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Hamlet

In the title role of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," J. Kyle Manzay delivers a passionate and visceral prince.

"Jesus Christ,' It Was Smoky!

Holy smoke-or, at least, the smoke surrounding Jesus of Nazareth-has filled the Ford Center for the Performing Arts since "Jesus Christ, Superstar" held its first preview there Thurs., March 23. Although Actors' Equity Association claims there is no problem with the revival's use of the smoke, it has been ...

The Deadline for the Headshot and Resume Contest...

HAS PASSED!!! We are no longer accepting submissions.

Unwrap Your Candy

Written and directed by Doug Wright, "Unwrap Your Candy" at the Vineyard Playhouse is a delicious, comic-macabre melding of actors and audiences. The four-part, 90-minute, intermissionless evening suggests Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Addams in its gleeful mocking of viewers' perceptions.

Karen Kondazian's The Actor's Way - No Acting, PleaseFor "Party of Five" casting director

Patrick Rush,less acting is more, and truth books.Patrick Rush is the seventh of eight children and, like many of his siblings before him, was a child actor--though in his case, briefly. After two commercials and subsequent teasing by his classmates, he gave up acting at the age of ...

'Regards' Reaps Refunds

In a stunning, wholly unpredicted turn of good fortune, seven Broadway shows that have benefited from the city-funded "Spend Your Regards to Broadway" program have returned, to the tune of $472,000, some of the subsidies they received during the month of January.

PROFILE: Big Fish in a Big Pond - Tuna titans Joe Sears and Jaston Williams discuss their ongoing theatrical phenomenon.

Austin-based acting/writing partners Joe Sears and Jaston Williams are two of the most successful men in American theatre. They met at an audition for a Shakespeare company in 1973, years later collaborated on a party skit about a couple of hick deejays, and voilà: Greater Tuna (initially bankrolled by ...

Get Up, Stand Up

Theatre LA's Ovation Awards for excellence in Los Angeles theatre are coming up sooner than you think (Monday, Nov. 12), and at a venue you've never been to before: L.A.'s newest large theatre, the Kodak, right in the heart of the newly redeveloped Hollywood. Scooping the ...