An (incomplete) archive of my column from Back Stage West.
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July 17, 2003
June 26, 2003
June 19, 2003
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May 29, 2003
May 22, 2003
May 15, 2003
April 24, 2003
April 17, 2003
March 20, 2003
March 13, 2003
March 6, 2003
February 27, 2003
February 6, 2003
January 30, 2003
January 23, 2003
January 16, 2003
January 9, 2003
December 19, 2002
Nov. 21, 2002
Nov. 7, 2002
Oct. 24, 2002
Sept. 26, 2002
Sept. 12, 2002
August 29, 2002
August 15, 2002
August 1, 2002
July 18, 2002
July 4, 2002
June 20, 2002
June 6, 2002
May 23, 2002
May 9, 2002
April 25, 2002
April 11, 2002
March 28, 2002
March 14, 2002
February 28, 2002
February 14, 2002
January 31, 2002
January 17, 2002
January 10, 2002
January 3, 2002
Sept. 20, 2001
Sept. 6, 2001
August 23, 2001
August 9, 2001
July 26, 2001
July 12, 2001
June 28, 2001
June 14, 2001
May 31, 2001
May 17, 2001
May 3, 2001
April 19, 2001
April 12, 2001
April 5, 2001
March 29, 2001
March 22, 2001
Aug 1, 2005
Reviews
NEW YORK
The Accidental Pervert at the Triad Theatre
Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story at the Michael Weller Theatre
All's Well That Ends Well, Theater for a New Audience at the Duke Theatre
Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver at the Promenade Theater
Almost, Maine at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise at the Culture Project
American Sligo at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
Apartment 3A at the ArcLight Theatre
The Ark at 37 Arts
The Art of Love at Theater for the New City
Artefacts Brits Off Broadway at 59E59
Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos... or What Am I Doing Here? at the Flea Theater
The Audition at the Wings Theatre
August: Osage County at the Imperial Theatre
Back Back Back at Manhattan Theatre Club
Back of the Throat at the Flea Theatre
The Banger's Flopera at the Barrow Arts Center
Barefoot in the Park at the Cort Theatre
Bash'd at the Zipper Theatre
Basic Training at the Barrow Street Playhouse
Beauty of the Father, Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center Stage II
Belly of a Drunken Piano at the Huron Club at Soho Playhouse
Bernarda Alba, Lincoln Center Theatre at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
Bingo at the Theater at St. Luke's
Bingo With the Indians at the Flea Theatre
Blue Door at Playwrights Horizons
Bluff at the 78th Street Theatre Lab
A Body of Water at Primary Stages
The Book of Mormon at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Bridge and Tunnel at the Helen Hayes Theatre
Brundibar at the New Victory Theatre
Burleigh Grime$ at New World Stages
Bury the Dead, Transport Group at the Connelly Theatre
But I'm a Cheerleader at the Theater at St. Clements
Cagelove at Rattlestick Theatre
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Caligula, Horizon Theatre Rep at the Kirk Theatre
Cloud Tectonics at the Culture Project
The Color Purple at the Broadway Theatre
Columbinus at New York Theatre Workshop
Conjur Woman at LaMaMa e.t.c.
Cymbeline at BAM's Harvey Theatre
Dawn at the Flea Theatre
Dear Dubya: Patriotic Love Letters to Whitehouse.org at the Brick Theatre
Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine at Playwrights Horizons
Doubt at the Walter Kerr Theatre
Drug Buddy at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Dust at the Westside Theatre
The Eisteddfod at the Ontological Theater
Electra, National Theatre of Greece at City Center
Emergence-SEE! at the Public Theatre
The English Channel at the Abingdon Theatre Center
Explicit Vows at the Flea Theatre
Fair Game at the Lion Theatre
Faith Healer at the Booth Theatre
Family Secrets at 37 Arts
Faust, Target Margin Theatre at the Classic Stage Company
Festen at the Music Box Theatre
A Fiddler on the Roof at the Minskoff Theatre
Five Kinds of Silence at Teatro Círculo
The Flood at the American Theatre of Actors
Follies at the Marriot Marquis Theatre
Freshwater, SITI Company at the Women's Project Julia Miles Theatre
Fuerzabruta at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Geometry of Fire at the Rattlestick Theatre
Godspell at Circle in the Square
Good People at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Guardians at the Culture Project
The Hairy Ape at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre
Hercules in High Suburbia at the Mazer Theater
The History Boys at the Broadhurst Theatre
Holy Cross Sucks! at Ars Nova
Hoodoo Love at the Cherry Lane Theatre
The House in Town, Lincoln Center Theatre at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
The House of the Spirits at Repertorio Español
Illyria, Prospect Theatre Company at the Hudson Guild Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest at BAM's Harvey Theatre
In Paradise and She Plundered Him, INTAR at the Cherry Lane Theatre
In the Continuum at the Perry Street Theater
Isabelle and the Pretty-Ugly Spell at the Lion Theatre
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Zipper Theatre
Jay Johnson: The Two and Only at the Helen Hayes Theatre
J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera at the 45th Street Theatre
Johnny Applef?%ker, Ice Factory at the Ohio Theatre
Johnny on a Spot, Peccadillo Theatre Company at the Theatre at St. Clements
The Joke at Studio Dante
The Joy Luck Club, Pan Asian Rep at the Julia Miles Theater
King Lear at the Classical Theatre of Harlem
Kismet, Encores! at City Center
Klonsky and Schwartz at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen at Ace of Clubs
Len, Asleep in Vinyl at Second Stage's McGinn/Cazale Theatre
Lestat at the Palace Theatre
Letting Go of God at Ars Nova
The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Atlantic Theater Company
The Lifeblood at the Connelly Theatre
The Lightning Field at the Flea Theatre
The Little Dog Laughed at the Second Stage
Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live! at the Brick Theatre
Love Sick at the Access Theatre
Lower Ninth at the Flea Theatre
Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest at PS 122
Macbeth at the Delacorte Theatre, Central Park
The Man in My Head at the 45th Street Theatre
Marathon 30 "Series B" at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
Marathon 30 "Series C" at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Measure for Measure at St. Ann's Warehouse
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dog Run Rep at Seaport!
The Miracle Worker at Circle in the Square
Miss America, Split Britches at LaMaMa E.T.C.
Missives at 59E59
Monk at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Moscow Cats Theatre at the Lamb's Theatre
The Mother*** With the Hat at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Motke Thief at University Settlement Theater
The Music Teacher at the Minetta Lane Theatre
My Deah at the Abingdon Theatre
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way at the American Airlines Theatre
Nerds at the Samuel Beckett Theatre
Nickel and Dimed, 3Graces Theater Co. at the Bank Street Theater
The Night of the Hunter at 37 Arts
Night Over Taos, Intar at Theatre for the New City
1965UU at the Chocolate Factory
No Child..." at the Barrow Street Theatre
None of the Above at the Lion Theatre
The Odd Couple at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of Thee I Sing, Encores! at City Center
The Ohio State Murders, Theatre for a New Audience at the Duke at 42nd Street
On the Line at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Outside Inn at 59E59
The Pajama Game at the American Airlines Theatre
Pied-à-Terre at the Kirk Theatre
Queens Boulevard (the musical) at the Signature Theatre
Rabbit Hole at the Biltmore Theatre
Rag and Bone at the Rattlestick Theatre
Richard Cory at the Lion Theatre
The Right Kind of People, Primary Stages at 59E59
Ring of Fire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Rites of Privacy at Urban Stages
The Ritz at Studio 54
Rock Doves at the Irish Arts Center
The Ruby Sunrise at the Public Theatre
Ruined, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II
A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, Primary Stages at 59E59
School of the Americas at the Public Theatre
Seascape at the Booth Theatre
Secret Order at 59E59
See What I Wanna See at the Public Theater
The Sensuous Woman at The Zipper Theatre
The Seven at New York Theatre Workshop
70, Girls, 70, Encores! at City Center
Shakedown Street at the Village Theatre
Shining City at the Biltmore Theatre
Show People at the Second Stage
Silence! at the Lucille Lortel
Sive at Irish Repertory Theatre
A Soldier's Play at the Second Stage
Some Girls, MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Sore Throats at the Duke Theatre
Southern Comforts, Primary Stages at 59E59
Southern Promises at PS 122
Spain, MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Speech & Debate at the Roundabout Underground
Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theater Company
The Stones at the Duke Theatre
Stuff Happens at the Public Theatre
Surviving David at the Flea Theatre
Sweeney Todd at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Tales of an Urban Indian at the Public Theatre
Tarzan at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
Theatre Is Dead and So Are You, Stolen Chair at the Connelly Theatre
Thick at Collective: Unconscious
Three Days of Rain at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Three Mo' Tenors at the Little Shubert Theatre
The Threepenny Opera at Studio 54
Till the Break of Dawn, Culture Project at the Abrons Arts Center
The Timekeepers at Barrow Group Theatre
Time Stands Still, Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
A Touch of the Poet at Studio 54
Tony Awards telecast
The Tooth of Crime at LaMama
The Trip to Bountiful at the Signature Theatre Company
Trouble in Paradise at the Hudson Guild Theatre
Trumpery at the Atlantic Theatre Company
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother at Ars Nova
Uncle Jed's Barbershop at the Theatre at St. Clement's
Urban Death, Zombie Joe's Underground at the Players Theatre
A View From 151st Street, LAByrinth Theatre Company at the Public Theatre
View From the Bridge at the Cort
The Voyage of the Carcass at SoHo Rep Playhouse
Waiting for Godot at the Theatre at St. Clement's
Waiting for Godot, The Gate Theatre of Dublin at NYU's Skirball Center
Walk Two Moons at the Lucille Lortel
War at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
War Horse at the Vivian Beaumount Theatre
The Water's Edge at Second Stage
The Wedding Singer at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
White Noise at TBG Theatre
Wild Women of Planet Wongo at the Samuel Beckett Theater
The Winter's Tale at the BAM Harvey Theater
The Wolves in the Walls at the New Victory Theatre
The Woman in White at the Marriott Marquis
Yohen, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre at West End Theatre
You Wanna Piece of Me? at Ace of Clubs
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Henry IV, Part I, Cymbeline, and The Comedy of Errors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Summer 1998 (see also this feature)
The Quality of Mercy A spring 2001 survey
Fall of Troy A fall 2001 survey
OSF's Off Season A summer 2002 report
Firing the Canon An "Actors We Love" tribute to the OSF company, particularly Derrick Lee Weeden
Full of Grace "Actors We Love" tribute to Suzanne Irving
Crumbs From the Table of Joy at the Black Swan
Pericles at the Angus Bowmer Theatre
Rosmersholm at the Black Swan
Stop Kiss at the Black Swan
Tongue of a Bird at the Black Swan
The Trojan Women at the Angus Bowmer Theatre
HUMANA FEST 2003
Shock of the New The official feature
Wicked Stage, Apr. 17, 2003 The dish
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Abingdon Square at the Open Fist
Accomplice at the Colony Theatre
Acme Love Machine at the Acme Comedy Theatre
Aftershocks at the Colony Theatre
After the Bomb at the Open Fist Theatre
After the Fall at the Fountain Theatre
All My Sons at A Noise Within
All Saint's Day at Theatre of NOTE
Amelia Bedelia, Serendipity Theatre Co. at the Coronet Theatre
Among The Thugs at the Odyssey Theatre
Amy's View at South Coast Repertory
Angels in America at the NoHo Arts Center
Anna in the Tropics at the Pasadena Playhouse
The Architect of Destiny at the Zephyr
Around the World in a Bad Mood at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse
Assassins at the Merton G. Wray Theatre
As Vishnu Dreams at East West Players
The Author's Thumb at Theatre Unlimited
Baal at 2nd Stage
Bea[u]tiful in the Extreme at the Colony Theatre
Bed and Sofa at International City Theatre
Beijing Spring at East West Players
The Big Ever After at the Ark Theatre
Big River at the Ahmanson Theatre
The Birds at South Coast Rep
Blithe Spirit at the Globe Playhouse
Blood Wedding, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Blue Surge at Third Street Theatre
Brecht on Brecht at the Odyssey Theatre
Buddy at Long Beach Terrace Theatre
Bus Stop at Fremont Centre Theatre
Butter at [Inside] the Ford
Broken Hearts, Cornerstone at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Cahuenga Passages at Theatre of NOTE
Career at the Ruskin Group Theatre Company
Caroline, or Change at the Ahmanson Theatre
Catch-22 at West Coast Ensemble
Chekhov x 4 at NewPlace Theatre
The Cherry Orchard at South Coast Repertory
Chicago at the Pantages Theatre
A Christmas Carol at International City Theatre
A Christmas Carol at South Coast Rep
A Clockwork Orange, Ark Theatre Company at the Whitefire Theatre
The Collected Plays of Justin Tanner at the Cast Theatre
A Comfortable Truth at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Center
Coming to Life at the Fremont Center Theatre
Company at the Freud Playhouse
Conquest of the North Pole at the Odyssey Theatre
Continental Divide at La Jolla Playhouse
The Contract, Laurelgrove Theatre Company at the Hollywood Court Theatre
The cosmonaut's last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union at the Open Fist Theatre
Counsellor-at-Law at the Interact Theatre
The Cradle Will Rock, Blank Theatre Company at the Off Ramp Theatre
The Cross in the Mirror at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Cyrano de Bergerac at the Knightsbridge Theatre
Dance of the Mayfly at the Attic Theatre
Dark Rapture at the Evidence Room
The Days When Cocaine Was King at the American Renegade
Dealing With Clair at the Matrix Theatre
Death and the Maiden at the Mark Taper Forum
Death, or the Playground at the Stella Adler Theatre
Deconstructing the Torah at the Odyssey
Definitely Doris: The Music of Doris Day at the Falcon Theatre
Design for Living at A Noise Within
Diary of a Madman at the Odyssey Theatre
Disappearing Act at the Hudson Guild Theatre
The Dock Brief at the Fremont Center Theatre
Don Juan in Chicago at the Sacred Fools Theatre
Don Juan Tenorio at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Dorian at the NoHo Arts Center
Doubt at the Pasadena Playhouse
The Duchess of Malfi at Theatre of NOTE
Duel at Hollywood Court Theatre
Dust at Company of Angels
Dying for Laughs at Santa Monica Playhouse
A Dysfunctional Family Cruise at the Found Theatre
Eat Me at Theatre of NOTE
Ecstasy at the Odyssey Theatre
18 Arrests, No Convictions at the Court Theatre
Electra at A Noise Within
Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum
Enchanted April at the Pasadena Playhouse
Erotic Curtsies, Bottom's Dream at Ivy Substation
Everything's Turning Into Beautiful at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre
Eyes for Consuela at Cal State L.A.
