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Monday, May 25, 2015

Broadway Blockbuster Blitz at Pantages by Les Spindle

Broadway/L.A. is offering one of  its most tantalizing seasons yet, including several recent Broadway Tony winners and nominees.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Jeremy Jordan: Breaking Character :: EDGE on the Net by Les Spindle

Broadway fans know him as pretty-boy killer Clyde Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde" and as Jack Kelly in his Tony-nominated turn in the megahit, "Newsies." Followers of TV musicals watched him cr…

SOURCE: www.edgeonthenet.com at 01:39PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Sawicki Stomps His Way Through His New Home Base by Les Spindle

John Sawicki has lived in LA for two years, but he has been touring with "Stomp" for 16 years. Now he gets to perform it on his new home turf, at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:46PM
Monday, December 2, 2013

Tournier is Back in Town, on Tour in Peter and the Starcatcher, by Les Spindle

Edward Tournier, who was active in small LA theater for seven years before moving to New York, is back in town as an actor in the "Peter and the Starcatcher" tour, soon playing the Ahmanson.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:59PM
Friday, November 8, 2013

From Marriage to Miracle With Brian Shnipper by Les Spindle

Brian Shnipper conceived and developed "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays." Now he's staging Tom Dudzick's "Miracle on South Division Street" at Colony Theatre.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PM
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Notes on The Nether From the Ovation Awards Champs by Les Spindle

Six of the seven Ovation Awards winners from "The Nether" discuss their collaboration, along with director Neel Keller. It won more Ovations Sunday than any other production.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:21PM
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Deborah Puette’s Rabbit Hole Adventure by Les Spindle

Deborah Puette maintains that David Lindsay-Abaire's "The Rabbit Hole" isn't a total trail of tears. She's starring in it at La Mirada Theatre.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:49PM
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Steven Leigh Morris Returns to Moskva With City Garage by Les Spindle

Steven Leigh Morris, best known as the LA Weekly theater maven, dons his playwright's cap for "Moskva," an adaptation of Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" at City Garage.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:26PM
Friday, October 11, 2013

The Homosexuals and Celebration Arrive in Atwater Village by Les Spindle

Philip Dawkins' "The Homosexuals", opening in Atwater, is Celebration Theatre's first production since leaving its previous home. Executive director Michael Kricfalusi talks about the move.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:11PM
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Terrence McNally Talks by Les Spindle

Terrence McNally, guest of honor at a four-day Skylight Theatre tribute, reflects on some of the results of his personal golden age of writing plays.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:45PM
Friday, September 20, 2013

Miller Finally Bound for Simon’s Broadway at La Mirada by Les Spindle

Allan Miller was going to play Ben in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound on Broadway in 2009 when the production was canceled. Now he's finally doing the role, at La Mirada Theatre.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:08PM
Friday, September 13, 2013

Sawyer and Company Banish the Fourth Wall in LAGLC’s Laramie Sequel by Les Spindle

The LA Gay and Lesbian Center's LA premiere of "The Laramie Project -- 10 Years Later," staged by Ken Sawyer, mixes the actors up with the audience, town meeting-style.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:05PM
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Radar L.A. Is Again on LA’s Radar by Les Spindle

Here comes the second edition of Radar L.A., the international arts festival to take place in late September in LA and Culver City. Its curators and two of its performers speak.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:20PM
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Lohman’s Diary of Theatrical Adventures by Les Spindle

At age 16, Valerie Rose Lohman is playing Anne Frank -- only three months after she played Mary Phagan in Parade, another production about severe anti-semitism.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:31PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Puckish Fenner’s Dream Comes True by Les Spindle

Wyatt Fenner's Puck for the Shakespeare Center is only the latest chapter in his Puck-like travels through LA's theatrical landscape.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:15PM
Monday, July 1, 2013

Fox and Jackson Jointly View Their Venice Bridge by Les Spindle

Pacific Resident Theatre artistic director Marilyn Fox and Dana Jackson collaborate on the company's revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, featuring PRT actor/playwrigfht Vince …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PM
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Yes, Jefferson Mays Is In His Prime Time by Les Spindle

Jefferson Mays, opening in the US premiere of Yes, Prime Minister at the Geffen, discusses some of his career highlights and the power of transformation on stage. .

