“Now this is what’s so wonderful about the theater:  Carmen Argenziano is playing a math genius instead of a hood or a cop.”  TV and film vet admits luxuriating in the opportunity to inhabit the persona of Robert, a brilliant mathematician who is combating the ravages of deepening mental illness in the Open Fist Theatre Company/Aquila Morong Studio co-production of David Auburn’s Proof, staged by John C. Hindman.  READ MORE

“As long as i can remember I was always into music,” says Janet Rich, one of the producers of the musical Rock of Ages, opening Feb. 15 at the Pantages Theatre.  ”It was always something that spoke to me on such a personal level; I was just drawn to it.  I think that is true for so many people.”  READ MORE

Sab Shimono, a veteran actor with East West Players for more than three decades, is adding a new wrinkle to his repertoire.  He stars in East/West’s premier of Wrinkles, by Paul Kikuchi, opening Feb. 16 at the David Henry Hwang Theatre.  READ MORE

“Every day I walk in here I feel so lucky!” Annie Hendy, bubbling over, sits in the lobby of the Falcon Theatre in Burbank to talk about her personal odyssey as she presents it in her semi-autobiographical play The Catholic Girl’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity, directed by Gregg W. Brevoort.  READ MORE

“The story of Alceste is a love story and that’s the thing I keep coming back to,” director and actor Darin Dahms says of Alceste, written by B. Walker Sampson and produced by Theatre of NOTE. Called a “free adaptation” of Euripides’ Alcestis by its producers, this premiere production also marks the 30^th anniversary of NOTE.  READ MORE

Producer TJ Dawson has been busy. He developed 3-D Theatricals production company with his family, launched its first season last year at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, learned his first season there would be his last, then negotiated to assume Fullerton Civic Light Opera’s subscribers and debt while taking over as producer and director of its planned production of  The Drowsy Chaperone. Dawson turns 30 in March.  READ MORE

With countless radio stations dedicated to the music of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, the recent release of the entire Beatles catalogue on iTunes, and even covers of oldies like “River Deep, Mountain High” on the popular TV show Glee, the music that defines the Baby Boomer generation is perhaps as widespread in 2011 as it has ever been.  READ MORE

Jessica Kubzansky admits that being one of the founding artistic directors at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena is the “hardest job” she’s ever had in her life.  READ MORE