INTERVIEW: DAVID ORRIS and DAVID HOLLINGSWORTH BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Remember all those classic 80s films where nerds get super powers: Teen Wolf, Zapped, Teen Witch, The Toxic Avenger and Hunk? Well the new musical Invisible (book by David Hollingsworth and lyrics and music by David Orris) based on H.G. Wells The Invisible Man carries that tradition […]

INTERVIEW: DANIEL SUGIMOTO BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Celebrate the film noir Hollywood legacy on stage in the world premiere musical Broadway Noir written by Daniel Sugimoto, presented by Sugimation Productions for this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. This neo-noir musical takes audiences behind the scenes into the shady inner workings of the theatre business. And true […]

INTERVIEW: BOB DEROSA BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Writer Bob DeRosa (Killers, 2010; The Air I Breathe, 2007; and 20 Seconds to Live, 2015) is no stranger to writing exciting action-packed adventures, and now he brings his first play All The Best Killers Are Librarians to the stage at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. The show […]

INTERVIEW: LAURA WILEY BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO America’s favorite show to binge watch, Game of Thrones is taking the stage in Winter is Coming: A Musical Parody, produced by Make Believe Stage Productions, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June 2016. This original musical farce follows the Starks, Lannisters and Targaryens through Season One/Book One of Game of […]

Interview with director MICHAEL SHEPPERD About Celebration Theatre’s Production of The Boy from Oz BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO This April (2016) Los Angeles’ very own Celebration Theatre at the Lex in association with Nicholas Caprio, Michael C. Kricfalusi, Todd Milliner and Jack Morrissey will present, under the artistic direction of Michael Matthews and Michael Shepperd, the […]

INTERVIEW: JOHN BOLEN BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO I remember sitting at a Conundrum Theatre Company play committee session in January to read the over twenty original plays that were submitted. The rule was: We’ll read only the first ten pages to get a sense of the work, then we’ll move on to the next play. Before […]

INTERVIEW: TODD NIELSEN BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO International City Theatre opens its 2016 season with the updated musical revue Closer Than Ever by Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire. The musical is an Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Best off-Broadway Musical that also netted Drama Desk nominations for lyricist Maltby and Shire. This productions is directed and choreographed by Todd Nielsen, marking Nielsen’s […]

INTERVIEW: SAM HARRIS BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Sam Harris, multi-million selling recording artist, Tony nominated Broadway/television actor, playwright, composer, and director brings audiences memories and stories from his life in a wonderful musical format. Ham: A Musical Memoir, now Ovation reccomended, plays at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre until February 7, 2016. Here is […]

INTERVIEW: Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Co-creators Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull began the tall order of writing Empire the musical in 1999, a show recounting the struggle to design and build the world’s tallest Skyscraper during the Great Depression. Since its creation Empire has been performed and work-shopped all over […]

INTERVIEW: Janet Schlapkohl, Playwright Last year Janet Schlapkohl’s play My Sister, starring identical twins Emily and Elizabeth Hinkler, directed by Paul David Story, made its West Coast premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival where it won two awards. Schlapkohl wrote the play with then-theater department students Emily (Magda) and Elizabeth (Matilde) in mind at the University of […]