BWW Preview: The Smith Center Presents Broadway Las Vegas 2015-16
by Ellen Sterling - February 26, 2015 Las Vegas' Smith Center for the Performing Arts is an extraordinary place. It's diverse programs encompass just about all of the performing arts. The building, designed by David M. Schwartz is a Neo Art Deco design and features a 47-bell carillon housed in a 17-story carillon tower. The design, Schw...
WALKERS Screenings to Highlight Hitchcock, Guy Maddin, The Wolfpack and More at Moving Image
by TV News Desk - February 05, 2016 Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to announce the final installment of films for The Hollywood Classics behind WALKERS, a series featuring special screenings and appearances by acclaimed directors and other special guests presented in conjunction with the exhibition Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives...
BWW Recap: ARROW is Public Enemy #1
by Misha Davenport - April 01, 2015 A member of Team ARROW is wounded, Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable) continues to frame ARROW (Stephen Amell) as a menace to socieity. Keep your eye on the target, we'll get you caught up with tonight's ep 'Public Enemy.'...
Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal to Host 12/14 Auditions for 9th Annual LA'S NEXT GREAT STAGE STAR
by BWW News Desk - November 21, 2014 Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in the greater Los Angeles area, has set Sunday, December 14, 2014 as auditions for its 9th consecutive year of LA's Next Great Stage Star, it was announced today by Executive Producer Michael St...
Skylight Theatre Company to Begin Accepting PlayLab Submissions Tomorrow
by Tyler Peterson - December 14, 2015 The award-winning Skylight Theatre Company will be accepting applications for the 4th round of its well-regarded Skylight PlayLab, headed by renowned playwright and screenwriter Shem Bitterman. Interested playwrights from the Southern California area can apply from December 15, 2015 until January 31...
Katie Birtill to Lead SWEET CHARITY at New Wolsey Theatre
by Tyler Peterson - June 19, 2015 The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is producing a new actor-musician production of the classic swingin' sixties musical SWEET CHARITY which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September, directed by Artistic Director Peter Rowe....
Skylight Theatre Company to Premiere THE END TIMES
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2016 Skylight Theatre Company is proud to announce that they will be co-producing the World Premiere of Jesse Mu-En Shao's THE END TIMES, in collaboration with Jon Lawrence Rivera's Playwrights' Arena. This marks Jesse's first produced work. The collaboration between the two companies is a longtime in pl...
Geffen Playhouse, The Wallis & More Take Home 2014 Ovation Awards
by Tyler Peterson - November 03, 2014 The 2014 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the past 12 months, were presented on Sunday, November 2 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse....
BWW Previews: Mind's Eye Mines Thriller For Laughs
by Todd Zeigler - April 10, 2014 Think "Alfred Hitchcock." Did you think "allusive puns, rapid-fire costume changes and broad comedy"? Catch Patrick Barlow's adaptation of the master of horror and suspense's 1935 motion picture thriller "The 39 Steps," and you just might....
Chris Ioan Roberts' DEAD ROYAL Comes to Ovalhouse, April 21-25
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2015 Villa Windsor, Paris, 1981 - Wallis, Duchess of Windsor aged 82, invites Lady Diana Spencer aged 19 to a despair-laden bachelorette party on the eve of her wedding to the Prince of Wales. Chris Ioan Roberts' Dead Royal is a lacerating, camp-drenched celebration of 1980s narcissistic megalomania. The...
SWEET CHARITY Runs 3/20-30 at Oakland University
by Tyler Peterson - March 10, 2014 It may just be that Charity Hope Valentine is the unluckiest romantic in New York City. Audiences are invited to follow her warm, touching and humorous story when the Oakland University Theatre program presents a production of the musical 'Sweet Charity' from Thursday, March 20, through Sunday, Marc...
Literature, Theatre and More Set for Center for Jewish History's Jan/Feb 2016 Programs
by BWW News Desk - December 14, 2015 The Center for Jewish History has just announced its January & February 2016 programs. Highlights include a discussion on Jewish Museums in the 21st Century, the launch of Lawrence Douglas' book on John Demjanjuk, a daring theatrical examination of racism and anti-Semitism, a look back at the 16th c...
BWW Recap: ARROW Has an Uprising
by Misha Davenport - February 04, 2015 With Oliver Queen (aka ARROW, played by Stephen Amell) still recovering from his sword fight/resurrection, it's up to Laurel (aka Black Canary, played by Katie Cassidy), Roy (aka Arsenal, played by Colton Haynes) and the rest of Team ARROW to stop Brick (Vinnie Jones). Keep your eye on the target an...
