Bryan Cranston and Hugo Armstrong in Power of Sail at Geffen Playhouse.
(Photo by Jeff Lorch)
Power of Sail
Raw Returns: Emerging From our Bunkers
One thing remains certain: No assembly bill or virus can kill the theater. It will simply move into other spaces, like a song that orbits for a while and then returns in the future with echoes of the past. We can dream.
Skylight Theatre and Playwrights’ Arena Join Forces
“The pandemic has affected everyone,” says Grossman without hesitation. “I don’t think any company or business is the same. And we gotta find a whole new model in order to work in our industry… The idea of small companies, small 99-seat theater companies surviving in this climate, it’s going to be very difficult.”
The Foxhole Theatre Company’s “The Ninth Door”
Domenico says the idea for the company came after learning that one of the guys in his unit had committed suicide. He was sitting in his acting class at Marymount Manhattan College when he received a text with the devastating news. “Shortly afterwards, pictures started circulating online of one of our bases being overrun,” Domenico shares, “and the guys were texting one another, Do people back home even know what we did over there or even care?” With that question in mind, Domenico says it hit him: “I know what would fix this: a theater company.”
"The Watering Hole" by Lynn Nottage (Photo by Lia Chang)
Has Covid Given Our Theater a Gift?
Starting to see the light of the end of the Covid Tunnel begs the question: Is there a future for these pandemic innovations?
TeenTix Settles Into LA
"Through the TeenTix Pass Program, teenagers, ages 13-19, can sign up for a free TeenTix Pass, which will allow them to purchase day-of-show tickets for just $5 from participating arts organizations, including concert venues, galleries, museums, and theaters. To help teens make the most of this program, and to make navigating LA’s abundant arts scene easier, the local chapter has created the LA.TeenTix.Org Calendar, which posts all listings available on a specific day."
As The Corona Virus Charges Back, Theaters Hedge Their Bets
What the reversed County policy does, however, is throw shade on the hundreds of indoor productions being planned – including the entire Hollywood Fringe Festival, which uses tiny indoor spaces -- and the accompanying confidence that the pandemic is behind us.
Vernon Neal Weaver (1935 – 2021)
Fellow colleague Deborah Klugman was in the room at the time and assured him that he was not crazy. He leaned forward in his hospital bed – not an easy task, when hooked up to oxygen – to remark in a now piping treble cleff, “They they must be crazy!”
Matthew Hancock and Hazel Lozano. (Photo by Jenny Graham)
An Octoroon, at the Fountain Theatre
"When is a play about race in this tragically divisive nation of ours ever not timely?"
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