Elizabeth McGovern Wants Us to See the Real Ava Gardner
In ‘Ava: The Secret Conversations,’ McGovern has written a vehicle for herself, as well as a tribute that plumbs the complications of a Golden Age beauty.
Category Archives: West
Head out West with coverage of theatres in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
Jeremy B. Cohen to Lead Ojai Playwrights Conference
Cohen will remain with the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis through June 2024, even as he begins programming for Ojai.
Bruce Barthol, the Musical Conscience of the SF Mime Troupe
The smartest hippie in any room, Bruce married tireless anti-capitalist passion with lyrical wit and musical resourcefulness.
South Coast Repertory Announces Pacific Playwrights Festival Lineup
This year’s festival will present two world-premiere productions along with five staged readings of new works.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Receives Inaugural Pinnacle Commission
The new $60,000 commission is a joint effort by South Coast Repertory and Playwrights Horizons.
Film Noir as a Key to Adrienne Kennedy’s Style
The director of the world premiere of ‘Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side’ shares what unlocked this haunting play for him and the creative team.
Liam Kaas-Lentz Becomes Portland Center Stage Managing Director
Kaas-Lentz will succeed Cynthia Fuhrman in the role, after having served as PCS’s interim managing director since March 2022.
Cornerstone Artistic Director Michael John Garcés to Step Down
Succeeding the theatre’s founding artistic director, he will have led the company through nearly 17 years and several cycles of community-collaborative shows.
White Light, White Heat: ‘Little Foxes’ and ‘Appropriate’ in Rep
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
2023 Black Choreographers Festival Runs This Month
The festival will present BCF @ CSUEB at the Cal State East Bay University Theater on Feb. 11 and New Voices/New Works at Dance Mission Theater on Feb. 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.
