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Toward the end of the new, futuristic play The Nether, a female detective faces the man she's been investigating — a man who has created a... More >>
Achieving an entirely plausible yet unorthodox version of "success" — at least for a playwright — Alexander Woo has settled... More >>
With the arts always the first programs to be budget-cut in school curricula, and with the cries of woe on editorial pages that we're not... More >>
Jennifer Haley sets much of her new play, The Nether, in an elaborate virtual reality — think Second Life, where you wander about as your... More >>
At the age of 80, Donald Freed is one of the oldest living American playwrights. A consequence of his age and his prolific output, Freed now... More >>
Nina Raine's lovely play Tribes, now at the Mark Taper Forum, is likely to be done all over the place, having just the right blend of familiarity... More >>
At the opening of Mark Schwartz's Divorce Party: The Musical, a frumpy housefrau named Linda (Janna Cardia) sits amidst small rings of her own... More >>
The Englishman William-Henry Ireland lived from around 1775 — he appears to have lied about his birth year — to 1835. Were he able,... More >>
The debate in politics over pending "sequestration" goes back and forth like a ping pong ball — from the view that hatchetlike budget cuts... More >>
Two new musicals that opened across town from each other last weekend provide an answer — a rebuff, really — to the idea that stories... More >>
There are a number of reasons why it's hard to get all warm and fuzzy about porn as a poster child for the First Amendment. Maybe it has... More >>
Theater audiences, beware! Run for cover if you need to. Big ideas are crashing down like meteors, from UCLA to Pasadena. Australia's Back to... More >>
sequence of events while seeing shows over the weekend brought on one of those moments where you look around and say, things are not as... More >>
A con-man/drifter walks into a small town, usually in the Midwest, and seduces a vulnerable local female. He not only seduces her, he awakens her... More >>
In small theaters, bold new artistic strokes don't necessarily lead to long-running productions — at least not in L.A. In fact, one can see... More >>
The question was put to the L.A. Weekly's stable of theater critics: What do you most dread and what do you most anticipate when being assigned... More >>
Looking across the border crossing of the holiday season, there's cause for curiosity and a feeling of being encouraged by the possibilities of... More >>
How convenient it would be in describing the year's best stage events to roll in with an agenda: that local productions were better than imports;... More >>
Jon Robin Baitz can write a play with erudition and wisdom. He's been demonstrating that since 1987, when his remarkable The Film Society —... More >>
A telling admission in Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães' magic show Nothing to Hide, at the Geffen Playhouse through Jan. 6, is that... More >>
'Tis is the season when many of our theaters go into a state of suspended animation for the express purpose of making it through the holidays.... More >>
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre arrived in Santa Monica from the United Kingdom last week, at the tail end of a U.S. tour. Its production of Hamlet,... More >>
In the program notes to the new musical Red Barn, which he co-authored with his wife, the show's director, Melissa Chalsma, actor-playwright... More >>
It's no secret: We, as a species, are more vicious than the most violent of dogs. What remains perplexing is that in the millennia since Homer,... More >>
What Office Trailers Can Teach Us About Los Angeles
Outside every building construction site, there's a box on wheels that's around 8 feet wide by 20 feet long. It's a simple structure, built to stay within the width of… More >>
With Dulce Rosa, an Isabel Allende Story Becomes Opera
It's taken 11 years to get director-lyricist Richard Sparks and composer Lee Holdridge's new opera, Dulce Rosa, from the germ of an idea to a full production. Sparks and Holdridge have… More >>
Urs Fischer Traffics in Clichés — But That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
You might resent artist Urs Fischer after seeing his survey at MOCA. Fischer, a Swiss artist who lives mostly in New York and produces iconoclastic messes with paradoxical precision, has… More >>
Marco Ramirez's The Royale and Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat Make Old Stories New
There's a road leading from the Actors Theatre of Louisville (Ky.) to Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group. Now onstage at CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City is the second… More >>
Colorblind and I'm Not Rappaport, Two Plays Dealing With Race Relations
Wallace Demarria bills himself as executive producer, writer, director and star of his play Colorblind, playing through the weekend at Meta Theatre. Such multiple, key credits landing on one person… More >>
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