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
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
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
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
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 Cavalia. READ MORE
Kim Rosenstock: On Her Own Time
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
The winners of the 2009/2010 Ovation Awards are here! READ MORE
The Sunset Limited Rolls Along at Rogue Machine
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
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
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
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
From world premieres to an opening back in 1927, Julio Martinez covers it all in this week’s LA STAGE Insider. READ MORE