Face 2 Face, Los Angeles Rep at the Veterans Memorial Bldg.
Falsettos, Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theatre
Fame, the Musical at the Alex Theatre
The Family Room at the Powerhouse Theatre
Faust at the La Jolla Playhouse
Fawlty Towers at Theatre Geo
The Fever, Wolfskill at Cafe Metropol
A Few Good Men at Third Stage
Finer Noble Gases at Sacred Fools
The Four Dervishes, Ghost Road Company at 24th Street Theatre
The Four Postmen at the Stella Adler Theatre
Freedomland at Sidewalk Studios
Fully Committed at the El Portal
Funny..., Blank Theatre Comnpany at 2nd Stage
Galileo at Brand Park
The Gary Plays, Padua Playwrights at the Electric Lodge
Gaveston, Favourite of the King at the Celebration Theatre
Gem of the Ocean at the Mark Taper Forum
A Gift From Heaven at Beverly Hills Playhouse
The Goat at the Mark Taper Forum
Golden Prospects at the Powerhouse Theatre
A Good Soldier at the Odyssey Theatre
The Good Woman of Setzuan at the Odyssey Theatre
Green Icebergs at South Coast Repertory
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at the Mark Taper Forum
Groundlings Box Set
Guantanamera at Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Gunmetal Blues at the Colony Theatre
The Guys at the Actors' Gang
Hamlet, Wooster Group at the Public Theatre
Happy End at the Group Repertory Theatre
Harry Heart and the Greatest Jug Band. . . Ever and On the Ranch at the Ivar Brick Box Theatre
Haunt at the Complex
Heartbreak House at the Colony Studio Theatre
Henry IV, Part I, Circle X at Shakespeare/LA
Henry IV, Part I, Classical Theatre Lab at Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park
Holy Days at Theatre 40
Homebody/Kabul at the Mark Taper Forum
The House of Bernarda Alba, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Hysteria at the Actors' Gang
An Ideal Husband at the Colony Studio Theatre
If Only... at the Globe Playhouse
Imelda at East West Players
In the Land of the Giants at the 2nd Stage
The Inside Job, Padua Playwrights at 2100 Square Feet
Into the Woods, Actors Co-op at the Crossley Theatre
It's Later Than You Think at Theatre of NOTE
Ivona, Princess of Burgundia at Sacred Fools
Johnny Boy at the Falcon Theatre
Julius Caesar at A Noise Within
Jungle of Cities at City Garage
Juvenilia at Gardner Stages
Kate Crackernuts at the 24th Street Theatre
The King and I at the Pantages Theatre (and a letter in response)
Kismet, Reprise! at the Freud Playhouse
The Knights of Mary Phagan at Theatre 68 (scroll down)
La Boheme at the Ahmanson Theatre
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at the Fountain Theatre
Letting Go of God at the Hudson Backstage
Liberty! at [Inside] the Ford
Lights at Actors Co-op
The Lion King at the Pantages Theatre
The Lion in Winter at Theatre 40
Little Mary Sunshine, Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors at the Ahmanson Theatre
Lobby Hero at the Odyssey Theatre
Los Biombos/The Screens, Cornerstone at the East LA Skills Center
Los Vecinos: A Play for Neighbors, Cornerstone at the CSO Building
Lydia in Bed at Theatre of NOTE
Lydie Breeze at the Open Fist
Lysistrata at the Whitefire Theatre
Macbeth at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Madly, in Love at the Odyssey Theatre
Mad Vincent at the Odessa Theatre
Mall America, Theatre Neo at the Stella Adler Theatre
Marley's Ghost, Circle X at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
The Marriage of Figaro, L.A. Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Master Class at the Fountain Theatre
M Butterfly at East West Players
Measure for Measure, S.O.B. Theatre Company at Theatre/Theater
Medal of Honor Rag at the Egyptian Arena Theatre
Melancholy Play, Echo Theatre Company at the Hayworth Theatre
Merrily We Roll Along at East West Players
Messalina at the Evidence Room
Midnight Brainwash Revival at Sacred Fools Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Knightsbridge Theatre
Mirror Mirror at 24th Street Theatre
The Misanthrope, Circus Theatricals at the Odyssey Theatre
The Miser at A Noise Within
Miss Margarida's Way at the Zephyr Theatre
Miss Saigon at the Pantages Theatre
Mixed Messages at East West Players
Molly Sweeney at the Eclectic Company Theatre
Monk at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Monstrosity at Theatre of NOTE
Mother'Son at the Met Theatre
My Favorite Year, Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre
My Uncle Sam at Sacred Fools
Naked Breath at Highways
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way at South Coast Repertory
Nat Turner at Casa 0101
Neurotica at the Hudson Guild Theatre
Never Tell at the Elephant Theatre
A New War at Theatre 68
'Night, Mother at Deaf West Theatre
The Nina Variations at Company Rep
Nobody Walks Like My Daddy at the 4305 Village Theatre
Nothing But the Truth at the Mark Taper Forum
The Oedipus Tree at Plummer Park Auditorium
The Offering at the Riprap Studio Theatre
Oleanna at the Tiffany Theatre
Oleanna at the Third Stree Theatre
Once on This Island at th e Internatonal City Theatre
110 Degrees in the Shade at the Pasadena Playhouse
Only the Dead Know Burbank at the Hudson Theatre
The Orange Grove, Playwrights Arena at Lutheran Church of the Master
Orpheus Descending at Pacific Resident Theatre
The Other Shore, S.O.B. Theatre Company at Theatre/Theater
Ourselves Alone at Gardner Stages
Out Loud at Edgemar Center for the Arts
Pacific Overtures at East West Players
A Pair by Moliere: The Wise-Ass Women and the Man-Hater at Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park
Parade of Strange Images at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Passing, Towne Street Theatre at the Stella Adler Theatre
Peach Blossom Fan at REDCAT
Peter Pan at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
Pharmacopeia, Shock and Awe at Evidence Room
The Physicists at the Harman Avenue Theatre
The Pink Dress at the Japanese American National Museum
Play Strindberg at Company Rep
Play Without Words at the Ahmanson Theatre
The Possession o Mrs. Jones at the Zephyr Theatre
The Price at A Noise Within
The Producers at the Pantages Theatre
Properties of Silence, About Productions at 2100 Square Feet
The Queen of Sheba, Unity Players at the Stella Adler Theatre
Racing Demon, Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theatre
Ragtime, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center
Ragtime, Musical Theater West at the Carpenter Center
Raree at Theatre/Theater
Red Light Green Light at Theatre of NOTE
Riches at the Court Theatre
Roar of the Crowd at Theatre 40
Robert Johnson Trick the Devil at Group Repertory Theatre
Roberta, Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre
Romeo and Juliet at The Theatre @ Boston Court, and a letter in response
Room at the Met Theatre
The Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre
Ruthless! The Musical at the Hudson Mainstage
San Fran Scapin at the New Place Theatre
Sarita at the Labor Temple
School for Scandal at the Mark Taper Forum
The Seagull at A Noise Within
The Seagull at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
The Secret Rapture at Theatre 40
sex, lies, and videotape at the Next Stage
The Shaggs at [Inside] the Ford
She Loves Me, Musical Theatre West at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Shel's Shorts at Kuttingroom
The Shore, Ensemble Studio Theatre--The L.A. Project at Stage 52
The Taming of the Shrew at the Orpheum Theatre
Side Man at the Malibu Stage Company
Six Characters Looking for an Author at the Odyssey Theatre
Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum
Sleuth at the Falcon Theatre
The Smoke and Ice Follies at the Road Theatre
Sonnyville at the Lex Theatre
Sonomabitch at the Patrick Apparel Int'l Fashion Warehouse
Sperm at the 24th Street Theatre
Spite for Spite at the New Place Theatre
Splendor at the Evidence Room
Stones in His Pockets at the Mark Taper Forum
A Streetcar Named Desire at South Coast Repertory
Stuff Happens at the Mark Taper Forum (two reviews; click each word)
Sweeney Todd at East West Players
Swimming in the Shallows at the 3rd Street Theatre
The Talking Cure at the Mark Taper Forum, and a Counterpunch column in response
The Tent Show at the Cast-at-the-Circle Theatre
Teshuvah, Return at the Tamarind Theatre
Texarkana Waltz at the Los Angeles Playhouse
They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?, About Productions at the Luckman Intimate Theatre
This Lime Tree Bower at Gardner Stages
Tirade for Three and The Definite Child, Oxblood at Glaxa Studios
Tongue of a Bird at the Mark Taper Forum
Topdog/Underdog at the Mark Taper Forum
Tougher Than Grace at King King Club
Translations at the Actors' Co-op
The Triumph of Love at Hollyhock House
True Story at the Coronet Theatre
Twelfth Night at Actors' Co-op
Twelfth Night at Company Rep
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare LA at Pershing Square
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Independent Shakespeare Company at Hollyhock House
Under the Moon at the American Renegade Theatre
Venus in Orange at the Victory Theatre
Waiting for Lefty at the Downtown Playhouse
Waving Goodbye, Syzygy Theatre Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Western Big Sky at the Met Theatre
What Are You, Deaf? at Company Rep
What the Butler Saw, Theater Banshee at the Gene Bua Theatre
What the Night Is For at the Laguna Playhouse
The Who's Tommy at the Universal Amphitheatre
Who's Afraid of Uta Hagen? at the Haunted Studios
A Woman's Worth at the Orpheum Theatre
Women of Manhattan at the Little Victory Theatre
Wonder of the World at West Coast Ensemble
Yellow Flesh/Alabaster Rose at Theatre of NOTE
Yes Is for a Very Young Man at the Interact Theatre
Yield of the Long Bond at the Matrix Theatre
You Can't Take It With You at the Geffen Playhouse
Yours, Lulu: Broadway to Berlin at Theater/Theatre
Zones, Cornerstone Theater Company at the Vedanta Society
FILM
The Producers
Rent
The Accidental Pervert at the Triad Theatre
Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story at the Michael Weller Theatre
All's Well That Ends Well, Theater for a New Audience at the Duke Theatre
Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver at the Promenade Theater
Almost, Maine at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise at the Culture Project
American Sligo at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
Apartment 3A at the ArcLight Theatre
The Ark at 37 Arts
The Art of Love at Theater for the New City
Artefacts Brits Off Broadway at 59E59
Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos... or What Am I Doing Here? at the Flea Theater
The Audition at the Wings Theatre
August: Osage County at the Imperial Theatre
Back Back Back at Manhattan Theatre Club
Back of the Throat at the Flea Theatre
The Banger's Flopera at the Barrow Arts Center
Barefoot in the Park at the Cort Theatre
Bash'd at the Zipper Theatre
Basic Training at the Barrow Street Playhouse
Beauty of the Father, Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center Stage II
Belly of a Drunken Piano at the Huron Club at Soho Playhouse
Bernarda Alba, Lincoln Center Theatre at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
Bingo at the Theater at St. Luke's
Bingo With the Indians at the Flea Theatre
Blue Door at Playwrights Horizons
Bluff at the 78th Street Theatre Lab
A Body of Water at Primary Stages
The Book of Mormon at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Bridge and Tunnel at the Helen Hayes Theatre
Brundibar at the New Victory Theatre
Burleigh Grime$ at New World Stages
Bury the Dead, Transport Group at the Connelly Theatre
But I'm a Cheerleader at the Theater at St. Clements
Cagelove at Rattlestick Theatre
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Caligula, Horizon Theatre Rep at the Kirk Theatre
Cloud Tectonics at the Culture Project
The Color Purple at the Broadway Theatre
Columbinus at New York Theatre Workshop
Conjur Woman at LaMaMa e.t.c.
