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VIDEO: Beth Leavel Visits Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge- Watch Now!

VIDEO: Beth Leavel Visits Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge- Watch Now!

by Backstage With Richard Ridge — October 8, 2020
Tune in right here today, October 8 (12pm ET), as he chats with Tony winner Beth Leavel who will headline concerts with Seth Rudetsky on October 11 (8pm) and 12 (3pm)....
VIDEO: Boy•Friends' Noam Ash, Mike Heslin and Jay Armstrong Johnson Visit Backstage

VIDEO: Boy•Friends' Noam Ash, Mike Heslin and Jay Armstrong Johnson Visit Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge

by Backstage With Richard Ridge — October 7, 2020
Tune in right here today, October 7 (12pm ET), as Richard Ridge chats with Noam Ash, Mike Heslin and Jay Armstrong Johnson from the new web series, BoyFriends....
13Exp's Mikhael Tara Garver Creating Immersive Events for River LA

13Exp's Mikhael Tara Garver Creating Immersive Events for River LA

by Gil Kaan — October 5, 2020
Mikhael Tara Garver, creator and experiential director of 13Exp, will team up with River LA for RIO REVEALS, a series of immersive, online events on the history and future of the Los Angeles River. River LA donors will have access to the in-person FIREFLY NIGHTS, first of their RIO REVEALS series Oc...
Prolific Director Jon Lawrence Rivera MARCHes Thru The Pandemic With The LALGBT Cente

Prolific Director Jon Lawrence Rivera MARCHes Thru The Pandemic With The LALGBT Center

by Gil Kaan — October 4, 2020
Playrights' Arena's artistic director Jon Lawrence Rivera will world premiere MARCH, inaugurating the Los Angeles LBGT Centera??s innovative new live theatre series, GARAGE THEATRE on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Performances for audiences (in their individual vehicles) will take place in the unique,...
VIDEO: Orfeh & Andy Karl Visit Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge

VIDEO: Orfeh & Andy Karl Visit Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge

by Robert Diamond — October 1, 2020
Tune in right here today, October 1 (12pm ET), as he chats with Broadway's favorite couple, Orfeh and Andy Karl, who will headline concerts with Seth Rudetsky on October 4 (8pm) and 5 (3pm)....
Matthew Herrmann Juggling KAREN CARPENTER, THE WOODS & Many, Many Others

Matthew Herrmann Juggling KAREN CARPENTER, THE WOODS & Many, Many Others

by Gil Kaan — September 29, 2020
The versatile and frequent Los Angeles theatre collaborator, actor/producer Matthew Herrmann will next be virtually seen in ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME KAREN CARPENTER, a benefit for the Cavern Club Celebrity Theatre at Casita del Campo October 1 live at 7pm PST. Joining Matthew will be familiar face...
Javon Johnson Is Always Listening, Writing & Loving STILL.

Javon Johnson Is Always Listening, Writing & Loving STILL.

by Gil Kaan — September 28, 2020
Javon Johnson, the most winningest poetry slam competitor to-date ('Humble brag,' Javon interjecting), will open the Pasadena Playhouse's new streaming platform PLAYHOUSELIVE September 30, 2020 with his one-man show STILL. Poet/performer/professor Javon shares his most timely take on the complexitie...
Marc Antolin On Entering the ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS Bubble

Marc Antolin On Entering the ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS Bubble

by Gil Kaan — September 18, 2020
Emma Rice, the creator and leader of the UK theatre company Wise Children, has remounted the interrupted U.S. tour of her ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS. Wise Children will present a LIVE production of ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (with dancing and kissing) livestreaming from the Bristol Old Vic stage September 22 thro...
Dennis Hensley MISMATCHing & Working With Divas

Dennis Hensley MISMATCHing & Working With Divas

by Gil Kaan — September 17, 2020
Dennis Hensley's long-running THE MISMATCH GAME has reinvented itself to the new normal of ZOOM for two weekend nights, September 26 and 27, 2020. Dennis shared some history of his charitable project, produced pre-pandemic on the stages of the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Dennis dons his hosting polyest...
Magician Extraordinaire Helder Guimarães Closing THE PRESENT With A GRAND FINALE

