While Six Feet Under earned Conroy a Golden Globe Award, four Emmy nominations and a new mass audience, the red-headed Juilliard graduate has long been a favorite of iconic playwrights and directors. READ MORE
Chad Borden & Robert J. Townsend Sing Friendship’s Praises in Story at Havok
by Deborah Behrens | February 25, 2010
Chad Borden and Robert J. Townsend are laughing. Seated in front of a bare stage at Hollywood’s Lillian Theatre, the two stars of the Havok Theatre Company’s second season opener The Story of My Life have just discovered both starred as King Arthur in high school productions of Camelot. READ MORE
Jeanie Hackett Directs the Vast Canvas of Cousin Bette
by Deborah Behrens | January 21, 2010
No one knows better the meaning of the adage, “Be careful what you wish for, lest you get it,” than Jeanie Hackett. READ MORE
Alan Cumming: A Cheeky Chap Brings Cabaret Back to the Geffen
by Deborah Behrens | December 9, 2009
Alan Cumming spoke to LA STAGE about how his cabaret act helped him overcome terror, why Shakespeare is like homophobia and the reason he’s miffed with a certain candy coated chocolate. READ MORE
Anne Gee Byrd:
Authentic in Her Art and Life
by Deborah Behrens | November 25, 2009
Anne Gee Byrd oozes authenticity. Her lack of artifice and zero tolerance for bullshit place the former repertory circuit player squarely in Geraldine Page territory. Think Molly Ivins with a Thelma Ritter twist. READ MORE
Alan Mandell & Lawrence Pressman’s Odyssey into No Man’s Land
by Deborah Behrens | November 4, 2009
Memory is a hauntingly elusive and quixotic siren. That actors Alan Mandell and Lawrence Pressman should seek to curry her favor for the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s new staging of No Man’s Land portends an outing of both personal and historic note. READ MORE
T.R. Knight on Parade at the Mark Taper Forum
by Deborah Behrens | October 22, 2009
Morphing between mediums is every actor’s dream. Few expect to do it under such intense media scrutiny as former Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight who recently traded in his TV scrubs for stage suspenders and singing lessons. READ MORE
Lenka Udovicki Steers Medea for UCLA Live
by Deborah Behrens | September 23, 2009
“I think Euripides wrote this play really posing the crucial questions of Western society,” says Lenka Udovicki, making her US directorial debut with UCLA Live’s inaugural world premiere production of Medea starring Annette Bening. READ MORE
Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas at the Geffen
by Deborah Behrens | September 15, 2009
“I think by looking at the business of celebrity causes and charity, it offered a lot of fodder for satirical humor,” says Modine. READ MORE
JoBeth Williams
Brings Magic into the Night
by Deborah Behrens | September 3, 2009
At 60, JoBeth Williams is busy shedding old skins and ready to get her theatrical samba on. The recent empty nester just got a sporty new car, her first speeding ticket and a starring role at the Pasadena Playhouse all in the sultry heat of August. Not to mention a younger man’s candid admiration. READ MORE
