Director José Luis Valenzuela on Adapting Greek Tragedy: “Antigone: In the Language of Kings,” at The Getty Villa FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatest

Director José Luis Valenzuela on Adapting Greek Tragedy: “Antigone: In the Language of Kings,” at The Getty Villa

Craig Schwartz photography Director José Luis Valenzuela on Adapting Greek Tragedy   Antigone: In the Language…

Steven MorrisSeptember 19, 2026

Stephen Dierkes’s three snapshots from China in his “Tomb of Ten Thousand Calendars” FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatest

Stephen Dierkes’s three snapshots from China in his “Tomb of Ten Thousand Calendars”

Wayne Lee, West Liang, Jonathan Cheung (Photo by Eric Pargac) Stephen Dierkes's three snapshots from…

Steven MorrisAugust 28, 2026

Fractured Flickers: “Kimberly Akimbo” and Our Shattered Culture FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

Fractured Flickers: “Kimberly Akimbo” and Our Shattered Culture

Fractured Flickers Kimberly Akimbo and Our Shattered Culture Last Sunday afternoon, the packed-house audience at the…

Steven MorrisAugust 18, 2026

Peter Van Norden (1950-2026) FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Peter Van Norden (1950-2026)

Steven Culp, Michelle Bonebright-Carter, Jocelyn Towne and Peter Van Norden in "Red Ink" at Playwrights'…

Steven MorrisJuly 10, 2026

Spring and Then Autumn in the Blink of an Eye: “My Life is a Sonnet” and a Cool Sip of “Limonade” FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

Spring and Then Autumn in the Blink of an Eye: “My Life is a Sonnet” and a Cool Sip of “Limonade”

Spring and then Autumn in the Blink of an Eye “My Life is a Sonnet”…

Steven MorrisJune 30, 2026

What Happens to Us over Half a Century?: The Journey to a Theater in Highland Park, When the Past Crashes in Uninvited FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

What Happens to Us over Half a Century?: The Journey to a Theater in Highland Park, When the Past Crashes in Uninvited

What Happens to Us over Half a Century? The Journey to a Theater in Highland…

Steven MorrisJune 9, 2026

Civil Disobedience: Playwright/Adaptor Kenneth Cavander and Director Andy Wolk on “Antigone” at Antaeus FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Civil Disobedience: Playwright/Adaptor Kenneth Cavander and Director Andy Wolk on “Antigone” at Antaeus

Civil Disobedience Playwright/adaptor Kenneth Cavander and director Andy Wolk on Antigone at Antaeus “Well, that’s…

Steven MorrisJune 5, 2026

The DOGE-ing of L.A. Theater: And the Promise of Restoration FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

The DOGE-ing of L.A. Theater: And the Promise of Restoration

Jade Santana, Maria Mastroyannis, Matthew Goodrich and the Ensemble of “Amerika or, The Man Who…

Steven MorrisMay 16, 2026

Public Assembly Puts the “Community” Back into Community Theater: A New Model to Counter the Indifference of Traditional Funders FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatest

Public Assembly Puts the “Community” Back into Community Theater: A New Model to Counter the Indifference of Traditional Funders

All photos by Cameron Rice Public Assembly Puts the Community Back into Community Theater A…

Steven MorrisApril 6, 2026

Roads Less Traveled: Riding the Rails to Theatre West (“My Uterus: A Womb with a View”) and Boston Court Theatre (“Octopus’s Garden”) FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From Arden

Roads Less Traveled: Riding the Rails to Theatre West (“My Uterus: A Womb with a View”) and Boston Court Theatre (“Octopus’s Garden”)

Pomona (North Station) terminus for the Metro "A" Line. Roads Less Traveled Riding the Rails…

Steven MorrisMarch 24, 2026