39 stories by "A.R. Cassell"
After making its debut Off-Broadway in 1995, Horton Foote's The Young Man from Atlanta will finally have its Los Angeles premiere on March 11. Presented by the Production Company and staged …
fter making its debut Off-Broadway in 1995, Horton Foote�s The Young Man from Atlanta will finally have its Los Angeles premiere on March 11. Presented by the Production Company and sta…
Alliance Repertory is returning after three years of dormancy with the spiked-punch Christmas show "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues," featuring Daisy Eagan.
La Mirada Theatre's "best season" Ovation Award is the subject for remarks by artistic director Brian Kite, McCoy Rigby's Cathy Rigby and Ovation-winning actress Beth Malone.
Darryl Archibald, the musical director of "Kiss Me, Kate" with Davis Gaines and Victoria Strong,speaks out on behalf of big bands and Cabrillo Music Theatre.
New American Theatre begins its third partnership with and at the Odyssey, beginning with Strindberg's "Creditors," translated by David Greig. Jack Stehlin and Ron Sossi speak.
Mike Stoller and his wife helped rescue Pasadena Playhouse from financial ruin. Now the Leiber and Stoller revue "Smokey's Joe's Cafe" is revived at the playhouse by director Jeffrey Polk.
Director Richard Israel and actor Daniel David Stewart prepare for the West Coast premiere of the Appalachian-set musical "The Burnt Part Boys," at Third Street Theatre.
The musical Sunset Boulevard is set in LA and was introduced to America in LA, then vanished for a while. Now it's at Long Beach's Musical Theatre West, with Larry Raben directing Valerie Pe…
Janet Roston is choreographing revolver, the last production Celebration Theatre will produce in its somewhat problematic (the pole at stage left) space on Santa Monica Boulevard .
Bets Malone and Robert Townsend discuss performing Next to Normal at La Mirada Theatre with their director Nick DeGruccio -- in the wake of personal losses.
Ryan Heffington's dance performance piece KTCHN, playing at the Mack Sennett Studios in Silver Lake, is inspired directly by the paintings of Nolan Hendrickson.
Busy Beth Malone and Kevin Earley, in his LA comeback, are playing the leads in La Mirada's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. They discuss the changing interpretations of their characters in …
You remember Betty Hutton? If not, Nuttin' But Hutton seeks to restore the reputation of the wacky '40s musical movie star -- not in a biographical play but in a tribute to the songs she ado…
While the Boeing company is in the news this week, it's Boeing-Boeing -- the '60s farce -- that's opening Saturday at La Mirada Theatre. "The bones of the play are magically intertwined," sa…
Sinatra sang plenty of Christmas songs. In Christmas My Way at El Portal, two men and two women interpret those songs, as well as some of Sinatra's other hits within a holiday context. It's …
1776 paints a portrait of Americans overcoming differences to work together. Is there anything we can learn from that in 2010? Director Nick DeGruccio asks this question as he stages the mus…
Saundra McClain, a stage veteran who moved from New York to LA in 2006, took a while to discover the LA theater community. But this month she's directing a more book-oriented version of the …
Celebration Theatre's 16 Ovation nominations included 13 for its revival of The Color Purple -- more than any other show received this year. The news provided an ideal way to launch the comp…
3-D Theatricals, which is about to enlarge its turf to include Redondo Beach, opens the last of its Fullerton-only shows, A Chorus Line, this weekend. Director TJ Dawson and others discuss t…
DOMA Theatre is based on the notion of giving novices experience alongside professionals. Its latest project is The Who's Tommy, which is being given an update to emphasize that nowadays,…
Kim Huber was a kid who grew up in the Southern California musical theater scene, ran off to New York and Broadway for a decade, then returned here to raise a family and perform in the same …
B.H. Barry, the fight choreographer for the Broadway production of Moon Over Buffalo in 1995, returned to the play in order to stage the fights and physical gags for Open Fist Theatre's 99-s…
There's no resting on their Ovation laurels for the Troubies' Matt Walker and Beth Kennedy. The artistic (Walker) and producing (Kennedy) directors of Troubadour Theater Company discuss thei…
Joel Daavid, best known as a designer, is directing as well as designing his stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll screenplay at the Lillian. He's incorporating many storytelling…
