Casey Smith News

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed the award recipients for 2023. See who the winners are and learn more about the awards!

Zara Larsson releases her brand-new studio album VENUS. Get the 12-track album now via Sommer House/Epic Records. Along with the new album, Zara Larsson has shared the electric official music video for new single “You Love Who You Love.” The video was notably co-directed by Zara herself alongside Viivi Huska.

Playwright Mara Nelson–Greenberg smartly and incisively takes on the topic of male toxicity to explosive and thought-provoking results.

The West Coast premiere of Do You Feel Anger?, written by Mara Nelson-Greenberg and directed by Halena Kays, opens this weekend for a six-week run at Circle X Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Check out photos from the production here!

Circle X Theatre Company starts off their new season with the west coast premiere of Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s Do You Feel Anger? opening January 21, 2023 at Atwater Village Theatre. Halena Kays directs the cast of Tasha Ames, Charlotte Gulezian, Rich Liccardo, Paula Rebelo, Casey Smith and Napoleon Tavale

Circle X Theatre Company kicks off the New Year with the West Coast premiere of a truly outrageous comedy Do You Feel Anger?, written by Mara Nelson-Greenberg and directed by Halena Kays, opens January 21 for a six-week run at Atwater Village Theatre. Performances continue through February 25, with two Pay-What-You-Can previews set for January 19 and January 20.

Ashe releases her sophomore album Rae via Mom + Pop along with the video for latest single “omw.” Fourteen tracks in length, and created with close friends and collaborators Leroy Clampitt, Steph Jones, Casey Smith, Noah Conrad, John Ryan and Afterhrs, Rae ushers in a new era of confidence for the artist.

Produced by K-Kov and co-written by Noa alongside Casey Smith, JHart, Zach Skelton, Miranda Glory, Natania Lalwani, Jax, Jason Hahs and K-Kov, the mesmerizingly explosive track arrives accompanied by a gleaming, sci-fi-inspired, dance-powered music video showcasing Samsung’s new S21+ 5G and streaming now on YouTube. Watch the new music video now!

Aviella & Sawyr combine pop influences and earworm dance melodies on their Dim Mak debut “Lean.” The uplifting single is a heartfelt homage to the people we lean on for support in good times and in bad times.

Circle X Theatre Co. is pleased to announce that effective May 1, 2019 Jen Kays has assumed the role of Artistic Director. Kays has previously served as the Literary Director since 2006 and the Associate Artistic Director since 2014.

Warner Bros. Records collaborated with Netflix for the exclusive music soundtrack of Westside, Netflix's first-ever unscripted music series. The series follows the lives of nine young artists struggling for success in today's high-pressure music industry. Today, the unscripted eight-episode series launches globally on Netflix and the soundtrack WESTSIDE: THE MUSIC is available on Warner Bros. Records.

All For One Theater (AFO) is pleased to announce the return of Gideon Irving's  My Name Is Gideon: I'm Probably Going To Die, Eventually, which is being brought back due to popular demand.  The show will begin performances at The Brick Theater (579 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) on  Friday, November 30th for a limited engagement through Thursday, December 15th.

The greatest guitar players of today and tomorrow will be featured at the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival on August 17-19, as 77 semi-finalists from 63 cities around the world travel to the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts (Wilson Center) in Brookfield, Wis., to compete for their share of $32,000 in prize money.

Join us for Circle X's annual Free Reading Series.

World Premier of How to Steal a Picasso opens at Unicorn Theatre

More of a performance art piece than a play, Casey Smith masters an hour of mimed sketches timed with complementing video projections by Dustin Hughes. Not for the prude at heart, Smith performs a handful (pun intended) of explicit sexual miming, mimics loads of scat and vomit humor, and administers an exorbitant amount of intense violence on imaginary animals, babies, and Smith himself.

Circle X Theatre Co. is thrilled to announce the world premiere solo performance, AT SOME POINT IN THE PROCESS OF THE END OF THE WORLD, created by LA Weekly Award-winner for Solo Performance Casey Smith and Jennifer A. Skinner, performed by Casey Smith and directed by Jennifer A. Skinner.

Circle X Theatre Co. is thrilled to announce the world premiere solo performance, AT SOME POINT IN THE PROCESS OF THE END OF THE WORLD, created by LA Weekly Award-winner for Solo Performance Casey Smith and Jennifer A. Skinner, performed by Casey Smith and directed by Jennifer A. Skinner.