What Can Still Be Seen by ‘Twilight’
As Anna Deavere Smith’s theatrical document of the 1992 L.A. uprising returns in a new form, it may feel so in touch with our moment because it helped to define it.
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The Week That Shook Center Theatre Group
When the L.A. theatre announced a season light on women playwrights, a protest led to change and greater transparency.
This Month in Theatre History
From a warning against home-grown fascism to an R&H revisal, from WOW Café to slam poetry.
Michael Ritchie to Retire as Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group
After 16 years at the helm of the L.A. regional powerhouse, he’ll step aside at the end of this calendar year.
Love Letters to the Theatre From Luis Alfaro and Dominique Morisseau
At Long Wharf Theatre’s recent ‘Artistic Congress’ convening, two leading playwright/activists shared their dreams and demands for the theatre field.
Center Theatre Group to Present Regional Premiere of ‘Slave Play’
The play is the first to be announced for the Los Angeles company’s 2020-21 season at the Mark Taper Forum.
Mark Medoff: Communication and Connection
Playwright Mark Medoff, who won the Tony and the Olivier for his play Children of a Lessser God and who taught screenwriting and acting the University of New Mexico for 27 years, died on April 23 at the age of 79. I first met Mark Medoff at an audition. It was at the Mark Taper Forum annex in Los Angeles, and I was reading for him and the director Gordon Davidson, for a role in Mark’s new play, Children of a Lesser God. Though I had…
Center Theatre Group to Present ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’
The 2019-20 season at the Los Angeles theatre will present Heidi Schreck’s play fresh from Broadway, as a Rajiv Joseph play about LeBron James
Center Theatre Group Announces 2018-19 Season in 2 Venues
Next season at the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas will feature world premieres by Lucas Hnath and Eliza Clark, plus works by Tracy Letts, Lynn Nottage, and Luis Valdez.
Places We Never Dreamed We’d Go
What do we owe to this quarter-century-old American classic? More life.
