Art Creates the Human Being
"We can self-realize something rather than being told. Maybe I'm trying to explain to you what the theater is to me."
Pauline García Viardo: “The Mother of European Culture”
This coming Friday, March 3, one such treasure will emerge from the vault for its first professional production at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, over 150 years after it was first created in 1867
Two Stage Raw Critics Honored
"Stage Raw Managing Editor Vanessa Cate and Senior Editor Deborah Klugman have been recognized for their writing via an audience vote, administered by the theater/aggregator website better-lemons.com."
Ana Maria Alvarez, on Connection and Engagement Through Dance
"Our engagement is the art-making, our art-making is the engagement." -- Ana Maria Alvarez
Dan Berkowitz Remembered
"Dan Berkowitz was a force of nature. There's really no other way to describe him, and I'm not even sure that does him justice. When I was asked to write about Dan, with whom I co-chaired the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP) for 15 years, honestly, I was overwhelmed. How do you even start to describe someone who did so much for so many?" -- Jonathan Dorf
Yes, You Can Be a Patreon
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Callie Ott in Dear Jeff.... (photo by Harley Alexander
2019 Hollywood Fringe Roundup
"This year, on the 10th anniversary of the Fringe, there were 414 shows, up from around 300 shows only two years ago in 2017. Several of these received extensions of a few performances or more, and I highly recommend catching any of them if you can." -- Stephen Fife
L-R: Elizabeth A. Davis and Adina Verson in Paula Vogels Indecent. A co-production with Huntington Theatre Company, Indecent runs through July 7, 2019 at the Ahmanson Theatre. For more information, please visit CenterTheatreGroup.org. Press Contact: CTGMedia@CTGLA.org / (213) 972-7376. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Indecent: Reflections on Paula Vogel’s Play at the Ahmanson
INDECENT, the play by Paula Vogel and directed by Rebecca Taichman, recently opened at the Ahmanson Theatre in a re-mounting of the Broadway production. I was fortunate enough to see that Broadway production towards the end of its run, and I have to say that it was far superior to the version playing here. This is partly due to the cavernous nature of the Ahmanson, which simply overwhelms intimate/delicate shows like this one; and is partly the result of other issues, which I will go into later. Nevertheless, it still retains some of its magic, and magic is always worth checking out." -- Stephen Fife
Have Russian Trolls Taken Over the LA Weekly? Really?
"As the story broke yesterday, now-laid off LA Weekly writer Keith Plocek posted a brief, ominous article, asking, “who owns the publication you’re reading right now?” And, adding, “The new owners… don’t want you to know who they are. They are hiding from you. They’ve got big black bags with question marks covering their big bald heads.” -- BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Playwrights’ Arena, The Broadwater and a Real Estate Dance, The Scenies and Sir Peter Hall Remembered
"Everyone in the town’s intimate theater scene should be delighted with this prospect of a small local theater’s well-deserved rise to mid-size, though the economics of all that will need to be massaged, and may even require several visits to a chiropractor after negotiating with the stage actors’ union. But if anyone can iron out the knots and aches of a mid-size frame, Rivera can. For years, he has been one of the town’s hardest working journeyman directors and opinion makers, and his new home base promises to become central to a bona fide neighborhood and its extended community that’s connected to the school."
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