CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) has announced a free application workshop on August 28 for its 2012 CHIME in Southern California program. CHIME is a mentorship program that allows self-selected pairs of professional choreographers – mentor and mentee – to receive financial support for 12 months in order to establish and explore a working relationship that includes, but is not limited to, work in the studio. READ MORE
Sandra Bernhard Declares I Love Being Me, Don’t You?
by Pauline Adamek | August 10, 2011
Sandra Bernhard is discussing her new album, I Love Being Me Don’t You? A blend of her signature brand of critically acclaimed comedy with two musical covers that showcase her idiosyncratic singing talents, it was recorded at the 1400-seat Castro Theatre in San Francisco last October. READ MORE
Sarah Treem Gets the Ojai Treatment
by Cynthia Citron | August 9, 2011
Sarah Treem is moving from writing HBO’s In Treatment and Netflix’s House of Cards to watching a workshop performance of her newest play, When We Were Young and Unafraid, at the Ojai Playwrights Conference’s festival. She’s the 31-year-old writer whose A Feminine Ending was produced at South Coast Repertory in 2008. READ MORE
Telling Tellers’ Tales
by Doug Haverty | August 9, 2011
I hope that when people experience Next Window, Please, they identify with the characters and the sense of family that comes from working together. “What would I do in this kind of situation?” is a question I’d ideally like people to ask themselves. And it would be great if audiences came away from this play with a new respect for those who dare to man (or woman) the teller line. Since so many couples meet at work, this play might encourage the hopeless romantic in all of us. READ MORE
This in the Wake of The Wake, The Insidious Impact of Anton
by Don Shirley | August 8, 2011
The current This and last year’s The Wake, CTG productions at the Douglas, have a lot in common — too much, in the larger context of CTG programming. This is Chekhovian, in a sense, but the famous Anton is very different from the one in The Insidious Impact of Anton, at El Centro Theatre. READ MORE
The Road to Warsaw With Ghost Road
by Katharine Noon | August 8, 2011
Ghost Road Company artistic director Katharine Noon discusses the group’s recent collaboration with Studium Teatralne in Warsaw, Poland. The companies have different structures and working methods but found some common ground. READ MORE
Biller Family Foundation Announces New Funding for
Small LA Non-Profit Theaters
by LA Stage Alliance | August 8, 2011
The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation has announced a new funding opportunity for small, Los Angeles-based non-profit theater organizations with an annual operating income between $100,000 and $1,500,000. Varying in size of up to $10,000, the awards will support exceptional organizations that have devised innovative, courageous and cost-effective practices. Proposals are due by September 16 with recipients announced in early November. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | August 4, 2011
INSIDER discovers City Garage’s insecure tenure at Bergamot Station while Media City ballet makes Amphitheatre debut; Caught finally runs out of time at the Zephyr and Cynthia Lewis Ferrell’s El Canguro debuts at AT&T Center Theatre; INSIDER Hstory probes significant career of publicist Dick Kitzrow. READ MORE
HUD Announces $123 Million in Funding for Non Profit Arts Organizations: August 11 And 12 Webcasts
by LA Stage Alliance | August 4, 2011
Nonprofit arts organizations are invited to attend two webcasts on August 11 and 12 about funding opportunities through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC). OSHC recently issued two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA) for its FY 2011 Community Challenge Grants Program ($95 million in grants available) and FY 2011 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program ($28 million available). READ MORE
Santa Monica Playhouse Dolls Up For 50th Anniversary
by Gary Ballard | August 4, 2011
Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo, the married team who have run Santa Monica Playhouse since 1973, continue the playhouse’s 50th anniversary celebration with Dolls–Not Your Usual Love Story! READ MORE
Corbin Bleu Gets Tangled Up In Seaweed For Hairspray
by Darlene Donloe | August 3, 2011
Corbin Bleu discusses his August 5 Hollywood Bowl debut as Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray, why musicals are now considered cool and what’s up with his Food Network fandom. READ MORE
Gilles Marini has This certain something…
by A.R. Cassell | August 2, 2011
Gilles Marini, a French-born actor with modeling, movie and TV credits, will appear in his first play, Melissa James Gibson’s This, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. But he’s accustomed to tackling new experiences. READ MORE
