Top Los Angeles Theater Stories

In his program note to his elegant and fervent staging of the 5th-century Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound director Travis Preston writes, "The... More >>

There are dreams described within August Strindberg's 1888 play, Miss Julie — such as the moneyed title character being stranded on a... More >>

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day was first presented as a workshop in 1985 at New York's Theatre 22, before receiving its premiere at San... More >>

"I don't have time for men," a female colleague recently told me — and she's not a lesbian. She's hard-working, ambitious, very smart,... More >>

In 1973, the Mexican cabaret-parody El Grande de Coca Cola made its premiere off-Broadway, and it has been a micro-cult sensation ever since,... More >>

The problem with Romeo and Juliet is that we never get to see how it really went down, the fallout from all that sexy forbidden union of opposing... More >>

You'd think it would be a given in a movie town such as ours that, even on our local stages, pictures and moving pictures would be the prevailing... More >>

Los Feliz's Skylight Theatre has become the home for L.A. scribe Shem Bitterman, who's had his plays staged in this city for decades. His latest,... More >>

In Bruce Norris' stark comedy A Parallelogram, 30-ish Bee (Marin Ireland) — a regional manager for Rite Aid, a job that's "very... More >>

Not since late December and its annual swath of A Christmas Carols invading the region have there been so many productions of a single play... More >>

By sheer coincidence, it seems, a pair of new plays being performed in different corners of the city takes a mocking yet poignant look at the... More >>

It's a Tuesday night at the Clubhouse, a black-box theater on the second floor of a condo located down an alley from the intersection of Santa... More >>

The publicist for the Kirk Douglas Theatre finds me in the theater's cinder-block cubicle otherwise known as the "Green Room" — only one... More >>

How many theater companies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón's Neva, which just closed... More >>

See also: *All of our Hollywood Fringe 2013 reviews from L.A. Weekly critics "Most of the stuff is awful, but it brings an entirely different... More >>

Last month, at about the same time, Open Fist Theatre Company and Celebration Theatre gave notice to their respective landlords, the primary... More >>

A central character in A Fried Octopus is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The diminutive French painter-printmaker-draughtsman, who devised his art... More >>

In March 2012, Ian MacKinnon presented a gay history one-man show at Moving Arts in Silver Lake, named Gay Hist-Orgy! Parts 1 & 2. It was a... More >>

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... More >>

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... More >>

Wallace Demarria bills himself as executive producer, writer, director and star of his play Colorblind, playing through the weekend at Meta... More >>

Is it possible that two-person plays, economically expedient for their small casts, are on the rise in L.A.? That they pose a challenge to... More >>

If you need an illustration of how much the early writing of Harold Pinter influenced the early writing of David Mamet, you need only check out... More >>

Writer-director Randy Johnson's musical bio-concert One Night With Janis is breaking records for daily sales, reports the Pasadena Playhouse, the... More >>

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 >>