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TEA – Hero Theatre at the Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts

Photo by Jenny Graham
May 4, 2022Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Tea, the final installment in Velina Hasu Houston’s trilogy of plays about Japanese war brides, takes place, geographically speaking, in Junction City, a small town in the northeast stretch of Kansas. That’s close to where Houston, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American GI of African American and
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DANCIN’ at the Old Globe in San Diego

Photo by Julieta Cervantes
May 4, 2022Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania In 1978, Bob Fosse created an evening spotlighting the artistry of dance called Dancin‘, utilizing songs from the ’70s, previous decades, and classical music. Currently at the Old Globe in San Diego, the revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ is having its pre-Broadway run, under the direction of Wayne Cilento, one of
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WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF at Geffen Playhouse

Photo by Jeff Lorch
May 4, 2022Terry Morgan  -  Artsbeat LA Bitchiness, thy name is Albee. Has there ever been a play that reveled in so much in mean-spirited badinage as Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sour wit courses through the blackened veins of this show like acidic blood, or more specifically like the booze the characters actively embalm
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BRIGHT HALF LIFE at the road Theatre on Magnolia

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April 20, 2022Terry Morgan  -  Artsbeat LA Plays that chart the course of a romantic relationship have long been a staple of theater. Stories told in a nonlinear way are less common but not unheard of. When you take the previous two structures and apply them to the topic of a lesbian interracial marriage, the result is
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY at the Mark Taper Forum

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April 20, 2022Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania Dynamic performances by Nija Okoro and Greg Alverez Reid fuel Center Theatre Group’s new revival of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky. Phylicia Rashad, who originated Okoro’s role in the play’s 1995 world premiere, returns to direct this humorous production that always simmers with devastation under the surface. Read more…
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ANNA IN THE TROPICS at A Noise Within

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April 6, 2022Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Imagine, if you can, members of the UAW or the United Mine Workers of America hiring a reader to read to them while they labor at their job. And not just any printed material — not a gossip rag or a bodice ripper or a third-rate paperback. No, we’re talking
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A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY at the Odyssey Theatre

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April 2, 2022Terry Morgan  -  Artsbeat LA I have a rule about avant-garde theater: if an artist chooses to deliberately obscure his/her/their meaning via unusual methods or flirts dangerously with pretentiousness, the play had better validate those choices by demonstrating how they were necessary. Most experimental pieces, in my experience, fail that test, but when they succeed
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2004 Awards Nominees

PRODUCTION

  • A Little Night Music, New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
  • Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre
  • Cyrano De Bergerac, South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Stage
  • Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre
  • Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center
  • Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre

TOM MCCULLOH AWARD (REVIVAL)

  • A Flea in Her Ear, A Noise Within, A Noise Within
  • Awake and Sing, Shashin Desai, International City Theatre
  • Rocket to the Moon, Pacific Resident Theatre and West Coast Jewish Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre

DIRECTION

  • Elina De Santos, Rocket to the Moon, Pacific Resident Theatre and West Coast Jewish Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre
  • Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez Elliott, A Flea In Her Ear, A Noise Within, A Noise Within
  • Scott Ellis, A Little Night Music, New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
  • Jessica Kubzansky, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court
    Stuart Rogers, Book of Days, Theatre Tribe, Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre
  • Stephen Sachs, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre
  • Matt Shakman, Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre

MUSICAL DIRECTION

  • Lloyd Cooper, Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center
  • John DeMain, A Little Night Music, New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
  • Kimberly Grigsby, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre
  • Gerald Sternbach, Company, Reprise! Broadway’s Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse
  • Jim Vukovich, Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre
WRITING
  • Athol Fugard, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre
  • Tom Jacobson, Ouroboros, The Other Side of the Hill Productions, Inc., the Road Theatre
  • Richard Kramer, Theater District, the Black Dahlia Theatre, the Black Dahlia Theatre
  • Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre
  • Jean-Claude van Itallie, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court
  • L. Trey Wilson, Stage Directions, Ensemble Studio Theatre—The LA Project, [Inside] the Ford

ADAPTATION

  • Matthew Barber, Enchanted April, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse
  • Bart DeLorenzo, Hard Times, the Evidence Room, the Evidence Room
  • Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dwyer, Chekhov X 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center

MUSICAL SCORE

  • David Troy Francis (music) and Gavin Geoffrey Dillard & Robert Schrock (lyrics), Bark!, with additional lyrics by Mark Winkler, Jonathan Heath, and Danny Lukic, Bark Productions, The Coast Playhouse
  • Marc Shaiman (music) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (lyrics),Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre
  • Jeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics), Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre

LEAD PERFORMANCE

  • Viola Davis, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum
  • Mark Harelik, Cyrano de Bergerac, South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Stage
  • Morlan Higgins, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre
  • Wade McCollum, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Derek Charles Livingston, the Celebration Theatre
  • Dakin Matthews, The Prince of L.A., Andak Stage Company, NewPlace Theatre Center
  • Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre
  • Lenny Von Dohlen, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court

FEATURED PERFORMANCE

  • Julian Acosta, Lovers and Executioners, South Coast Repertory, Julianne Argyros Stage
  • Harry Groener, Chekov X 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center
  • Arye Gross, Brooklyn Boy, South Coast Repertory in association with Manhattan Theatre Club, Segerstrom Stage
  • William Dennis Hurley, Exits and Entrances, Simon Levy, the Fountain Theatre
  • Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in association with Carole Shorenstein Hayes, the Ahmanson Theatre
  • Jeremy Sisto, Take Me Out, the Geffen Playhouse, the Geffen Playhouse at the Brentwood Theatre
  • Cory Stoll, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

  • The cast of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, the Powerhouse Theatre Company and Les Freres Corbusier, Aaron Lemon-Strauss, Andrew Barrett-Weiss and Robert J. Wunsch, the Powerhouse Theatre
  • The cast of Book of Days, Theatre Tribe, Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre
  • The cast of Chekhov x 4, The Antaeus Company, NewPlace Theatre Center

SCENIC DESIGN

  • Michael Anania, A Little Night Music, New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
  • D Martyn Bookwalter, Talley’s Folly, Pasadena Playhouse and Arizona Theatre Company, the Pasadena Playhouse
  • Craig Siebels, Dorian, Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Attractions, NoHo Arts Center

LIGHTING DESIGN

  • Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Caroline, or Change, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, in association with Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ahmanson Theatre
  • Michael Gilliam, 110 in the Shade, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse
  • Jeremy Pivnick, Light, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Boston Court

COSTUME DESIGN

  • Lindsay W. Davis, A Little Night Music, New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
  • Scott Lane, Dorian, Open at the Top Productions and Denver Center Productions, NoHo Arts Center
  • Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theatre Company production presented by Center Theatre Group/Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mark Taper Forum

SOUND DESIGN

  • David B. Marling, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Celebration Theatre, the Celebration Theatre
  • Jon Weston, A Little Night Music, New York City Opera production presented by Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
  • John Zalewski, M. Butterfly, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre

CHOREOGRAPHY

  • Kay Cole, Bark!, Bark Productions, the Coast Playhouse
  • Sean McNight, Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center
  • Jerry Mitchell, Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre

HAIR, WIGS AND MAKEUP DESIGN

  • Paul Huntley (wig and hair design), Hairspray, Margo Lion, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertek-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL & GFO, and New Line Cinema, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, A. Gordon/E. McAllister, D. Harris/M. Swinsky, and J. & B. Osher, Pantages Theatre

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