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PM
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Rodriguez Boomerangs Between Two Cities by Les Spindle

Dámaso Rodriguez, co-founding artistic director of LA’s Furious Theatre Company and new artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, helms a farewell remounting of Matthew …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:40PM
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Downey CLO’s Moode Rides Wagon into the Sunset by Les Spindle

It's curtains for Downey Civic Light Opera after this season -- and more than four decades. The final show, Paint Your Wagon, opens Friday.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:21PM
Friday, May 10, 2013

Before Brown’s and 3-D’s Parade Passes By by Les Spindle

Composer Jason Robert Brown discusses the evolution of Parade, which plunges Fullerton's 3-D Theatricals into darker subject matter.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:05PM
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Cops Launches New Home for Vs. Theatre by Les Spindle

Vs. Theatre Company is about to open its new home, in the tiny space formerly occupied by Black Dahlia, with the premiere of Cops and Friends of Cops, by the company's literary director and …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:20PM
Friday, April 19, 2013

Eisenberg and Winfield Watch Over GRT’s 40th by Les Spindle

As Group Rep turns 40, co-artistic directors Larry Eisenberg and Chris Winfield balance many considerations as they extend the legacy of the company and its late founder Lonny Chapman. GRT i…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:33PM
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Dooley and Holzman Open Assisted Living at Odyssey by Les Spindle

Married since 1984, Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman are known primarily for writing and acting gigs they've done separately. But more than 25 years ago, they began writing a play they could p…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:31PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

When Wolves 4.0 Reaches Celebration’s Door by Les Spindle

Steve Yockey has found a way to get four successive "premieres" for his new plays -- the National New Play Network. His Wolves is completing the final chapater of its four-pronged" premiere"…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:41PM
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Dreams Come True for the DOMA Dreamgirls by Les Spindle

At least two of the three women who make up DOMA Theatre's Dreamgirls dreamed of being in the show as they were growing up. Now it's opening in the intimate Met Theatre, with Tyra Dennis, Co…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:11PM
Friday, February 15, 2013

Rejuvenating the Lampoon Legend on Stage by Les Spindle

Matty Simmons, the original CEO of National Lampoon, is returning to the fold with his production of Sketches From the National Lampoon, at the Hayworth Theatre. Richards Levinson, who has w…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PM
Friday, February 8, 2013

When A Heap of Livin’ Is About to End by Les Spindle

Elliot Shoenman's new A Heap of Livin', at the Odyssey, examines a famous country singer (Lawrence Pressman) whose days are numbered. His daughters (Jayne Brook, Didi Conn) must make decisio…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:48PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Cassiopeia Shoots for the Stars by Les Spindle

David Wiener, best known for Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, returns to an earlier play in a very different style with Cassiopeia, at Boston Court. It was inspired by personal communic…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PM
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Hartley Seeks Harmony in Colony’s Morini Strad by Les Spindle

As the Colony struggles for survival in a financial crisis, it offers Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strad. It serendipitously explores the crucial role that art plays in our lives, says its st…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:15PM
Friday, November 9, 2012

Re-opening the Door Nora Slammed, at PRT by Les Spindle

Pacific Resident Theatre brings Nora, Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House, to LA, with Dana Jackson directing. She and cast member Bruce French discuss how Bergman stripped…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:33PM
Friday, October 19, 2012

Rogue Machine Reaches A Bright New Watershed by Les Spindle

Rogue Machine is on a roll. Artistic director John Perrin Flynn hopes that the hits keep comin', starting Saturday with A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter.  "It’s a play that cuts acr…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards