Steven Leigh Morris

Adam Szymkowicz's comic book parody, Hearts Like Fists at Theatre of NOTE takes unrequited love to camp, and gets this week's Pick of the Week. Click here for all the latest New Theater Reviews, or after the jump.Also check out this week's Stage feature on performance beyond the theater walls:......

There's a quotation by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in an anthology called Dumbest Things Ever Said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are......

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, executive director of L.A. City's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, director of New Play Development......

It's very old news that theater derives from traditions of storytelling. More recent news, but still old enough, is that the insights in the theater often bubble out from what's unspoken — body language, situations that characters land in, even a stone-faced response by one character to another. You'd think......

REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwrights Conference kicks off with special performance......

Summer is for Shakespeare, usually in the park, but this season, Macbeth is blooming everywhere like Scottish thistles. At New York's Lincoln Center, Alan Cumming stars in a one-man version set in a lunatic asylum, produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. This coming week, Long Beach Playhouse opens a......

The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab. For shows you may have missed in June, see the complete schedule following New Theater Reviews after the jump.This week,......

In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it.The other day, a duck flew into our backyard, in one of the canyons of Highland Park. A big white duck. It just dropped out of the sky, in......

Not meaning to beat a dead horse, but seeing a triple-header of local stage productions on Saturday brought into stark counterpoint my respect for local theater and my annoyance with War Horse, the National Theatre's much-beloved touring spectacle now at the Ahmanson. After standing accused by offended readers of lacking......