Friday, March 2, 2012
A look ahead at the spring theater season in Southern Calfornia: Trucks have never really been my thing, but of the upcoming new musicals this season, I'm most curious about "Hands on a Hard…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2012
The heart of Chekhov s work lies in the interaction between Ragin and Gromov, with Gromov outmaneuvering Ragin in debates on freedom, madness and oppression. The heart of Chekhov s work lies…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:53PM[SHARE]"The Treatment," a movement-theater verision of Chekhov's story "Ward 6," opens at Boston Court.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2012
The virtuosic 'Iron Lady' star is stuck in two self-parodying modes of late: impersonating a character quite unlike herself or playing one who bears a teasing resemblance to her starry self.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:53AM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
The world keeps spinning, relentlessly in Argentine writer and director Mariano Pensotti's "El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco" (The Past Is a Grotesque Animal).The world keeps spinning, relent…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29PM[SHARE]Argentine writer-director Mariano Pensotti's "El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco" (The Past is a Grotesque Animal) opens in Los Angeles at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
Critic's Notebook: Fiscal concerns are stealing the spotlight at regional theaters, resulting in facile productions and less risk.Critic's Notebook: Fiscal concerns are stealing the spotligh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2012
Critic's Notebook: Fiscal concerns are stealing the spotlight at regional theaters, resulting in facile productions and less risk.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:53AM[SHARE]Charles McNulty explores the changing business model of nonprofit theater and its ramifications on the art form.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2012
This black comedy, set in Jackson, Miss., in the tinderbox year of 1964, proudly waves its Southern Gothic flag.This black comedy, set in Jackson, Miss., in the tinderbox year of 1964, proud…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:13PM[SHARE]The Geffen Playhouse production features Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman at their creepy-comic best.The Geffen Playhouse production features Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PM[SHARE]Beth Henley's new play, "The Jacksonian" has its world premiere in a Geffen Playhouse production, directed by Robert Falls, that features Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PM[SHARE]These are tough economic times, to be sure. But they're only made harder by a leadership vision completely at odds with the theater's limited resources.These are tough economic times, to be …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:53PM[SHARE]The announcement by Reprise Theatre Company on Friday that the theater company is canceling the spring production of "The Apple Tree" and "entering into an exploratory phase in order to asse…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
"Buddha -- A Fantastic Journey" borrows the ancient spiritual leader's own words to trace the progression of his life and philosophy."Buddha -- A Fantastic Journey" borrows the ancient spiri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:28PM[SHARE]"Buddha -- A Fantastic Journey," Evan Brenner's solo performance show, opens at Bootleg Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2012
SCR artistic director Marc Masterson makes his Southern California directorial debut with this often amusing morality tale about the compromising consequences of money's seductive power.SCR …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2012
"The Recommendation" by Jonathan Caren has its world premiere at the Old Globe.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2012
The cast bears the responsibility of keeping this play, which is as seductively slight as Reza's more recent "God of Carnage," from floating off into the ether.The cast bears the responsibil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:11PM[SHARE]Yasmina Reza's "Art" opens at Pasadena Playhouse in a production starring Bradley Whitford
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2012
Can a drama be memorable if all its characters are disagreeable?Can a drama be memorable if all its characters are disagreeable?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Ebony Repertory Theatre production of "A Raisin in Sun," directed by Phylicia Rashad, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2012
This quietly furious work, with many of the same actors from Michael Wilson s critically acclaimed 2008 Broadway production, is not just an acute psychological study, it s a deeply perceptiv…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:51PM[SHARE]Michael Wilson's production of Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate," starring Hallie Foote and Elizabeth Ashley, opens at the Old Globe in San Diego.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
This is a play that has forsworn realistic scenery and props, so there are no purple sunsets or hints of the San Gabriel Mountains off in the distance.This is a play that has forsworn realis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]"Our Town," starring Helen Hunt and directed by David Cromer, opens at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
In Suzan-Lori Parks "Topdog/Underdog," in revival at South Coast Repertory, characters named Lincoln and Booth by their parents as a sick joke struggle to survive the historical funhouse th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PM[SHARE]"Topdog/Underdog," Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize winning drama, opens at South Coast Repertory
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