Registration for the Hollywood Fringe Festival opened on November 16, 2009 to coincide with the launch of the festival’s new website at www.hollywoodfringe.org. Registration can be completed on the website by anyone who contracts a venue. READ MORE
The Hollywood Fringe Announces the Opening of Festival Registration
by Janet Thielke | November 30, 2009
Ovation Nominee Profile
Daniel Thomas
by Douglas Clayton | November 30, 2009
Daniel Thomas is a 2008/2009 Ovation Nominee for Music Direction – LA Stage asks him some questions about his work in Los Angeles theatre… READ MORE
To Extend Or To Move…That IS the Question
by Racquel Lehrman | November 29, 2009
As a producer in Los Angeles for over eight years, I find that question is not discussed as much as I would hope…READ MORE
Ovation Nominee Profile
Sarah Cornell
by Douglas Clayton | November 28, 2009
Sarah Cornell is a 2008/2009 Ovation Nominee for Featured Actress in a Musical – LA Stage asks her some questions about her work in Los Angeles theatre… READ MORE
Debbie McMahon Combines Absinthe, Opium & Magic
by Ashley Steed | November 28, 2009
1920s Shanghai. A time where Westerners made Shanghai the place to have, ahem, a bit of fun. Booze, drugs, prostitution – all of which, and more, are in Absinthe, Opium & Magic: 1920s Shanghai, created and directed by Debbie McMahon. READ MORE
Dating Tips for Theaters and Audiences
by Don Shirley | November 27, 2009
Equivocation, meet Richard III. Current Nobody, meet The Trojan Women. READ MORE.
The Manor Celebrates Its 8th Year at Greystone Mansion
by Janet Thielke | November 26, 2009
Co-Producers Kathrine Bates and David Hunt Stafford give LAStageBlog.com an exclusive look at Greystone mansion, the site of the original Doheny murder/suicide which inspired the Theatre 40 hit The Manor, currently in its eighth season. WATCH VIDEO
Anne Gee Byrd:
Authentic in Her Art and Life
by Deborah Behrens | November 25, 2009
Anne Gee Byrd oozes authenticity. Her lack of artifice and zero tolerance for bullshit place the former repertory circuit player squarely in Geraldine Page territory. Think Molly Ivins with a Thelma Ritter twist. READ MORE
Ovation Nominee Profile
August Viverito
by Douglas Clayton | November 24, 2009
August Viverito is a 2008/2009 Ovation Nominee for Director of a Play and Best Production of a Play – Intimate Theatre – LA Stage asks him some questions about his work in Los Angeles theatre… READ MORE
Chris Covics and Michael Sargent Discuss Black Leather
by LA Stage Alliance | November 24, 2009
Playwright Sargent and director Covics interview each other about their new show READ MORE
Shakespearalooza
by Don Shirley | November 24, 2009
Hamlet shuts up, hilariously. But why is Broad Stage’s first theatrical splash one of the Bard’s weakest comedies? READ MORE.
Casey Smith’s Violators Is Purely Self-Honed
by Julio Martinez | November 23, 2009
Casey Smith’s late-night one-person theater piece, Violators will be Violated, probes the question: “If a mime gets humiliated, chopped in half and fed to animals in the forest, is everyone a little happier?” READ MORE
