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Action Plans: Three Women on Women in Theater

June 19, 2011 By Grace Suh

On every significant front — writers, directors, artistic directors, leading roles — the status of women in today's theater is in dire straits. What is to be done to redress the situation? I posed … [Read More...]

e28 Reality TV (It’s About Theatre!)

Reviews

Carl Kozlowski in "Asleep at the Wheel." Photo by: Walter Ryce

‘Asleep at the Wheel’: Waking Up

By Walter Ryce Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, review, Sunday, June 19

About a dozen people learned more about sleep apnea, narcolepsy and cataplexy than they might have reasonably expected on a Friday night at a Hollywood Boulevard bar/improv comedy club. They also … [Read More...]

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‘Julius Caesar’ on Fast-Forward: Podcast

By Kerry Lengel Filed Under: audio, Hollywood Fringe, review, Sunday, June 19

Orson Welles in 1937. Photo: Carl Van Vechten, courtesy Library of Congress   How do you make Shakespeare edgy enough for the Hollywood Fringe? You resurrect a 75-year-old script edited by a … [Read More...]

The survivalism experts of "How to Survive A Zombie Apocalypse" at the Hollywood Fringe. Photo: After Dark Entertainment

Does an Apocalypse Have To Be All Bad?

By Rachel Lee Harris Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, review, Sunday, June 19

A friend was recently at the playground with her children when a stranger began to explain in detail about how the end of the world was fast approaching. Talk about an uncomfortable conversation to … [Read More...]

Fringe: It’s In The Cards

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Sunday, June 19

What’s Up with Theater in Downtown L.A.?

By Walter Ryce Filed Under: commentary, Hollywood Fringe, RADARLA, scene, TCG, video

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Publisher’s Letter

By Sasha Anawalt Filed Under: about

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Editor’s Letter

By Jeff Weinstein Filed Under: about, Monday, June 20

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Lost Moon Radio, Episode 10: Fluent in Fringe

By Christopher Arnott Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, Monday, June 20, review

Larry Blum, the other guy in the room with the stars. Photo courtesy the artist.

BLINK and You Might Miss Me: A Fringe Film Career

By Christopher Arnott Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, review

The book-strewn set of Cowboy Mouth. Photo by Christopher Arnott

Cowboy Mouth at the Fringe: Cow Flop

By Christopher Arnott Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, review, Uncategorized

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Culture Clash’s Herbert Sigüenza: Theater, the Last Soapbox

By Laura Spencer Filed Under: Q&A, Sunday, June 19, symposium talks, TCG

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Spilling Your Guts in the Spotlight: A Podcast

By Nancy Fowler Filed Under: audio, feature, Hollywood Fringe, interview, Q&A, Sunday, June 19

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Action Plans: Three Women on Women in Theater

By Grace Suh Filed Under: interview, Q&A, Sunday, June 19, TCG

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‘Off Stage With Engine 28′: Pasadena Playhouse’s Sheldon Epps and Tate Donovan

By Jesse North Filed Under: Sunday, June 19, video

Mark Murphy, Diane Rodriguez, Olga Garay and Mark Russell (L-R) Photo by Julie Potter

RADAR L.A.: Experimental Mardi Gras

By Julie Potter Filed Under: feature, Monday, June 20, RADARLA

Carl Kozlowski in "Asleep at the Wheel." Photo by: Walter Ryce

‘Asleep at the Wheel’: Waking Up

By Walter Ryce Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, review, Sunday, June 19

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‘Julius Caesar’ on Fast-Forward: Podcast

By Kerry Lengel Filed Under: audio, Hollywood Fringe, review, Sunday, June 19

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Fringe: In the Cards for Magician Jon Armstrong

By Linda Fowler Filed Under: feature, Hollywood Fringe, Sunday, June 19, video

The survivalism experts of "How to Survive A Zombie Apocalypse" at the Hollywood Fringe. Photo: After Dark Entertainment

Does an Apocalypse Have To Be All Bad?

