The internet is the central character in Matthew McCray's Eternal Thou, a sci-play that incorporates a little Martin Buber as well as the idea that technology is taking over the world. McCray, the founding artistic director of Son of Semele, isn't doin... »
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... »
Circle X rolls out the first result of its new in-house play development model with Leo Geter's Naked Before God, a comedy that touches on porn, penance and politics. Artistic director Tim Wright and Geter discuss the benefits and potential problems of... »
Matthew Leavitt was once a neighbor of playwright Del Shores -- and the son of Shores' late producer. Now Leavitt is a playwright himself, and Shores is doing the producing -- of Leavitt's comedy The Boomerang Effect, at the Odyssey. Damaso Rodriguez i... »
The companies who won the most Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards Monday were Rogue Machine, the Odyssey Theatre/Evidence Room combination, Ebony Repertory Theatre and CTG. Highest vote-getters among individual shows were Margo Veil and A Raisin... »
Andrew Dolan's The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King isn't about King, but is a story that attempts to speak candidly about race. It's one of two Dolan plays soon to hit LA, and part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's goal to present risky, thoughtful wo... »
A Raisin in the Sun and Jerry Springer: The Opera each nabbed eight Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nominations -- more than those of any other productions. Center Theatre Group won a total of 10 nominations at its three venues. The awards will be pre... »
Latino Theater Company evicted from LATC...LA Opera focuses on outreach...CTG's Clybourne Park moving to Broadway, Mary Poppins returning to LA...The 1941 musical Let's Face It! faces a brief revival at Theatre West...Two directors offer Thanks...Persh... »
Director David Cromer -- the talk of Chicago and Off-Broadway -- brings the longest-running staging ever of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town to Broad Stage, opening tonight. Helen Hunt as the Stage Manager will speak more or less to the inhabitants o... »
Jane Kaczmarek will start in the Geffen's Good People, directed by Matt Shakman...Hershey Felder steps behind the scenes of Mona Golabek's show...January is a big month for free readings series, with fests from Padua Hills, Ensemble Studio and LATC...L... »
