BY MINDY FARABEE In a way, LA ladies, the news for us is actually pretty good. Last Thursday, the city controller’s office released a snazzy infographic illustrating the state of women in the city workforce. Turns out, we Angelenas earn 83 cents for every dollar a man makes. Nationwide, that statistic has been stuck hovering around 77 cents for going on seven years now.
By BILL RADEN with additional reporting by HENRI DE LA TRINE The earth was rocking last week, and Stage Rows was all over town covering the tectonic-scale issues of our arts scene.
JOHN STEPPLING's essay on the causes of our theater's irrelevance, and what to do about it: "New York’s Mayor Lindsay gave money to theater artists during the “Fun City” years, and off-off Broadway was one of the results. Maria Irene Fornes, Sam Shepard, Murray Mednick, Ronnie Tavel, Cafe Cino, LaMama, etc. etc. etc. This marked the last collective radical experimental theater movement of any sort in the U.S."
There she hung, the "Mona Lisa," small frame, big reputation, enigmatic smile, the whole thing, but "Stage Raw" couldn’t get close because of the rows and rows of people – layers really – separating Lisa from the eyes of this beholder with the incessant flashing of iPhone cameras, as though they could actually capture The Real Thing.