Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce Spotlights Marriage at the Odyssey

Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce Spotlights Marriage at the Odyssey

Features by Lee Melville  |  July 23, 2010

Four couples, three bedrooms, two celebrations, one blazing argument and an illicit kiss (or two). Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious comedy shines a brilliant spotlight onto the trials and tribulations of suburban marriage.” READ MORE

To Tell the Truth

To Tell the Truth

Editorial by Don Shirley  |  April 23, 2010

Exciting stagings of See What I Wanna See and The Arsonists examine “the truth” from opposite perspectives, as religious con men become the theatrical theme of the year.  READ MORE

Actors Orson Bean, Alley Mills and Laurie O’Brien:  Coward’s BitterSuite Goodbye

Actors Orson Bean, Alley Mills and Laurie O’Brien: Coward’s BitterSuite Goodbye

Features by Geo Hartley  |  February 23, 2010

God love Ron Sossi and those Odyssey Theatre Ensemble folks for having the manners to keep Noel Coward from becoming obsolete to Los Angeles audiences. READ MORE

Megan Mullally Takes a New Stage Call

Megan Mullally Takes a New Stage Call

Features by Deborah Behrens  |  August 12, 2009

Mullally’s new priorities are to work with “good people on good material” READ MORE

Waiver War Weapons: Part II

Waiver War Weapons: Part II

Features by Rob Kendt  |  June 29, 2009

The turbulent and true history of the infamous Equity Waiver wars, which raged from 1986 through 1988 and changed LA theater forever. READ MORE

Mike Daisey Questions the Los Angeles Theatre Community

Mike Daisey Questions the Los Angeles Theatre Community

Features by admin  |  May 15, 2009

Held after a sold-out performance of his famed monologue, HOW THEATRE FAILED AMERICA, Mike asked a series of pointed and probing questions to the panelists and audience members, hoping that the monologue and the roundtable would provide a basis for ongoing dialogue and action in the theatre of LA in this time of change in our country. READ MORE