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New trailer is a first peek at 'August: Osage County' movie

2013-05-10 10:39:00

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Today, we are reminded of these universal truths: “Life is very long” (T.S. Eliot). “Family holds us up….Family knocks us down.” And Meryl Streep is poised for a 2013...

Tonys 2013: 'Vanya and Sonia,' 'Lucky Guy' lead play nominees

2013-04-30 07:02:00

NEW YORK -- The Tony nominations announcement Tuesday morning brought good news to Christopher Durang’s dysfunctional-family tale "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and the late Nora Ephron's period journalism weepie "Lucky Guy" with the two...

Marathon plays stand the test of time

2012-11-25 06:00:00

Call it "Long Day's Journey Into Intermission." Or maybe "Waiting ... and Waiting ... and Waiting for Godot." It is the marathon play or performance piece, the theatrical equivalent of the Tour de France or the nine-course prix fixe menu at the French...

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Where's LaBeouf? Shia heading to Broadway, with Alec Baldwin

2012-12-12 07:38:00

The career makeover of Shia LaBeouf has taken another unexpected turn with the announcement that the young actor will make his Broadway debut in the spring alongside Alec Baldwin in a revival of the play "Orphans," a drama about two brothers who kidnap...

Tracy Letts plays his part in illuminating Edward Albee's 'Woolf'

2012-12-01 07:00:00

NEW YORK — Tracy Letts has his hands full these days writing plays and preparing for the release of the movie version of his Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama, "August: Osage County." But he's added another formidable task to his agenda: elucidating...

Reprise Theatre Co. hires Stephen Eich to lead reorganization

2012-11-19 14:51:00

The financially troubled Reprise Theatre Company says it has hired Stephen Eich, an L.A. theater veteran, to help lead its efforts to reorganize during its self-imposed hiatus.� The company is hoping to relaunch sometime in the summer of 2013, said...

Mark Taper season includes plays by Bruce Norris, Sebastian Barry

2012-08-22 11:42:00

The 2013 season at the Mark Taper Forum will feature plays by Bruce Norris and Sebastian Barry, as well as revivals of classics by August Wilson and Joe Orton. Actor Brian Dennehy will be featured in Barry's "The Steward of Christendom."� In all, the...

Critic's Notebook: Anton Chekhov for the modern world

2012-08-04 14:00:00

NEW YORK — Anton Chekhov is always with us in the theater. But this summer his work has been especially prevalent, serving as an inspirational model for such contemporary playwrights as Tracy Letts, Andrew Upton and Annie Baker. Having recently...

Stephen Eich resigns as Pasadena Playhouse executive director

2012-02-02 21:33:26

Reg Rogers is misbehavin', to good effect

2011-09-11 00:00:00

It was evident from the moment Reg Rogers stepped onstage in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park this summer that he wasn't your typical Shakespearean actor. As the acid-tongued Lucio in the Bard's comedy, Rogers quipped, cast a wry eye and generally...

Lisa D'Amour, Melissa James Gibson win playwright award

2011-09-28 16:33:11

Despite its provocative title, "The Motherf***er with the Hat" is a bold, highly articulate and deceptive compassionate Stephen Adly Guirgis drama about the peaks, valleys, minefields and revelations of addiction in an urban underclass.

2013-02-15 00:00:00

Megan Smith (center), 28, a.k.a. The Cutting Edge Andersonville, director of corporate relations at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Sideshow Theatre's executive director "It [a figure-skating outfit] was like 50 cents from a thrift store. I tried it on, and it fit like a glove.

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Celebrated stage designer Todd Rosenthal, on the set of a stage he designed for the play "The Motherfer with the Hat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. The stage is a small apartment set that rotates and twists until it becomes other apartments.

2013-02-08 09:51:00