Ten years ago, while living in New York, I was in Gene Frankel’s acting class. He loaned me his 1979 edition of Jean Cocteau’s The Eagle Has Two Heads and The Human Voice and suggested I work on the latter. READ MORE
A Noise Within’s Final Glendale Season Ends With The Chairs
by Tom Provenzano | April 8, 2011
The old man and old woman, who have lived together seemingly forever, prepare for the onslaught of visitors they have invited to hear the old man’s ultimate discovery. Empty chairs appear and the couple converse with invisible guests as more and more arrive. Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs is a disturbingly absurdist mid-20th century play about long-lived relationships and unseen audiences. It is a bittersweet celebration for A Noise Within, as it closes its 19th and last season in Glendale before moving to a new, permanent home in Pasadena. READ MORE
Six Points Fellowship Accepting Applications
by LA Stage Alliance | April 8, 2011
The Six Points Fellowship program for emerging Jewish artists is presently accepting applications. The Fellowship supports nine Los Angeles artists (ages 22-38) working in visual arts, music, performing arts, film, video and animation to develop a new project exploring Jewish themes and ideas. The two-year fellowship provides funding, up to $40,000 over two years, learning retreats, monthly workshops and coaching. READ MORE
Opening Night Photos for The Escort
by LA Stage Alliance | April 7, 2011
Stars like Dana Delany and Tony Shalhoub turned up in Westwood last night to the world premiere of Jane Anderson’s play The Escort at the Geffen Playhouse. READ MORE
Cabaret Cares: Songs for Japan Benefit Concert
by LA Stage Alliance | April 7, 2011
In response to the devastating events in Japan, producers Daisy Eagan and James Mooney, in association with the Catalina Jazz Club, have announced Cabaret Cares: Songs for Japan, a one-night-only event on Monday, April 11 at 8 pm. Proceeds will support the Japanese Business Association Foundation. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | April 7, 2011
From Kathleen Turner’s new solo show, to the recipient of the AEA’s Rosetta LeNoire Award, more Maripat Donovan, and a testimonial from Re-Animator The Musical, find it here in this week’s LA Stage Insider! READ MORE
Jane Anderson: Sex and Class in The Escort
by Deborah Behrens | April 5, 2011
Tis the theatrical season for high-end call girls. First a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica in Dangerous Beauty and now Manhattan-based Charlotte in the premiere of Jane Anderson’s The Escort on April 6 at the Geffen Playhouse. Anderson says she somewhat facetiously subtitled her erotically charged show, “An Explicit Play for Discriminating People,” so audience members who prefer to identify with “high-end naughty things” would take a look. READ MORE
CONNIE CHATS
by Connie Danese | April 5, 2011
Connie chats about Burn This and King King, READ MORE here!
On a Theater Adventure with Veronika
by Taylor Ashbrook | April 5, 2011
I’m on an adventure with the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. And with my friend Beth Ricketson. READ MORE
Raisin in the Sun/Burn This/Summer of Love
by Don Shirley | April 5, 2011
Phylicia Rashad’s Ebony Rep revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun should be seen by every LA theater lover — is there anyone out there who might arrange a transfer? It generates a lot more heat than the Taper’s Burn This revival at the Taper. Musical Theatre West’s Summer of Love is a guilty pleasure. READ MORE
Fourth Annual Festival of New American Musicals
by LA Stage Alliance | April 4, 2011
The 2011 Festival of New American Musicals, a five-month musical theater festival, is being held April 1 through August 28, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein and Linda Shusett are the executive producers of the annual festival, now in its fourth year. This year’s festival includes 16 world premieres and an additional 10 West Coast premieres. READ MORE
Mednick and Padua Return With DaddyO
by Julio Martinez | April 2, 2011
Acclaimed playwright Murray Mednick, founder of the historic Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, doesn’t always get around to producing his plays right away. Altogether, he has scripted eight Gary plays, chronicling the social stumbling of a failed actor who does not always come to equitable terms with his own existence. READ MORE
