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A Scottish Tale of Two Jessicas
Sketch of Male Costume (l); Rob Nagle as Macbeth, Photo by Daniel G. Lam So there’s one cast (“the Kinsmen”).  Then there’s another (“the Thanes”). And then there are the Hurlyburlys. It’s the...
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Ojai Marks Milestones in Women’s Lives
Everybody has a story. And so, to celebrate the 15th anniversary season of the Ojai Playwrights Conference and its Summer New Works Festival, women storytellers — playwrights, actors, screenwriters,...
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Real and O’Hara Explain What A Pancreas Is
Brittany Slattery and Ian Alda in "Doesn't Anyone Know What A Pancreas Is?" “Doesn’t anyone know what a pancreas is?” That’s not a rhetorical question. It was a wail of frustration from a woman who’s...
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Seniors and the Road — NoHo Home Companions
NoHo Senior Arts Colony. Photo courtesy of NoHo Senior Arts Colony. Some people retire from the theater. But others can now retire to the theater. The new NoHo Senior Arts Colony is a housing...
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On Making The Rainmaker
David Garver, Stephen Howard, Tanna Frederick and Benjamin Chamberlain in "The Rainmaker" You may think that all this rain we’re having is caused by a drop in barometric pressure.  But are youÂ...
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A Conversation With Judd Hirsch — and Freud
Judd Hirsch, photo by Eric Schwabel If there’s one thing that makes actor Judd Hirsch grumpy, it’s when a critic throws in information that Hirsch considers extraneous or irrelevant to the current...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek at Road Theatre’s New Second Home
The NoHo Senior Arts Colony in North Hollywood is finally open for business — after more than five years of planning, critical funding from the now-defunct Community Redevelopment Agency, the services...
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Lori Jaroslow Gives Birth To The Baby Project
Kasi Jones, Ann Hu, Lani Shipman, Jillian Easton and Susan Boyd Joyce in "The Baby Project." Photo by Deverill Weekes. “I wrote it, but I’m so happy I’m not in it!” That’s Lori Jaroslow talking about...
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You Can Dance at Your Divorce Party
Mary Jane Waddell and Samara Dunn in "Divorce Party the Musical." Photo by Jason Gillman. Most people feel that divorce is more of a funeral than a musical, but the new Divorce Party the Musical: The...
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Marshall and Bencivenga Meet Billy & Ray
Shaun O’Hagan and Kevin Blake in “Billy & Ray” at Falcon Theatre In 1943 two highly unlikely collaborators quarreled their way through a movie script that earned the anxious concern of the Breen...
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Believing’s Not Necessarily About Seeing in Yesterday’s
Sheila Walker, Robert Smith and Sean Gorecki in “Yesterday’s.” Photo by Lynn Shane. How do you describe a sheep to someone who has been blind since birth? Someone who has only a relative concept of...
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Teri Ralston Returns to Laguna for Steel Magnolias
Joanna Strapp, Stephanie Zimbalist, Alyson Lindsay, Elyse Mirto,Teri Ralston and Von Rae Wood in “Steel Magnolias.” ‘All of life is an audition,” according to actor/director/singer Teri Ralston. For...
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Dunlap Dances to a Flamenco Beat in Heart Song
Pamela Dunlap and the cast of “Heart Song.” Photo by Ed Krieger. “I have a long history of flamenco,” Pamela Dunlap says — her tongue firmly in her cheek. And thereby hangs the tale. “Actually, I’m...
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Swetow and Zuker Play Actors Playing Trotsky and Kahlo
Christopher Rivas, Ashley Platz, Joe J. Garcia, Murielle Zuker, Holly Hawkins, Greyson Lewis and Joel Swetow in “The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy.” Photo by Ed Krieger. Frida Kahlo is...
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Fantasia Goes for the Goldoni in West Hollywood Park Play
Michael Matthys, Carolyn Crotty, Angela Dubnow and Daniel Jimenez in “Trouble in Chiozza.” Photo by Garth Pillsbury. Director Louis Fantasia detects elements of Romeo and Juliet and even the Hatfields...
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Eve Gordon Opens Her Schedule for Open House
Eve Gordon and Robert Cicchini in “Open House.” Photo by Ed Krieger. We’re sitting in the Skylight Theatre Complex in Los Feliz, and actress Eve Gordon is describing her schedule for the next few...
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A Scottish Tale of Two Jessicas
Sketch of Male Costume (l); Rob Nagle as Macbeth, Photo by Daniel G. Lam So there’s one cast (“the Kinsmen”).  Then there’s another (“the Thanes”). And then there are the Hurlyburlys. It’s the...
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Ojai Marks Milestones in Women’s Lives
Everybody has a story. And so, to celebrate the 15th anniversary season of the Ojai Playwrights Conference and its Summer New Works Festival, women storytellers — playwrights, actors, screenwriters,...
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Real and O’Hara Explain What A Pancreas Is
Brittany Slattery and Ian Alda in "Doesn't Anyone Know What A Pancreas Is?" “Doesn’t anyone know what a pancreas is?” That’s not a rhetorical question. It was a wail of frustration from a woman who’s...
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Seniors and the Road — NoHo Home Companions
NoHo Senior Arts Colony. Photo courtesy of NoHo Senior Arts Colony. Some people retire from the theater. But others can now retire to the theater. The new NoHo Senior Arts Colony is a housing...
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