A Revealing Interview with Max Von EssenNovember 18, 2004When you sit down with Max Von Essen, you don't feel as though you are meeting a stranger - in fact it's just the opposite, you feel as though you are already his friend.
Bourne's 'Nutcracker!' To Make US DEBUT in CaliforniaNovember 8, 2004Perhaps it's the weather, or that we're so close to Disney, where Matthew Bourne is adapting 'The Little Mermaid' for the Broadway stage, but once again California is going to be home to the US Premiere of the latest Matthew Bourne production!
LA REVIEW: When You Gotta Go - Urinetown is the Perfect Place to Pee - I Mean Be...May 13, 2004Urinetown - the Musical, opened Tuesday in its Los Angeles Premiere at the Wilshire Theatre. As one of the characters, Little Sally, in the musical reminds us, it is an 'awful title' with a 'plot so absurd…' But what she doesn't mention, and instead lets the entire cast show you, is that Urinetown - The Musical is one of the best shows to emerge from Broadway in the last decade.
American Premiere of Hampton's 'The Talking Cure' Needs TherapyApril 16, 2004Christopher Hampton's latest play, 'The Talking Cure,' in its American Premiere last evening at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, under the direction of Gordon Davidson, has much more interesting and fascinating production notes in the program than any of the action on stage would suggest.
"Sunset Boulevard" on Hollywood BoulevardApril 5, 2004After the rousing success of last years Actor's Fund special event, an all-star reading of 'All About Eve,' last night at Hollywood's famed Pantages Theatre, the stars again were back out in force, this time to read through the other classic film of the same year, 'Sunset Boulevard.'
TOPDOG/underdog no Top Dog, but no Underdog EitherFebruary 19, 2004The acclaimed, Pulitzer-prize winning play by Suzan-Lori Parks, opened Thursday night at The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, in a production directed by George Wolfe, and starring Larry Gilliard Jr. and Harold Perrineau.
SONDHEIM SHOWS OPEN AND CLOSE NEW L.A. OPERA SEASONJanuary 16, 2004With today's announcement by Placido Domingo, General Director of the LA Opera, the theatre season here in the Southland has just become even more exciting, with the arrival of 'A Little Night Music' and 'Sweeney Todd.'