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Event will coincide with the launch of 'RADAR L.A.,' festival dedicated to adventurous new performance concepts.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMFriday, February 14, 2014
After years of experimentation, Brazilian singer Maria Rita has come to embrace the once-daunting legacy of her chanteuse mother, Elis Regina.When children of famous parents succeed, they're…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMMonday, October 21, 2013
"Invisible Cities," the new "headphone opera" by composer Christopher Cerrone, based on Italo Calvino's book and being performed at Union Station, is adding five additional performances.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:35PMSaturday, October 19, 2013
The Industry opera company and L.A. Dance Project are presenting 'Invisible Cities' on a unique platform — Union Station train terminal — and beaming it through headphones.The id…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
The playwright and actor rises to the challenge in adapting his neo-noir play to film, which will screen at the L.A. Latino International Film Festival.Richard Montoya keeps a mental library…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Like Walt Whitman, Roger Guenveur Smith contains multitudes. In various past one-man shows he has portrayed Huey P. Newton, baseball brawling immortals Juan Marichal and John Roseb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:27PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII' is retold from the Spanish point of view by Madrid's Rakata this week at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.As long as back-stabbing colleagues, flattering minions an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMSunday, September 22, 2013
The eclectic gathering of performers Radar L.A. focuses on collaborative theater while helping to boost profile of Los Angeles ensembles.During their 17-year creative partnership, Tina Kroni…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMMonday, July 8, 2013
The Latino Theater Network/Los Angeles aims to be a greater part of the theatrical world through collaborations, communication.One evening last month, eight Southern California theater profe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Guillermo Calderón, alarmed as much by his country's current neo-liberalism as its hyper-repressive past, lets his characters vent for him in 'Villa + Discurso.'The stage lights rise, and M…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
The meta-opera, which will have its West Coast premiere at Long Beach Opera, tries to deconstruct the mythology around its central character.Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz's "Camelia la Tej…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, March 8, 2013
The new-immigrant perspective of Teatro Mitote y Cine, visiting from Phoenix, grows from members' life experiences.In "Cada Quien Su Mexicano" (To Each Their Own Mexican), a one-act comedy w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
'Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker' by Belarus Free Theatre dramatizes citizen's sex lives in shadow of Europe's last dictatorship. It's at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.The sex lives of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:55PMSunday, January 20, 2013
The 'outsider' troupe explores power, cultural misappropriation and more in its 'Ganesh Versus the Third Reich.'At first blush, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" sounds like a long-lost Monty …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2012
The experimental group keeps its focus on F. Scott Fitzgerald's words in an otherwise off-kilter stage adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby' that makes its way to REDCAT.In his younger and more v…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, November 25, 2012
The 61/2-hour 'Gatz,' a 'Great Gatsby' re-creation coming to REDCAT, is the latest in a long-held tradition of stamina-stretching stagecraft that's a challenge to actors and audiences alike.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, October 15, 2012
John Hurt reflects on a role he knows well — the titular figure of 'Krapp's Last Tape,' which he's now starring in at Kirk Douglas Theatre — and Samuel Beckett.Technology is mess…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:15PMSunday, October 7, 2012
'Room 105: The Highs and Lows of Janis Joplin' by Gigi Gaston at Macha Theatre stars Sophie B. Hawkins as Janis Joplin. It's an intense connection.Twirling her microphone stand like a demon …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMSaturday, August 25, 2012
John Adams 'The Gospel According to the Other Mary' sparks debate among religious scholars about who exactly is this. Mary Magdalene? Mary of Bethany? Someone else?Mary, the mother of Jesus,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
The L.A. Opera is on challenging ground as local groups like the L.A. Phil, The Industry and Jacaranda stage inventive productions of opera and opera-like music theater.This spring, opera in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMMonday, June 11, 2012
The satire on race relations is best play, and the romance about an Irish street musician and an immigrant flower seller is top musical.Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satiri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMSunday, June 10, 2012
Her prize-winning 'Water by the Spoonful' is the second play in a trilogy. She's readying the third as 'Spoonful' heads to New York. But: Hey, L.A.!At 34, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes ha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:56PMSunday, April 29, 2012
For many, Anna Deavere Smith's work remains an influential touchstone of the uprising, which are being explored artistically across town for the 20th anniversary.When Anna Deavere Smith firs…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman docu-play "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" is among the most durable artworks to emerge from the ashes of L.A.'s 1992 riots. Based on hours of interviews with abo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMFriday, April 20, 2012
Clara Mamet, teenage daughter of actress Rebecca Pidgeon and author David Mamet, stars in "Paris" (which she wrote) and "The Solvit Kids" (which she co-wrote) at Ruskin Group Theatre in Sant…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:15PMMonday, February 6, 2012
John Adams' "The Gospel According to the Other Mary," "Where the Wild Things Are," Mozart and Esa-Pekka Salonen are among the high points of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMMonday, January 23, 2012
Hollywood Bowl 2012 highlights will include "The Producers," "Rigoletto," Pixar tribute and festival featuring Juanes, Juan Luis Guerra and Ruben Blades.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
The playwright, who usually doesn't favor making movies based on her plays, was encouraged by director Roman Polanski and a stellar cast.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PMThe playwright, who usually doesn't favor making movies based on her plays, was encouraged by director Roman Polanski and a stellar cast.The playwright, who usually doesn't favor making movi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMMonday, November 21, 2011
The Latino Theater Company may have to cancel its free annual production of the pageant "La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin" at Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in downtown Los Angeles du…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMMonday, November 14, 2011
The actors playing Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene all will be back, but Broadway veteran Brent Carver won't be playing Pontius Pilate when the La Jolla Playhouse reprises the Stratford Shak…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:42PM 
