85 stories by "Steve Julian"
Part Cherokee, Seminole and Muskogee Creek on her father's side, Carolyn Dunn is among a growing cadre of Native American playwrights. Her play The Frybread Queen opens Saturday in the Autry…
A 55 degree afternoon in Studio City is balmy for Chicago transplant George Wendt. He steps out of his black four-door in a black T-shirt and black shorts. He never appears chilly as he reco…
Gigi, the movie, swept the Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture. The script was adapted in 1973 for the stage, but what you may see this month by the Reprise Theatre Comapny at UCLA's Freu…
Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite.
Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite.
In its Broadway run two years ago, writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations garnered five Tony nominations and one trophy (Best Scenic Design for Derek McLane) and then closed after …
It ends in the city where it began.The national touring company of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera concludes its run, fittingly, on Halloween night at the Pantages Theat…
David ("Proof") Auburn speaks about his "The Columnist" and its main character Joseph Alsop, as LA Theatre Works prepares for a radio theater recording of the play, starring John Vickery as …
Furious Theatre returns to its longtime Carrie Hamilton home at Pasadena Playhouse with only one of its founders, Vonessa Martin, in "Gidion's Knot." Darin Anthony directs.
No theatrical scenic designer is likely to attract a bigger audience this week in the Los Angeles area than award-winning John Iacovelli, whose work can be seen in productions at the Mark Ta…
Antaeus always uses two casts per production, so why not two co-directors? Armin Shimerman and Geoffrey Wade helm the company's The Crucible.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, a baker's dozen of women in LA theater comment on their hopes for LA theater in the coming year. READ MORE
"Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow"...Donald Freed plays on that famous phrase from Macbeth in the title of his new Tomorrow. And that makes one "tomorrow" for each of the companies collaborat…
Michael Michetti is moved to tears by moments in Frank Galati's adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which Michetti is directing for A Noise Within. He explains why. READ MORE
It's the beginning of the end of Andak Stage, the small NoHo company run by Dakin Matthews and Anne McNaughton. But first, Kitty Swink stars in a revival of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blue…
Now that Richard III's bones have been brought to light, casting doubt on his humped back and withered arm, will stage interpretations of him change? Several Shakespeare specialists in the L…
Steven Robman, who directed four plays at the Taper in the '80s and will return there next fall, is about to make his debut as an LA 99-seat theater director with Kathryn Graf's A Snake Can,…
London's Cheek by Jowl company cuts the final lines from John Ford's 17th-century incest drama 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The company's associate director Owen Horsley, who's in charge of …
We hope it isn't too late for Santa to receive these not-so-traditional Christmas wish lists from a dozen of LA's small theater companies. Most of these groups' venues lack chimneys, but…
Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande, 19, appears in the title role of A Snow White Christmas, a panto at Pasadena Playhouse. So far her career appears charmed, except for those agonizing red-carp…
Playwright Donald Margulies and director Bart DeLorenzo finally tie the gift bow on a legacy from the late Gil Cates, as Christmas on Coney Island opens this week at Geffen Playhouse. REA…
Jane Carr and Nicholas Hormann, who play the Bennet parents in LA Theatre Works' Pride and Prejudice, have been seeing American's "nooks and crannies" on the show's tour, which has temporari…
Gigi Bermingham is directing her first Antaeus production -- You Can't Take It With You. In some ways, she says, the eccentric family inside the play is like a close-knit family of the…
Unlike her male colleagues in The Full Monty, Shannon Warne won't have to take off all her clothes for her role in Third Street Theatre's revival. But she had to do so in Camelot at Pasadena…
Stephen Spinella, best known for his Angels in America roles, is now part of the US premiere of the Catalan-born play The Grönholm Method, at the Falcon. While director BT McNicholl is urgi…
