LOOKING FORWARD: THE FUTURE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN L.A. INTERVIEW: BILL BROCHTRUP & KITTY SWINK Co-Artistic Directors Antaeus Theatre Co. BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Now almost a year into the ongoing pandemic our fond memories of live entertainment seem to be waning—and too much so for my liking. Just like that rare blue moon […]

LOOKING FORWARD: THE FUTURE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN L.A. INTERVIEW: DOUG HAVERTY Artistic Director The Group Rep BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Now almost a year into the ongoing pandemic our fond memories of live entertainment seem to be waning—and too much so for my liking. Just like that rare blue moon we saw this […]

LOOKING FORWARD: THE FUTURE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN L.A. INTERVIEW: Armina LaManna Founding Artistic Director Imagine Theatre BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Now almost a year into the ongoing pandemic our fond memories of live entertainment seem to be waning—and too much so for my liking. Just like that rare blue moon we saw this […]

LOOKING FORWARD: THE FUTURE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN L.A. INTERVIEW: caryn desai Artistic Director of International City Theatre BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Now almost a year into the ongoing pandemic our fond memories of live entertainment seem to be waning—and too much so for my liking. Just like that rare blue moon we saw […]

INTERVIEW: HUNTER BELL, LEE OVERTREE, AND ELI BOLIN BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO IAMA Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of Found, a new musical inspired by Davy Rothbart’s popular Found magazine, which features scores of actual discarded notes and letters that have been “found” in the real world by everyday people. Found boasts a book by Tony nominated Hunter Bell (Broadway’s [Title of Show]) […]

REVIEW: THE LAST SHIP BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Like a ship lost at sea, the Sting musical, The Last Ship has resurfaced at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles following a UK national tour and a brief run in Toronto. The musical opened on Broadway in 2014 and ran for 105 performances. Now five years later […]

INTERVIEW: THADDEUS PHILLIPS BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO After sold out runs on four continents, including the international cities of Moscow and Hong Kong, 17 Border Crossings made its Off-Broadway premiere on April 11, 2019 at New York Theatre Workshop and ran for six weeks. Based on Phillips’ actual adventures, 17 Border Crossings is a comical, visually surreal, sometimes harrowing, and […]

REVIEW: THE IMMERSIVE NUTCRACKER FÊTE BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO When we think of The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s ballet comes to mind as it’s the most famous adaptation of this E.T.A. Hoffmann story. However, for anyone who’s been on social media this holiday season, “The Immersive Nutcracker Fête” by Fever also comes to mind. Billed as “the most […]

INTERVIEW: SHANA BLAKE HILL BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO When you think of opera composers, Mozart, Wagner, or Verdi, might come to mind, and the name Erich Korngold doesn’t even make the list. Korngold was a man of the movies after all. The Austrian-born composer moved to the U.S. in 1934 to escape the Nazi regime, […]

REVIEW: THE CRIMSON CABARET BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Immersive theatre is all the rage right now and in the last couple of years it’s been finding it footing on LA. This whole movement started in the UK pioneered by the British theatre company Punchdrunk. Their shows like Faust to the currently running productions of Sleep […]