Featured Stage Stories
Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest
It's a small world after all
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Seventy-five guests from America’s regional theaters converged on Costa Mesa for South Coast Repertory’s 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival last week. These included representatives from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, Primary Stages and Manhattan Theatre Club, Denver Center Theatre, a nine-member delegation from Connecticut’s… Keep Reading »
Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest
It's a small world after all
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Seventy-five guests from America’s regional theaters converged on Costa Mesa for South Coast Repertory’s 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival last week. These included representatives from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, Primary Stages and Manhattan Theatre Club, Denver Center Theatre, a nine-member delegation from Connecticut’s… Keep Reading »
Theater Reviews: He Asked for It, Office Sonata, Hedda Gabler
Also, Safe, The Glass Menagerie, and more
By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics
BIKING WITH ANDREW SCOTT is an attempt to grapple with the processes of grief, after the suicide of an AIDS-afflicted young man, Andy (Robert Seeley), sends a trio of people whose lives he touched through the famous five stages. These people are Andy’s brusque, workaholic female friend, Stephanie (Pamela Donnelly); his lover, Chad (Scott… Keep Reading »
Scott Ritter and The Mission (Accomplished)
Empire and its discontents
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Last month, the first installment in Moving Arts Theater’s monthly discussion program, "The War Plays Project," consisted mostly of local writers who had written plays about the U.S. invasion(s) of Iraq, and who were trying to fathom the public’s disinterest in movies and plays about those wars. … Keep Reading »
In a Dark Theater, Everyone Hears a Cell Phone
Cue the ringtone
By STEVEN MIKULAN
About two or three years ago — the exact moment is unclear — a remarkable milestone was reached in Los Angeles theater. After a decade of being warned, cajoled and begged to do so, all audience members finally began checking their cell phones in earnest before shows started. Suddenly silence fell upon houses across… Keep Reading »
A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement
Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you
By ALAN RICH
Back in September 1964, Jascha Heifetz, the formidable fiddler, was attempting an ill-advised comeback recital at Carnegie Hall. The crowd out front was enormous, and it naturally included many people with long faces hoping for a turned-back ticket to this sold-out event. I was covering it as a music critic for the New York… Keep Reading »
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Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
It's a small world after all
Theater Reviews: He Asked for It, Office Sonata, Hedda Gabler
By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics
Also, Safe, The Glass Menagerie, and more
Theater Reviews: References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Yes Is a Long Time
By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics
Also, The Importance of Being Earnest, Emergency and more
Theater Reviews: Personality Crisis, No Exit, Klub
By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics
Also, Coffee Will Make You Black,
Theater Reviews: Beaverquest!: The Musical, My Fair Lady
By LA Weekly Theater Critics
Also, Chico’s Angels: Chicas Are Forever, The Time of Your Life, and more
The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Rock & rollin' at Hollywood's Avalon
Theater Reviews: DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL
By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics
Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more
Comedy
Artie Lange: The 300-Pound New Jersey Comedian in the Room
By Ryan Ritchie
Artie Lange is a 300-pound New Jersey native who’s battled cocaine, heroin and alcohol…
A Lot of Night Music
And When the Dust Had Settled ...
By ALAN RICH
Dudamel bows out; Europa Galante's D-minor Concerto; Gershon chorales Disney
Classical
L.A. Theater 2006
L.A. Theater 2006: The Thinning Gray Line
By STEVEN MIKULAN
Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?
Dance
"Resurface": New Work From Ledges and Bones Dance Project
By Ann Haskins
Andre Andreev (Click to enlarge) Kindra Windish Given her company’s attention-grabbing name and crew…
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By Steven Leigh Morris
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Stew's L.A. Problem
By Judith Lewis
His play is a Broadway hit, but don't ask The Negro Problem's Stew to come home again
Slideshows
Theater Awards 2008, Avalon, 4/7
Photos from the 29th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera
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By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics, compiled by Derek Thomas
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Theater Awards Archive
The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Rock & rollin' at Hollywood's Avalon
The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Backers' Audition Edition
The Lawees Are Coming; The Lawees Are Coming!
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Our nominees for the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
The 26th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards
The nominees for the 26th annual LA Weekly Theater Awards
Jack Black Goes to Hollywood High
The 25th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
L.A. Theater 2007
The 28th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Gordon Davidson, the killer among us
LA Theater 2007: To Play, or Not to Play, That Is the Question
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Moments of truth in local theater
Building an Ensemble in Ego-ville
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Olga Petrakova glides through catastrophe in search of some truth
New Theater Reviews
Kerr Package, Leading Ladies
By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics
Braving the New World
The Third L.A. Weekly-Hosted Roundtable on New Play Development
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
On October 27, the L.A. Weekly hosted the third of six roundtables on new-play…
Tilling the Ground for New Work
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
On September 1, the L.A. Weekly hosted the second in a series of six…
Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 2
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
In the shadow of Michael Ritchie’s new CTG, local artists look for sunlight
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