence and damnation

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 >>

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Poles Apart

East European lunatics and Glendale's staid classicists

Howl: Ginsberg on Trial, on Film

Documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman on their first dramatic feature

CLASSY ITALIANS ONLY

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Almost, Maine, Twenty-Two, Ordinary Days

Also, 11, September, Shakespeare Unscripted and more

Stage Raw: An Oak Tree

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the FrogNEW REVIEW GO AN OAK TREE ​Photo by William AdashekOn the simplest story-telling level, actor-performer Tim Crouch's play is the tale of a hypnotist, falling apart at th ... 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: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Scarcity

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Casi Divas, Post Grad, Shorts

Also, Earth Days, Gotta Dance and more

THEATER REVIEWS: CARVED IN STONE, THE HOSTAGE, KILL ME DEADLY

Also, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny at Port Chicago, Nevermore, Wife Swappers and more.

Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes

Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

Stage Raw

Please see below for comprehensive theater listings that replicate the global format found in the print edition, compiled by Derek Thomas. This new stage blog -- to be posted once a week -- is till in the works, Suggestions are welcome. A memorial service hosted by Madelaine Shaner was held at t ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Freedom of Speech, Just Like White People

Also, Winter, the Groundlings' latest and more

Library Book Liberation Front: Don't Tax Library Books

Apolitical L.A. roars at deficit-mired Villaraigosa

Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

Also this week's pick, Encounter Point

Kiddie Porn

From Dakota Fanning’s rape to John Cusack’s daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about child exploitation

Loose Prose

Old Is the New New

UCLA fest shows why some films should never be forgotten

Greek Love

Charles L. Mee’s Agamemnon, and Sarah Ruhl’s Demeter in the City

Stephnie Weir's Slowdeatha, Tx

Daddy Warbucks and the Temple of Doom

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons

Happy Ever-Aftering

Flipping off the classics

Way Down Yonder

New Orleans: The heart of the matter

WeHo Voices

The NYT Goes Way Off-Broadway and Other Big Hits

WEB UPDATE: LAT moves off the mat, Baquet goes ballistic, Brando monkeys around, and Babs butters up

700 Years Old, Still Cool

Beyond Superfly

Ron O’Neal, actor and filmmaker

All That Jazz

Talking about my generation

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler

Exit Stage Left, Slowly

Gordon Davidson and the changing of the guard

Or Watch It on TV

American Inventions

Swing! and Heather Woodbury imagine our nation

B-Pictures

Bull, Bash, Blonde Bombshells and a Sandy Bottom

Shout at the Devil

Public Enemy rants to the music