The Geffen Playhouse and mobile diner The Buttermilk Truck are partnering to bring new meaning to the phrase “play with your food.” In celebration of Tracy Letts’ new play Superior Donuts opening at the Playhouse, and in preparation for National Donut Day on June 3, the beloved breakfast truck will be going incognito. From May 31 to June 3, The Buttermilk Truck will be frying and glazing under the guise of The Superior Donuts Truck, with Buttermilk’s signature cake donuts being re-dubbed “Superior Donuts.” READ MORE
Karen Malina White Settles For Nothing Less
by Darlene Donloe | May 31, 2011
Sipping on a drink at Café MUSE in Hollywood, White looks tres chic in her black slacks, black blouse, gold metallic shoes, gold earrings and necklace, all accented with a black/white striped scarf about her head. From the wide smile on her face and the sparkle in her eyes, it’s obvious that she’s excited about her latest theatrical undertaking. READ MORE
Marin Hinkle and Mather Zickel Create Extraordinary Roles
by Pauline Adamek | May 31, 2011
Set in present-day Cambodia, David Wiener’s drama Extraordinary Chambers is about an American couple entangled in the tumultuous politics of this impoverished and largely rural Southeast Asian country. READ MORE
Elephant’s Lindsay Allbaugh Marches with Saints
by A.R. Cassell | May 26, 2011
Gritty, provocative new works find a home at Elephant Theatre Company, the West Coast’s answer to (and recent partner with) Off-Broadway’s LAByrinth Theater Company. As Elephant dives into its 15th season of such plays, Lindsay Allbaugh, the newly appointed ETC co-artistic director with David Fofi, isn’t afraid to ask tough questions. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | May 26, 2011
Geffen Playhouse and UCLA Live reveal their 2011-12 wares, while the Hollywood Fringe 2011 leaps into the fray. Odyssey Theatre and Evidence Room join forces and we look back on the 1950 legit audience takeover by new fangled TV… READ MORE
This Is My Mid-Life Crisis
by Susan Lee | May 24, 2011
I never thought the sock puppets that live in my head would ever actually materialize on stage. But they have. And I’m still a bit stunned anyone wants to hear about the sock puppets that live in my head. And that they are willing to share sock puppets live in their heads also. Nice to know I’m not alone. READ MORE
Couple’s ‘Labor of Love’ Brings Theater to the Inland Valley
by Samantha Mehlinger | May 24, 2011
To many Southern Californians the phrase “Inland Valley” may not be synonymous with “theater.” Donna and Frank Minano, founders of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre, beg to differ. READ MORE
Pasadena Playhouse’s Babies Reach Broadway
by Don Shirley | May 23, 2011
Which LA theater company has the highest profile right now on Broadway? Would you believe it’s the Pasadena Playhouse – the company that has recently had a lower profile here in LA than just about any of the other large or midsized LA companies? Yes, the Pasadena-born Sister Act and Baby It’s You! opened on Broadway within a few weeks; Sister Act soars and Baby It’s You! still doesn’t deserve that exclamation point. Plus a few thoughts on Broadway’s version of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Cornerstone’s The Unrequited. READ MORE
Kirk And Anne Douglas Give $2 Million In Grants To CTG For New Works
by LA Stage Alliance | May 23, 2011
Center Theatre Group announced today that Kirk and Anne Douglas have awarded a $1 million challenge grant to help CTG develop and produce new work for the theater. The new grant follows an earlier $1 million seed grant for new work resulting in a combined $2 million investment by the Douglases’ in the future of Los Angeles theater. READ MORE
Synchronistic Connections to The Diviners
by RoZsa Horvath | May 23, 2011
What’s a woman originally from Hungary doing in NoHo directing a play written by a playwright from a small town in Indiana, and inspired to start a theatre company because of it? It’s a question I often find myself turning over and over in my mind. READ MORE
NEA Recognizes Arts for All with $80,000 Grant
by LA Stage Alliance | May 23, 2011
For the sixth consecutive year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has funded the Residency Grant Program of Arts for All, LA County’s nationally recognized collaboration to restore all arts disciplines into the core curriculum for all K-12 public school students. This year’s NEA award is for $80,000 and will bring teaching artists into classrooms. Last year the program benefitted more than 11,000 students. READ MORE
Doug Haverty and Adryan Russ Create a iGhost Story
by Greta McAnany | May 20, 2011
“It’s a marriage of a different kind,” says Doug Haverty as his blue eyes sparkle and he leans intently across the table. Adryan Russ nods and smiles agreeing, “I mean we just like each other and 98 percent of the time we are on the same page; that’s pretty amazing.” READ MORE
