Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Joe Iconis has been developing his garage-band musical "The Black Suits" for nearly a decade.. It receives its premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:35PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
The site-specific opera "Invisible Cities" turns Union Station into a setting for a tale involving Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, as well as travelers passing through LA. Director Yuval Sharon …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:10PMMonday, September 23, 2013
A gay African American teenager and tweets and texts about him are the focus in choreographer David Rousseve's and sound designer d. Sabela grimes' "Stardust," part of Radar L.A.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Joe Orrach boxes, dances, talks about his Boriqua upbringing in New York and his troubled relationship with his father. Add a jazz trio, and you get "In My Corner" at the Odyssey.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:21PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Culture Shock LA and Versa-Style Dance Company bring hip-hop to Ford Amphitheatre this season.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:21PMFriday, June 21, 2013
ModRock, a new jukebox musical at El Portal, pits the rockers of Wembley against the mods of Stepney in 1965 London, explain producer Tom Coleman and director Brian Lohmann.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:33PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Jeff Arch, who wrote the Sleepless in Seattle story, spent more time working on the stage musical version, now at Pasadena Playhouse, than he spent on the movie.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:43PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Director Tim Dang applies colorblind casting to his revival of Chess for East West Players.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:05PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
As Traces, the Canadian-based circus, returns to LA at the Music Center, performer Bradley Henderson discusses the group's focus on performers as real people.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:59PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Trisha Brown has stopped choreographing, but CAP UCLA is offering an extensive retrospective of her work -- not only at UCLA but also at Getty Center and Hammer Museum. Diane Madden, one of …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:19PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Choreographer Oguri read Huckleberry Finn in Japanese and asked jazz master Wadada Leo Smith to write and perform a score for a dance inspired by the novel. The result, called Notaway: Quest…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:11PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
For more than a decade, Ken Roht has contemplated turning Strindberg's Miss Julie into a gay man, Miss Julien. Now it's happening, in a somewhat environmental production called Ken Roht's Mi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:05PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
Australia's Circus Oz made a big splash in a short run at UCLA in 1984, as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. Its venue then was the smaller Freud; now it's returning to the bigger Royce Hal…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:50PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Marc Bamuthi Joseph hosts eco-festivals in underserved parts of American cities. In his red, black & GREEN: a blues, these festivals are represented in an installation on stage, where th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:16PMFriday, January 18, 2013
The celebrated composer and performer Meredith Monk brings her vocal ensemble to UCLA this weekend for the premiere of On Behalf of Nature. She says she would like to deliver political messa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:51PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Helmer-choreographer Kathleen Marshall puts the kicks in the old-time Cole Porter tuner, opening this week at Ahmanson Theatre. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMFriday, November 9, 2012
Lilith, who arguably pre-dated Eve as the first woman in Hebrew folklore, unites playwright Aaron Henne's new theatre dybbuk and Kate Hutter's LA Contemporary Dance Company in a choreographe…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:09PMMonday, October 1, 2012
For Storytales, WordTheatre combines the micro-fiction of John Edgar Wideman, 30 well-known actor/readers, a score by Evan “Chuck Inglish” Ingersoll of the Cool Kids, the dance troupe …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:32PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Street dancers are strongly individualistic, notes Amy "Catfox" Campion, who runs Antics Performance. So how does she transform their solo breaking, popping and krumping moves into a theatri…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:42PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Mikhail Baryshnikov immigrated to the West from the Soviet Union, becoming an international ballet superstar. Now, at age 64, his destinations have changed – he doesn’t dance much in the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
London-based Steven Hoggett choreographed American Idiot, the Green Day musical that opens tonight at the Ahmanson. Director Michael Mayer had liked Hoggett's Black Watch work. But Hoggett…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:01PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
Sahr Ngaujah, an American-born son of a father from Sierra Leone and an American mother, portrays the late Afrobeat star and political activist Fela Kuti in the Bill T. Jones-directed musica…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:31PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
It feels like teen spirit -- and team spirit -- at the Ahmanson Theatre, where Adrienne Warren and Taylor Louderman prepare for their starring roles in Bring It On: The Musical. No, they'r…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:43PMTuesday, October 25, 2011
As Twyla Tharp's Come Fly With Me arrives at the Pantages, Twyla Tharp resident director John Selya discusses the heartfelt break dancing he'll be doing, the long-running romance between Tha…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:25PMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Todd Nielsen returns to International City Theatre to helm a show dear to his heart -- The Robber Bridegroom, opening October 14. The multi-tasking director previously led a 1986 productio…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:53PM 
