If you’ve always wanted to be in a play, you’ll get your big chance when you see Director Charlie Mount’s production of Clifford Odets’ stirring Waiting for Lefty at Theatre West. As an engaged member of the audience you’ll be expected to whoop and holler appropriately as the leaders of the taxi drivers’ union call for a strike for higher wages. READ MORE
Waiting for Lefty:
The choice between the dollar bill and a human life
by Cynthia Citron | September 1, 2010
Jack Stehlin & John Farmanesh-Bocca:
A Friendship Renewed for Titus Redux
by Tom Provenzano | August 27, 2010
It is a post-rehearsal tete-a-tete between Circus Theatricals’ impresario Jack Stehlin, who has become a noted purveyor of LA theatre, and world-wide theatrical artist John Farmanesh-Bocca, who has decided to lay down roots again in California. READ MORE
Nataki Garrett:
“to either be watermelon or not”
by Deborah Behrens | August 25, 2010
Director Nataki Garrett doesn’t refrain from eating watermelon because she wants to avoid perpetuating a bigoted African American stereotype. She stays away because it makes her mouth itch. READ MORE
A New Musical Created From Page to Stage
by Samantha Mehlinger | August 20, 2010
The opening of the new original musical, The Bedroom Window, The Musical, is the culmination of years of dreaming and hard work for the production’s three young writers. READ MORE
LATE’s War Cycle Shifts Focus
by Don Shirley | August 19, 2010
Wounded is back, Survived has become Nation of Two, and Tom Burmester’s Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble is beginning to examine the troops in Afghanistan. READ MORE.
Matt Walker’s Troubies Spin A Wither’s Tale at the Falcon
by Ashley Steed | August 18, 2010
The Troubadour Theatre Company, or the Troubies as fans have come to know them, has been around for 15 years now. Best known for their loose adaptations of the classics mixed with commedia, clowning, improvisation and music, they’ve cultivated quite the following and reputation. READ MORE
Making History at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
by Steve Julian | August 16, 2010
Ask Bill Rauch, Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) since 2007, his most important goal and he’ll tell you, “It’s that we’re building on 75 years of work and delivering productions that make people want to come.” READ MORE
Psittacus: Searching for LA’s Theatre Identity
by Greta McAnany | August 12, 2010
In a city pegged for its legendary film industry, it is easy for theatre to find its identity somewhat wrapped up in that of the silver screen. With over 500 theatres scattered about greater Los Angeles and near-by counties, plays often lean toward the “kitchen sink drama” of reality TV and sitcoms, showcasing the talent rather than the story. READ MORE
The Colony’s Free Man of Color Themes Resonate with Today
by Gary Ballard | August 11, 2010
“Only the educated are free,” spoke Epictetus in his famous Discourses sometime in the first century AD after he obtained his freedom from slavery and began to teach philosophy in Rome. READ MORE
Becoming Norman Puts Dixon’s
Whole Life Out There
by Julio Martinez | August 7, 2010
Norman P. Dixon readily admits he did not rush into his autobiographical play (with music), which is having its world premiere at NoHo Arts Center. “Oh this has been brewing for quite a while,” he chuckles. READ MORE