Cymbeline at BAM's Harvey Theatre
Dawn at the Flea Theatre
Dear Dubya: Patriotic Love Letters to Whitehouse.org at the Brick Theatre
Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine at Playwrights Horizons
Doubt at the Walter Kerr Theatre
Drug Buddy at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Dust at the Westside Theatre
The Eisteddfod at the Ontological Theater
Electra, National Theatre of Greece at City Center
Emergence-SEE! at the Public Theatre
The English Channel at the Abingdon Theatre Center
Explicit Vows at the Flea Theatre
Fair Game at the Lion Theatre
Faith Healer at the Booth Theatre
Family Secrets at 37 Arts
Faust, Target Margin Theatre at the Classic Stage Company
Festen at the Music Box Theatre
A Fiddler on the Roof at the Minskoff Theatre
Five Kinds of Silence at Teatro Círculo
The Flood at the American Theatre of Actors
Follies at the Marriot Marquis Theatre
Freshwater, SITI Company at the Women's Project Julia Miles Theatre
Fuerzabruta at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Geometry of Fire at the Rattlestick Theatre
Godspell at Circle in the Square
Good People at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Guardians at the Culture Project
The Hairy Ape at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre
Hercules in High Suburbia at the Mazer Theater
The History Boys at the Broadhurst Theatre
Holy Cross Sucks! at Ars Nova
Hoodoo Love at the Cherry Lane Theatre
The House in Town, Lincoln Center Theatre at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
The House of the Spirits at Repertorio Español
Illyria, Prospect Theatre Company at the Hudson Guild Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest at BAM's Harvey Theatre
In Paradise and She Plundered Him, INTAR at the Cherry Lane Theatre
In the Continuum at the Perry Street Theater
Isabelle and the Pretty-Ugly Spell at the Lion Theatre
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Zipper Theatre
Jay Johnson: The Two and Only at the Helen Hayes Theatre
J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera at the 45th Street Theatre
Johnny Applef?%ker, Ice Factory at the Ohio Theatre
Johnny on a Spot, Peccadillo Theatre Company at the Theatre at St. Clements
The Joke at Studio Dante
The Joy Luck Club, Pan Asian Rep at the Julia Miles Theater
King Lear at the Classical Theatre of Harlem
Kismet, Encores! at City Center
Klonsky and Schwartz at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen at Ace of Clubs
Len, Asleep in Vinyl at Second Stage's McGinn/Cazale Theatre
Lestat at the Palace Theatre
Letting Go of God at Ars Nova
The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Atlantic Theater Company
The Lifeblood at the Connelly Theatre
The Lightning Field at the Flea Theatre
The Little Dog Laughed at the Second Stage
Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live! at the Brick Theatre
Love Sick at the Access Theatre
Lower Ninth at the Flea Theatre
Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest at PS 122
Macbeth at the Delacorte Theatre, Central Park
The Man in My Head at the 45th Street Theatre
Marathon 30 "Series B" at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
Marathon 30 "Series C" at the Ensemble Studio Theatre
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Measure for Measure at St. Ann's Warehouse
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dog Run Rep at Seaport!
The Miracle Worker at Circle in the Square
Miss America, Split Britches at LaMaMa E.T.C.
Missives at 59E59
Monk at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Moscow Cats Theatre at the Lamb's Theatre
The Mother*** With the Hat at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Motke Thief at University Settlement Theater
The Music Teacher at the Minetta Lane Theatre
My Deah at the Abingdon Theatre
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way at the American Airlines Theatre
Nerds at the Samuel Beckett Theatre
Nickel and Dimed, 3Graces Theater Co. at the Bank Street Theater
The Night of the Hunter at 37 Arts
Night Over Taos, Intar at Theatre for the New City
1965UU at the Chocolate Factory
No Child..." at the Barrow Street Theatre
None of the Above at the Lion Theatre
The Odd Couple at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of Thee I Sing, Encores! at City Center
The Ohio State Murders, Theatre for a New Audience at the Duke at 42nd Street
On the Line at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Outside Inn at 59E59
The Pajama Game at the American Airlines Theatre
Pied-à-Terre at the Kirk Theatre
Queens Boulevard (the musical) at the Signature Theatre
Rabbit Hole at the Biltmore Theatre
Rag and Bone at the Rattlestick Theatre
Richard Cory at the Lion Theatre
The Right Kind of People, Primary Stages at 59E59
Ring of Fire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Rites of Privacy at Urban Stages
The Ritz at Studio 54
Rock Doves at the Irish Arts Center
The Ruby Sunrise at the Public Theatre
Ruined, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II
A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, Primary Stages at 59E59
School of the Americas at the Public Theatre
Seascape at the Booth Theatre
Secret Order at 59E59
See What I Wanna See at the Public Theater
The Sensuous Woman at The Zipper Theatre
The Seven at New York Theatre Workshop
70, Girls, 70, Encores! at City Center
Shakedown Street at the Village Theatre
Shining City at the Biltmore Theatre
Show People at the Second Stage
Silence! at the Lucille Lortel
Sive at Irish Repertory Theatre
A Soldier's Play at the Second Stage
Some Girls, MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Sore Throats at the Duke Theatre
Southern Comforts, Primary Stages at 59E59
Southern Promises at PS 122
Spain, MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Speech & Debate at the Roundabout Underground
Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theater Company
The Stones at the Duke Theatre
Stuff Happens at the Public Theatre
Surviving David at the Flea Theatre
Sweeney Todd at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Tales of an Urban Indian at the Public Theatre
Tarzan at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
Theatre Is Dead and So Are You, Stolen Chair at the Connelly Theatre
Thick at Collective: Unconscious
Three Days of Rain at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Three Mo' Tenors at the Little Shubert Theatre
The Threepenny Opera at Studio 54
Till the Break of Dawn, Culture Project at the Abrons Arts Center
The Timekeepers at Barrow Group Theatre
Time Stands Still, Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
A Touch of the Poet at Studio 54
Tony Awards telecast
The Tooth of Crime at LaMama
The Trip to Bountiful at the Signature Theatre Company
Trouble in Paradise at the Hudson Guild Theatre
Trumpery at the Atlantic Theatre Company
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother at Ars Nova
Uncle Jed's Barbershop at the Theatre at St. Clement's
Urban Death, Zombie Joe's Underground at the Players Theatre
A View From 151st Street, LAByrinth Theatre Company at the Public Theatre
View From the Bridge at the Cort
The Voyage of the Carcass at SoHo Rep Playhouse
Waiting for Godot at the Theatre at St. Clement's
Waiting for Godot, The Gate Theatre of Dublin at NYU's Skirball Center
Walk Two Moons at the Lucille Lortel
War at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
War Horse at the Vivian Beaumount Theatre
The Water's Edge at Second Stage
The Wedding Singer at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
White Noise at TBG Theatre
Wild Women of Planet Wongo at the Samuel Beckett Theater
The Winter's Tale at the BAM Harvey Theater
The Wolves in the Walls at the New Victory Theatre
The Woman in White at the Marriott Marquis
Yohen, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre at West End Theatre
You Wanna Piece of Me? at Ace of Clubs
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Henry IV, Part I, Cymbeline, and The Comedy of Errors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Summer 1998 (see also this feature)
The Quality of Mercy A spring 2001 survey
Fall of Troy A fall 2001 survey
OSF's Off Season A summer 2002 report
Firing the Canon An "Actors We Love" tribute to the OSF company, particularly Derrick Lee Weeden
Full of Grace "Actors We Love" tribute to Suzanne Irving
Crumbs From the Table of Joy at the Black Swan
Pericles at the Angus Bowmer Theatre
Rosmersholm at the Black Swan
Stop Kiss at the Black Swan
Tongue of a Bird at the Black Swan
The Trojan Women at the Angus Bowmer Theatre
HUMANA FEST 2003
Shock of the New The official feature
Wicked Stage, Apr. 17, 2003 The dish
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Abingdon Square at the Open Fist
Accomplice at the Colony Theatre
Acme Love Machine at the Acme Comedy Theatre
Aftershocks at the Colony Theatre
After the Bomb at the Open Fist Theatre
After the Fall at the Fountain Theatre
All My Sons at A Noise Within
All Saint's Day at Theatre of NOTE
Amelia Bedelia, Serendipity Theatre Co. at the Coronet Theatre
Among The Thugs at the Odyssey Theatre
Amy's View at South Coast Repertory
Angels in America at the NoHo Arts Center
Anna in the Tropics at the Pasadena Playhouse
The Architect of Destiny at the Zephyr
Around the World in a Bad Mood at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse
Assassins at the Merton G. Wray Theatre
As Vishnu Dreams at East West Players
The Author's Thumb at Theatre Unlimited
Baal at 2nd Stage
Bea[u]tiful in the Extreme at the Colony Theatre
Bed and Sofa at International City Theatre
Beijing Spring at East West Players
The Big Ever After at the Ark Theatre
Big River at the Ahmanson Theatre
The Birds at South Coast Rep
Blithe Spirit at the Globe Playhouse
Blood Wedding, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Blue Surge at Third Street Theatre
Brecht on Brecht at the Odyssey Theatre
Buddy at Long Beach Terrace Theatre
Bus Stop at Fremont Centre Theatre
Butter at [Inside] the Ford
Broken Hearts, Cornerstone at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Cahuenga Passages at Theatre of NOTE
Career at the Ruskin Group Theatre Company
Caroline, or Change at the Ahmanson Theatre
Catch-22 at West Coast Ensemble
Chekhov x 4 at NewPlace Theatre
The Cherry Orchard at South Coast Repertory
Chicago at the Pantages Theatre
A Christmas Carol at International City Theatre
A Christmas Carol at South Coast Rep
A Clockwork Orange, Ark Theatre Company at the Whitefire Theatre
The Collected Plays of Justin Tanner at the Cast Theatre
A Comfortable Truth at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Center
Coming to Life at the Fremont Center Theatre
Company at the Freud Playhouse
Conquest of the North Pole at the Odyssey Theatre
Continental Divide at La Jolla Playhouse
The Contract, Laurelgrove Theatre Company at the Hollywood Court Theatre
The cosmonaut's last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union at the Open Fist Theatre
Counsellor-at-Law at the Interact Theatre
The Cradle Will Rock, Blank Theatre Company at the Off Ramp Theatre
The Cross in the Mirror at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Cyrano de Bergerac at the Knightsbridge Theatre
Dance of the Mayfly at the Attic Theatre
Dark Rapture at the Evidence Room
The Days When Cocaine Was King at the American Renegade
Dealing With Clair at the Matrix Theatre
Death and the Maiden at the Mark Taper Forum
Death, or the Playground at the Stella Adler Theatre
Deconstructing the Torah at the Odyssey
Definitely Doris: The Music of Doris Day at the Falcon Theatre
Design for Living at A Noise Within
Diary of a Madman at the Odyssey Theatre
Disappearing Act at the Hudson Guild Theatre
The Dock Brief at the Fremont Center Theatre
Don Juan in Chicago at the Sacred Fools Theatre
Don Juan Tenorio at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Dorian at the NoHo Arts Center
Doubt at the Pasadena Playhouse
The Duchess of Malfi at Theatre of NOTE
Duel at Hollywood Court Theatre
Dust at Company of Angels
Dying for Laughs at Santa Monica Playhouse
A Dysfunctional Family Cruise at the Found Theatre
Eat Me at Theatre of NOTE
Ecstasy at the Odyssey Theatre
18 Arrests, No Convictions at the Court Theatre
Electra at A Noise Within
Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum
Enchanted April at the Pasadena Playhouse
Erotic Curtsies, Bottom's Dream at Ivy Substation
Everything's Turning Into Beautiful at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre
Eyes for Consuela at Cal State L.A.
