The black soldiers at Camp Logan in Texas became embroiled in a devastating chapter in American history in 1917. Joe Morris' staging of Celeste Bedford Walker's Camp Logan recalls that bitter incident at LATC. Behind it is a production team that includ... »
Sal Mistretta won an award for his performance in the DC area's US premiere of the rock musical The Fix, about political shenanigans, in 1998. But the Monica Lewinsky scandal apparently prevented the show from moving on. Now International City Theatre... »
Lifelike "reborn" dolls are used as therapeutic props by mothers whose babies have died or abused individuals. They're also used in Zayd Dohrn's Reborning, opening at the Chance Theater. Casey Long, a member of the cast and the company's managing direc... »
Richard Chamberlain, playing a stern father in The Heiress at Pasadena Playhouse, remembers his own "repressive" and "terrifying" father, as well as his own sunnier life since he came out of the closet. He also recalls the amazing break that thrust him... »
South Coast Repertory's literary manager Kelly L. Miller provides a preview of coming attractions at SCR's Pacific PlaywrightsFestival, which culminates next weekend with five staged readings plus two already-open full productions. READ MORE »
Three young women enter adulthood in musicals that are otherwise very different -- Cloudlands at South Coast Rep, Dames at Sea at the Colony and Miss Saigon at La Mirada -- where Jacqueline Nguyen is the first Vietnamese American to play the role of Ki... »
A youthful first glimpse of the Golden Gate Bridge eventually led Richard Raskind to write a play about some of those who go there to commit suicide. The West Coast premiere of The Bridge Club opens Friday. READ MORE »
New seasons at Geffen and Pasadena playhouses, with Lynn Nottage plays at both...New seasons for Laguna Playhouse and Musical Theatre Guild...a 20th anniversary production of Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992...Lauren Lewis plays Gwendol... »
After a critic called Wendy Johnson "a Judy Holliday clone," she began investigating her inner Holliday. The result is Johnson's Concealing Judy Holliday, a multi-actor play about the original Born Yesterday star, opening at Pacific Resident Theatre, w... »
The subject of class distinctions looms large in this election year. Take a look at Good People, The Prince of Atlantis, Billy Elliot, Working, even Long Day's Journey Into Night. Why are so many of these set in New England and none of them in LA? REA... »
South Coast Repertory’s Jitney will hail a ride across town to the Pasadena Playhouse after Costa Mesa…Deborah Cox will join the new Jekyll & Hyde, which will go from La Mirada to a tour including the Pantages to Broadway…David Galligan on the STAGE be... »
A director for November, a cast for Los Otros...A season for Rogue Machine...A month for opera...Long Beach Opera to bring Ainadamar to West Coast...Evangeline to feature Los Lobos music...Native Voices' new play festival lineup...John Malkovich speaks... »
Matt Shakman, once a Ventura kid turned juvenile TV star, grew up and became an LA theater and TV director. Best known in the LA theater world for his tiny Black Dahlia Theatre, he's about to open the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good ... »
The prolific theater composer David O discusses his dilemma when people ask "What kind of music do you write?" Writing his latest score for A Noise Within, he discovered that a tuba is as right for Molière and The Bungler as it is for marching bands an... »
Latino Museum exits LATC in a resolution of the museum's dispute with Latino Theater...Sideways the play is on its way...Rubicon Theatre's new season will feature a re-conceived Pal Joey staged by Peter Schneider...Tim Piper discusses his life with and... »
