Tim Robbins

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alcestis Show What Lurks in the Darkness

Why Two Celebrated Theaters Have to Leave Their Hollywood Homes

As Live Talks Los Angeles Turns Three Years Old, Its Founder Explains What Makes a Great Conversation

Ronald Reagan may have been the Great Communicator, but Ted Habte-Gabr is obsessed with conversation. Habte-Gabr produces Live Talk Los Angeles, a series of events that pair interesting names -- often of the literary world -- for sit-down interviews in front of hundreds of people. His first event ... More >>

Tim Robbins and the Rogue's Gallery Band at Largo 7/21/11

Lincoln Andrew DeFerTim Robbins and the Rogue's Gallery Band​Review by Dan Hyman WHO: Tim Robbins and the Rogue's Gallery Band WHERE: Largo at the Coronet Theatre WHEN: 7/21/11 As far as musical genres go, folk is not one of the happy-go-lucky, feel-good ones. Yes, many folksy-numbers take o ... More >>

Tim Robbins Interview: How Crawling Through Shit Made Him A Musician

​Interview by Dan Hyman Tim Robbins has crawled through feces before, while making his escape toward freedom in Shawshank Redemption. But that was fiction. The past few years, however, were not. "I had a rough period," says the 52-year-old actor, noting the collapse of a movie he was puttin ... More >>

Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti

Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others

Top 5 Apocalypse Movie Food Scenes

Alle your McDonald's are belong to us.​There's a scene in "War of the Worlds," the 2005 remake not the 1953 original, when Tom Cruise finds berserker survivalist Tim Robbins holed up in his basement. After sheltering him from the aliens, Robbins offers him peach schnapps. Even then, he (and th ... More >>

What's Funnier Than an Illuminating Comedic Truth (Besides Dick Jokes)?

DON'T BOGART THAT TOTO

Subversion Meets Shawshank

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 >>

Stage Raw: Take Me Out

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Tim Robbins' Break the WhipNEW REVIEW GO TAKE ME OUT ​Photo by Michael Calas Baseball star Darren Leming (Ary Katz), the central figure in Richard Greenberg's provocative 2002 comedy-drama, is a paragon of talent, skill and vi ... More >>

Dark Continents

Civil wars in Tim Robbins' Break the Whip and Lynn Nottage's Ruined

TWO WHITE GUYS SITTING AROUND TALKING

Aristocrats Screening and Q&A at WTF?! Fest: A Lesson in Comedy and Taste... or Lack Thereof

Walking through a narrow corridor inside the Ivy Substation in Culver City, one can already feel the energy. The space that once powered electric trolley cars on Venice Blvd. is now home to The Actors' Gang Theater. Everyone is gathered here on a Wednesday night at the WTF?! Festival to see The Aris ... More >>

WTF?! Festival

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 >>

Movie Reviews: Choke, August Evening, Eagle Eye, Nights in Rodanthe

Also, Freebird, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela and more

Movie Reviews: Indestructible, Reprise, Water Lillies

Also, Unsettled, Up the Yangtze and more

Bust, Carnage, Say You Love Satan

Also: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The $4 Million Giveaway and more

CARNAGE, A COMEDY

The First Post-Bush Bash

One Fell Swoop imagines politics in 2009

April 6, 2007

To Play or Not to Play: Tales of glory and folly on local stages by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS and STEVEN MIKULAN

Mark Seldis and the Woman Who Rescued Him

Life after Tim Robbins

LA Theater 2007: To Play, or Not to Play, That Is the Question

Moments of truth in local theater

Out of Afrikaans

Phillip Noyce harvests the seeds of revolution in Catch a Fire

Recent Spanish Cinema 2006

Farting in Church

How to make irreverence matter

Rule, Oceania!

Mr. Orwell’s nightmare comes to theater

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of 1984, Not a Genuine Black Man and On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning

Monkeys and Marionettes

Stewart vs. Crossfire and other comic battles

Genetically Modified Desire

Sex and science in Michael Winterbottom's Code 46

9/11 and Iraq War as Shtick

The misdeeds of Convoluted Rice and Uncurious George are no joke

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year’s Oscars suck more than usual

On Bended Knees

Tim Robbins’ Embedded

The Art of Confrontation

Catch as Catch Can

Shooting the Messenger

The march on CNN

Debits and Credits

Hell in Manhattan

The Substitute Soundtrack

Tracy Young, New Horizons

Back to the Future

The L.A. History Project, 2001

Letters

Letters

Executive Action: Tim Robbins takes control at the Actor's Gang

Actors’ Gang Timeline — Highlights

Robbing the Cradle

Tim Robbins vs. Orson Welles