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Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf is the type of actor other actors admire. One of the nine original members of Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, her 30-minute monologue in Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead remains the stuff of legend nearly 30 years after its 1980 Windy City debut and wildly successful Off-Broadway transfer four years later.
Though best [...]

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LA STAGE contributing writer Deborah Behrens won the 2009 Maggie Award for Best Interview or Profile/Trade for her January/February 2008 cover story on Joan Rivers at the Western Publishing Association’s (WPA) 58th annual Maggie Awards banquet held Friday night at the Westin Hotel. The Maggies honor the best in magazine publishing in the western United [...]

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Grants and Professional Development manager/s
Arts for All implementation Manager

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(front row-seated) Susan Mosher & (back row L-R) Tressa Thomas, Tom Lowe, Diana DeGarmo
in Back to Bacharach & David
Photo by: Robert Millard
Back to Bacharach and David, The Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Performances Wed.-Fri., 8 pm; Sat., 5 and 9 pm; Sun., 3 pm; through May 17. Tickets at 800.514.ETIX or www.etix.com
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Richard Maltby at rehearsal for Ain’t Misbehavin
Photo by Craig Schwartz
Ain’t Misbehavin’, Ahmanson Theatre, At the Music Center, 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A.  Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; No performances on Mondays. Exceptions: No performance on Thursday, April 30; no 6:30 p.m. [...]

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Know someone interested in being the Managing Director of Pasadena Playhouse?

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Proposal Writing Basics for Arts Organizations and How to Apply to the James Irvine Foundation’s Creative Connections Fund

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French Stewart and Laurie Metcalf in Voice Lessons
Voice Lessons, Zephyr Theatre, 7456 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles 90046. Performances Fri.-Sat., 8 pm; Sun., 7 pm; through May 17. Tickets: $25. Call 323.960-7711 or visit www.plays411.com/voicelessons.
Laurie Metcalf and French Stewart are sweating. Not because it’s an unseasonably warm 80 degrees outside the Zephyr Theatre but because they’re [...]

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Interim Managing Director Susan Barton Passes Torch on June 1

LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2009 - Ken Novice, the current managing director of the Pasadena Playhouse, will take on the role of Geffen Playhouse managing director effective June 1. Susan Barton, who assumed the interim role last June while the Geffen Playhouse conducted a [...]

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Arts for LA is hiring a full-time Arts Education Community Organizer.
Bilingual, must have Bachelor’s Degree.
Info: http://www.artsforla.org/forum/arts_la_hiring_arts_education_community_organizer

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