Face 2 Face, Los Angeles Rep at the Veterans Memorial Bldg.
Falsettos, Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theatre
Fame, the Musical at the Alex Theatre
The Family Room at the Powerhouse Theatre
Faust at the La Jolla Playhouse
Fawlty Towers at Theatre Geo
The Fever, Wolfskill at Cafe Metropol
A Few Good Men at Third Stage
Finer Noble Gases at Sacred Fools
The Four Dervishes, Ghost Road Company at 24th Street Theatre
The Four Postmen at the Stella Adler Theatre
Freedomland at Sidewalk Studios
Fully Committed at the El Portal
Funny..., Blank Theatre Comnpany at 2nd Stage
Galileo at Brand Park
The Gary Plays, Padua Playwrights at the Electric Lodge
Gaveston, Favourite of the King at the Celebration Theatre
Gem of the Ocean at the Mark Taper Forum
A Gift From Heaven at Beverly Hills Playhouse
The Goat at the Mark Taper Forum
Golden Prospects at the Powerhouse Theatre
A Good Soldier at the Odyssey Theatre
The Good Woman of Setzuan at the Odyssey Theatre
Green Icebergs at South Coast Repertory
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at the Mark Taper Forum
Groundlings Box Set
Guantanamera at Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Gunmetal Blues at the Colony Theatre
The Guys at the Actors' Gang
Hamlet, Wooster Group at the Public Theatre
Happy End at the Group Repertory Theatre
Harry Heart and the Greatest Jug Band. . . Ever and On the Ranch at the Ivar Brick Box Theatre
Haunt at the Complex
Heartbreak House at the Colony Studio Theatre
Henry IV, Part I, Circle X at Shakespeare/LA
Henry IV, Part I, Classical Theatre Lab at Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park
Holy Days at Theatre 40
Homebody/Kabul at the Mark Taper Forum
The House of Bernarda Alba, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Hysteria at the Actors' Gang
An Ideal Husband at the Colony Studio Theatre
If Only... at the Globe Playhouse
Imelda at East West Players
In the Land of the Giants at the 2nd Stage
The Inside Job, Padua Playwrights at 2100 Square Feet
Into the Woods, Actors Co-op at the Crossley Theatre
It's Later Than You Think at Theatre of NOTE
Ivona, Princess of Burgundia at Sacred Fools
Johnny Boy at the Falcon Theatre
Julius Caesar at A Noise Within
Jungle of Cities at City Garage
Juvenilia at Gardner Stages
Kate Crackernuts at the 24th Street Theatre
The King and I at the Pantages Theatre (and a letter in response)
Kismet, Reprise! at the Freud Playhouse
The Knights of Mary Phagan at Theatre 68 (scroll down)
La Boheme at the Ahmanson Theatre
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at the Fountain Theatre
Letting Go of God at the Hudson Backstage
Liberty! at [Inside] the Ford
Lights at Actors Co-op
The Lion King at the Pantages Theatre
The Lion in Winter at Theatre 40
Little Mary Sunshine, Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors at the Ahmanson Theatre
Lobby Hero at the Odyssey Theatre
Los Biombos/The Screens, Cornerstone at the East LA Skills Center
Los Vecinos: A Play for Neighbors, Cornerstone at the CSO Building
Lydia in Bed at Theatre of NOTE
Lydie Breeze at the Open Fist
Lysistrata at the Whitefire Theatre
Macbeth at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Madly, in Love at the Odyssey Theatre
Mad Vincent at the Odessa Theatre
Mall America, Theatre Neo at the Stella Adler Theatre
Marley's Ghost, Circle X at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
The Marriage of Figaro, L.A. Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Master Class at the Fountain Theatre
M Butterfly at East West Players
Measure for Measure, S.O.B. Theatre Company at Theatre/Theater
Medal of Honor Rag at the Egyptian Arena Theatre
Melancholy Play, Echo Theatre Company at the Hayworth Theatre
Merrily We Roll Along at East West Players
Messalina at the Evidence Room
Midnight Brainwash Revival at Sacred Fools Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Knightsbridge Theatre
Mirror Mirror at 24th Street Theatre
The Misanthrope, Circus Theatricals at the Odyssey Theatre
The Miser at A Noise Within
Miss Margarida's Way at the Zephyr Theatre
Miss Saigon at the Pantages Theatre
Mixed Messages at East West Players
Molly Sweeney at the Eclectic Company Theatre
Monk at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Monstrosity at Theatre of NOTE
Mother'Son at the Met Theatre
My Favorite Year, Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre
My Uncle Sam at Sacred Fools
Naked Breath at Highways
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way at South Coast Repertory
Nat Turner at Casa 0101
Neurotica at the Hudson Guild Theatre
Never Tell at the Elephant Theatre
A New War at Theatre 68
'Night, Mother at Deaf West Theatre
The Nina Variations at Company Rep
Nobody Walks Like My Daddy at the 4305 Village Theatre
Nothing But the Truth at the Mark Taper Forum
The Oedipus Tree at Plummer Park Auditorium
The Offering at the Riprap Studio Theatre
Oleanna at the Tiffany Theatre
Oleanna at the Third Stree Theatre
Once on This Island at th e Internatonal City Theatre
110 Degrees in the Shade at the Pasadena Playhouse
Only the Dead Know Burbank at the Hudson Theatre
The Orange Grove, Playwrights Arena at Lutheran Church of the Master
Orpheus Descending at Pacific Resident Theatre
The Other Shore, S.O.B. Theatre Company at Theatre/Theater
Ourselves Alone at Gardner Stages
Out Loud at Edgemar Center for the Arts
Pacific Overtures at East West Players
A Pair by Moliere: The Wise-Ass Women and the Man-Hater at Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park
Parade of Strange Images at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Passing, Towne Street Theatre at the Stella Adler Theatre
Peach Blossom Fan at REDCAT
Peter Pan at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
Pharmacopeia, Shock and Awe at Evidence Room
The Physicists at the Harman Avenue Theatre
The Pink Dress at the Japanese American National Museum
Play Strindberg at Company Rep
Play Without Words at the Ahmanson Theatre
The Possession o Mrs. Jones at the Zephyr Theatre
The Price at A Noise Within
The Producers at the Pantages Theatre
Properties of Silence, About Productions at 2100 Square Feet
The Queen of Sheba, Unity Players at the Stella Adler Theatre
Racing Demon, Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theatre
Ragtime, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center
Ragtime, Musical Theater West at the Carpenter Center
Raree at Theatre/Theater
Red Light Green Light at Theatre of NOTE
Riches at the Court Theatre
Roar of the Crowd at Theatre 40
Robert Johnson Trick the Devil at Group Repertory Theatre
Roberta, Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre
Romeo and Juliet at The Theatre @ Boston Court, and a letter in response
Room at the Met Theatre
The Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre
Ruthless! The Musical at the Hudson Mainstage
San Fran Scapin at the New Place Theatre
Sarita at the Labor Temple
School for Scandal at the Mark Taper Forum
The Seagull at A Noise Within
The Seagull at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
The Secret Rapture at Theatre 40
sex, lies, and videotape at the Next Stage
The Shaggs at [Inside] the Ford
She Loves Me, Musical Theatre West at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Shel's Shorts at Kuttingroom
The Shore, Ensemble Studio Theatre--The L.A. Project at Stage 52
The Taming of the Shrew at the Orpheum Theatre
Side Man at the Malibu Stage Company
Six Characters Looking for an Author at the Odyssey Theatre
Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum
Sleuth at the Falcon Theatre
The Smoke and Ice Follies at the Road Theatre
Sonnyville at the Lex Theatre
Sonomabitch at the Patrick Apparel Int'l Fashion Warehouse
Sperm at the 24th Street Theatre
Spite for Spite at the New Place Theatre
Splendor at the Evidence Room
Stones in His Pockets at the Mark Taper Forum
A Streetcar Named Desire at South Coast Repertory
Stuff Happens at the Mark Taper Forum (two reviews; click each word)
Sweeney Todd at East West Players
Swimming in the Shallows at the 3rd Street Theatre
The Talking Cure at the Mark Taper Forum, and a Counterpunch column in response
The Tent Show at the Cast-at-the-Circle Theatre
Teshuvah, Return at the Tamarind Theatre
Texarkana Waltz at the Los Angeles Playhouse
They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?, About Productions at the Luckman Intimate Theatre
This Lime Tree Bower at Gardner Stages
Tirade for Three and The Definite Child, Oxblood at Glaxa Studios
Tongue of a Bird at the Mark Taper Forum
Topdog/Underdog at the Mark Taper Forum
Tougher Than Grace at King King Club
Translations at the Actors' Co-op
The Triumph of Love at Hollyhock House
True Story at the Coronet Theatre
Twelfth Night at Actors' Co-op
Twelfth Night at Company Rep
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare LA at Pershing Square
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Independent Shakespeare Company at Hollyhock House
Under the Moon at the American Renegade Theatre
Venus in Orange at the Victory Theatre
Waiting for Lefty at the Downtown Playhouse
Waving Goodbye, Syzygy Theatre Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Western Big Sky at the Met Theatre
What Are You, Deaf? at Company Rep
What the Butler Saw, Theater Banshee at the Gene Bua Theatre
What the Night Is For at the Laguna Playhouse
The Who's Tommy at the Universal Amphitheatre
Who's Afraid of Uta Hagen? at the Haunted Studios
A Woman's Worth at the Orpheum Theatre
Women of Manhattan at the Little Victory Theatre
Wonder of the World at West Coast Ensemble
Yellow Flesh/Alabaster Rose at Theatre of NOTE
Yes Is for a Very Young Man at the Interact Theatre
Yield of the Long Bond at the Matrix Theatre
You Can't Take It With You at the Geffen Playhouse
Yours, Lulu: Broadway to Berlin at Theater/Theatre
Zones, Cornerstone Theater Company at the Vedanta Society
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FEATURES & NEWS
Traveling Toward a Dead End, Together Dialogue with Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif about their appearance in a new revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play (New York Times, July 18, 2013)
Musical Revivalists With a Cause Profile of Jeanine Tesori's new Encores! spinoff series of alternative musical concert readings (New York Times, July 3, 2013)
Cutting Through a Cultural Thicket Preview feature on new musical of Disney's The Jungle Book, adapted by Mary Zimmerman for the Goodman Theatre (New York Times, June 20, 2013)
The Composer Wears Many Hats Preview feature on Off-Broadway run of composer/lyricist/librettist Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (New York Times, May 26, 2013)
For Sons of 'Raisin,' a Back-to-Back Duel Preview feature on Kwame Kwei-Armah's new Beneatha's Place, a response to Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, staged in rep at Kwei-Armah's theater, Center Stage (New York Times, May 2, 2013)
