Michael Lamont News

Li'l Abner is being performed February 5 to 17 for 16 performances only at the Freud Playhouse at UCLA. The production will be directed by Michael Michetti, choreographed by Lee Martino, and has musical direction by Darryl Archibald.

Quality of Life remains highly relevant leading up to next years presidential elections, and the enormously talented cast treats the work with utmost sincerity. Metcalf and Williams have the most dynamic characters to develop, as both come to terms with the others choices and their roller coaster emotional journeys drive the heart of Anderson's work...

Reprise! Broadway's Best presents Damn Yankees through Sunday, November 25 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

The Geffen Playhouse has announced the cast lineup for their first produced play in the theater's new commission program, The Quality of Life, which will star Laurie Metcalf, Scott Bakula, Dennis Boutsikaris and JoBeth Williams...

That roar of applause heard from UCLA's Freud Playhouse is a two-fold result of the top-notch production of On Your Toes as part of Reprise! Broadway's Best as well as a note of approval for the smash up job from the company's newest artistic director, actor Jason Alexander...

In Fat Pig, which is making its West Coast debut at the Geffen Playhouse, LaBute goes deep into the psyche of insecure characters, as the subject of weight is discussed, actually argued over when a good-looking guy becomes attracted to a fat chick. Though, the variable phrases scattered throughout the play are often quite more demeaning. What an apropos locale, vanity obsessed Los Angeles, for Fat Pig to run...

Feinstein's at the Regency will continue its spring 2007 season with the nightclub debut of Golden Globe winning star of TV, film and stage Peter Gallagher in an exclusive three week engagement from May 15 - June

If a hero should be regarded as a model or ideal figure, than Gerald Sibleyras' Heroes is sorely lacking any such characters. This American premiere at the Geffen Playhouse sets out with the best of intentions, but sadly disappoints in its final form...

Hollywood is the town where young dreamers flock, hoping to one day be discovered and launch into a career of cheers and stardom. It is a place where everyone walking down the street, be it bum or barista, has within them the next cinematic masterpiece...

Confessing one's sins certainly takes an act of bravery, but imagine doing so in front of a packed theatre night after night, let alone revealing your dark past and divulging family tidbits to absolute strangers...

Move over Rydell High, there is a new group of singing teenage starlets on stage hailing from Springfield High, and they are making audiences flip at the El Portal Theatre as they relive their 1958 Senior Prom to some doo-wop classics...

Fisher gives a glimpse into her roller coaster life in this World Premiere one-woman show...

Peter Gallagher took the stage this past Monday, October 16th at Musical Mondays, a new series of benefit cabarets for The Actors' Fund of America in the lobby of the historic Pantages Theatre.

The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre Company's high-profile 2006-2007 season will include several touring shows, some classic musicals and one world premiere, Broadway-bound musical.