LOS ANGELES INTERVIEWS

“There’s a great sense of theatricality, an element of surprise. (Parks) brings us in with humor and lightness and then pulls the veil back on us. The play exists in the world of three-card monte—- she cons us.”...

All Roads Theatre Company’s (ARTCO’s) 2025 Season kicks off with the World Premiere musical One For My Baby, which features Broadway stars Lana Gordon and Luba Mason leading a cast of 28 performers, supported by a 12-piece Big Band. I decided to speak with ARTCO’s Fred Barton and Scott Thomp...

Broadway World talks with T.J. Wilkins and Shanice of 44, The unOfficial, unSanctioned Obama Musical, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre through March 23rd. Actor and singer T.J. Wilkins has performed with Stevie Wonder, The Jacksons, John Legend, and Beyoncé, shined on NBC’s The Voice, and been nominat...

44, The unOfficial, unSanctioned Obama Musical, is a comedy starring award-winning film, theatre, and TV actor and singer Chad Doreck as Joe Biden.  You can see Chad Doreck starring on Dead Ringers (recurring opposite Rachel Weisz), HBO’s Grey Matter, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and the hit Netflix...

44 The Musical, is an award-winning comedy produced by Monica Saunders-Weinberg, a devoted philanthropist, international property investor, and film and theatre producer.  44 runs at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City through March 23rd.  Monica Saunders-Weinberg shares her journey producing ...

Eli Bauman talks about the musical comedy he wrote, composed and directs, 44, The Unofficial, Unsanctioned Obama Musical, playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre through March 23rd....

International City Theatre (ICT) is opening its 40th Anniversary Season on February 21 with the Los Angeles premiere of the musical comedy Desperate Measures (inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure). The rest of the season features all premieres, something ICT is not usually known to do. I de...

What’s it like to be on tour as America’s favorite Tomorrow-loving redhead? Fellow tweens (and aspiring Broadway actresses themselves) sat down with ANNIE's Hazel Vogel to find out. ...

In 1942 during World War II, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry - two-thirds of whom were American citizens - were unjustly incarcerated in concentration camps within the United States. Inspired by these events, and given how the rise of bigotry is rearing its ugly head in the world today, it’s m...

Unconditional: A Musical Memoir, written by and starring Margot Rose is a true story of dedication, loss, community, and love, in which two women, already in their mid-forties, go to extraordinary lengths to have kids. Presented at the Skylight Theatre 2/15 thru 3/9, I decided to speak with Margot a...

BroadwayWorld talks with 'The Gilded Age' and 'Sunday in the Park with George' actor Claybourne Elder about his nonprofit, City of Strangers, which gives away Broadway tickets to people who can’t afford them....

Center Theatre Group is presenting the world premiere of Fake It Until You Make It, a farce by LA based Larissa FastHorse (pictured), the first Native American playwright to be featured at the Mark Taper Forum through March 9. I decided to speak with her about her life in the Sicangu Lakota Nati...

Here’s my interview with director Casey Stangl on her vision for Alabaster, a darkly comic Southern drama by Audrey Cefaly about two women dealing with physical and emotional scars that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, opening at the Fountain Theater on February 16....

Michael Fabisch, 23, talks to BroadwayWorld about how he got started in theater, what it's like to take on Evan's emotional turmoil night after night—and how his biggest challenge may actually be tying his tie on stage every show. ...

Even for a seasoned performer, approaching Sondheim’s repertoire can be daunting. “It’s intimidating as a performer because you want to please him, to do something perfect.”...

'A dramaturg generally works as a kind of advisor to a playwright,” muses Mwenya Kabwe, a theatre-maker currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. How, then, does a dramaturg engage with a process in which there is no playwright in the strictest sense of the term?...

Orange County native Sarah Lynn Marion talks with BroadwayWorld about her Broadway debut—and what it’s like to be an understudy for two roles in the show. ...

Sandra Tsing Loh is an American writer, actress, radio personality, and former professor of art at the University of California, Irvine, who was raised in Malibu and went on to take the comedy world by storm, is returning to the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. with a...

Oklahoma native Kelli O'Hara won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I. She then went on to win accolades for reprising the role in London and Tokyo. A frequent performer on PBS's live telecasts...

BroadwayWorld talks with the touring crew of BACK TO THE FUTURE to get the scoop on how the high-tech show makes it on the road....

Cirque du Soleil has two weeks left at its temporary home under the Big Top at the Santa Monica Pier. Before it heads out of town, we got the behind-the-scenes scoop about one of the show's biggest acts....

Broadway leading man Hugh Panaro celebrates the release of his new CD Man Without a Mask with a one-nighter December 5, 2024, at the Catalina Bar & Grill. Songs from the CD recorded over two nights at 54 Below will be featured amongst some other favorites of Hugh....

Read our interview with Adrian Kohler of the LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K from The Tony Award-winning Handspring Puppet Company and the Baxter Theatre Centre....

Comedian Adam Sank Los Angeles premieres his acclaimed one-man show, Bad Dates: A One Man Show About Many Men, at the Broadwater Main Stage for one-night-only on December 6, 2024.  Adam actually came out of retirement to share his bad, but hilarious dating experiences....

Emma Andres is a professional ballet dancer and contemporary/classical ballet choreographer who also has experience working in the techniques of jazz, contemporary, and modern. In 2023, she established Little Women Ballet, creating a series of dance works leading up to the company’s full-length ba...