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The 2026 Stage Raw Theater Awards Program FEATURESLatestNotes From Arden

The 2026 Stage Raw Theater Awards Program

Andres Velez, Jack Stehlin, Emily Yetter, Jade Sealey and Ahkei Togun in “Lear Redux” presented…

Steven MorrisFebruary 27, 2026

Fame! Amadeus, Hedda Gabler, and Those Who Would Live Forever FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Fame! Amadeus, Hedda Gabler, and Those Who Would Live Forever

Sam Clemmett and Lauren Worsham in "Amadeus" at The Pasadena Playhouse (photo by Jeff Lorch)…

Steven MorrisFebruary 18, 2026

Critical Thinking: A World Without Critics, and the Quality of Conversation FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Critical Thinking: A World Without Critics, and the Quality of Conversation

Critical Thinking A World Without Critics and the Quality of Conversation Imagine we live in…

Steven MorrisFebruary 12, 2026

Wrongly Accused: In Defense of Lauren Gunderson FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Wrongly Accused: In Defense of Lauren Gunderson

Wrongly Accused In Defense of Lauren Gunderson Yesterday, Rhode Island’s Contemporary Theater Company announced that…

Steven MorrisFebruary 4, 2026

Eddie Izzard’s “Hamlet” and Sam Shepard’s “Curse” FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

Eddie Izzard’s “Hamlet” and Sam Shepard’s “Curse”

  Eddie Izzard (Amanda Searle) Parking Lot Hell in Hollywood, and Taking the Train to…

Steven MorrisJanuary 28, 2026

Memorable Moments on L.A.’s Stages in 2025 INTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

Memorable Moments on L.A.’s Stages in 2025

Life of Pi at the Ahmanson (Photo by Evan Zimmerman for Murphy Made) Memorable Moments…

Steven MorrisDecember 31, 2025

Fiction and Friction: The Stages of 2025 FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Fiction and Friction: The Stages of 2025

The Stages of 2025 Fiction and Friction It’s no coincidence that the centerpiece of the…

Steven MorrisDecember 29, 2025

Homeward Bound: Group Rep’s “Our Town” FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Homeward Bound: Group Rep’s “Our Town”

Homeward Bound Group Rep’s Our Town RECOMMENDED For two of its three acts (performed with…

Steven MorrisNovember 26, 2025

Allen Barton’s “Years to the Day” and Anthony Meindl’s “The Year We Disappeared”: Years and years and years and . . . FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Allen Barton’s “Years to the Day” and Anthony Meindl’s “The Year We Disappeared”: Years and years and years and . . .

Allen Barton's Years to The Day, and Anthony Meindl's The Year We Disappeared Years and…

Steven MorrisNovember 5, 2025

Can Our Theater Meet This Moment?: Roger Guenveur Smith and Towne Street Theatre’s “In Response” FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Can Our Theater Meet This Moment?: Roger Guenveur Smith and Towne Street Theatre’s “In Response”

Can Our Theater Meet This Moment? Roger Guenveur Smith’s in honor of jean-michel basquiat and…

Steven MorrisOctober 23, 2025