(06/04/2024) - Pasadena Playhouse is now presenting a new production of the Tony Award winning musical Jelly’s Last Jam, featuring a book by George C. Wolfe, music by Jelly Roll Morton, and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead with musical adaptation and additional music composed by Luther Henderson. Check out photos from the opening night red carpet here!
(06/03/2024) - Get a first look at Pasadena Playhouse's new production of the Tony Award winning musical Jelly’s Last Jam, now on stage through through June 23, 2024. The production features a book by George C. Wolfe, music by Jelly Roll Morton, and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead with musical adaptation and additional music composed by Luther Henderson.
(06/02/2024) - Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is presenting the capstone production of its 45th season, the world premiere musical, ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND. Check out photos here!
(05/31/2024) - Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum opens its 2024 summer repertory season in rustic Topanga Canyon this weekend with “The Winter’s Tale,” William Shakespeare’s sweeping romance of passion and forgiveness. Check out the photos, below.
(05/31/2024) - Laguna Playhouse is now presenting HOLMES & WATSON, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Laguna Playhouse artistic director David Ellenstein. Check out all new photos here!
(05/28/2024) - VJM: Thank you both for giving of your time to answer my questions. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of two Choreographers being hired for the same Broadway show, not even a revival, that I can think of. How did that come about for both of you?
Ellenore Scott: Funny Girl was my Broadway debut as a choreographer. I was so happy when I got a call from Michael Mayer (the director) asking me to work on this revival with him. He knew I was NOT a tap dancer and was aware of the multiple tap routines in the show and asked if I would be down to share the billing with Ayodele Casel. Ayo is an extraordinary artist so I was thrilled to be by her side as she made her Broadway debut as well. Michael first met me initially at Head Over Heels on Broadway where I was an associate choreographer to Spencer Liff. In 2019, he asked if I would choreograph the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors and we opened the show October 17th, 2019. I have loved working with Michael and feel as though he keeps his people close and I’m grateful he thought of me for this historic revival.
Ayodele Casel: I met Michael Mayer in 2016 when he directed a New York City Center Encores! show I performed in. Later that fall he invited me to perform that piece in a Broadway for Hillary fundraiser he was also directing. We'd kept in touch over the years and in 2019, after seeing a show I’d premiered at The Joyce Theater, he asked if I would be interested in providing the Tap choreography for a revival he was working on. Like Ellenore shared, Michael wanted to work with us both to deliver the full choreographic vision of the show. I believe it was a very progressive vision on his part and I’m really thankful that I was able to make my Broadway debut with this team.
(05/20/2024) - Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is presenting its next production in Sawyer’s Playhouse (the company’s second stage), the world premiere of #CaseyAndTommyGetHitched by Molly Wagner. Check out all new photos here!
(05/19/2024) - For the 3rd Annual OCTG Theatre Awards—held at the Samueli Theatre in Costa Mesa on May 13, 2024—lauded productions of RIDE THE CYCLONE, A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, CLYBOURNE PARK, YELLOW FACE, AND THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME earned the most wins.
(05/17/2024) - The world premiere of an epic World War II odyssey inspired by an astonishing, little-known true story opens this weekend at The Los Angeles Theatre Center in a co-production between L.A.’s Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena. Check out all new photos here!
(05/15/2024) - Opening weekend of Rubicon Theatre Company's VENTURA LIVE! concert series featured a sold out performance and premier of Make Your Own Kind of Music, an evening celebrating the 60s and 70s’ most iconic women in music, starring Heather Youmans and special musical guests. Check out photos here!
(05/14/2024) - Odyssey Theatre Ensemble joins forces with Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy to present “Going Mad: Alice in Hollywoodland,” written by Richard Alger and directed by Tina Kronis, co-founders of Theatre Movement Bazaar. The two-weekend engagement begins this Thursday. Check out the photos below.
(05/14/2024) - Eight marriage proposals and a plane crash, all in one afternoon. Now in previews, George Bernard Shaw’s high-flying comedy “Misalliance” opens this weekend at A Noise Within in a production directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos. See photos from the production below.
(05/13/2024) - The Los Angeles premiere of “American Mariachi,” a big-hearted, feel-good comedy with live music by José Cruz González, opened Saturday night in a new production from L.A.’s Latino Theater Company. Check out photos here!
(05/03/2024) - DISTRACTIONS AT THE CRASH SITE: Short Plays by Steve Yockey, and directed by Ryan Bergmann, is making its West Coast premiere. Check out all new photos here!
(05/02/2024) - Back by popular demand, Broadway sensation and international smash-hit comedy “Celebrity Autobiography” returned on Monday, April 29 to The Groundlings Theatre. Chcck out photos here!
(05/01/2024) - Collaborative Artists Ensemble will present, 'The Eccentricities of a Nightingale' by Tennessee Williams and directed by Trace Oakley. See photos from the production!
