Monday, April 25, 2016
by DEBORAH BEHRENS
Steve Julian I knew was a waggish raconteur with an impish twinkle in his eye and infectious laughter on his lips. A beaming presence that could light up any room or r…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:55PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Director Nataki Garrett discusses the west coast premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins provocative "Neighbors" at LA's Matrix Theater Company and how the August Wilson Meets the Minstrels mash-…
SOURCE: www.lastageblog.com at 05:58PMA.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff discusses directing Timberlake Wertenbaker's new translation of Sophocles' Elektra at the Getty Villa in Malibu starring Annie Purcell, Olympia Dukakis…
SOURCE: www.lastageblog.com at 05:58PMDoes being a Jenny Craig pitch meister improve one's song-and-dance man game? Ask Jason Alexander.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMKatey Segal discusses her return to the legit stage after 25 years in Randy Newman's "Harps and Angels"at the Mark Taper Forum, the long road between being one of Bette Midler's Harlettes to…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMHelen Helen discusses the joys of playing Beatrice in The Shakespeare Company of Los Angeles' "Much Ado About Nothing", her bi-coastal theatre roots and why she's not suited to stage direct.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMLA STAGE Times was given permission to witness the process Dangerous Beauty underwent in the final months leading up to its world premiere opening at the Pasadena Playhouse on February 13, 2…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMLegendary costume designer Theoni Aldredge died on Jan. 21. The next day, Soyon An began technical rehearsals for the premiere of the musical Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse, fo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMLA STAGE Times was given permission to witness the process Dangerous Beauty underwent in the final months leading up to its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse on February 13.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMDangerous Beauty Director Sheryl Kaller has a favorite mantra she likes to impart after making adjustments or giving notes: That is a change and change is good. The phrase could easily be a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMAnnie Potts is an actress film and television audiences have come to trust. From Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters) to Mary Jo Shively (Designing Women) to Mary Elizabeth “M.E.” Sims …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Ethel Barrymore had a signature Broadway curtain-call line she delivered each night, which originated from her role in ...Continue Reading
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PMThursday, December 19, 2013
LA STAGE Times offers links to its most-read articles from the past year. Celebrities, nudity and controversy were the primary factors driving readership of individual articles.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:24PMFriday, December 6, 2013
in "Parfumerie" -- the first play at the new Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills -- Arye Gross plays an employee of a perfume shop in 1937 Hungary. It's not just a rom-com. .
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:34PMMonday, October 7, 2013
After heckling occurred in a student production of "The Laramie Project" in Mississippi, the LA production of "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" posted a supportive message on YouTube.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:23PMThursday, September 5, 2013
"Prometheus Bound", at Getty Villa, offers a 23-foot steel wheel, a new translation by Joel Agee, and a chance to explore one of the world's first plays, notes director Travis Preston.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:59PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Amy Brenneman, a pre-LA Cornerstone Theater vet before she became a TV star, makes her full-fledged LA stage debut in Gina Gionfriddo's "Rapture, Blister, Burn" at the Geffen.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:41PMFriday, August 2, 2013
McKerrin Kelly staged Brendan at Theatre Banshee and is also directing The Arctic Circle, opening later this month. She also acts, does voiceovers and runs a fitness business. It's a balanci…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:39PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Producer Joseph Stern and director Jillian Armenante take on Jackie Sibblies Drury’s challenging exploration of racial genocide, "We Are Proud ..., opening Saturday at the Matrix Theatre C…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:42PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Dany Delany plays a DC power broker in Beau Willimon's new The Parisian Woman at South Coast Repertory. She discusses the production and other highlights of her stage career, which has conti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Married theater veterans and TV stars Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are appearing in Sharr White's "Annapurna" at the 99-seat Odyssey Theatre -- as well as "19 other things apiece." That'…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:01PMPlaywright Sharr White, fresh off the critical success of his The Other Place on Broadway, answers a few questions about his Annapurna and its stars at the Odyssey Theatre, the real-life mar…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:19PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Thirty years ago, Celebration Theatre was born in LA, and Sharon Lawrence saw her first play with gay characters in New York. It took a long time for the two of them to meet, but now they're…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:07PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Is Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession about prostitution and hypocrisy, mothers and daughter, or all of the above? It's themes and some personal parallels are revealed by director Robin Larsen …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThursday, January 31, 2013
Kristy Edmunds is midway through her first season as executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA. As she plans her next season, she discusses her gradual education in the ways of LA and its …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:37PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Robert Foxworth plays a Reaganesque character in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, but in fact he opposed Reagan to the extent that he produced a radio series th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThursday, September 20, 2012
He's macho on the big screen. Off-screen, he's attracted to a man. So is his wife -- to another man. So goes the story of Justin Love, the new musical at the Celebration that's a collaborati…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Helen was hot in early '60s Hollywood. Then this beautiful woman, normally associated with Troy, was spirited away to exile while a phantom Helen wrecked havoc in her place. In this way, ada…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:05PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Tessa Thompson didn't like Shakespeare at Santa Monica High School. But roles in two LA Shakespeare productions introduced her to the notion of being an actor. A decade later, after many dis…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMFriday, June 15, 2012
Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, were among the stars of the final leg of Crystal Cruises’ 2012 Film and Theatre Cruise, as it head…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:32PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
LA STAGE Times Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens recalls a summer 2009 afternoon spent with the legendary author, who reminded her why she wanted to be a writer. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:36PM 
