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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

On Immigration, Identity, and Collaborative Creativity: Gábor Tompa’s Production of TOYS: A Dark Fairytale by Tom Provenzano

"The immigrant tries to take a new identity and get rid of the old one. That doesn’t really work. In order to be able to go further, I think we have to face and confront our past. Sometime…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:00PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Steve Cisneros' Phantom Projects for Young Adults by Tom Provenzano

In Southern California the Phantom Projects Theatre Group has a long history of touring schools with important issue-driven productions. Over the past decade Phantom has developed a solid re…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM

Brian Pugach Tells His Fairy Tale at Celebration by Tom Provenzano

What�s a magic mirror to do? Once every century, the mirror is responsible for choosing which �hero�s quest� is to become the next classic fairy tale. A perfect handsome prince, Cope…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM

David Elzer is Having It All by Tom Provenzano

Of the professionals who have turned Los Angeles small theater into a living laboratory of artistic and even commercial success, few have had the impact of uber-publicist and award-winning p…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Looking Through the Skylight at Terrence McNally by Tom Provenzano

Terrence McNally is the subject of a four-day fundraiser for Skylight Theatre, featuring parties, programs, panels, co-produced by Sheryl Kaller, the director of McNally's next play.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PM
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Haves Hosts Pasadena’s Cirque-a-Palooza by Tom Provenzano

LA circus artist and impresario Stefan Haves has created Cirque-a-Palooza, a circus/variety festival for the Pasadena Playhouse.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:02PM
Friday, July 12, 2013

Balancing the Bloody Andrew Jackson and the Democrat by Tom Provenzano

The LA-born Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is now at Chance Theater in Anaheim, where director Kari Hayter is balancing the Jackson the democrat with Jackson the racist.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:50PM
Monday, March 18, 2013

Terry Johnson Finds Gold at End of the Rainbow by Tom Provenzano

Terry Johnson directed End of the Rainbow, which is now literally about Judy Garland, in contrast to an earlier incarnation. It opens this week at the Ahmanson. Johnson also discusses some o…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PM
Friday, February 1, 2013

Manke’s Fallen Angels Finally Rises in Pasadena by Tom Provenzano

Noel Coward's 1925 Fallen Angels was initially scheduled to open at the Pasadena Playhouse three years ago, but it became the first show to fall victim to the playhouse's temporary bankrup…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:56PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Back to Back Theatre Devises Ganesh Versus the Third Reich by Tom Provenzano

CAP UCLA imports Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, which depicts Ganesh trying to re-claim the use of the swastika from the Nazis, to the Freud. It's a "devised" work by Back to Back Theatre Co…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:10PM
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Globe’s Hamlet Reaches the Broad With Buckhurst by Tom Provenzano

The house lights remain on throughout Shakespeare's Globe's Hamlet, a spare and youthful version, currently on a US tour that reaches Santa Monica's Broad Stage Thursday. The tour's director…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Private Lives in Ventura — Why Noel Coward Lives On by Tom Provenzano

Private Lives hasn't remained a private pleasure -- after eight decades, it's consistently revived.  Joseph Fuqua and Julia Granata discuss why. They play its leading lovers and its primary…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:54PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Imparato’s Decade at the Tomlin Wagner Center — the Opposite of a Deathtrap by Tom Provenzano

A decade after Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner lent their names to the cultural arts program at LA Gay & Lesbian Center,  the program's director Jon Imparato looks back and also forward -- …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Traister and Cast Double Down on Antaeus’ Seagull by Tom Provenzano

Director Andrew Traister's duties for Antaeus' The Seagull involve picking the right translation, rehearsing two different casts in a small space, and contemplating how Sorin should snore. H…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Slithering Snakes, From Kreitzer and Stangl by Tom Provenzano

From dust to dust, from chalk to chalk -- Chalk Repertory returns to the Hollywood cemetery where it acquired its name and staged its first production, this time with the West Coast premiere…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PM
Friday, January 20, 2012

Kubzansky and Company Climb 39 Steps by Tom Provenzano

Jessica Kubzansky's staging of The 39 Steps at La Mirada Theatre offers a chance to see Matt Walker outside his usual Troubies format. Switching among 15 different characters and accents, he…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

