Gordon Davidson commissioned a play, Tales From Hollywood, that was set in part within his own house. Cornerstone Theater is staging a musical, Making Paradise, that’s partially set in the West Hollywood room where some of the play’s events took place. And a brief plug for Ann Randolph’s Loveland. READ MORE
NEA Announces First-Ever National Survey
Of Outdoor Arts Festivals
by LA Stage Alliance | October 29, 2010
In a first-of-its-kind report, Live from Your Neighborhood: A National Study of Outdoor Arts Festivals finds outdoor arts festivals attract a range of audiences, they enhance their communities as creative placemakers, and they are a gateway to arts attendance. READ MORE
Battle for the Standard: A Playwright’s Inspiration
by Robert Walters | October 29, 2010
A little known story about a competition between Michelangelo and DaVinci is the inspiration for Robert Walters’ newest work. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER: October 28, 2010
by Julio Martinez | October 28, 2010
Julio Martinez looks at the opening and closing of musicals, a collection of plays for and by youth, some ongoing plays you should know about and a bit of inspiration from Carolyn Dunn. READ MORE
Four Antaeus Actors Play Two Roles
In Hellman’s Garden
by Steve Julian | October 27, 2010
How well does double casting work? According Jeff Nording, Kitty Swink, Jane Kaczmarek and Stephen Caffrey of Antaeus’ The Autumn Garden, it works perfectly. READ MORE
Get the Candidates to Talk About Art
by Jacqueline Koppell | October 26, 2010
The Arts in the California Governor’s Race (ACGR) campaign is an unprecedented statewide effort to strengthen the voice of the arts in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign. READ MORE
Video Interview with the Original Annie
by LA Stage Alliance | October 25, 2010
Andrea McArdle (the original Broadway Annie, now playing Miss Hannigan) and Musical Theatre West’s Artistic Director Steven Glaudini talk about the lastest production of Annie. WATCH NOW
Go Big or Go Home
by Jake Suffian | October 25, 2010
Jake Suffian finds the strength to climb the mountain of work needed to produce K2. READ MORE
An Inside Peek at Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages
by LA Stage Alliance | October 22, 2010
As the final Los Angeles engagement of the national tour of Phantom of the Opera winds down, closing Halloween night, some of the company members have been having some fun and produced this video; a very rare glimpse backstage. READ MORE
Let’s Meet at Kate’s for Tea at Five
by Cynthia Citron | October 22, 2010
Stephanie Zimbalist met Katharine Hepburn only once when the legendary actress came backstage to tell Zimbalist and the other members of the cast of Baby Dance, ”You are all so good!! And I thought I was the only one!” Now she’s performing a one woman show about the legendary actress. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | October 22, 2010
Van Dyke dances, Dickens takes the stage, Linke jumps into the role, and a look back to 1976 in this week’s LA Stage Insider . READ MORE
Venice, Argentina? Plus Three Examples of Theater Makeovers.
by Don Shirley | October 20, 2010
Venice blends hip-hop into musical theater, but its adaptation of Othello to modern America is strained. The Train Driver, Take Me Out and The Reckoning show off familiar theater spaces in new ways. READ MORE