Magician Extraordinaire Helder Guimarães Closing THE PRESENT With A GRAND FINALE

by Gil Kaan — September 16, 2020
Magician extraordinaire (I'm a convinced eyewitness!) Helder Guimarães has been performing his virtual magic show THE PRESENT (a Geffen Playhouse production) since May 7, 2020; when it had an initial run of four weeks, (selling out in under an hour!). With his third (and, sadly, final extension), H...
Beth Malone Being FUN HOME, An AMERICA's Angel & Celebrating Kritzerland's 10TH

Beth Malone Being FUN HOME, An AMERICA's Angel & Celebrating Kritzerland's 10TH

by Gil Kaan — September 11, 2020
Kritzerland will celebrate their ten years of producing monthly cabarets with their 109th show THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, livestreaming this Sunday September 13, 2020. I jumped at the chance to pose a few queries to Beth Malone, Tony nominated for her lead role as author Alison Bechdel in FUN HOME, ...
Bursting Emma Rice's ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS Bubble

Bursting Emma Rice's ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS Bubble

by Gil Kaan — September 8, 2020
Emma Rice, the creator and leader of the UK theatre company Wise Children, will virtually premiere her ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS months after live theatre was shuttered aborting their U. S. tour. The livestreaming from the Bristol Old Vic stage September 22 through 28 will benefit 30+ theatres worldwide, ...
Kerry O'Malley SINGing HAPPY Again With Kritzerland

Kerry O'Malley SINGing HAPPY Again With Kritzerland

by Gil Kaan — August 7, 2020
Kritzerland will present its 108th show SING HAPPY! THE SONGS OF KANDER & EBB as a benefit for Group Rep this Sunday August 9, 2020 at 5p PST via their Facebook and YouTube pages. This tribute to legendary composers John Kander and Fred Ebb (hosted by its incomparably witty producer Bruce Kimmel and...
ISC's David Melville & Melissa Chalsma On Being Free, Social Awareness & The Future

ISC's David Melville & Melissa Chalsma On Being Free, Social Awareness & The Future

by Gil Kaan — August 3, 2020
As live theatre remains in lockdown, Independent Shakespeare Company (ISC) is morphing their Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival into a free, livestreaming program of four FESTIVAL EVENTS on Saturdays in August, and a hybrid stage production of ROMEO & JULIET Labor Day weekend. ISC's co-founders...
Mindy Sterling On Staying Home & Being a Groundling

Mindy Sterling On Staying Home & Being a Groundling

by Gil Kaan — July 27, 2020
The Groundlings alumni and Austin Powers fan favorite Mindy Sterling will be special guesting on The Groundlings weekly online Wednesday show THE CRAZY UNCLE JOE SHOW July 29, 2020, zooming at 8p PST. This hour of improv starts with suggestions from the audience and weaves characters through time an...
DIAVOLO's Jacques Heim Safely Creating THIS IS ME With Vets

DIAVOLO's Jacques Heim Safely Creating THIS IS ME With Vets

by Gil Kaan — July 24, 2020
DIAVOLO/Architecture in Motion's The Veteran Project will premiere its THIS IS ME: LETTERS FROM THE FRONT LINES on The Soraya Facebook page Friday July 31 at 4p PST. Returning to The Soraya for their fourth engagement, DIAVOLO's latest movement piece deals with our current pandemic isolation from th...
Source Material's Samantha Shay Navigating IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES

Source Material's Samantha Shay Navigating IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES

by Gil Kaan — July 20, 2020
Source Material's IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES will world premiere via Zoom July 25, 2020 at 4pm PST. Directed by Source Material's artistic director Samantha Shay, IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES posits the state of theatre in these COVID-19 times using a mash-up of Chekov monologues, drinking duels and coron...
THIS WILL BE Ali MacLean's YEAR @ SheLa Arts

