Monday, May 25, 2015
With countless radio stations dedicated to the music of the '50s, '60s and '70s, the recent release of the entire Beatles catalogue on iTunes, and even covers of oldies like “River D…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMThere is something about the white-face makeup and red nose of a clown that never fails to elicit strong emotions with audiences. For the American public, the image stirs up all kinds of ass…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMFriday, November 1, 2013
Tracy Lore got a late start in musicals, but she has barely stopped since then. She's playing Frau Blucher in "Young Frankenstein" for the second time -- this version is Musical Theatre West…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:49PMFriday, October 11, 2013
Playwright Carla Ching and director Bart DeLorenzo discuss "Fast Company," her new play about a family of grifters, o[pening at South Coast Repertory.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:37PMThursday, September 19, 2013
Orange County barged into the Ovation Award nominations this year, with 3-D's "Parade" and Chance's "Triassic Parq" receiving more nods than any other single productions.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:42PMFriday, August 23, 2013
John Logan's "Red," last seen in LA at the Taper with its original star Alfred Molina, is revived by International City Theatre with Tony Abatemarco as Mark Rothko and Patrick Stafford as hi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:54PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Playing the only two characters in I Do! I Do! is a challenge, say Davis Gaines and Vicki Lewis, who are "do"-ing the revival at Laguna Playhouse.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:15PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Alina Phelan is thinking about the recent death of a friend as she portrays the woman who finds a Dead Man's Cell Phone, in Sarah Ruhl's play, at International City Theatre.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:54PMFriday, April 12, 2013
A Chorus Line at Musical Theatre West re-unites director/choreographer Roger Castellano and musical director David Lamoureux, who went through most of his career without much love for A Chor…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:25PMFriday, March 22, 2013
La Mirada Theatre is bringing the audience up on the stage for an intimate 199-seat production of the musical Spring Awakening. Brian Kite, the theater's producing artistic director and the …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:30PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Marshall Pailet was among three collaborators who imagined what the events depicted in Jurassic Park might be like from the dinosaurs' point of view. Now Pailet is directing the West Coast p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Gigi Fusco Meese pauses briefly between her former job at Musical Theatre West and her new job as executive director of Anaheim Performing Arts Foundation to stage Intimately Wilde at her ev…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:05PMThursday, November 8, 2012
After six decades, Long Beach's Musical Theatre West is the most prominent musical theater company in Los Angeles County. Executive director and producer Paul Garman, who has been with the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:53PMFriday, October 26, 2012
From an an organic farm in North Dakota sprouted Damon Kirsche, the debonair musical theater and big-band star. He's currently playing Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, which is launching Musical…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:26PMFriday, September 28, 2012
Brian Nelson's Overlooked examines an artist who hires a homeless man to serve as an installation. Better known as a screenwriter (Hard Candy), Nelson believes the story of Overlooked belong…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMThursday, August 23, 2012
Don't put Michael Hollinger in a box. His Ghost-Writer, at International City Theatre, was inspired by a story about Henry James and his secretary. His Tooth and Claw, recently recorded for …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PMFriday, July 13, 2012
The 11 irreverent puppets of Avenue Q take over Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton this weekend, and Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in early August, for 3-D Theatricals' version of the mu…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:38PMFriday, June 29, 2012
Davis Gaines played King Arthur in Camelot in Sacramento. Now he's tackling the irreverent Monty Python version of the same character, in Spamalot for Musical Theatre West in Long Beach -- w…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMWednesday, June 20, 2012
David Engel and John J. Joseph cross-dress for Ken Ludwig's farce, Leading Ladies, at International City Theatre -- even as their characters fall in love with women. It's a familiar plot twi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMFriday, April 27, 2012
Sal Mistretta won an award for his performance in the DC area's US premiere of the rock musical The Fix, about political shenanigans, in 1998. But the Monica Lewinsky scandal apparently pr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:26PMFriday, April 20, 2012
Bets Malone is one of those rare actors who relies on the LA stage for most of her income. Since she was a kid in San Diego County, she has been employed in southern California musicals, wit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PMFriday, February 10, 2012
Lesli Margherita, playing Aldonza in Musical Theatre West's Man of La Mancha, looks forward to changes in the musical arrangements that she hopes will make Aldonza sound a little more...whor…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:55PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Four veteran Wonderettes -- Julie Dixon Jackson, Misty Cotton, Bets Malone, and Lowe Taylor -- discuss their Winter Wonderettes gig at Long Beach's Musical Theatre West. This latest producti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:36PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Ed Begley Jr. has revised his 2003 musical Cesar and Ruben for a student production at Santa Monica College. All of the songs are now in Spanish, but as before, the main subject is Cesar Cha…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:53PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
After 15 years since the Long Beach Civic Light Opera (LBCLO) folded, the company’s former artistic director Luke Yankee has come back to the Long Beach Performing Arts Center to direct …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMWednesday, July 6, 2011
Walking into Musical Theatre West's administrative headquarters in Long Beach, you might wonder if you time-traveled back a few decades—bursting racks of glittering '80s costumes for MTW�…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:06PMTuesday, May 24, 2011
To many Southern Californians the phrase “Inland Valley” may not be synonymous with “theater.” Donna and Frank Minano, founders of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre, beg to differ. R…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:25PMWednesday, April 20, 2011
Known for big musicals, the partnership of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment brings another favorite to its audiences with a new production of Little Sh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:55PMWednesday, March 30, 2011
Roger Bean, creator of the long-running off-Broadway hit The Marvelous Wonderettes, directs the world premiere of his latest creation, Summer of Love, a brand new musical that promises to …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:20PMThursday, March 17, 2011
Stage and screen veteran Michael Learned pairs with her equally seasoned pal Granville Van Dusen as an unlikely couple in a new production of Kathleen Clark’s play Southern Comforts, dir…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PMFriday, March 4, 2011
There is something about the white-face makeup and red nose of a clown that never fails to elicit strong emotions with audiences. For the American public, the image stirs up all kinds of ass…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:51PM 