By Rachel Lee Harris Filed Under: Hollywood Fringe, review, Sunday, June 19

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It’s Not Over Yet: Asian-American Festival Keeps the Drama Going in LA

By Nancy Fowler Filed Under: Q&A, Sunday, June 19

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Family Dysfunction Fuels Hollywood Fringe

By Nancy Fowler Filed Under: commentary, feature, Hollywood Fringe, Sunday, June 19

Speaking youth to power: (from left) Viviani Valadez of Steppenwolf for Young Adults shares a sofa with Taylor Greenthal and Oscar Peña of Berkeley Rep Theatre's Teen Council

Speaking Youth to Power: The Next Theater Generation

By Ben Fulton Filed Under: feature, Q&A, Sunday, June 19, symposium talks

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Our ‘Spider-Man’ Entanglements

By Howie Shapiro Filed Under: commentary, review, Saturday, June 18, scene

Theatre Communications Group

‘What If…?’

By Laura Spencer Filed Under: interview, Q&A, Saturday, June 18, TCG, video

Saturday, June 18

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Our ‘Spider-Man’ Entanglements

June 18, 2011 By Howie Shapiro

Theatre Communications Group

‘What If…?’

June 18, 2011 By Laura Spencer

Latino Theater Company"Solitude"Photo: Courtesy the artist

‘Solitude’: Waxing Philosophical, Waning Into Tedium

June 18, 2011 By Kerry Lengel

La Razon Blindada at 24th Street Theatre. Photo courtesy of the theater.

Not Lost in Translation

June 18, 2011 By Ben Waterhouse

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Hall Passes: ‘I Never Sang for My Father’

June 18, 2011 By Lou Harry

Audiences members are invited to scrawl graffiti around a urinal before performances of Girl Band in the Men's Room.

Rock ‘n’ Roll All Night: Three Music-Fueled Shows at the Fringe

June 18, 2011 By Christopher Arnott

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Press Is No-Show at Julie Taymor Q&A

June 18, 2011 By Grace Suh

Krunk Fu Battle Battle at East West Players

‘Krunk Fu Battle Battle’: B-Boys, B-Girls, Be Charmed

June 18, 2011 By Martin Brady

(Photo Credit: Toru Yokota)

‘Hot Pepper’: Downsized Dance by Chelfitsch

June 18, 2011 By Anthony Byrnes

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‘Feeling Feeling’

June 17, 2011 By Maura Judkis

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want: ‘Another Effing Family Drama’

June 17, 2011 By Nancy Fowler

"Amarillo": Teatro L’inea de Sombra. Photo: Courtesy the artists.

‘Amarillo’ Climbs the Wall in Search of the Disenfranchised

June 17, 2011 By Christopher Arnott

The wreckage remaining from Thursday's explosion. Photo: Ben Waterhouse

Los Angeles Art Lovers Blown Away: ‘A Suicide Bombing by Invitation Only’

June 17, 2011 By Ben Waterhouse

RADARL.A.: It’s A Wrap

Mark Murphy, Diane Rodriguez, Olga Garay and Mark Russell (L-R) Photo by Julie Potter

RADAR L.A.: Experimental Mardi Gras

June 19, 2011 By Julie Potter

Remixing New York’s Under the Radar Festival for the West Coast, the RADAR L.A. Festival reflects a shift in contemporary theater, colliding international work with the Los Angeles theater scene. … [Read More...]

Q&A

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Spilling Your Guts in the Spotlight: A Podcast

June 19, 2011 By Nancy Fowler

You know that dream where you’re standing naked in front of an audience? For author/actor Summer “Rain” Sinclair, it’s a reality that’s happened three times this week. Sinclair strips … [Read More...]

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It’s Not Over Yet: Asian-American Festival Keeps the Drama Going in LA

June 19, 2011 By Nancy Fowler

Just when you thought Los Angeles’ June theater festivals were wrapping up, it turns out the fat lady has a lot more to see before she sings. As RADAR L.A. and the Theatre Communications Group … [Read More...]

