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Karl Linder is the representative of the neighbors association "welcoming committee" over in Clybourne Park — an all-white suburb in... More >>
Over at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the schoolkids of Grover's Corners in Thornton Wilder's Our Town pour off the stage, like water from a... More >>
It's probably dangerous to subtitle a biographical play "The Kick-Ass Wit," as twin-sister journalist-playwrights Margaret and Allison Engel do in... More >>
Are we insects or are we dancers? "I was always fascinated by insects since I was a child. I would go into my backyard and look under rocks, to... More >>
How often, in the pantheon of literature and drama, do you find a guy performing an homage to his mom? Far more common in the annals of pop... More >>
In a silvery-blue jacket and slacks, lithe British actor Julian Sands presented 90 minutes of readings from the poetry of and speeches by Harold... More >>
There's a reason that John Patrick Shanley's two-character, 75-minute "apache dance" from 1984, set in the Bronx, is one of the most-produced... More >>
The band and the actors are already warming up as the audience trickles into the Ahmanson Theatre for Fela!, Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones'... More >>
Lighting Design by Mother Nature Playwright-director Sharon Yablon toured local stages in September with 24 Hours on Sunset, a collection of... More >>
This past June witnessed the week that was, with the nationwide theater organization Theatre Communications Group celebrating its 50th anniversary... More >>
There's an imposing bed at the center of the stage. Colin (Troy Blendell) has such a typically English, genial disposition, you have to wonder why... More >>
If you visit New York this winter, you'll find on Broadway a playwright oft-produced in L.A. (Theresa Rebeck) and a pair of Hollywood stars... More >>
So a British high school student, afraid to go home after school, afraid of her stepdad — that's as much as she says — asks a fellow... More >>
One of the eeriest events in recent local theater history occurred in 2010, when the Fountain Theatre’s beloved director-producer, Ben... More >>
Perhaps the best word to describe Charlayne Woodard as a performer is silken. When she crosses the stage, it's as though her body is propelled by... More >>
In the preface to the second volume of his anthology of lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) With Attendant Comments,... More >>
In his solo performance Forgotten, Pat Kinevane enters a stark stage, dressed in a kimono. During the hypertheatrical arrival, the sound design... More >>
I felt some mixed feelings watching Twelfth Night in A Noise Within's new, 283-seat Pasadena digs. The first reaction is the now oft-stated sense... More >>
Actors, colleagues and critics have weighed in on the Oct. 31 death of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse's producing director, from an apparent... More >>
God is dead. He died in the 1950s during the Theater of the Absurd movement, when European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco,... More >>
An embittered and aging tranny named Kemp (Marco Barricelli) comes to visit an old aunt (Olympia Dukakis) on the basis of a letter she sent him... More >>
"I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it." —Mary-Louise Parker After the announcement of this year's Ovation Awards nominees... More >>
There are at least three reasons to check out Ensemble Studio Theatre's staging of Gregory Moss' newish play House of Gold at Atwater Village... More >>
A native of Manchester, England, gymnast Andrew Atherton is no stranger to L.A., having lived here a decade ago for about a year and a half,... More >>
"I'm man's best friend. It's a thankless job," says pooch Brown Spot (Justin Okin) near the opening of Henry Murray's smart and sobering fantasia,... More >>
After mockingly gyrating and rubbing her torso up against comedian Hal Sparks, the lithe and spunky left-wing radio talk-show host Stephanie... More >>
Before last Saturday night's performance of his new play, Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion, Terry Jastrow greeted the audience at the... More >>
In Ghetto Klown, John Leguizamo's fifth solo performance about himself, you have to ask how much an extremely nimble and gifted performer can get... More >>
Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga's powerful psychological horror show takes as its inspiration Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp that was... More >>
In the beginning was the word. The word was also the beginning of storytelling: Any word, or words, strung together to dramatize a memory or a... More >>
Imitation is not only the highest form of flattery, it's also another measure of our theater's shrinking influence on the culture at large. From... More >>
Cacophony Society Prankster Group Gets New Exhibit and Documentary
Is a friendly game of strip dreidel a matter of concern for the Department of Homeland Security? To celebrate an exhibit and a documentary detailing the high jinks of prankster crew… More >>
Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG
Karl Linder is the representative of the neighbors association "welcoming committee" over in Clybourne Park — an all-white suburb in late-1950s Chicago — who appears in two plays presented concurrently… More >>
Helen Hunt in Our Town at the Broad Stage
Over at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the schoolkids of Grover's Corners in Thornton Wilder's Our Town pour off the stage, like water from a bucket strewn onto some… More >>
Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure
Click here for "SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180," by Anthony D'Alessandro. Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a… More >>
SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180
Click here for "Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure," by Gus Garcia-Roberts. Joe Piscopo: arm-curling beefcake Piscopo went from master impersonator to master meathead during the late 1980s and early '90s after… More >>
Bob Simmons, Pioneer of the Modern Surfboard, Gets a New Exhibit
The man once dubbed the Phantom Surfer is phantom no more. The tale of Bob Simmons, a pre-beatnik surfer from Pasadena, who dropped out of Caltech and then avoided World War… More >>
Pools in Palm Springs
Thinking of swimming pools in Southern California conjures up memories of idyllic postwar suburbia, either through events we've lived or those taught to us via the crisp, sunny-blue landscaped world… More >>
Kathleen Turner Plays Journalist Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot at the Geffen
It's probably dangerous to subtitle a biographical play "The Kick-Ass Wit," as twin-sister journalist-playwrights Margaret and Allison Engel do in their star vehicle about colleague Molly Ivins, Red Hot Patriot:… More >>
Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs
Are we insects or are we dancers? "I was always fascinated by insects since I was a child. I would go into my backyard and look under rocks, to see what… More >>
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