Center Theatre Group turned the Kirk Douglas Theatre lobby turned into a Wild West shindig for opening night of the Rude Mechs musical I’ve Never Been So Happy. Attendees were offered cowboy garb and Texas chili while competing in a scavenger hunt for prizes amid hay bales, saloon fronts and colorful town folk. The self-dubbed “interactive carnivalesque performance party” will be in full swing at intermission during the show’s run. READ MORE
OPENING NIGHT PHOTOS:
The Rude Mechs Host Shindig at CTG’s Kirk Douglas
by LA Stage Alliance | October 10, 2011
Boston Court Excavates John Walch’s The Dinosaur Within
by Stephanie Jones | October 7, 2011
Three stories intersect in John Walch’s The Dinosaur Within at the Boston Court. One is about an Aboriginal father and son from Australia, another is about a forgotten Hollywood star and the third is about a couple’s missing son, who is a junior paleontologist. Walch and director Michael Michetti discuss how these tales merge and the design challenges that the play’s structure raises. READ MORE
CTG Announces 2011-2012 Writers’ Workshop Participants
by LA Stage Alliance | October 7, 2011
Center Theatre Group has selected seven LA-based playwrights for its 2011-2012 Writers’ Workshop. They include Padraic Duffy, Larissa FastHorse, Sigrid Gilmer, Prince Gomolvilas, Jennifer Haley, Matt Sax and Steven Yockey. READ MORE
The Frog Prince and Fairy Tale Theatre’s Other Transformations
by June Chandler | October 7, 2011
The co-producer and director of Fairy Tale Theatre recalls her own initial fascination with the transformative powers of theater and how that experience led to the current mission behind Sierra Madre Playhouse’s children’s wing. READ MORE
Making Room for Daddy
by E.L. James | October 7, 2011
E.L. James had a hard time connecting with his previous children, who lived in other cities. But now that’s he’s living with his latest child, he was inspired to write and direct Nobody Walks Like My Daddy: A jazz song in syncopated counterpoint, opening today at the Stella Adler Theatre. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | October 6, 2011
LA Theatre Center and Women In Theatre give out awards while Rogue Machine premieres Daisy Foote’s Bhutan. Both Pasadena Playhouse and A Noise Within court Pasadena patrons. TV stars Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried record Completeness for future radio broadcast and Miguel Uribes gets down and dirty for ICT’s The Robber Bridegrrom. INSIDER History recalls the journey of AIDS/US in 1986… READ MORE
The Evolution of Monkey Adored
by Henry Murray | October 6, 2011
Sometimes evolution takes people in the direction of monkeys. An exercise that Henry Murray wrote about human beings evolved into a play about members of other species. The author writes about the evolutionary process that resulted in Monkey Adored, opening Saturday at Rogue Machine. READ MORE
The Rude Mechs Return to LA and They’ve
Never Been So Happy
by A.R. Cassell | October 5, 2011
The Rude Mechs, that Texas-based group of collaborating theater artists, go West to the Kirk Douglas Theatre once again, following in the wake of their Method Gun. This time, they’re opening their first musical, AKA “a transmedia hootenanny” called I’ve Never Been So Happy. Dachshunds are expected to participate, and so will the audience during the intermission “shindig.” READ MORE
Anne Archer in the Court of Public Opinion
by Deborah Behrens | October 5, 2011
Anne Archer discusses her return to the stage as Jane Fonda in Terry Jastrow’s Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion at Edgemar Center for the Arts, what playing Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate at 53 did for her sense of self and why human rights is a major issue in her life. READ MORE
Ovation-Nominated Lighting Designers:
Jeremy Pivnick and Ken Booth
by Pauline Adamek | October 4, 2011
Ovation-nominated lighting designers Jeremy Pivnick (A Wither’s Tale) and Ken Booth (A House Not Meant to Stand and The Train Driver) shed some light on their methods and their careers. Several directors also chime in with thoughts on the two designers. READ MORE
Christie’s And Then There Were None Gets a Facelift
by Shira Dubrovner | October 4, 2011
Take Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Re-set it in 1960 and add influences from The Sixth Sense and A Clockwork Orange. Director Shira Dubrovner explains her approach to Group Rep’s revival. READ MORE
Kvetching Falsettos, South Street, How the World Began, Love Sick
by Don Shirley | October 3, 2011
Revivals of the hilarious Kvetch and the moving Falsettos reveal similarities — and differences — between the two. South Street stinks. How the World Began shows us both sides of a debate that strikes a Kansas town. A little let-down at the end of the lively Chad Deity. Love Sick is as savagely funny as…Kvetch. READ MORE