(04/29/2024) - What if we were in charge of creating America today? What kind of future do we want for ourselves? International City Theatre artistic director caryn desai [sic] directs a new production of “What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck’s Obie and New York Drama Critics’ Circle award-winning play. See photos from the production.
(04/29/2024) - Latino Theater Company opens its Spring 2024 season this weekend with the world premiere of an innovative and daring new play with music. See photos from the production!
(04/26/2024) - 'The Body’s Midnight' premieres this weekend in a co-production from IAMA Theatre Company and Boston Court Pasadena. Check out all new photos here!
(04/22/2024) - Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is now presenting its next mainstage production of the 2023–24 season, the West Coast premiere of The Green Book Wine Club Train Trip by Michelle Tyrene Johnson. Check out photos here!
(04/21/2024) - Los Angeles Ballet (LAB) celebrated its Season 18 Gala on Thursday, April 18 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. See photos from the event here!
(04/19/2024) - Inland Pacific Ballet (IPB) will present its original ballet production of Cinderella, returning to the stage with a charming cast of characters including a fairy tale Cinderella, a pair of hilarious Stepsisters, and a radiant Fairy Godmother who sends Cinderella to the ball in a glittering carriage fit for a fairy princess. See photos from the production.
(04/19/2024) - Odyssey Theatre Ensemble welcomes back Olivier Award-winning Irish trio Fishamble: The New Play Company, writer/performer Pat Kinevane and director Jim Culleton, with the West Coast premiere of “King” for a limited, three-week engagement beginning tonight and running through May 5. Check out the photos, below.
(04/19/2024) - LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE will present a transfer production from North Coast Repertory Theatre of their critically-acclaimed production of TARTUFFE, written by Molière, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur, and directed by Richard Baird. Check out all new photos here!
(04/17/2024) - For decades, the multiple award-winning storyteller, humorist, playwright, and bestselling author, Dylan Brody, has honed his unique voice, blending insightful observations with sharp wit and a touch of the absurd to earn him a devoted following and the respect of comedic legends including the late Robin Williams and George Carlin.
(04/14/2024) - A team from We Make Movies has collaborated with the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge for the third year in a row. For the challenge, filmmakers have just five days to write and produce a short film (one to five minutes) based on the year’s genre, buddy comedy which was announced at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The films are required to promote disability inclusion.
(04/12/2024) - American Ballet Theatre just celebrated the North American Premiere of Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The production runs through 14, 2024. Check out photos from the opening night performance here!
(04/12/2024) - All new photos have been released from the North American tour of THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally best-selling novel.
(04/12/2024) - Rubicon Theatre continues the company’s 25th Anniversary Season with the West Coast Premiere run of “A” TRAIN, an award-winning play-with-music about a mother’s journey on the autism train.
(04/10/2024) - Politics collide with art when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet cultural minister Andrei Zhdanov summon composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich to the Kremlin for a vodka-fueled “music lesson” in “Stalin’s Master Class.” The wildly comic, music-filled ride by British playwright David Pownall opens this weekend at the Odyssey Theatre. Check out the photos.
(04/09/2024) - Adriano Aragon/Foursome Productions and Peter Allas, in association with Michael Donovan, present the 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning play DINNER WITH FRIENDS by Donald Margulies. Peter Allas (The Odyssey Theatre's God of Carnage, Off-Broadway's Danny & The Deep Blue Sea) directs this humorous drama on its first Los Angeles equity revival since its 2000 Los Angeles premiere. See photos from inside opening night below.
(04/06/2024) - Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara has released production photos from the much-anticipated production of Troy Blendell, Chris Butler and Leo Marks starring in The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Oánh Nguyễn. Check them out here!
(04/03/2024) - A new production of ‘King Hedley II, now in previews and opening this weekend at A Noise Within in Pasadena, continues the company’s commitment to August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle.” See photos of the production!
(04/02/2024) - Geffen Playhouse is presenting the West Coast premiere of the Broadway production of five-time Tony Award nominee and 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Fat Ham. Get a first look at photos!
(03/29/2024) - The Group Rep will continue their 2023-24 Season with the award-winning play Could I Have This Dance? written by Doug Haverty, directed by Kathleen R. Delaney, and produced by Brent Beerman for The Group Rep. See photos from the production.
(03/27/2024) - THE 24 HOUR PLAYS presented The 24 Hour Plays: Los Angeles on Monday March 18, 2024 at The Hudson Theaters. The event featured distinguished artists from the Los Angeles entertainment community coming together for one night only to create, rehearse, and perform six new plays. See photos from the show!
(03/15/2024) - See exclusive first look photos of 5-STAR THEATRICALS rockin' production of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, opening tonight at the Kavli Theatre at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center.
