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L.A.’s REDCAT Lands $244K Grant To Fund Theater Festival, Residencies

The REDCAT has received a major grant that will help it expand Radar L.A., an international contemporary theater festival set for late September. The Los Angeles interdisciplinary contemporary arts center, known formally as the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, announced this week its received $244,000 from ArtPlace ...

Best of the Week Ahead: April 25–May 1

Opening night of “Pippin” on Broadway; the annual TCM Classic Film Festival; the New York Pops’ 30th Birthday Gala; the Fourth Annual East Side Stories Festival; and “Fela!” at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, starring Michelle Williams, are some of the things we’re looking forward to this ...

‘The Nether’ Entertains While Tickling the Brain

Jennifer Haley’s “The Nether,” a world-premiere technology-gone-dangerous drama from Center Theatre Group, is acted to the nines by Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews, and Brighid Fleming.

Center Theatre Group Is Critics’ Choice

Hosted by actor French Stewart, the 44th annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle handed out awards to the best of L.A. theater, lavishing love on a revival of "Waiting for Godot" and "War Horse."

‘Tribes’ Raises Timely Issues

The deaf son of a hearing family falls in love with a woman who is going deaf, and matters quickly get ambiguous, in Nina Raine’s hot new play “Tribes,” from Center Theatre Group.

Three L.A.-Area High School Students Headed to Broadway

Three finalists have been chosen to represent Southern California in the final rounds of the August Wilson Monologue Competition in New York in May.

Finalists for August Wilson Monologue Competition Announced

The Southern California finalists will be competing on the stage at the Mark Taper Forum for one of three spots at the May 6 finale in New York.

Loud but Never Dull, ‘Backbeat’ Rocks

“Backbeat,” an adaptation of the 1994 film from Glasgow Citizens Theatre, at the Ahmanson, depicts the birth of the Beatles through the travails of onetime bassist Stuart Sutcliffe.

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Nominees Announced (Full List)

“Silence! The Musical,” John Hurt, Danai Gurira, and Christopher Gattelli are among the nominees for this year’s LADCC awards, honoring the best L.A.-area theater of 2012.

‘Other Desert Cities’ Gets L.A. Premiere With Mixed Results

“Other Desert Cities,” Jon Robin Baitz’s latest play, at Center Theatre Group, is comic and plenty political, if overwritten; a couple of key performers fail to hit the bull’s-eye.