Full Disclosure, The Twentieth-Century Way, Sick, Dementia

Full Disclosure, The Twentieth-Century Way, Sick, Dementia

Editorial by Don Shirley  |  May 14, 2010

Four L.A.-set plays take theategoers to the San Fernando Valley, 1914 Long Beach, and downtown’s LATC. READ MORE.

Tom Jacobson Deals with Gay Entrapment at Boston Court

Tom Jacobson Deals with Gay Entrapment at Boston Court

Features by Steve Julian  |  May 5, 2010

In 1914, W. H. Warren and B. C. Brown offered their “acting” services to the Long Beach Police Department. They would hang out inside the public bathrooms at the beach and entrap men who agreed to have sex. This “social vagrancy” forms Tom Jacobson’s play The Twentieth Century Way as it looks at this month-long moment in history. READ MORE

The Theatre @ Boston Court Announces   a 2010 Season of World Premieres

The Theatre @ Boston Court Announces
a 2010 Season of World Premieres

News by Janet Thielke  |  December 4, 2009

The Theatre @ Boston Court announces its 2010 Season comprised of world premiere plays by Los Angeles playwrights Luis Alfaro and Tom Jacobson, British playwright Moby Pomerance, and New York playwright Jordan Harrison. READ MORE

Understanding Your Roots: Themes of Family Grow in Tree

Understanding Your Roots: Themes of Family Grow in Tree

Features by Janet Thielke  |  November 5, 2009

Playwright Julie Hebert handles themes of family in her new play Tree, presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA, directed by Jessica Kubzansky. READ MORE

Legitimizing Los Angeles Theatre

by Colin Mitchell  |  October 30, 2008

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…