Writes Well With Others (Even Stage Zombies) Profile of playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury in advance of Social Creatures, a new commission at Trinity Rep (New York Times, April 18, 2013)
In the Minority Talkback post about how it feels to dissent on the much-loved Matilda (New York Times, April 18, 2013)
It's Better With a Band Feature on the trend of rock bands making musicals (American Theatre, April 2013)
The Artist on the Aisle Essay on becoming a theater critic to kick off a week of posts on criticism (HowlRound.com, Mar. 31, 2013)
Camelot's Widow, Without Mythology Preview feature on American premiere on Elfriede Jelinek's Jackie at the Women's Project (New York Times, Mar. 3, 2013)
No, but They Play One Onstage Profile of Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller, who've played couples twice before, playing one again in Amy Herzog's Belleville (New York Times, Feb. 14, 2013)
His Perfect Role Is His Current One Profile of Danny Burstein in advance of his role in Talley's Folly (New York Times, Feb. 8, 2013)
What Happens in Mantua Stays in Mantua Preview feature on Michael Mayer's Metropolitan Opera debut directing a Vegas-set Rigoletto (Opera News, Feb. 2013)
A Musical Makes Changes as Closets Open Preview feature on a revival of Bare, a cult musical about gay Catholic teens (New York Times, Nov. 16, 2013)
Rock and Race in Memphis Feature on Broadway musical en route to Denver Center Theater (Applause, Sept.-Nov. 2012)
Walking the Walk, Cane in Hand Profile of Rob McClure, lead performer in new Chaplin musical on Broadway (New York Times, Aug. 24, 2012)
Rehearsal Note: That Bad Choice Could Be Useful Profile of director Daniel Aukin in anticipation of three Off-Broadway productions (New York Times, Aug. 10, 2012)
After the Anger A survey of the Golden Mask Festival of Russian theater in Moscow in April (American Theatre, July/August)
A New "Vanya" for the Living Room Preview of Annie Baker and Sam Gold's new Uncle Vanya at Soho Rep (New York Times, June 3, 2012)
Chameleon Sheds His Camouflage Profile of Giancarlo Esposito in advance of his appearance in Shanley's Storefront Church (New York Times, May 27, 2012)
Out of Mideast, a Comic Recipe for the Stage Preview of Food and Fadwa, inaugural production by Noor Theatre, a Middle Eastern-American theater company at New York Theatre Workshop (New York Times, May 20, 2012)
Preview: February House (Time Out New York, May 16, 2012)
Collaborating With the Cast and Playwright A Q&A with Clybourne Park director Pam MacKinnon (New York Times, May 12, 2012)
“Agony and Ecstasy” Version 2.0 A look at upcoming productions/revisions to Mike Daisey's controversial show (American Theatre, May 2012)
After the War Iraqi theatre artists forge ahead—and reach for global connections—in a cautious, still-fragile country (American Theatre, Feb 2012)
A rich writing life for Molly Smith Metzler Preview of South Coast Rep opening of playwright's Elemeno Pea (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, 2012)
Southern Without the Comfort Preview of Geffen Playhouse opening of Beth Henley's The Jacksonian (The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2012)
Profile: Lydia R. Diamond The author of Stick Fly talks about race, class and cussing (Time Out New York, Dec. 6, 2012)
Triple Threats Emily Mann and Chay Yew write and direct plays, and they run theatres. Not necessarily in that order (American Theatre, Dec. 2011)
The Parent Trap How to hold on to theatregoers with young children? Offer them sitters along with their seats (American Theatre, Dec. 2011)
Back to the '50s, Trying To Escape Freedom's Pitfalls Preview of Playwrights Horizon's production of Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine (The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2011)
He's 'Bring It On: The Musical's' Chief Cheerleader Preview piece on new musical from director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, opening at Ahmanson (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 6, 2011)
Preview: Phantom Limb's 69°S. A puppet company ventures into the frozen wastes of Antarctica (Time Out New York, Oct. 24, 2011)
Darkly Comic Voice Adds a Libretto to His Résumé Profile of playwright Stephen Karam prior to opening of Sons of the Prophet and Dark Sisters (New York Times, Oct. 9, 2011)
The Lanford Wilson Issue: Hot L's Music An essay on The Hot L Baltimore's musicality (Parabasis, Sept. 30, 2011)
Threepenny primer A helpful list of misconceptions about the Brecht/Weill classic, in advance of the Robert Wilson/Berliner Ensemble production at BAM (Time Out New York, Sept. 27, 2011)
Playwright Kristoffer Diaz steps into the ring A feature on Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse (The Los Angeles Times, Aug. 21, 2011)
Preview: Follies The Sondheim classic about faded Broadway dreams returns (Time Out New York, Aug. 8, 2010)
Report: Ohio Theatre and the Ice Factory The downtown fixture finds new roots on Greenwich Street (Time Out New York, June 29, 2011)
Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn’t Play Worth a Lick Preview feature on The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World at Playwrights Horizons (The New York Times, May 19, 2011)
Stage Presence A spirituality of the theater (America, May 2, 2011)
Preview: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark After 2009’s gritty hit Ruined, Lynn Nottage goes lighter (Time Out New York, Apr. 18, 2011)
A Playwright in Song Stephen Sondheim ponders his accomplishments, his way of working, and the form and future of the American musical (American Theatre, April, 2011)
Mexican? American? Call Her Writer Profile of Chicago playwright Tanya Saracho (The New York Times, Mar. 22, 2011)
The Singular Laura Eason How the many facets of one theatre artist—adaptor, actor, artistic director—have forged a major playwriting voice (American Theatre, Feb. 2011)
Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration Preview of revivals of Weill/Anderson musicals Knickerbocker Holiday and Lost in the Stars (The New York Times, Jan. 18, 2011)
Three Pianos Franz Schubert’s Winterreise gets deconstructed with a six-pack of beer (Time Out New York, Nov. 29, 2010)
Clothes Make the Man-Boy A feature on Ann Closs-Farley costumes for The Pee-wee Herman Show (TDF Stages, November 2010)
Pampered Critics? No, Critics in Pampers A report on the New Victory's Egg and Spoon in the company of two critical colleagues (Jason Zinoman, Eric Grode) and our toddlers (The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2010)
Lisa Kron The playwright returns to the painful, divisive years of the Bush regime (Time Out New York, Oct. 28, 2010)
Director's Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat A preview of the Moisés Kaufman-directed puppet opera Puss in Boots (The New York Times, Oct. 1, 2010)
Sort of a Salon, Sort of a Church A feature on Chris Wells' theater "church" the Secret City (The New York Times, Sept. 26, 2010)
Making Confetti Out of Suspense A preview of Denver Center Theatre's production of The 39 Steps (Applause, Sep. 27-Oct. 23, 2010)
Ideas, Actions and Finding the New Mop A report from the TCG National Conference in Chicago in June (American Theatre, Sept. 2010)
Dispatch from Oregon: Angelenos in Ashland Checking in with former Actors' Gangsters and others now working at Oregon Shakes (LA Times' Culture Monster, Aug. 17, 2010)
Re-imagining the Scottish play and other essays on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Ping Chong's staging of Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (Illuminations, summer 2010)
Jonathan Demme makes time for 'Family Week' Preview of Beth Henley play Off-Broadway (LA Times, May 4, 2010)
One on One in Times Square A look at set designer Christine Jones' "Theatre for One"
American Idiot Preview of Green Day musical on Broadway (Time Out NY, Apr. 1, 2010)
Broadway in Black and White A look at the Broadway season through the prism of race (American Theatre, Dec. 2009)
Maggie Siff A profile of the star of Liz Duffy Adams' play Or, (Time Out NY, Nov. 5, 2009)
Still Fresh, Less Flesh Celebration Theatre's Michael Shepperd makes the case that Los Angeles still needs a gay theatre (American Theatre, Oct. 2009)
Waiver War Weapons The history of L.A. Equity 99-Seat Theatre Plan, Part II (LA Stage, June 29, 2009)
Waging the Waiver Wars The history of L.A.'s Equity 99-Seat Theatre Plan, Part I (LA Stage, May 2, 2009)
'80s Sunset Strip meets '09 Broadway Preview of Rock of Ages on Broadway; interviews with Kristin Hanggi and Chris D'Arienzo (LA Times, Apr. 5, 2009)
Michael Sargent: a playwright makes good in the lobby Profile in advance of The Projectionist, with a glance at Grand Motel (LA Times, Mar. 25, 2009)
Female trouble Preview on Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty, or The Rape Play (Time Out NY, Feb. 12, 2009)
Be my feral baby A preview of Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney's Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera (Village Voice, Feb. 12, 2009)
Move it and lose it at "Minsky's" Preview of Ahmanson production (LA Times, Feb. 1, 2009)
America as mix tape Profile of playwright Oliver Mayer in advance of Dias y Flores opening (LA Times, Jan. 22. 2009)
"Spring Awakening" as traditional rebel Preview piece for L.A. run; interviews with Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (LA Times, Oct. 26, 2008)
"Speech & Debate" playwright remains youthful Profile of Stephen Karam (LA Times, Oct. 5, 2008)
Itamar Moses is just looking to make sense of it all Profile of playwright in advance of L.A. premiere of The Four of Us, the San Diego/NY premieres of Back Back Back, the Berkeley production of Yellowjackets (LA Times, Sept. 7, 2008)
A most happy Fela! Preview of Bill T. Jones' new bio-musical (Time Out NY, Aug. 28, 2008)
Hello, 13 Preview of Jason Robert Brown's new musical; interview with director Jeremy Sams (Time Out NY Kids, Aug. 24, 2008)
In the WASP's nest Preview of A.R. Gurney's Buffalo Gal (Time Out NY, July 30, 2008)
Camus filters Preview of Theatre Oobleck's The Strangerer (Time Out NY, July 17, 2008)
Story time Preview of David Greig's Brits Off Broadway offerings Yellow Moon and Damascus (Time Out NY, Apr. 23, 2008)
"Pacific" Theatre Profile of Danny Burstein, playing Luther Billis in new South Pacific revival (TDF, Apr. 2008)
By George, he's got it Preview of Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park With George with Daniel Evans (Time Out NY, Feb. 13. 2008)
Vonnegut Reaction Preview of Godlight's Slaughterhouse-Five (Time Out NY, Jan. 10, 2008)
Myth-buster Preview Q&A with James Thierree about Au Revoir Parapluie at BAM (Time Out NY, Nov. 29, 2007)
Obscenely talented Q&A with Ian McShane about Pinter's The Homecoming (Time Out NY, Nov. 22, 2007)
Can it hold like "Hairspray"? A preview of Broadway-bound "Cry-Baby" at La Jolla Playhouse (LA Times, Nov. 18, 2007) (Times link)