How the Professionals Stage Manage by Tom Provenzano

A half-dozen LA stage managers discuss the stable temperament required for their job. Then they recall a few incidents in which their temperaments were sorely tried by missing actors, abusiv…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PM
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Mason Peels the Hidden Histories of Onion Creek by Tom Provenzano

Roger Q. Mason draws on magical realism and his interracial family's "hidden histories " in 1870s Texas in his new play Onion Creek, directed by June Carryl. It's produced by Padua Playwrigh…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00AM
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Pat Kinevane Remembers the Irish Forgotten by Tom Provenzano

Pat Kinevane's solo, Forgotten, examines four octogenarians who live in what they consider "geriatric asylums." Yet the writer/performer explains that his work isn't restricted to text-heavy…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PM
Friday, October 28, 2011

Jim J. Bullock Finds Comfort in Hairspray by Tom Provenzano

Jim J. Bullock auditioned to replace Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Broadway's Hairspray, but he wasn't ready for it yet. After earning his stripes in several smaller roles in the show…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:08PM
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Jenny Sullivan Leads Irma Vep Across the Rubicon by Tom Provenzano

Jenny Sullivan, the only "Artistic Associate" at Ventura's Rubicon Theatre, has that title because of her contributions over the theater's 14 years, primarily as a director. Her staging of T…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:15PM
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Great Shakes Migration — From Redlands to Downtown LA by Tom Provenzano

Director Steven Sabel is opening a small black box in downtown LA, called Archway Studio/Theatre, as a supplement to his work running the Redlands Shakespeare Festival in a giant-size amphit…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:28PM
Friday, September 23, 2011

Directing Noises Off at La Mirada by Tom Provenzano

British director Richard Seyd returns to La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts to helm season opener Noises Off, a play he considers "the most successful farce ever written," after havin…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:21PM
Friday, September 9, 2011

A West Coast Look at 9/11 and What the Moon Saw by Tom Provenzano

Matthew McCray and Son of Semele found a way to examine 9/11 from a West Coast perspective by asking for some revisions of Stephanie Fleischmann' s What the Moon Saw, or "I Only Appear to Be…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:03PM
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Elaborate Entrance of Kristoffer Diaz by Tom Provenzano

Wrestling was Diaz’ first entree into the world of theatrics. He grew up a half hour from Manhattan and was frequently taken to see wrestling live at Madison Square Gardens, where he soo…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Playwright Yockey and Director Deser Collaborate on Heavier Than… by Tom Provenzano

Playwright Steve Yockey and director Abigail Deser discuss the art of their recent collaboration on the premiere of his Heavier Than..., a play based on the Theseus and the Minotaur myth, op…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:40PM
Friday, June 17, 2011

When Gritty Meets Pretty: Gary Lennon’s The Interlopers directed by Jim Fall by Tom Provenzano

In conversation, playwright and screenwriter Gary Lennon speaks softly and philosophically, with tremendous insight into the human condition. He speaks of a spiritual growth and a journey to…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:02PM
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Arney Tastes Chicago’s Superior Donuts by Tom Provenzano

Over the past decade, Geffen Playhouse artistic director Randall Arney hasn't tried to create an LA version of his Chicago alma mater, Steppenwolf Theatre, at the Geffen. But his latest Geff…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:10AM
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Tim Dang Blends Hip-Hop and Tradition at East West Players by Tom Provenzano

East West Players has kept its thematic promise of “Shake It Up” this season and celebrates with the grand finale of an original concept musical combining the talents of youthful urban…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:01PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Lynn Manning’s Unrequited Joins Cornerstone with Watts by Tom Provenzano

The premiere of Lynn Manning’s The Unrequited (Between Two Worlds) marks the 15th anniversary of the extraordinary Watts Village Theater Company, and Cornerstone Theater, which was the pa…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PM
Friday, April 8, 2011

A Noise Within’s Final Glendale Season Ends With The Chairs by Tom Provenzano

The old man and old woman, who have lived together seemingly forever, prepare for the onslaught of visitors they have invited to hear the old man’s ultimate discovery. Empty chairs appear …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:38AM

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