Author: Steven Morris

"Yes, it is the same old story of rising rent causing the exodus of a theater company — except it isn’t quite the same, as Rogue already had been making plans to move on and up to Theater Row. So when MET owner Paul Koslo approached Flynn and offered him a year’s lease at a substantially lower rent, it allowed the company to create an “interim” season before moving to the space on Cahuenga." -- By PAUL BIRCHALL

"One thing folks love at the end of the year is a nice end-of-the-year list, and I am perfectly delighted to look through my “Desk Calendar of Fun” to recall the several comparatively most important stories in Los Angeles in 2015. " -- By PAUL BIRCHALL

"The reason for the get-together was both to make merry and to raise money to support Stage Raw. In the last few weeks of December, Stage Raw critic Myron Meisel generously stepped forward with an offer to match any tax-deductible donation up to $5,000. The site’s bean counters (I think there’s at least one bean who does the counting), reports that we reached the desired total of $10,000. " -- By PAUL BIRCHALL