Kathrine Bates’ The Color of Rose uses three actresses, on stage together, to portray Rose Kennedy in three stages of her life. The West Coast premiere opens tonight at Theatre 40. Bates, whose other plays about historical figures include the popular, site-specific The Manor and a solo show about Lucrezia Borgia, offers reflections on the Kennedy matriarch and the other people whose stories she has dramatized. READ MORE

Sherry Glaser created a durable hit, Family Secrets, 21 years ago in LA, but now she’s concentrating more on the re-awakening of Mother Nature.  It’s the subject of The Second Coming:  A One Woman Comedy of Biblical Proportions at Two Roads Theatre. Glaser also talks about the still-unresolved disappearance of her former husband, her new marriage to a woman and their Breasts Not Bombs activism. READ MORE

Kate Bergh’s costumes can be seen in two big shows right now — South Street at the Pasadena Playhouse and Reprise’s Cabaret at UCLA. The former pre-med student found her true calling designing for theater and opera, then commercials and print advertising.  Next up — Next Fall at the Geffen Playhouse.  READ MORE

Director Richard Israel helms Falsettos as the inaugural production for YADA’s new Third Street Theatre and explains why a “small musical with big themes” offered him a great opportunity to work with new actors. READ MORE

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

Roxanne Hart, now appearing in A Death in Colombia, has found new inspiration from working in LA’s small theaters.  READ MORE

Her email address begins with “nifttt”, which she says stands for “nothing is funnier than the truth.”  (It could also stand for “nifty,” which she most certainly is.)  For actor/director/comedienne Jenny O’Hara it’s a serious mantra.  As it is for her hilariously entertaining husband, actor Nick Ullett. Los Angeles theater lovers will get the chance to sample their superior skills—and the magic they create by acting together—when the two open this week in Stephen Sachs’ new play Bakersfield Mist.  READ MORE

“By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank.”  Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Ormeny opened in 1979. Now, after 30 years, the Victory is still going strong, with Gobetti and Ormeny still in charge. And Gobetti is not only teaching acting but is playing a teacher in the Victory’s Sex and Education.  READ MORE

“All theater is a character telling a story—as if he were sitting around a campfire.” Playwright Wendy Graf is sitting around a table at a cafe in Burbank as she quotes iconic director Gordon Davidson. “And so what I’ve done is create a story especially for Anna.” To which Anna Khaja, sitting at the same table, responds, “You don’t choose the story, the story chooses you.”  READ MORE

“We have a live lamb on stage and she’s not housebroken—or, more accurately, stage-broken—so our first run-through was a bit redolent,” director Scott Paulin says. He’s talking about the newly revised version of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, which makes its Los Angeles premiere this week at the Open Fist Theatre. READ MORE

You might think living in an all-pink house would give you a toothache.  But, au contraire, Jackie Goldberg, the “Pink Lady,” has made her all-pink home a delightful nest of airy light and soft color with white walls and tasteful pink furnishings but nothing in Pepto-Bismol, thank you very much. Dressed from head to toe in pink (with a soft pink tint to her hair as well), this dynamic 78-year-old is a whirlwind of activity. At the moment, she is taking reservations for her new theatrical extravaganza, Rockin’ With the Ages 3, a musical featuring 17 performers aged 60 to 86, which opens this week at the Victory Theater in Burbank. READ MORE