The Autry National Center in Griffith Park opens its 10th season of its Native Voices theatre series with “Tales of an Urban Indian.” READ MORE
Voices of the Storm From Moving Arts’ Long-Running Hit
by Ross Tedford Kendall | March 20, 2010
One of Moving Arts’ Resident Artists, Playwright Ross Tedford Kendall, interviewed the cast of Blood and Thunder. READ MORE
Playwright Shem Bitterman: “Theatre is about what’s surprising”
by Cynthia Citron | March 20, 2010
Award-winning playwright Shem Bitterman’s Influence deals with World Bank Director plotting to set up a branch of his bank in Iraq, which would automatically give legitimacy to that country’s disorganized government and imply that everything there was under control. READ MORE
The Iraq War Stages a Comeback
by Don Shirley | March 18, 2010
Howard Korder’s In A Garden, Shem Bitterman’s Influence and Brett Neveu’s Old Glory assume different perspectives on those involved in the U.S.-Iraq conflict. READ MORE.
Forum Actors Find Funny Things on the Way to Reprise
by Steve Julian | March 17, 2010
In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (hereafter Forum), a slave named Pseudolous (Lee Wilkof) tries to win his freedom by helping his much younger master win the heart of the girl next door, Philia (Annie Abrams). Wilkof says, a week ago, he wanted to win his own freedom. READ MORE
Dear Mr. Sondheim, what would we do without you?
by Dane Whitlock | March 17, 2010
Director Dane Whitlock on Side by Side Sondheim READ MORE
International Duo Perform Solo
in Dual Citizens
by Greta McAnany | March 16, 2010
Two European solo performers and a puppet walk into the Odyssey Theatre… READ MORE
Oedipus El Rey and Forgiveness
by Don Shirley | March 12, 2010
Inappropriate contact between a parent and a child is the taking-off point for two very different but exceptional plays, by Luis Alfaro and David Schulner. READ MORE.
Weekly Round-Up
by Janet Thielke | March 12, 2010
This week in review – take a second look at the LAStageBlog.com articles you loved or the articles you may have missed. READ MORE
Dialogue with Quintessential Actress Francesca Fanti
by Cynthia Citron | March 12, 2010
Francesca Fanti is in the middle of “the best rehearsals of my life” for the play Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client, directed by Mark Kemble at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena. READ MORE
Rant and Rave at Rogue Machine
by John Pollono | March 12, 2010
Rogue Machine Artistic Director John Flynn once said to me: “Good Los Angeles theatre can take the place of church.” He didn’t mean we are all Godless heathens. He meant that, in a city without a unifying tradition, we can create a place people will come to over and over again to experience a community. READ MORE
A Noise Within Celebrates Fundraising Milestone
by Steve Julian | March 12, 2010
Glendale’s year-round classical repertory company is about to be Glendale’s no more. The company, now in its 18th season, has reached the $10 million mark in its capital campaign for a new theatre space in Pasadena. READ MORE