Speaking youth to power: (from left) Viviani Valadez of Steppenwolf for Young Adults shares a sofa with Taylor Greenthal and Oscar Peña of Berkeley Rep Theatre's Teen Council

Speaking Youth to Power: The Next Theater Generation

June 18, 2011 By Ben Fulton

  Hallie Gordon, a Chicago theater professional who helped found and now oversees Steppenwolf Theatre Company's program promoting theater among youth, delivered what might become the most … [Read More...]

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Douglas McLennan’s June 16 Talk at the TCG Conference

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Friday, June 17

"State of Incarceration."

‘State of Incarceration’: Locked Up, and a Little Locked Out

June 17, 2011 By Laura Spencer

The set of 'Titus Redux' prior to the show.

‘Titus Redux’ Review and Impressions

June 17, 2011 By Walter Ryce

Jack Stehlin, lead actor and co-producer of "Titus Redux"

Stehlin on ‘Titus’: Finding Narrative in Abstraction

June 17, 2011 By Ben Fulton

One of the beauties of 'The Car Plays', this antique Ford is parked atop the REDCAT garage overlooking the LA Courthouse.

Backseat Drivers: How Moving Arts Ignites ‘The Car Plays’

June 17, 2011 By Maura Judkis

"Pretty Ronnie" Walker in the lobby of his building.

Pretty Ronnie’s ‘State of Incarceration’

June 17, 2011 By Rebecca Milzoff

Welcome to the funhouse: A Fringe sidelight

Four Women in One Night: How I Dived Into the Hollywood Fringe

June 17, 2011 By David Timberline

First Take: The Method Gun

June 16, 2011 By Laura Spencer

"Titus Redux" is co-produced by the New American Theatre and Not Man Apart - Physical Theatre Ensemble.  Photo: Ed Krieger

Relentless: ‘Titus Redux’

June 16, 2011 By Ben Fulton

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Rectangular Anger: ’2 Dimensional Life of Her’

June 16, 2011 By Grace Suh

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Hers and His? Charting Theater’s Gender Gap

June 16, 2011 By Grace Suh

Miwa Matreyek "Myth and Infrastructure" Photo: Scott Groller

Sometimes It Rains Apples: ‘Ground to Cloud,’ ‘Myth and Infrastructure’

June 15, 2011 By Martin Brady

Thursday, June 16

‘Can We Cause a Revolution?’ Theater Pros React to ‘Neva’ Opening Night at REDCAT [VIDEO]

June 16, 2011 By Rachel Lee Harris

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’2 Dimensional Life of Her,’ Revisited

June 16, 2011 By Kathryn Osenlund

(Photo Credit: Kathi Kacinski)

‘The Method Gun’: Rude Mechs Leap, Moving Us

June 16, 2011 By Anthony Byrnes

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Postmodern Shakespeare, Four Plays, Four Ways

June 16, 2011 By Kerry Lengel

Playbill art by Jeff G. Rack for Wicked Lit's production of "A Ghost Story"

Fear and Brooding: Twain’s ‘Ghost Story’

June 16, 2011 By Ben Fulton

Sudanese actor Ali Mahdi brings the RADAR L.A. crowd to its feet.

RADAR L.A. Symposium on Theater’s Future: An Idea Plus Terror

June 16, 2011 By David Timberline

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Waiting for Furlough: The Existential Drama of ‘Brewsie and Willie’

June 15, 2011 By David Timberline

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Steinspeak: ‘Brewsie and Willie’

June 15, 2011 By Christopher Arnott

As You Are Now So Once Were We. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Cube Farm: ‘as you are now so once were we’

June 15, 2011 By Ben Waterhouse

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Gallery Piece?: ’2 Dimensional Life of Her’

June 15, 2011 By Maura Judkis

Age Old Question

I Did it My Way: Alix Angelis in "Rock in Her Pocket"

Is L.A. Theater Just for N.Y. Actors?

June 18, 2011 By David Timberline

The tired question "Is L.A. a theater town?" was quickly dismissed at a panel discussion hosted by the L.A. Times' Culture Monster last week. (Of course it is.)  The harder question was about … [Read More...]

