Gunfight at the Not-So-OK Saloon
Gilbert and Sullivan were the premiere purveyors of comic opera in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. (Jacques Offenbach was really their only rival). Despite, or perhaps because of […]
Cast at the McCadden
Lemmon, Maschek, Morgan, Jay, Fishman. Photo by Keira Wight.
Back Porch
Picnic is a play by esteemed playwright William Inge. Directed by Joshua Logan, it premiered in 1953 at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre, running for 477 performances and winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In […]
Shelton.
Sinatra: Raw
After playing venues across the world, Richard Shelton brings his extraordinary performance as Frank Sinatra in SINATRA: RAW to the LA Fringe Festival. The setting is the Purple Room in […]
Webster, Stumman, Lloyd, Kemmet. Photo by Eric Keitel.
What Les Miserables Didn’t Tell You About the French Revolution
Theatre 40 has been around LA’s theatre scene as long as I have. The group routinely combines adventurous offerings with copious opportunities for its members to stretch their wings. Its latest […]
Photo Credit Cory Weaver/LA Opera
Otello
It is no surprise that Giuseppe Verdi revered Shakespeare; one master dramatist recognizing that genius in another. The young Verdi had written an operatic adaptation of MACBETH but stayed away […]
David Ellenstein Named Artistic Director and Bill Kerlin Named Managing Director of the Laguna Playhouse
May 18, 2023…Laguna Beach, Calif…Laguna Playhouse and its Board of Directors announced today that North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director David Ellenstein, and Managing Director Bill Kerlin, have been named Laguna […]