Observing Ovations on MLK Day, an LA Circus Festival

Observing Ovations on MLK Day, an LA Circus Festival

News by Don Shirley  |  January 19, 2011

Let’s look at the Ovation Awards and their ceremony in Thousand Oaks on MLK Day – the good, the bad and the loud.  Also, LA is suddenly enjoying an inadvertent circus festival in three very different productions. READ MORE

Ovation Awards Ceremony Photo Gallery

Ovation Awards Ceremony Photo Gallery

Photos by LA Stage Alliance  |  January 18, 2011

Photos from the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards Ceremony held at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center. All photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging. SEE MORE

Sponsored Post: CTG Sherwood Award

Sponsored Post: CTG Sherwood Award

by LA Stage Alliance  |  January 18, 2011

As a designer, Ann passionately espouses ideas of using recyclable and thrift store materials in her work, and has pioneered agreements between theatres to share costumes. READ MORE

Sponsored Post: Green Hasson Janks

Sponsored Post: Green Hasson Janks

by LA Stage Alliance  |  January 18, 2011

LA Stage Alliance thanks our sponsor Green Hasson Janks for sponsoring the 2009/2010 ceremony and serving as tabulators for the Ovation Award program. READ MORE

Cavalia: Horse Opera with Challenges

Cavalia: Horse Opera with Challenges

by Steve Julian  |  January 18, 2011

The white big top began to rise weeks ago – you come upon it suddenly if you rattle through Burbank on Metrolink – as Normand Latourelle once again prepares to open his horse-dominant show CavaliaREAD MORE

Kim Rosenstock: On Her Own Time

Kim Rosenstock: On Her Own Time

Features by Cindy Marie Jenkins  |  January 18, 2011

“I first wrote the title as a joke,” playwright Kim Rosenstock remembers. “I just thought it would be funny to hand my fellow students a title page that said 99 Ways to F**k a Swan.”  READ MORE

2009/2010 Ovation Award Winners

2009/2010 Ovation Award Winners

by LA Stage Alliance  |  January 17, 2011

The winners of the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards are here! READ MORE

The Sunset Limited Rolls Along at Rogue Machine

The Sunset Limited Rolls Along at Rogue Machine

Features by admin  |  January 17, 2011

The Los Angeles premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited garnered across-the-board critical acclaim and sold-out houses during the initial weeks of its run in 2010. After a two-week holiday hiatus, the production has resumed an extended run through January 31.  READ MORE

Interact with the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards

Interact with the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards

News by LA Stage Alliance  |  January 17, 2011

Tweet it, Fbook it, and Livestream it! Be a part of the Ovation Awards Ceremony! READ MORE

Westward Ho to the Ovations, Gustavo Marceau, Razon Re-Visited

Westward Ho to the Ovations, Gustavo Marceau, Razon Re-Visited

by Don Shirley  |  January 14, 2011

The Ovation Awards ceremony ventures outside LA County, Gustavo Dudamel resembles a great mime from the best theater fan’s seats in Disney Hall, and persistence pays off for the 24th Street Theatre. READ MORE

Rachel Axler’s Smudge Marks Syzygy’s Season

Rachel Axler’s Smudge Marks Syzygy’s Season

Features by Rebecca Kinskey  |  January 14, 2011

What would make a theater company that produces only two plays a year choose, for its first production of 2011, a show about a couple who gives birth to something so formlessly screwed up – no arms, maybe a leg, missing a mouth and with only one big blue eye – that its own mother can only refer to it as “Smudge”?  READ MORE

LA STAGE Insider: January 14, 2011

LA STAGE Insider: January 14, 2011

by Julio Martinez  |  January 14, 2011

From world premieres to an opening back in 1927, Julio Martinez covers it all in this week’s LA STAGE Insider. READ MORE