Skylight Theatre to Stage REASONS TO LIVE
by Tyler Peterson - October 08, 2014 Chosen by the press as a 'Favorite Play of 2012' when first presented at Provincetown Theater, Reasons To Live will now make its West Coast debut in Los Angeles at the Skylight Theatre. Two like-minded theatre companies join together to present this thought provoking comedy on overcoming adversity....
Chris Ioan Roberts' DEAD ROYAL Comes to Ovalhouse This Week
by BWW News Desk - April 21, 2015 Villa Windsor, Paris, 1981 - Wallis, Duchess of Windsor aged 82, invites Lady Diana Spencer aged 19 to a despair-laden bachelorette party on the eve of her wedding to the Prince of Wales. Chris Ioan Roberts' Dead Royal is a lacerating, camp-drenched celebration of 1980s narcissistic megalomania. The...
SWEET CHARITY, CREEP and More Coming Up at WaterTower Theatre
by BWW News Desk - July 17, 2015 WaterTower Theatre has announced its upcoming events, July - October 2015. Scroll down for details!...
TCM Greatest Classic Films Releases Four New Collections Today
by Movies News Desk - April 01, 2014 Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. (WBHE) and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) are adding four new collections to their TCM Greatest Classic Films line, which spotlights Hollywood's most legendary actors and actresses in classic cinema....
Easy Lynne to Offer Free Performance of TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
by Tyler Peterson - June 22, 2015 Tom Sawyer, his Aunt Polly, and Huckleberry Finn leave their St. Petersburg, Missouri home to pay a visit to Polly's sister, Sally and her husband Silas on their farm in Arkansas. On this trip, Tom and Huck encounter thievery, a dead body and possibly the wrong man being accused of murder. Leave it ...
Skylight Theatre's EL GRANDE CIRCUS DE COCA COLA to Transfer to Colony Theatre
by Tyler Peterson - October 15, 2015 The Colony Theatre is pleased to announce that it is bringing to its mid-size Equity theatre the wildly successful, LA Times Critic's Choice production of EL GRANDE CIRCUS DE COCA-COLA by Ron House, directed by Alan Shearman and based on El Grande de Coca-Cola by Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman,...
LAUGH IT UP, STARE IT DOWN Opens Tonight at Cherry Lane Theater
by BWW News Desk - September 09, 2015 LAUGH IT UP, STARE IT DOWN, a new play written by Alan Hruska (The Man on Her Mind, New House under Construction, Reunion), is directed by Chris Eigeman (known as a filmmaker for Turn The River and as an actor for roles in television's Gilmore Girls and the films Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Las...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - 'All You See is Dark' Promo for New ABC Drama THE FAMILY
by - March 04, 2016 Below, watch an all-new promo for ABC's new drama THE FAMILY titled "All You See is Dark". The series premieres Sunday, March 6th. ...
Curtis Jordan Pens YOUR CHOICE IN MEN
by Christina Mancuso - October 27, 2015 'Do you believe there are no more good men left?' Author Curtis Jordan cracks the question in his newest book that tackles the seemingly sensitive women's subject of 'Your Choice in Men' (published by AuthorHouse). In this book, Jordan discusses how women's choice in men impacts the quality of roman...
Theatre @ Boston Court, the Geffen and La Mirada Lead 2014 Ovation Award Nominations; Full List!
by BWW News Desk - September 22, 2014 Nominees for the 2014 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards were announced on the evening of Monday, September 22 at Native Voices at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. The nominations were revealed by past Ovation Award recipients Gigi Bermingham, Brighid Fleming, Parmer Fuller, Jennifer Haley, B...
Skylight Theatre Company to Present the World Premiere of FOREVER HOUSE
by Tyler Peterson - December 17, 2015 Skylight Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of FOREVER HOUSE Written by Tony Abatemarco and Directed by Elizabeth Swain Opening Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 8pm reception to follow 8:30pm Fridays, 8pm Saturdays, and 3pm Sundays through Feb 28, 2016 The Skylight Theatre is located at 1816 1...
STAGE RAW Announces First Ever Nominations, April 13 at LA Theater Center
by Sally Henry Fuller - March 14, 2015 STAGE RAW is pleased to announce the FIRST ANNUAL STAGE RAW LOS ANGELES THEATER AWARDS, championing the best work of 2014 in L.A.'s now embattled theaters of up to 99-seats. (STAGE RAW is using the same jury that was assembled through 2014 for the now dearly departed LA WEEKLY Theater Awards.) Chec... |