Longtime friends and frequent co-stars Christa Jackson and Sally Struthers are again performing their hit show about two gal pals from an earlier era, Always… Patsy Cline. Ted Swindley’s two-handed musical show will play for three weekends only, at Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. READ MORE
Tate Donovan wonders who is the Lobby Hero?
by Pauline Adamek | June 14, 2011
Returning to the role he originated 10 years ago, stage and screen actor (and TV director) Tate Donovan is about to appear in a radio theater production of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero, for a short run at the Skirball Cultural Center. READ MORE
Marin Hinkle and Mather Zickel Create Extraordinary Roles
by Pauline Adamek | May 31, 2011
Set in present-day Cambodia, David Wiener’s drama Extraordinary Chambers is about an American couple entangled in the tumultuous politics of this impoverished and largely rural Southeast Asian country. READ MORE
Sofia Alvarez’s Play Opens Same Day She Graduates Juilliard
by Pauline Adamek | May 17, 2011
The voice of Sofia Alvarez is brimming with so much enthusiasm, it almost squeaks. The young playwright is on the brink of graduating from The Juilliard School in New York where she’s been studying as a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow under the supervision of Christopher Durang and Marsha Norman. The actual graduation ceremony is the same day as the opening night of the first professional production of one of her plays. Alvarez effuses, “I’m so excited. This production of Between Us Chickens at Atwater Village Theatre happened really quickly, which is amazing.” READ MORE
John Pollono Writes a Small Engine that Could
by Pauline Adamek | April 27, 2011
“What if you asked your best friends to help you do something terrible?” According to John Pollono, that question was the germ of his savage and short one-act Small Engine Repair currently playing Monday nights and late night on weekends in Rogue Machine’s intimate black box theater. Featuring a tough-talking, macho cast of four males, the playwright himself appears as Frank, the seemingly most self-confident and stable guy in a bunch of longtime working-class friends. READ MORE
Philip Baker Hall: I Never Sang For My Father
by Pauline Adamek | April 13, 2011
Craggy-faced character actor Philip Baker Hall, facing his 80th birthday with his gruff but lovable image intact, has taken on the role of an elderly parent facing his mortality — and facing down his middle-aged son — in the New American Theatre (formerly Circus Theatricals) revival of Robert Anderson’s I Never Sang for My Father. READ MORE
Roger Kumble and His Girls Talk About a New Play
by Pauline Adamek | March 16, 2011
Brooke Shields is dropping f-bombs. It’s hard to tell if they’re in the script or if she just flubbed a line; it’s probably both. Alongside some other feisty femmes, she’s rehearsing Girls Talk, a new comedy by Roger Kumble about Brentwood’s status-conscious power moms. READ MORE