From the e28 Blogs

And Another Thing: Theater Joke Countdown #5-3
After a Fringe binge, the postmortem begins
Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
Earnest rock & roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth wants more in the rock dept
Twist: A review–and a musical–in progress
Let’s Put On A Show: ‘Re-Animator’ and DIY Theater
Oh, and there’s another show in town…
Podcast debate: ‘The Last Five Years’
Is There Life After the Fringe? (Video Interview)
Riveting Talk Breaks the Locks in La Razón Blindada
We bring you the following disruption
Arab spring comes to Los Angeles’ theater festival summer
Blood Brothers
Spring Awakening: What’s in a Song? Or The Franzen Factor
Paul F. Tompkins Takes to the Stage to Take to the Air
TVK: Outrageous and appealingly smarty-pants
A Chorus of Anticipation at TCG Registration
Working Out Working-Class Drama
A Theater Marketer’s Rant
Julie Taymor Says: Don’t Tweet On Me
And Another Thing: Theater Joke Countdown #6
5 Things: Chelfitsch
5 Reasons Why L.A. Theatre Works Deserves More Serious Recognition
Pure Shock Value rocks Hollywood Fringe [Film]
Guillermo Calderon Explains Neva’s Unconventional Lighting
What Is Radar LA About?
5 Things: Mistakes New Theater Companies Make
The Hollywood Fringe 1-woman show picker
‘Born Again Bohemian’: Fatherless Child Saves Herself
Michael Jackson, Obama and Identity – podcast
NEA’s Ralph Remington on Race – podcast
Engine28 Quiz: Comedy or Theatre?
Gay, Black and Kind of Funny
What Is the Fringe About?
5 Things about RADAR Festival’s Titus Redux by The New American Theatre & Not Man Apart
The Car Plays: Jersey Turnpike
5 Things about Ground to Cloud and 5 Things about Myth and Infrastructure
And Another Thing: Theater joke countdown #7
Devised Theatre: A Director’s Perspective
A Prisoner’s Meal Fit for an Audience
5 Things: Playwriting Tips from Marsha Norman
Another Voice on “The Method Gun”
To video or not to video, that is the question
Director piggybacks promotion with TCG video jacket
McLennan talks; Twitter responds
The Projects and Proposals Poker Game
And Another Thing…: Theatre Joke Countdown #8
Help me help you: a theater critic’s appeal
On RADAR: Actor Clayton Farris
The Shows of the Hollywood Fringe, Mapped
Two-Gun Method
Manifesto Moments
And Another Thing: The two Mark Russells
5 Things: Diane Rodriguez on why L.A. is a theater town
And Another Thing…Theatre Joke Countdown #9
5 Things: Great Lines from Teatro en Blanco’s Neva
Shut up and do the work
Theater in Unusual Nooks, Crannies and Ballrooms
And Another Thing …: Filling in the Beth Henley Blank
And Another Thing…: Theater Joke Countdown #10
And Another Thing…: Is L.A. a Theater Town?
And Another Thing…: How Far Flung is LA Theater?
Begging the Question
Forget about the NEA: theater companies plan for the worst
Know before you go: “Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and The Farewell Speech” Chelfistch
90% of the theater scene, but too small to be noticed
Can LA handle the “greatness thrust upon it”?

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Debby Ryan, star of Disney's Jessie (Photo: Disney promotional photo)

Waiting for ‘Jessie,’ the Toughest Ticket in Town

By Jenny Lawton Filed Under: feature, scene, Sunday, June 19

Ninety minutes until curtain. The queue of ticketholders extends halfway down the block, three-deep. Most shows at the Hollywood Fringe performance festival just up the street would kill for a line … [Read More...]

Commentary

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Family Dysfunction Fuels Hollywood Fringe

By Nancy Fowler Filed Under: commentary, feature, Hollywood Fringe, Sunday, June 19

If you’ve never hated the family that you also love, stand up. Now sit down, preferably in some water, because your pants are probably on fire. Almost all of us have, well, complicated … [Read More...]

