Evangeline Ordaz, an attorney as well as a playwright, addresses hot-button issues in her plays such as Bordering on Love, a play that addresses both immigration and same-sex marriage within the context of a drag queen and his Latina stylist. It’s at Company of Angels, where Ordaz is also the president of the board. READ MORE

“The idea for Julius Caesar being an all-female production itself came about because one of our members [Jenn Scuderi, playing Marc Antony] was speaking to a student of hers about how the conversations seem so feminine. It sounds like conversations women would have and so the idea was planted in her head,” says Vance Roi Reyes, former ensemble member at Theatre Unleashed and director of its upcoming all-female production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. READ MORE

For 18 years, the LA Women’s Theatre Festival has showcased female solo artists and aided them in developing a new work, a career, as well as a support network. It’s hard to work in LA theater and not know about the annual festival, or run into someone who performed in it.  READ MORE

“The best thing you can say to get us to do something is to say we can’t or it’s not possible.” That’s how artistic director Jon Cohn describes The Mutineer Theatre Company. “And we’re usually able to overcome, to some extent, that obstacle.”  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

Rob Nagle, a favorite local actor, has one dream for LA theatre. “I’d like to see every actor in LA become as involved in it as I’ve tried to be, and as much as a lot of people I know try to be.”  READ MORE

“I think we’re just as surprised as anybody that it’s worked so smoothly,” Ron Orbach says with glee of co-directing Room Service with Bjorn Johnson, opening at Open Fist Jan. 21.  READ MORE

“I first wrote the title as a joke,” playwright Kim Rosenstock remembers. “I just thought it would be funny to hand my fellow students a title page that said 99 Ways to F**k a Swan.”  READ MORE

Given just a few letters to describe himself on his Twitter profile, Gerald McCullouch chose: “CSI’s Bobby Dawson/OUT 100 honoree. A brazen misfit livin’ the bicoastal dream & diggin’ it moocho. My Gs hard & I end w/an ouch. Life’s short. Choose laughter.” Although an entertaining and accurate mini-bio, those words merely sketch the actor, currently rehearsing the West Coast premiere of the hit off-Broadway play Daddy. READ MORE

Rubicon Artistic Director James O’Neil believes anyone who enjoys Strictly Ballroom or Dancing with the Stars will find Fascinating Rhythms a “thrill. Patrons will have a rare opportunity to enjoy the skills of these dancers up close. READ MORE