The World of Mee Preview of Chuck Mee's musical play Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater (TDF, Nov., 2007)
His string instruments A preview of Erik Sanko's Fortune Teller at UCLA Live (LA Times, Oct. 16, 2007) (Times link)
It's a daredevil leap Preview of Jef Bek's Evel Knievel: A Rock Opera (LA Times, Sept. 24, 2007) (Times link)
The one and only Profile of the Signature Theatre Company and its next four seasons on Mee, Negro Ensemble Company, Parks & Kushner (LA Times, Aug. 5, 2007) (PDF form)
Edgar Ramirez, professional chameleon Profile of the Venezuelan film actor (LA Times, July 22, 2007) (Times link)
A human side of Deven May Profile of "Bat Boy" originator, starring in "Jersey Boys" in L.A. (June 3, 2007)
They'll be stopping by for a spell Preview of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee's bow in L.A. (LA Times, May 20, 2007) (Times link)
An actor-scholar tees up a big role A profile of Harry Lennix, star of August Wilson's Radio Golf (Apr. 29, 2007) (Times link)
Capturing the soul of the Philippines An interview with Dogeaters author/playwright Jessica Hagedorn
"Two for the Park," profiles of Kelli O'Hara and Mano Felciano, stars of Reprise!'s Sunday in the Park With George (LA Times, Jan. 28, 2007)
Seeing the world in a snow-globe A preview of Slava's Snow Show at UCLA Live (LA Times, Dec. 10, 2006)
He's the guy you hate to love A profile of Brian Cox (LA Times, 10/22/06) (Times link)
Bill Rauch's Oregon Trail, a Q&A with the Cornerstone founding director and the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (American Theatre, 10/06)
Off-Broadway is all over the map, a preview of the season (Newsday, 10/1/06)
A Theater Group Offers Hope at Ground Zero, a feature on 3-Legged Dog's new lower Manhattan performance/media space (New Yorkt Times, 9/7/06)
Not the same old song and dance (page 2), a preview of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (Newsday, 9/3/06)
'Stone Carver,' a Drama Built of Evolving Memories, a story about William Mastrosimone's new play (New York Times, 7/30/06)
On to higher billing, a report on Bill O'Brien leaving Deaf West Theatre to head the NEA's theater programs (Los Angeles Times, 7/30/06) (Times link)
Keeping it real at the Fake A profile of the alt-comedy space the Fake Gallery (LA Times, 6/29/06)
L.A. sifts through pieces of Evidence A piece on Bart DeLorenzo's departure from the space on Beverly Blvd., the glories of the past, and what the future may hold (LA Times, May 7, 2006) (Times link)
Torching the Library: Different Year, Same Temperature A preview of Fahrenheit 451 (New York Times, 3/19/06)
From Norway to BAM, With a Stopover in Oz A preview of Hedda Gabler (Encore, 2/06)
Theater You Can Drop In On (NY Times, 12/23/05)
Christal Weatherly A profile of the costume designer (American Theatre 12/05)
Going Public A preview of The Ruby Sunrise at the Public Theater (Encore, 11/05)
Uneasy Riders Interview with Liev Schreiber about his film directing debut, Everything Is Illuminated
Exit Fervently Gordon Davidson directs Stuff Happens (American Theatre 7-8/05)
Drop Its Avant-Garde? Never A feature on City Garage (LA Times 8/24/05) (Times link)
Not too close for company Feature on Pacific Resident Theatre (LA Times 6/19/05) (Times link)
Broadway's Broadway, but L.A.'s invigorating Profile of Jason Robert Brown in SoCal
It goes like this... As You Like It: The Plot Plays On (Performances 2/05)
The Web of lies Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam (LA Times 12/8/04) (Times link)
Hot, Hip and on the Verge: The Black Dahlia (American Theatre 12/04)
Confessions of a character Profile of actor Leslie Jordan (LA Times, 11/18/04) (Times link)
Dissent in the Model Minority Lodestone's Aziatik Nation at Highways (LA Times 11/17/04) (Times link)
Two Hollywood theater troupes get religion Hell House and Scientology Pageant (Variety 11/1/04)
Actors' Gang goes to the edge Embedded on tour (Variety 9/27/04)
Viennese Waltz Alma comes to L.A. (American Theatre 9/04)
Modernizing Millie (Performances 7/04)
Matched Wits, Kindred Spirits Ferber & Kaufman's writing partnership (Performances, 4/04)
Cornerstone's Jewish Project Yehuda Hyman & Tracy Young Join Forces (LA Stage, 4-5/04)
Obsessed by the Theatre Ravi Narasimhan's passion for theatregoing (LA Times, 1/11/04)
Pamela Gordon obit (BSW 10/1/03)
A Really Big Shrew Tamar Fortgang's Orpheum Theatre production (BSW 9/4/03)
Stage Spot: Alina Phelan (BSW 8/21/03)
Headshots for Sale How a West Wing casting assistant made cash on eBay (BSW, 8/14/03)
Opening This Week: As Bees in Honey Drown (BSW 8/14/03)
Agent Signing Stories: Kristen Bell and Matt North (BSW 8/7/03)
Opening This Week: Gem of the Ocean (BSW 7/31/03)
Don't A.S.K. Theatre funding org announces shutdown (BSW, 7/17/03)
Agent Signing Stories: Damien Midkiff and Laurel Green (BSW 6/5/03)
SRO Reloaded Second Theatre LA conference kicks it up a notch (BSW 5/29/03)
Stage Spot: Tish Hicks (BSW 5/22/03)
Minority Report The case against SAG-AFTRA consolidation (BSW 5/15/03)
Far From Heaven Casting Casting director Laura Rosenthal's inspirations (BSW 3/13/03)
Stage Spot: Jennifer Ann Evans (BSW 3/6/03)
ASK Not Playing Around Theatre funding org's new programs (BSW, 1/30/03)
Ovations Flow for River and Napoli A full report from the Theatre LA awards show (BSW 11/28/02)
Exorcist to Punisher Casting director Pam Dixon's busy year (BSW 11/7/02)
Ovations Expand A look at the year's nominees (BSW 10/3/02)
Casting Emmys Profiles of nominees Jeff Greenberg (Frasier) and Megan McConnell & Janet Gilmore (Alias) (BSW 8/29/02)
Central Settling Report on casting service settling $1.2 mil minimum-wage claim (BSW 6/20/02)
Some ASK Answers Reports on rumors of changes at org (BSW 6/13/02)
L.A.'s Advanced Stages A report from Theatre LA's SRO Theatre Conference (BSW 5/30/02)
What Dreams May Come Chris Wells and Tracy Young join forces to remount Dreamplay (BSW 5/23/02)
ActorFest preview (BSW 4/18/02)
A profile of Mary Selway, casting director for Gosford Park (BSW 3/14/02)
Garlands "Local Heroes" Mini-profiles of director Jessica Kubzansky, costume designer Shon LeBlanc, and sound designer John Zalewski (BSW 1/24/02)
Commercial Break Shubert and Tiffany theatres close (BSW 12/20/01)
Stumbling Ovations Lion and Lintel dominate Kodak fiasco (BSW 11/15/01)
Walking the Talk Theatre LA's new head, Lee Wochner (BSW 11/8/01)
Requiem for Dean Why TNT's new Dean biopic falls short (BSW 8/2/01)
Faith to Faith Confrontation A preview of Cornerstone's "faith" cycle (American Theatre 6/01)
Lina Todd, You Can Count on Me Excerpt from round-up of year's best casting (BSW 3/15/01)
Critic Takes a Holiday Why performing in Cornerstone's For Here or To Go? was the best Christmas gift ever (BSW 1/11/01)
A New Stage LA Stage debuts (BSW 9/28/00)
Grove North? Grove Theatre Center ventures into Burbank (BSW 9/28/00)
Out of Luckman A Noise Within leaves Cal State theatre (BSW 8/6/00)
Reflections in Glass Susan Sullivan tackles Amanda Wingfield (BSW 5/25/00)
Evidence Mounts Evidence Rooms finds Beverly Blvd. space (BSW 5/11/00)
The Meeting Is Called African Grove Institute meets, following August Wilson's lead (BSW 3/9/00)
Sweet and Lowdown Why Juliet Taylor and Laura Rosenthal's casting deserves a nomination (BSW 3/2/00)
Weill's Body A centennial appreciation and a Happy End preview (BSW 2/24/00)
Rev On Richard Allen in Play On! (BSW 1/20/00)
Ovations Rock, Drag Coverage of the show (BSW 11/11/99)
A Simpler Plan L.A.'s Equity 99-Seat Plan gets a makeover (BSW 10/14/99)
Theatre 40's Offstage Drama Report on troupe's struggles with landlord (BSW 10/7/99)
Putting L.A. Theatre on the Map Theatre L.A. head Lars Hansen (BSW 8/12/99)
Busy Brian Brian Cox does St. Nicholas as Matrix benefit (BSW 7/28/99)
Rat Packs 'Em In A report on the RAT conference (BSW 7/28/99)
Luckman Brings the Noise A Noise Within moves to Cal State L.A. theatre (6/3/99)
Cast Theatre Recast Tanner and Daley take over (BSW 5/27/99)
Breakdown Wins Judgment Company wins six figures from bootleg operation (BSW 3/18/99)
And the Nominees Should Be... A profile of Artz/Cohen's casting for Rushmore (BSW 3/11/99)
Durkin Drama Embattled agent gives up franchise (BSW 12/17/98)
Insider House Ovations Honor Great Men and Women of the Theatre Nos. 1-26 (BSW 11/19/98)
Quality and Quantity A chat with Theatre LA's new head, Alisa Fishbach (BSW 11/12/98)
Net Results The future of online casting (BSW 11/5/98)
Stagestruck L.A. theatre as a launching pad for actors' careers, with sidebar of theatres to watch (Hollywood Reporter 10/6/98)
Show-Tixx a No Show Theatre ticket service shuts down (BSW 7/16/98)
Ashland, the Ride The definitive Oregon Shakespeare Festival feature (BSW 7/9/98)
A Trade Among Trades Back Stage West acquires Drama-Logue (BSW 5/21/98)
Black Stage West August Wilson convenes Town Hall on African-American Theatre (BSW 5/14/98)
Triple Play Actors' Gang and Cornerstone joins forces for Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (BSW 4/02/98)
The Brecht Effect A centennial consideration of his work and influence & quotes from theatre artists about their debt to Brecht (BSW 2/5/98)
Wyle Fills in Blank ER star takes top spot at L.A. theatre company (BSW 12/4/97)
L.A. Theatre Fever Catches Ragtime, Midsummer Win Big and Sondheim Hails Local Spirit (BSW 11/20/97)
Ovations Preview Features Nominee Tracy Young, Voter Don Nelson, and Awards Makers Chris Komuro and Philip Hitchcock (BSW 11/13/97)
Wilde in, Wilde Out Eric Bentley's Lord Alfred's Lover (BSW 10/16/97)
Ovations Don’t Stand on Ceremony Actors' Gang, CTG, and 99-Seats Win (BSW 9/22/96)
DIALOGUES
Model Citizens Actors Jeff Corey and John Randolph recall the blacklist and its aftermath
Actors' Dialogue: Abby Craden & Tracy Middendorf
Actors' Dialogue: Bob Gunton & Anne Archer
Actors' Dialogue: Laila Robins & Brian Cox
Scrooges' Dialogue: Hal Landon Jr. & William Dennis Hunt
Actors' Dialogue: David Dukes & Anna Gunn
Directors' Dialogue: Sheldon Epps & Shirley Jo Finney
Humorists' Dialogue: Mort Sahl & Jimmy Tingle
Actors' Dialogue: Gloria Stuart & Frances Fisher
Actors' Dialogue: Kingsley Leggs & Mary Gutzi
Actors' Dialogue: Geri Jewell & Kathy Buckley
Actors' Dialogue: Darryl Thierse & Veralyn Jones
Playmakers Roundtable
State of the Arts: A Publicists' Roundtable
Traveling Toward a Dead End, Together Dialogue with Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif about their appearance in a new revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play (New York Times, July 18, 2013)
Musical Revivalists With a Cause Profile of Jeanine Tesori's new Encores! spinoff series of alternative musical concert readings (New York Times, July 3, 2013)
Cutting Through a Cultural Thicket Preview feature on new musical of Disney's The Jungle Book, adapted by Mary Zimmerman for the Goodman Theatre (New York Times, June 20, 2013)
The Composer Wears Many Hats Preview feature on Off-Broadway run of composer/lyricist/librettist Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (New York Times, May 26, 2013)
