Engine 28 reporter Walter Ryce, on loan from the Monterey County Weekly, asks regular folks in downtown Los Angeles about their relationship to (or lack thereof) Los Angeles theater. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPSQrnEmqo&w=560&h=349] Walter RyceIf you like graphic novels, film, popular uprisings, urban hikes, horseplay, stage plays, John Adams or Philip Glass, city skylines, hip-hop, underground art [...]
Culture Clash’s Herbert Sigüenza: Theater, the Last Soapbox
June 19, 2011 By
The performances of the Latino comedy troupe Culture Clash range from sketches to full-length plays, charged with political and social satire. The company is known for its irreverent approach to topics ranging from social justice to Greek playwright Aristophanes’ The Birds. Culture Clash was founded in 1984 in San Francisco. The ensemble, now based in [...]
Action Plans: Three Women on Women in Theater
June 19, 2011 By
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 [...]
‘What If…?’
June 18, 2011 By
Theatre Communications Group celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. TCG is encouraging members to discuss the future of theater by exploring “what the field has achieved, the challenges we face in this moment, and where we hope theatre will be in 50 years.” The annual conference takes place this week in Los Angeles and the [...]
Press Is No-Show at Julie Taymor Q&A
June 18, 2011 By
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 [...]
Hers and His? Charting Theater’s Gender Gap
June 16, 2011 By
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 [...]