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  • And Another Thing: Theater Joke Countdown #5-3 June 22, 2011
    The end is near: Here are three more installment in the seemingly neverending series. Enjoy. 5. Q: How many non-union stagehands does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Two. One to hold it and the other to hammer it in. 4. A theatrical agent is walking down Broadway late one night when he […]
    Lou Harry
  • After a Fringe binge, the postmortem begins June 20, 2011
    Overheard Sunday night at the Hollywood Fringe: “We had about 12 (in the audience). Not bad!” And everything being relative, it wasn’t bad. An even dozen was my count at Theatre Asylum earlier in the evening when I started my Fringe binge with Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth – although three of us were from Engine28.com. […]
    Kerry Lengel
  • Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing June 20, 2011
    They don’t call them “fringe” festivals for nothing. With titles like I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You, the 2011 Hollywood Fringe looks packed with theatrical land mines. One misstep and…kabloowie! Take the LA-based comedy trio Sound & Fury’s Spaceship Man, a simply ghastly 70 minutes of self-indulgence that makes water-boarding [.. […]
    Martin Brady
  • Earnest rock & roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth wants more in the rock dept June 20, 2011
      Cowboy Mouth, written by Sam Shepard with assistance from Patti Smith at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC in 1971, presents their love affair writ in metaphor in a one-act play that rocks, or in this case, should rock. Slim (Shepard character) is obsessively drawn to Cavale (Smith character), who hijacks his secret fantasy of […]
    Kathryn Osenlund
  • Twist: A review–and a musical–in progress June 20, 2011
    Pasadena Playhouse calls Twist a new musical. But the Prohibition era, New Orleans-set permutation of Oliver Twist actually has been in development since the ‘90s. Back then, I caught a promising fully staged version at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and was intrigued to see how it has evolved, now under the directorial/choreographic supervision [ […]
    Lou Harry
  • Let’s Put On A Show: ‘Re-Animator’ and DIY Theater June 20, 2011
    Last night, I witnessed a beheading, a few murders and a couple of accidental deaths.  Bloody entrails, too, including an unraveled intestine that squirted blood all over me. I never believed these gory acts were real (though I do hope the fake blood will come out of my clothes).  Still, I won’t soon forget seeing […]
    Rebecca Milzoff
  • Oh, and there’s another show in town… June 20, 2011
    There are several popular mythologies about theater audiences. Some people say that big splashy tours build general excitement for in theater, theoretically increasing interest in events like RADAR L.A. and Hollywood Fringe. But a quick poll of people attending “Les Miserables” at the Ahmanson Theater on Sunday paints a different picture. Or maybe it’s just […]
    David Timberline
  • Podcast debate: ‘The Last Five Years’ June 20, 2011
    It’s the battle of the sexes, waged over the Jason Robert Brown musical The Last Five Years. Cathy and Jamie meet cute, fall in love, get married and then fall apart. But who is to blame for their unhappily-ever-after? Help Engine 28 decide. [soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color […]
    Maura Judkis
  • Is There Life After the Fringe? (Video Interview) June 19, 2011
    In Summer “Rain” Sinclair’s Born Again Bohemian, a personal story of shedding parental baggage, the playwright’s mom dismisses the absence of Sinclair’s hippie-dippie dad, saying, “We have plans for our life, Summer, and they don’t include him.” Eventually, the plans of a grown-up Sinclair do include the man she calls Dadio. And after her Hollywood […]
    Nancy Fowler
  • Riveting Talk Breaks the Locks in La Razón Blindada June 19, 2011
    Inspired by the experience of playwright/director Aristides Vargas’ brother, a political prisoner of the Argentine dictatorship, La Razon Blindada (“Armored Reason”) is an extraordinary meditation on the endurance of human creativity in the face of hopelessness. In Rawson prison, a desolate Patagonian pen where the government stashed anyone who dared questio […]
    Ben Waterhouse

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