Los Angeles

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the  18th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a celebration of Los Angeles’ vibrant community of artists creating new contemporary performance work, over three weekends this fall:  Oct. 7-9, Oct. 14-16, and Oct. 21-23. This year’s festival returns to in-person performances with nine new…

The Echo Theater Company’s  world premiere  production  of  Poor Clare  will open in October, 19 months after the originally scheduled March, 2020 opening that was shuttered by the pandemic. Echo associate artistic director Alana Dietze  (Dry Land) is back at the helm of  Chiara Atik’s  powerful and very funny modern spin on the medieval story of Saint Clare of Assisi. Poor Clare  will open…

A popular country-infused musical reviewed by Stage and Cinema is being remounted October 9, 2021, after two previews October 7-8 at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in Hollywood. The revival of Salvage retains original cast members DAVID ATKINSON  as Preacher and LEONARD EARL HOWZE  as Johnson, plus two exciting additions, NATALIE LLERENA as Destiny  and SAM O’BYRNE  as Harley. Musical…

Ascension is an interactive, sci-fi,  futuristic cyber  play Do you know about it? The Second Sun? It’s real. It’s going to take you home. The Echo Theater Company  presents the world premiere of  Ascension   a sci-fi mystery thriller written by  D.G. Watson  and directed by Echo associate artistic director  Ahmed Best. Performances take place  on  Tuesdays,  Wednesdays  and  Thursdays  Oct. 6  through  Nov. 18, 2021 at  Atwater Village Theatre. One preview…

North Hollywood’s The Road Theatre Company is back with in-person readings on its Magnolia stage. It’s been over 18 months since the theatre doors have been closed but The Road Theatre – led by Founding Artistic Director Taylor Gilbert, together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director – is leading the charge with 2 weeks of new…

“You’ve tried everything. Yoga. Acupuncture. Therapy. You floated in salt water in the pitch- black dark. You juiced, you cleansed, you journaled, you cut, you volunteered. You got a mattress that fitted itself to your fetal form. You ate only RINDS  for three days and nights. You reached out, you looked within,  You have tried.  and yet here…

WITTY CENERENTOLA POPS WITH CHARM After being starved of live opera in Los Angeles for more than a year and a half, there was no better way to celebrate its return to a stage than with the Pacific Opera Project’s splendid production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. Rossini composed  the opera when he was 25 years old,…

Odyssey Theatre presents 4 performances of John Fleck’s it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! a  musical cabaret special event-in-progress We’re deconstructing again.  Odyssey Theatre Ensemble  presents  an entertaining and provoking musical cabaret-style special event, conceived and performed by legendary performance artist  John Fleck  (Blacktop Highway,  Mad Women,  NEA Four).  it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!  gets four work-in-progress performances on  Sept. 18,  Sept. 25,  Oct. 2  and  Oct. 9  in advance of a full-fledged opening…

Congratulations to these award winners of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Here are their encore performances. TransSetter. Winner of the Encore Producers Award. Written and performed by Veronica Carey Matthews. Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson.  After a series of self-inflicted tragedies, a Hollywood dreamer has to go back to basics and figure out some life truths. Out…