THIS WILL BE Ali MacLean's YEAR @ SheLa Arts

by Gil Kaan — July 13, 2020
The third annual SheLA Arts' Summer Theater Festival has gone completely digital this year, running July 13 through July 19, 2020. I had the socially distant chance to pose a few questions to one of the five elected playwrights chosen for this year's festival, Ali MacLean, whose THIS WILL BE OUR YEA...
Josh Shaw of MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Home Computer Screens

Josh Shaw of MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Home Computer Screens

by Maria Nockin — July 6, 2020
Named as one of Musical America's Top 30 Innovators in Classical Music, Josh Shaw is the Executive and Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Project (POP), one of L.A.'s most exciting opera companies. During the past nine seasons, Shaw has directed over 35 productions at POP. Since 2011, Shaw  has di...
Playwright France-Luce Benson's Been Ready For SHOWTIME - BLUES

Playwright France-Luce Benson's Been Ready For SHOWTIME - BLUES

by Gil Kaan — June 26, 2020
In these pandemic times, The Fountain Theatre has been Zooming their SATURDAY MATINEE series, the latest on June 27 being France-Luce Benson's SHOWTIME BLUES. The cast of this reading includes Cecil Blutcher, Suzette Azariah Gunn and Matt Kirkwood. I had the socially distant opportunity to pose a fe...
Janet Eilber On Martha Graham's IMMEDIATE TRAGEDY & The Lightbulb Moment With Bob Fos

Janet Eilber On Martha Graham's IMMEDIATE TRAGEDY & The Lightbulb Moment With Bob Fosse

by Gil Kaan — June 18, 2020
The works of the incomparable Martha Graham remain a must-see for modern dance aficionados. The Martha Graham Dance Company's latest work IMMEDIATE TRAGEDY will premiere online Friday, June 19 at 4pm (PDT)/7pm (EDT) on The Soraya Facebook page. In collaboration with composer Christopher Rountree and...
The Fabulous Playwright Vincent Terrell Durham Waxes on His POLAR BEARS, BLACK BOYS &

The Fabulous Playwright Vincent Terrell Durham Waxes on His POLAR BEARS, BLACK BOYS & PRAIRIE FRINGED ORCHIDS

by Gil Kaan — June 17, 2020
To commemorate Juneteenth this Friday June 19th, the Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project will present Vincent Terrell Durham's POLAR BEARS, BLACK BOYS & PRAIRIE FRINGED ORCHIDS as a free, live Zoom reading. Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project has gathered groups of regional theatres in various cities ...
Director Jane Page On HUMAN ERROR & New Forms of Storytelling

Director Jane Page On HUMAN ERROR & New Forms of Storytelling

by Gil Kaan — June 12, 2020
North Coast Rep's west coast premiere of playwright Eric Pfeffinger's HUMAN ERROR will go on as originally planned, only in these times of social distancing, being presented online from June 15 through June 29, 2020. HUMAN ERROR's a comedy of a medical mix-up that brings two couples of opposing life...
Grammy-Winning Guitarist Laurence Juber on Whitefire, VERY BRADY & Hope

Grammy-Winning Guitarist Laurence Juber on Whitefire, VERY BRADY & Hope

by Gil Kaan — June 10, 2020
Guitarist Laurence Juber, with a musical resume longer than your arm, will play his first full-length concert since the beginnings of our stay-home orders in AN EVENING WITH LAURENCE JUBER, a virtual benefit for Whitefire Theatre June 13, 2020. LJ graciously took some time for this interview between...
NATIONAL PUPPETRY CONFERENCE's Pam Arcerio Pulling The Right Strings @ The O'Neill

NATIONAL PUPPETRY CONFERENCE's Pam Arcerio Pulling The Right Strings @ The O'Neill

by Gil Kaan — June 5, 2020
First up in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's newly revamped 2020 Summer Season - now online, the 30th NATIONAL PUPPETRY CONFERENCE (PUP) running June 8 through June 12, 2020. PUP, with an already sold-out main CONFERENCE, is offering the public a series of five master classes, as well as, two fre...
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