For Sons of 'Raisin,' a Back-to-Back Duel Preview feature on Kwame Kwei-Armah's new Beneatha's Place, a response to Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, staged in rep at Kwei-Armah's theater, Center Stage (New York Times, May 2, 2013)
Writes Well With Others (Even Stage Zombies) Profile of playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury in advance of Social Creatures, a new commission at Trinity Rep (New York Times, April 18, 2013)
In the Minority Talkback post about how it feels to dissent on the much-loved Matilda (New York Times, April 18, 2013)
It's Better With a Band Feature on the trend of rock bands making musicals (American Theatre, April 2013)
The Artist on the Aisle Essay on becoming a theater critic to kick off a week of posts on criticism (HowlRound.com, Mar. 31, 2013)
Camelot's Widow, Without Mythology Preview feature on American premiere on Elfriede Jelinek's Jackie at the Women's Project (New York Times, Mar. 3, 2013)
No, but They Play One Onstage Profile of Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller, who've played couples twice before, playing one again in Amy Herzog's Belleville (New York Times, Feb. 14, 2013)
His Perfect Role Is His Current One Profile of Danny Burstein in advance of his role in Talley's Folly (New York Times, Feb. 8, 2013)
What Happens in Mantua Stays in Mantua Preview feature on Michael Mayer's Metropolitan Opera debut directing a Vegas-set Rigoletto (Opera News, Feb. 2013)
A Musical Makes Changes as Closets Open Preview feature on a revival of Bare, a cult musical about gay Catholic teens (New York Times, Nov. 16, 2013)
The Commons Touch Feature on the Boston-based theater think tank Center for the Theater Commons and its online journal HowlRound (American Theatre, October 2012)
Ungulates in the House Feature on Théâtre de la Ville production of Rhinoceros, en route to BAM (BAMBill Oct. 2012)Rock and Race in Memphis Feature on Broadway musical en route to Denver Center Theater (Applause, Sept.-Nov. 2012)
Walking the Walk, Cane in Hand Profile of Rob McClure, lead performer in new Chaplin musical on Broadway (New York Times, Aug. 24, 2012)
Rehearsal Note: That Bad Choice Could Be Useful Profile of director Daniel Aukin in anticipation of three Off-Broadway productions (New York Times, Aug. 10, 2012)
After the Anger A survey of the Golden Mask Festival of Russian theater in Moscow in April (American Theatre, July/August)
A New "Vanya" for the Living Room Preview of Annie Baker and Sam Gold's new Uncle Vanya at Soho Rep (New York Times, June 3, 2012)
Chameleon Sheds His Camouflage Profile of Giancarlo Esposito in advance of his appearance in Shanley's Storefront Church (New York Times, May 27, 2012)
Out of Mideast, a Comic Recipe for the Stage Preview of Food and Fadwa, inaugural production by Noor Theatre, a Middle Eastern-American theater company at New York Theatre Workshop (New York Times, May 20, 2012)
Preview: February House (Time Out New York, May 16, 2012)
Collaborating With the Cast and Playwright A Q&A with Clybourne Park director Pam MacKinnon (New York Times, May 12, 2012)
“Agony and Ecstasy” Version 2.0 A look at upcoming productions/revisions to Mike Daisey's controversial show (American Theatre, May 2012)
After the War Iraqi theatre artists forge ahead—and reach for global connections—in a cautious, still-fragile country (American Theatre, Feb 2012)
A rich writing life for Molly Smith Metzler Preview of South Coast Rep opening of playwright's Elemeno Pea (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, 2012)
Southern Without the Comfort Preview of Geffen Playhouse opening of Beth Henley's The Jacksonian (The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2012)
Profile: Lydia R. Diamond The author of Stick Fly talks about race, class and cussing (Time Out New York, Dec. 6, 2012)
Triple Threats Emily Mann and Chay Yew write and direct plays, and they run theatres. Not necessarily in that order (American Theatre, Dec. 2011)
The Parent Trap How to hold on to theatregoers with young children? Offer them sitters along with their seats (American Theatre, Dec. 2011)
Back to the '50s, Trying To Escape Freedom's Pitfalls Preview of Playwrights Horizon's production of Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine (The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2011)
He's 'Bring It On: The Musical's' Chief Cheerleader Preview piece on new musical from director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, opening at Ahmanson (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 6, 2011)
Preview: Phantom Limb's 69°S. A puppet company ventures into the frozen wastes of Antarctica (Time Out New York, Oct. 24, 2011)
Darkly Comic Voice Adds a Libretto to His Résumé Profile of playwright Stephen Karam prior to opening of Sons of the Prophet and Dark Sisters (New York Times, Oct. 9, 2011)
The Lanford Wilson Issue: Hot L's Music An essay on The Hot L Baltimore's musicality (Parabasis, Sept. 30, 2011)
Threepenny primer A helpful list of misconceptions about the Brecht/Weill classic, in advance of the Robert Wilson/Berliner Ensemble production at BAM (Time Out New York, Sept. 27, 2011)
Playwright Kristoffer Diaz steps into the ring A feature on Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse (The Los Angeles Times, Aug. 21, 2011)
Preview: Follies The Sondheim classic about faded Broadway dreams returns (Time Out New York, Aug. 8, 2010)
Report: Ohio Theatre and the Ice Factory The downtown fixture finds new roots on Greenwich Street (Time Out New York, June 29, 2011)
Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn’t Play Worth a Lick Preview feature on The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World at Playwrights Horizons (The New York Times, May 19, 2011)
Stage Presence A spirituality of the theater (America, May 2, 2011)
Preview: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark After 2009’s gritty hit Ruined, Lynn Nottage goes lighter (Time Out New York, Apr. 18, 2011)
A Playwright in Song Stephen Sondheim ponders his accomplishments, his way of working, and the form and future of the American musical (American Theatre, April, 2011)
Mexican? American? Call Her Writer Profile of Chicago playwright Tanya Saracho (The New York Times, Mar. 22, 2011)
The Singular Laura Eason How the many facets of one theatre artist—adaptor, actor, artistic director—have forged a major playwriting voice (American Theatre, Feb. 2011)
Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration Preview of revivals of Weill/Anderson musicals Knickerbocker Holiday and Lost in the Stars (The New York Times, Jan. 18, 2011)
Three Pianos Franz Schubert’s Winterreise gets deconstructed with a six-pack of beer (Time Out New York, Nov. 29, 2010)
Clothes Make the Man-Boy A feature on Ann Closs-Farley costumes for The Pee-wee Herman Show (TDF Stages, November 2010)
Pampered Critics? No, Critics in Pampers A report on the New Victory's Egg and Spoon in the company of two critical colleagues (Jason Zinoman, Eric Grode) and our toddlers (The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2010)
Lisa Kron The playwright returns to the painful, divisive years of the Bush regime (Time Out New York, Oct. 28, 2010)
Director's Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat A preview of the Moisés Kaufman-directed puppet opera Puss in Boots (The New York Times, Oct. 1, 2010)
Sort of a Salon, Sort of a Church A feature on Chris Wells' theater "church" the Secret City (The New York Times, Sept. 26, 2010)
Making Confetti Out of Suspense A preview of Denver Center Theatre's production of The 39 Steps (Applause, Sep. 27-Oct. 23, 2010)
Ideas, Actions and Finding the New Mop A report from the TCG National Conference in Chicago in June (American Theatre, Sept. 2010)
Dispatch from Oregon: Angelenos in Ashland Checking in with former Actors' Gangsters and others now working at Oregon Shakes (LA Times' Culture Monster, Aug. 17, 2010)
Re-imagining the Scottish play and other essays on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Ping Chong's staging of Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (Illuminations, summer 2010)
Jonathan Demme makes time for 'Family Week' Preview of Beth Henley play Off-Broadway (LA Times, May 4, 2010)
One on One in Times Square A look at set designer Christine Jones' "Theatre for One"
American Idiot Preview of Green Day musical on Broadway (Time Out NY, Apr. 1, 2010)
Broadway in Black and White A look at the Broadway season through the prism of race (American Theatre, Dec. 2009)
Maggie Siff A profile of the star of Liz Duffy Adams' play Or, (Time Out NY, Nov. 5, 2009)
Still Fresh, Less Flesh Celebration Theatre's Michael Shepperd makes the case that Los Angeles still needs a gay theatre (American Theatre, Oct. 2009)
Waiver War Weapons The history of L.A. Equity 99-Seat Theatre Plan, Part II (LA Stage, June 29, 2009)
Waging the Waiver Wars The history of L.A.'s Equity 99-Seat Theatre Plan, Part I (LA Stage, May 2, 2009)
'80s Sunset Strip meets '09 Broadway Preview of Rock of Ages on Broadway; interviews with Kristin Hanggi and Chris D'Arienzo (LA Times, Apr. 5, 2009)
Michael Sargent: a playwright makes good in the lobby Profile in advance of The Projectionist, with a glance at Grand Motel (LA Times, Mar. 25, 2009)
Female trouble Preview on Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty, or The Rape Play (Time Out NY, Feb. 12, 2009)
Be my feral baby A preview of Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney's Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera (Village Voice, Feb. 12, 2009)
Move it and lose it at "Minsky's" Preview of Ahmanson production (LA Times, Feb. 1, 2009)
America as mix tape Profile of playwright Oliver Mayer in advance of Dias y Flores opening (LA Times, Jan. 22. 2009)
"Spring Awakening" as traditional rebel Preview piece for L.A. run; interviews with Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (LA Times, Oct. 26, 2008)
"Speech & Debate" playwright remains youthful Profile of Stephen Karam (LA Times, Oct. 5, 2008)
Itamar Moses is just looking to make sense of it all Profile of playwright in advance of L.A. premiere of The Four of Us, the San Diego/NY premieres of Back Back Back, the Berkeley production of Yellowjackets (LA Times, Sept. 7, 2008)
A most happy Fela! Preview of Bill T. Jones' new bio-musical (Time Out NY, Aug. 28, 2008)
Hello, 13 Preview of Jason Robert Brown's new musical; interview with director Jeremy Sams (Time Out NY Kids, Aug. 24, 2008)
In the WASP's nest Preview of A.R. Gurney's Buffalo Gal (Time Out NY, July 30, 2008)
Camus filters Preview of Theatre Oobleck's The Strangerer (Time Out NY, July 17, 2008)
Story time Preview of David Greig's Brits Off Broadway offerings Yellow Moon and Damascus (Time Out NY, Apr. 23, 2008)
"Pacific" Theatre Profile of Danny Burstein, playing Luther Billis in new South Pacific revival (TDF, Apr. 2008)
