Kirk Douglas News

The 39th annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards will be handed out on March 17 at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre. The awards, recognizing excellence in Southern California theatre, including Los Angeles and Orange County, will be hosted by Jason Graae.

In No Child?, Sun's highly entertaining and message driven one-woman play, now running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the life altering affect theatre can have on children is thrown center stage...

Traveling Light Productions is proud to present the U.S. Premiere of Looking Up, written by Carla Cantrelle and directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Performances will run from February 16 to March 2, 2008 in a limited engagement at Theater for the New City in NYC. Previews begin Feb. 16 for a February 18 opening.

Ron Rifkin, John Glover, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor and Patricia Wettig are set to reprise their roles in Jon Robin Baitz's modern tragedy The Paris Letter for LA Theatre Works. LATW records five performances of The Paris Letter February 20-24 at the Skirball Cultural Center

Center Theatre Group's latest musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, has a central message, and it is rather simple, f@$k theatrical conventions. Thanks to the progressive nature of recent offerings including Spring Awakening and the soon to open Passing Strange, Broadway has been breaking away from tradition with rock music infiltrating the stage and concert style staging springing up...

The new musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson had its world premiere Sunday at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, in Culver City, and is set to run through February 17th...

David Mamet's much anticipated musical A Waitress in Yellowstone has been pulled from Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre's upcoming season, replaced by another Mamet world premiere, Keep Your Pantheon, according to CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie...

Direct from a triumphant year-long Off Broadway run, starring the acclaimed teaching artist and solo performer Nilaja Sun brings her tour-de-force exploration of the New York City public school system, No Child…, to theaters across the country for the 2007 - 08 season.

Jason Alexander, new artistic director of Reprise! Broadway's Best, announced that Cleavant Derricks, Meg Gillentine, Amelia McQueen, Ken Page, Ty Taylor, Lillias White and Jackee Harry would head up the cast of Damn Yankees. Damn Yankees will perform Tuesday, November 6 through Sunday, November 25 (opening November 7) at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

The 2007 LA Stage Alliance Ovation nominees have been announced. Celebrating excellence in Los Angeles Theatre, the awards will be presented on November 12 at 7:30PM at The Orpheum Theatre (842 S. Broadway, Downtown LA).

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Patti LuPone may be returning to the boards in a new musical.

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced its upcoming Broadway production of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba will be directed by Michael Pressman and will star Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winner and Tony Award nominee S. Epatha Merkerson.

Martin Sheen and Tim Robbins head an all-star cast that includes Beau Bridges, Mike Farrell, Camryn Manheim and Sandra Oh in a benefit reading of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Daniel Berrigan, directed by Gordon Davidson

Film and stage star Kirk Douglas will sign editions of his new book 'Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving And Learning' on Wednesday, July 4 from 2 pm through 4 pm.

By popular demand, Primary Stages, in association with the Perry Street Theatre, Patrick Blake, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, and Richard Jordan, and under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, have announced that the hit award-winning play, In The Continuum, written and performed by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, with direction by Robert O'Hara, returns to South Africa in July 2007 following an acclaimed international and U.S. tour that launched in Harare, Zimbabwe in April 2006

Kristen Chenoweth and Jason Alexander were on hand for the Hollywood Bowl's 86th season where they helped induct Placido Domingo and John Mauceri into the Bowl's Hall of Fame...

The Center Theatre Group's production of Come Back, Little Sheba opened June 24 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in downtown Culver City, which is staring S. Epatha Merkerson and Alan Rosenberg in the William Inge classic...

Genesius Theatre Group (GTG) will present GrooveLily's Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda for a one night only musical road trip.

Los Angeles got a taste of the Garden State Sunday as the Tony Award winning Jersey Boys opened at the Ahmanson Theatre June 3, drawing out plenty of entertainment heavy weights...

Variety.com reports that SAG President Alan Rosenberg (Broadway's Lost in Yonkers, TV's 'CSI,' film Last Temptation of Christ) will be starring opposite Tony-nominee S. Epatha Merkerson (TV's 'Law & Order,' Broadway's The Piano Lesson) in Center Theater Group's production of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba.