LA Stage Blog - Beta

LA Stage alliance has a number of programs we run for our members. The most known is the Ovation Awards, the only peer reviewed theater awards in the Los Angeles Area.  while that is a big part of what we do in support of our members, we don’t spend the rest of year just dreaming [...]

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Impossible, you say? The whole TOWN is illegitimate! People come here from other places so that they can obtain something that will allow them to LEAVE!
Fine. I’m talking about legitimizing Los Angeles Theatre. Now before I go on, understand, I find a good chunk of the theatre that is born and bred here in Los [...]

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Two Jobs Available with Electric Lodge:
Do you love the Arts and the Environment? If so, one of these jobs may be for you…

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Starting with the October 16th issue, Back Stage East and Back Stage West combine to form one national edition.
Read more: http://www.backstage.com/bso/community/bulletins/bulletins_display.jsp?vnu_c
ontent_id=1003873071
www.BackStage.com.

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50 Seat Playhouse on Santa Monica Blvd (near Bundy). Great WESTside
locale, in the hub of Santa Monica/Brentwood! Roomy and Spacious…
- Below Market lease (40 months remaining; renewed 4x’s).
- 1,500 sq. feet: Stage, green-room/ sm. office, bathroom, box-office.
- Established 10 years—resident home for very successful Troupe.
- Marque’ exposure on Santa Monica Blvd.
- Excellent opp. for Theatre [...]

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Right in Our Own Backyard
As faculty members of Los Angeles High School of the Arts (LAHSA), a small LAUSD pilot school located in District 4, we would like to respond to some of the misinformation provided and the questions raised by the September 4th LA Weekly article “Art School or LAUSD Folly” by Erica Zora [...]

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A middle-schooler downloads YouTube videos and suggests favorites to a friend. A family shares its heritage through a holiday skit for neighbors. A baby boomer starts a garage band to relive musical memories of the 60s. Today, many forms of cultural engagement take place off the radar of the traditional infrastructure of nonprofit arts organizations [...]

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The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is hosting a series of community meetings across Los Angeles to gain feedback from community members and inform the City’s new Cultural Master Plan.
This plan will provide a vision for the future of arts and culture in Los Angeles, and guide the mission of the [...]

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The LA Times shares that there have been some challenges on The Guide’s online listing functionality.
The correct and functioning way to list events can be found by following this link.
www.LATimes.com/submit

If the event is not listed through this mechanism, the LA Times is unable to assign reviewers.

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Check this out:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/10/financial-crisi.html
I’ve been on this kick lately about the financial crisis and the arts, as those of you who have been following my recent posts undoubtedly have noticed. I am convinced that somehow we artists must respond to this crisis as a matter of survival. LA Times’ Culture Monster blog is–thank goodnes–addressing this as [...]

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