Opening the Curtain

With all due respect to composer Kurt Weill and librettist Maxwell Anderson, the story wasn't the most important thing happening on stage Saturday night during Lost in the Stars at UCLA's Royce hall. 

The Lion is a really tight solo show with remarkable guitar playing.  It's a production that's filled with technique and . . . that might be part of the problem.

Last night at the Ahmanson Theater, Center Theater Group held a memorial for their founding artistic director, Gordon Davidson.

Anthony Byrnes previews some of the year's most intriguing upcoming performances.

Two totally different shows -- one using Shakespeare, the other using a funky rock -- leave me wondering, 'Why can't more theater be like this?'

Last Thursday, a judge dismissed LA theater actors' lawsuit against their union. What does this mean and why you might not notice but we're all poorer for this outcome.

WEB BONUS: The Super Variety Match Bonus Round! at Rogue Machine Theatre, is a play from before the election with hints of what was to come but those hints aren't ready for the weight we now place on them.

Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, curatorial work captures both the unique beauty of an individual work and provides a larger context within which to understand those works. It's a deep journey and next week's 36-hour tour through Shakespeare's canon with Forced Entertainment will be a perfect example.

Mike Pence went to the theater. A twitter storm erupts and amidst smoke and mirrors, Donald Trump issues a call to action for the theater.

After the election, John Robbin Baitz's play Vicuña speaks with a completely different voice. It is now a dire, urgent warning that cannot be ignored.