Latino Museum exits LATC in a resolution of the museum’s dispute with Latino Theater…Sideways the play is on its way…Rubicon Theatre’s new season will feature a re-conceived Pal Joey staged by Peter Schneider…Tim Piper discusses his life with and without John Lennon…A brief history of OC’s Curtain Call Dinner Theater. READ MORE
Robert Patrick’s Off-Off Life, From Roswell to LA
by Julio Martinez | March 23, 2012
Robert Patrick, the off-off-Broadway pioneer and author of Kennedy’s Children, has lived a life on the edge. As he prepares to be honored by the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights next Tuesday, he tells some of his wilder stories — check out his description of the scene at Phoebe’s bar in the Village. But he also notes that LA theaters turn down his plays. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | March 22, 2012
Musical Theatre West hosts a memorial service and starts a scholarship fund in honor of frequent leading man John Bisom, who apparently took his own life last weekend…A Mamet and a Quaid join forces… Independent Shakespeare Company announces its summer season at Griffith Park…Doug Knott’s journey to Last of the Knotts…How WWII charged up LA theater…READ MORE
Pearce and Parrish in a Small-Scale Spring Awakening
by Julio Martinez | March 16, 2012
Spring Awakening, the musical, finally reaches one of LA’s smaller theaters, where director Kate Sullivan hopes that an audience will be awakened to more of the details, while paying less. Among its actors are Lindsay Pearce (The Glee Project) and Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars). READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | March 15, 2012
More details on LA Theatre Works’ move to KPFK…Latino Theater keeps planning for an LATC spring despite an eviction notice from the city of LA…Steven Fales brings his Mormon Boy trilogy to the Hudson including the premiere of part 3…Rubicon extends a show to Santa Barbara’s Lobero…Nan McNamara tackles Mary Tyrone…Henry Duffy’s life in LA theater. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | March 8, 2012
LA premieres of Catch Me If You Can and Priscilla Queen of the Desert will be among the Broadway LA offerings…Theatricum announces season…Another show with Barbara Bain planned…Nomi Lyonns describes her Cabaret Confessions of an Eco-Diva…the Morosco role in LA stage history. READ MORE
David Kurs — a New Leader for Deaf West
by Julio Martinez | March 7, 2012
His Riverside childhood was rich in deaf culture. He went from Gallaudet to Hollywood and North Hollywood. Now, Deaf West’s new artistic director David Kurs is bent on expanding the company’s resources, co-producing a modern Cyrano with the Fountain Theatre, and possibly bringing Deaf West into homes nationwide. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | March 1, 2012
Re-Animator the Musical is re-animating…Elephant Theatre suspends production activity for the rest of 2012 while strengthening the management and board…Deaf West’s new artistic director David Kurs and Stephen Sachs collaborate on producing the new Cyrano…Harry Hart-Browne discusses Special Delivery…From Ben Bard to Theatre of Arts. READ MORE
Byrnes and Kearns Reveal The Yellow House Tale
by Julio Martinez | February 24, 2012
Now it can be told – the story of an incident from veteran raconteur Burke Byrnes’ youth in the ’50s that he felt he couldn’t tell in public as long as his father was alive. His father died 25 years ago, and now Byrnes and director Michael Kearns have finally shaped it into The Yellow House, at the Skylight. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | February 23, 2012
Sleepless in Seattle is taking a nap and won’t be available for its previously scheduled Pasadena Playhouse gig…Fountain and Deaf West theaters collaborate on a new version of Cyrano…Amy Simon discusses She’s History!…and speaking of history, we look back at Edwin Lester and Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | February 16, 2012
Zina Bethune killed by hit-run driver…A season of premieres at the Colony, plus details on seasons at LA Opera and Musical Theatre West…KPFK to air LATW radio plays…Richard Chamberlain will appear in the Pasadena Playhouse production of The Heiress…Charles Dillingham steps in as interim executive director at Pasadena Playhouse…Gary Grossman of Katselas Theatre talks…A giant-size Julius Caesar in Beachwood Canyon, almost a century ago…READ MORE
LA STAGE INSIDER
by Julio Martinez | February 9, 2012
Stephen Eich discusses his experiences at Pasadena Playhouse, where’s he about to exit his job as executive director, and his hopes for the playhouse and his own career…Wililam Shatner and Peter Gallagher will perform solo shows at the Pantages and Geffen, respectively… DOMA launches a full season…Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad returns…A look at LA’s first theaters. READ MORE
