Kieren van den Blink, producing and starring in Bekah Brunstetter’s Mine for her Little Beast Theatre at Elephant Lab, discusses the twists and turns and celebrity encounters as she “follows her bliss” in Hollywood. READ MORE
Arguing About Art With Bart, Whitford, O’Keefe
by Steve Julian | February 1, 2012
Bradley Whitford and Michael O’Keefe argue over art at lunch in Pasadena, while Roger Bart cracks jokes — not far from what their characters do in Yasmina Reza’s Art, at the Pasadena Playhouse. The three actors also discuss whether these roles should be played by younger or older men. Original photography by Eric Schwabel. READ MORE
The White Album’s Next Fall Track
by Steve Julian | January 19, 2012
Tony-winning actress Julie White wants to meet a guy who loves women, who isn’t married, and who wouldn’t inspire a sequel to the play Bad Dates –which her friend Theresa Rebeck wrote, based on White’s experiences. Meanwhile, White appears in LA Theatre Works’ rendition of her friend Geoffrey Nauffts’ Next Fall at UCLA, opening tonight. READ MORE
Million Dollar Friends
by Steve Julian | December 14, 2011
Throughout the Pasadena Playhouse’s recent bankruptcy, the Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse, an organization of volunteer workers, tenaciously kept the faith. They have done so since 1979, when the historic theater had been shuttered for nearly a decade. Some of the Friends discuss the details of that decades-long friendship. READ MORE
Mistresses and Masters of the House
by Steve Julian | December 8, 2011
The house managers of LA theaters have many roles to play and many stories to tell. They encounter texters, chicken eaters, sing-along specialists, surreptitious pets, fountain splashers, fans of ’70s TV series and, yes, theatergoers who have problems that, well, stink. READ MORE
Producing and Videographing the Ovations Ceremony
by Steve Julian | November 17, 2011
Producers Dan Friedman and Jessica Hanna discuss what happened behind the scenes at Monday’s Ovation Awards ceremony. Then the two young siblings, David and Rachael Kartsonis, who streamed the ceremony live and also interviewed the winners on video, provide more details about their unusual vantage point from which to see the festivities. READ MORE
Sibling Stories in Prison is Where I Learned to Fly
by Steve Julian | November 16, 2011
The fifth of 17 siblings, Rochelle Duffy coaxed stories out of most of them, ultimately focusing on her conversations with one of her brothers when he was incarcerated. This material comes to the Carrie Hamilton Theatre in Pasadena in the premiere of her Prison Is Where I Learned to Fly, directed by Debra De Liso. READ MORE
Life Could Be a Dream for Roger Bean and Original Cast
by Steve Julian | November 3, 2011
Since its initial appearance at the small Hudson Theatre, Roger Bean’s Life Could Be a Dream has graduated to bigger theaters for each of the last two years. Now it’s at La Mirada Theatre. Bean and actors Daniel Tatar and Jessica Keenan Wynn say it’s evolving and becoming better at each stop. What’s next — the Pantages? READ MORE
The Gracious Tenacity of Gil Cates
by Steve Julian | November 2, 2011
Alan Alda, Gordon Davidson, Michael Ritchie, Susan Loewenberg and Sheldon Epps recall the warmth and versatility of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse producing director who died Monday. READ MORE
A Noise Within Opens Its New Home Within Pasadena
by Steve Julian | October 26, 2011
A Noise Within finally moves into its long-awaited new home in east Pasadena, with a Twelfth Night opening Saturday. Artistic directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott show off their new digs, which offer 283 seats in a mid-century building that once housed a pharmaceutical firm. A couple donors to the $13.5 million capital campaign talk about why they contributed. READ MORE
Antaeus Company Musically Adapts Coward’s
Peace in Our Time
by Steve Julian | October 19, 2011
Noel Coward didn’t spend all his time examining the foibles of the witty rich. In Peace in Our Time, he also imagined what might have happened in England if it had been taken over by the Nazis. Antaeus Company is reviving his little-seen script. Barry Creyton, who met Coward at a party in 1970, has added songs and deleted some of the original’s many characters. READ MORE
Julian Sands on The Standard Bearer, Vagabonds, Pinter and Malkovich
by Steve Julian | October 17, 2011
Julian Sands moves from being the one performer in a Pinter evening to directing the one performer, Neil Dickson, in Stephen Wyatt’s The Standard Bearer. Inspired by the Falklands War, the play examines a British trouper taking Shakespearean productions to an unnamed former British colony. Sands also discusses the challenge of traveling for professional gigs while keeping the home fires burning in LA. READ MORE
