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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 this question to three women this week at TCG’s 50th anniversary annual conference. Here are their answers: MARSHA NORMAN, Pulitzer-Prize-winning [...]
It’s 8 p.m. on Thursday, the opening night of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) National Conference, and downtown Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is packed with stage professionals celebrating TCG’s 50th anniversary. But the conference’s closing keynote speaker—the big draw, The Get—director Julie Taymor is several blocks away in a sparsely filled, off-the-beaten-path movie theater [...]
Puppets — and menace — in the ballroom 2 Dimensional Life of Her, the first production of the RADAR L.A. International Festival of Contemporary Theater, might better qualify as experimental film than any conventional idea of theater. The show emerged from the solitary drawing practice of Australian artist Fleur Elise Noble with the urgency [...]
One of the most anticipated sessions taking place at the TCG conference was today’s playwriting workshop led by Marsha Norman. Last week in New York Norman helped celebrate the second-annual Lilly Awards, which she co-founded in 2010 with a group of theater professionals that included Julie Crosby, Julia Jordan and Theresa Rebeck to address the persistent [...]
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...]
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...]
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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