Subject: Veterans Center for the Performing Arts

• Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

  August 25, 2008

• Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

  August 27, 2008

• Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

  August 29, 2008

• Stage Raw: Better Late Than Never?

  September 1, 2008

• Stage Raw: Last Call for "Wicked"

  September 3, 2008

• Stage Raw: Zombie Joe's Underground Scores in New York

  September 5, 2008

• Stage Raw: Confessions of a Subterranean Playwright

  October 22, 2008

• Stage Raw: Spring Awakening

  October 24, 2008

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

  October 27, 2008

• Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

  October 31, 2008

• Stage Raw: Surviving the Surviving Critics

  November 3, 2008

• Stage Raw: Major New Arts Fest Slated for L.A.

  November 5, 2008

• Stage Raw: By the Waters of Babylon

  November 7, 2008

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

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

  August 28, 2008

• Stage Raw: Stick Fly

  AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast premiere of Dana Yeaton's play The Big Random, presented by Sight Unseen at the Attic Theatre & Film Center; Groundlings, In the Study, With a Candlestick, sketch comedy and improv at the Groundli

  April 13, 2009

• Theater Reviews: Tragedy: A Tragedy, Waiting in the Wings, Good Bobby

  Also, Money Shot, Halo and more

  October 23, 2008

• Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

  The U.S. Marine Corps Discovers the Greeks

  August 28, 2008

• Sanctuary

  June 19, 2008

• Theater Reviews: Sanctuary, Alexandros

  Also, Lucia Mad, In Heat, A Thousand Words, and more

  June 19, 2008

• Theater Listings

  For the week of March 28-April 3

  March 27, 2008

• Man of La Mancha

  March 6, 2008

• Theater Listings

  For the week of March 14-20

  March 13, 2008

• Theater Reviews: Man of La Mancha, My Thing of Love

  Also, No Child ..., Silver for Gold and more

  March 13, 2008

• 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 your full quota of laughs from this quartet of one acts, each of which blends sci-fi, sex and absurdity in an entertaining way. Written by Annette Lee, "Hacienda Heights" is about a homicidal teen (Ew

  May 18, 2009

• Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

  May 14, 2009

• 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 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Geffen Playhouse, Shakespeare Festival/L.A. presents it's annual fundraiser with a reading of The Comedy of Errors, featuring the fundraising program's co-chairs Tom Hanks and Ri

  May 8, 2009

• Stage Raw: The Rehearsal

  AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's INTERVIEW with playwright Richard GreenbergTHE REHEARSAL is this week's Theater PickThe Rehearsal Photo by Craig SchwartzNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK In French dramatist Jean Anouilh's scintillating 1958 play, The Rehearsal, a group of amateur thespians is rehearsing a production of Marivaux's 18th century The Double Inconstancy, which offers a skewed mirror image of their world, and provides a pretext for Soojin

  May 4, 2009

• Stage Raw: The Seafarer

  AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's Irish yarn is chip off the stock-block of Celtic-folklore  - story-telling, bullshitting, scatological jokes, card playing and a visit by somebody from the metaphysical realm, which raises the not

  April 27, 2009

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

  July 16, 2009

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

  July 16, 2009

• Stage Raw: As You Like It

  THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater productions of Shakespeare with the frequency of garden barbecues: Cymbeline and Julius Caesar at Theatricum Botanicum, A Midsummer Night's Dream at both Theatricum Botanicum and Veterans Center for the Perf

  July 22, 2009

• Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

  THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some trailer with a grunting little guy in a cowboy hat but also with smeared makeup who makes up the rules as he goes, spies conspicuously on his opponent's cards and goes into paroxysms of glee with his fra

  July 13, 2009

• Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication of her book on her teaching methods, The DbD Experience, Chance Knows What It's Doing (Routledge). Saturday, Nov. 7, 7-11 p.m. at Track 16, Bergamont Station in Santa Monica. The event features a sile

  October 28, 2009

• Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Crime and Punishment and The Conquest of the South PoleMICHAEL 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 Road. Monday evening performances are scheduled for 8 p.m., November, 9, 16 and 30., and include valet parking and a post-show reception with Kearns. $25. (323) 223 68

  November 4, 2009