By George, he's got it Preview of Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park With George with Daniel Evans (Time Out NY, Feb. 13. 2008)
Vonnegut Reaction Preview of Godlight's Slaughterhouse-Five (Time Out NY, Jan. 10, 2008)
Myth-buster Preview Q&A with James Thierree about Au Revoir Parapluie at BAM (Time Out NY, Nov. 29, 2007)
Obscenely talented Q&A with Ian McShane about Pinter's The Homecoming (Time Out NY, Nov. 22, 2007)
Can it hold like "Hairspray"? A preview of Broadway-bound "Cry-Baby" at La Jolla Playhouse (LA Times, Nov. 18, 2007) (Times link)
The World of Mee Preview of Chuck Mee's musical play Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater (TDF, Nov., 2007)
His string instruments A preview of Erik Sanko's Fortune Teller at UCLA Live (LA Times, Oct. 16, 2007) (Times link)
It's a daredevil leap Preview of Jef Bek's Evel Knievel: A Rock Opera (LA Times, Sept. 24, 2007) (Times link)
The one and only Profile of the Signature Theatre Company and its next four seasons on Mee, Negro Ensemble Company, Parks & Kushner (LA Times, Aug. 5, 2007) (PDF form)
Edgar Ramirez, professional chameleon Profile of the Venezuelan film actor (LA Times, July 22, 2007) (Times link)
A human side of Deven May Profile of "Bat Boy" originator, starring in "Jersey Boys" in L.A. (June 3, 2007)
They'll be stopping by for a spell Preview of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee's bow in L.A. (LA Times, May 20, 2007) (Times link)
An actor-scholar tees up a big role A profile of Harry Lennix, star of August Wilson's Radio Golf (Apr. 29, 2007) (Times link)
Capturing the soul of the Philippines An interview with Dogeaters author/playwright Jessica Hagedorn
"Two for the Park," profiles of Kelli O'Hara and Mano Felciano, stars of Reprise!'s Sunday in the Park With George (LA Times, Jan. 28, 2007)
Seeing the world in a snow-globe A preview of Slava's Snow Show at UCLA Live (LA Times, Dec. 10, 2006)
He's the guy you hate to love A profile of Brian Cox (LA Times, 10/22/06) (Times link)
Bill Rauch's Oregon Trail, a Q&A with the Cornerstone founding director and the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (American Theatre, 10/06)
Off-Broadway is all over the map, a preview of the season (Newsday, 10/1/06)
A Theater Group Offers Hope at Ground Zero, a feature on 3-Legged Dog's new lower Manhattan performance/media space (New Yorkt Times, 9/7/06)
Not the same old song and dance (page 2), a preview of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (Newsday, 9/3/06)
'Stone Carver,' a Drama Built of Evolving Memories, a story about William Mastrosimone's new play (New York Times, 7/30/06)
On to higher billing, a report on Bill O'Brien leaving Deaf West Theatre to head the NEA's theater programs (Los Angeles Times, 7/30/06) (Times link)
Keeping it real at the Fake A profile of the alt-comedy space the Fake Gallery (LA Times, 6/29/06)
L.A. sifts through pieces of Evidence A piece on Bart DeLorenzo's departure from the space on Beverly Blvd., the glories of the past, and what the future may hold (LA Times, May 7, 2006) (Times link)
Torching the Library: Different Year, Same Temperature A preview of Fahrenheit 451 (New York Times, 3/19/06)
From Norway to BAM, With a Stopover in Oz A preview of Hedda Gabler (Encore, 2/06)
Theater You Can Drop In On (NY Times, 12/23/05)
Christal Weatherly A profile of the costume designer (American Theatre 12/05)
Going Public A preview of The Ruby Sunrise at the Public Theater (Encore, 11/05)
Uneasy Riders Interview with Liev Schreiber about his film directing debut, Everything Is Illuminated
Exit Fervently Gordon Davidson directs Stuff Happens (American Theatre 7-8/05)
Drop Its Avant-Garde? Never A feature on City Garage (LA Times 8/24/05) (Times link)
Not too close for company Feature on Pacific Resident Theatre (LA Times 6/19/05) (Times link)
Broadway's Broadway, but L.A.'s invigorating Profile of Jason Robert Brown in SoCal
It goes like this... As You Like It: The Plot Plays On (Performances 2/05)
The Web of lies Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam (LA Times 12/8/04) (Times link)
Hot, Hip and on the Verge: The Black Dahlia (American Theatre 12/04)
Confessions of a character Profile of actor Leslie Jordan (LA Times, 11/18/04) (Times link)
Dissent in the Model Minority Lodestone's Aziatik Nation at Highways (LA Times 11/17/04) (Times link)
Two Hollywood theater troupes get religion Hell House and Scientology Pageant (Variety 11/1/04)
Actors' Gang goes to the edge Embedded on tour (Variety 9/27/04)
Viennese Waltz Alma comes to L.A. (American Theatre 9/04)
Modernizing Millie (Performances 7/04)
Matched Wits, Kindred Spirits Ferber & Kaufman's writing partnership (Performances, 4/04)
Cornerstone's Jewish Project Yehuda Hyman & Tracy Young Join Forces (LA Stage, 4-5/04)
Obsessed by the Theatre Ravi Narasimhan's passion for theatregoing (LA Times, 1/11/04)
Pamela Gordon obit (BSW 10/1/03)
A Really Big Shrew Tamar Fortgang's Orpheum Theatre production (BSW 9/4/03)
Stage Spot: Alina Phelan (BSW 8/21/03)
Headshots for Sale How a West Wing casting assistant made cash on eBay (BSW, 8/14/03)
Opening This Week: As Bees in Honey Drown (BSW 8/14/03)
Agent Signing Stories: Kristen Bell and Matt North (BSW 8/7/03)
Opening This Week: Gem of the Ocean (BSW 7/31/03)
Don't A.S.K. Theatre funding org announces shutdown (BSW, 7/17/03)
Agent Signing Stories: Damien Midkiff and Laurel Green (BSW 6/5/03)
SRO Reloaded Second Theatre LA conference kicks it up a notch (BSW 5/29/03)
Stage Spot: Tish Hicks (BSW 5/22/03)
Minority Report The case against SAG-AFTRA consolidation (BSW 5/15/03)
Far From Heaven Casting Casting director Laura Rosenthal's inspirations (BSW 3/13/03)
Stage Spot: Jennifer Ann Evans (BSW 3/6/03)
ASK Not Playing Around Theatre funding org's new programs (BSW, 1/30/03)
Ovations Flow for River and Napoli A full report from the Theatre LA awards show (BSW 11/28/02)
Exorcist to Punisher Casting director Pam Dixon's busy year (BSW 11/7/02)
Ovations Expand A look at the year's nominees (BSW 10/3/02)
Casting Emmys Profiles of nominees Jeff Greenberg (Frasier) and Megan McConnell & Janet Gilmore (Alias) (BSW 8/29/02)
Central Settling Report on casting service settling $1.2 mil minimum-wage claim (BSW 6/20/02)
Some ASK Answers Reports on rumors of changes at org (BSW 6/13/02)
L.A.'s Advanced Stages A report from Theatre LA's SRO Theatre Conference (BSW 5/30/02)
What Dreams May Come Chris Wells and Tracy Young join forces to remount Dreamplay (BSW 5/23/02)
ActorFest preview (BSW 4/18/02)
A profile of Mary Selway, casting director for Gosford Park (BSW 3/14/02)
Garlands "Local Heroes" Mini-profiles of director Jessica Kubzansky, costume designer Shon LeBlanc, and sound designer John Zalewski (BSW 1/24/02)
Commercial Break Shubert and Tiffany theatres close (BSW 12/20/01)
Stumbling Ovations Lion and Lintel dominate Kodak fiasco (BSW 11/15/01)
Walking the Talk Theatre LA's new head, Lee Wochner (BSW 11/8/01)
Requiem for Dean Why TNT's new Dean biopic falls short (BSW 8/2/01)
Faith to Faith Confrontation A preview of Cornerstone's "faith" cycle (American Theatre 6/01)
Lina Todd, You Can Count on Me Excerpt from round-up of year's best casting (BSW 3/15/01)
Critic Takes a Holiday Why performing in Cornerstone's For Here or To Go? was the best Christmas gift ever (BSW 1/11/01)
A New Stage LA Stage debuts (BSW 9/28/00)
Grove North? Grove Theatre Center ventures into Burbank (BSW 9/28/00)
Out of Luckman A Noise Within leaves Cal State theatre (BSW 8/6/00)
Reflections in Glass Susan Sullivan tackles Amanda Wingfield (BSW 5/25/00)
Evidence Mounts Evidence Rooms finds Beverly Blvd. space (BSW 5/11/00)
The Meeting Is Called African Grove Institute meets, following August Wilson's lead (BSW 3/9/00)
Sweet and Lowdown Why Juliet Taylor and Laura Rosenthal's casting deserves a nomination (BSW 3/2/00)
Weill's Body A centennial appreciation and a Happy End preview (BSW 2/24/00)
Rev On Richard Allen in Play On! (BSW 1/20/00)
Ovations Rock, Drag Coverage of the show (BSW 11/11/99)
A Simpler Plan L.A.'s Equity 99-Seat Plan gets a makeover (BSW 10/14/99)
Theatre 40's Offstage Drama Report on troupe's struggles with landlord (BSW 10/7/99)
Putting L.A. Theatre on the Map Theatre L.A. head Lars Hansen (BSW 8/12/99)
Busy Brian Brian Cox does St. Nicholas as Matrix benefit (BSW 7/28/99)
Rat Packs 'Em In A report on the RAT conference (BSW 7/28/99)
Luckman Brings the Noise A Noise Within moves to Cal State L.A. theatre (6/3/99)
Cast Theatre Recast Tanner and Daley take over (BSW 5/27/99)
Breakdown Wins Judgment Company wins six figures from bootleg operation (BSW 3/18/99)
And the Nominees Should Be... A profile of Artz/Cohen's casting for Rushmore (BSW 3/11/99)
Durkin Drama Embattled agent gives up franchise (BSW 12/17/98)
Insider House Ovations Honor Great Men and Women of the Theatre Nos. 1-26 (BSW 11/19/98)
Quality and Quantity A chat with Theatre LA's new head, Alisa Fishbach (BSW 11/12/98)
Net Results The future of online casting (BSW 11/5/98)
Stagestruck L.A. theatre as a launching pad for actors' careers, with sidebar of theatres to watch (Hollywood Reporter 10/6/98)
Show-Tixx a No Show Theatre ticket service shuts down (BSW 7/16/98)
Ashland, the Ride The definitive Oregon Shakespeare Festival feature (BSW 7/9/98)
A Trade Among Trades Back Stage West acquires Drama-Logue (BSW 5/21/98)
Black Stage West August Wilson convenes Town Hall on African-American Theatre (BSW 5/14/98)
Triple Play Actors' Gang and Cornerstone joins forces for Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (BSW 4/02/98)
The Brecht Effect A centennial consideration of his work and influence & quotes from theatre artists about their debt to Brecht (BSW 2/5/98)
Wyle Fills in Blank ER star takes top spot at L.A. theatre company (BSW 12/4/97)
L.A. Theatre Fever Catches Ragtime, Midsummer Win Big and Sondheim Hails Local Spirit (BSW 11/20/97)
Ovations Preview Features Nominee Tracy Young, Voter Don Nelson, and Awards Makers Chris Komuro and Philip Hitchcock (BSW 11/13/97)
Wilde in, Wilde Out Eric Bentley's Lord Alfred's Lover (BSW 10/16/97)
Ovations Don’t Stand on Ceremony Actors' Gang, CTG, and 99-Seats Win (BSW 9/22/96)
DIALOGUES
Model Citizens Actors Jeff Corey and John Randolph recall the blacklist and its aftermath
Actors' Dialogue: Abby Craden & Tracy Middendorf
Actors' Dialogue: Bob Gunton & Anne Archer
Actors' Dialogue: Laila Robins & Brian Cox
Scrooges' Dialogue: Hal Landon Jr. & William Dennis Hunt
Actors' Dialogue: David Dukes & Anna Gunn
Directors' Dialogue: Sheldon Epps & Shirley Jo Finney
Humorists' Dialogue: Mort Sahl & Jimmy Tingle
Actors' Dialogue: Gloria Stuart & Frances Fisher
Actors' Dialogue: Kingsley Leggs & Mary Gutzi
Actors' Dialogue: Geri Jewell & Kathy Buckley
Actors' Dialogue: Darryl Thierse & Veralyn Jones
Playmakers Roundtable
State of the Arts: A Publicists' Roundtable
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