Shari Barrett

Little Women at Musical Theatre West and Letter from David at Santa Monica Playhouse - Culver City...

Musical Theatre West (MTW) is bringing a beloved holiday classic to the stage just in time for the merry-making season! Little Women, the heartwarming musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s...

Interview: Married Couple Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James on Portraying ROMEO AND JULIET at age...

William Shakespeare’s classic tale of lovers caught between their families and their love gets a new twist when Open Fist Theatre Company presents Romeo…

Carmen by LA Opera, Tommy at the Pantages, and The Music Man at the Ahmanson - Culver City News

What a great week it’s been with so many large-scale shows featuring incredible scores now on our local stages! Let’s start with the new production of Carmen, a co-production of LA Opera, Houston...

Saint Megan at Rogue Machine and A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Little Fish - Culver City News

Winner of a 2026 Los Angeles New Play Project award, Joy Gregory’s provocative new work, Saint Megan, explores belonging and the price of challenging the world in which you live. Joy participated in...

WOOF digs deeper into human-canine connections at The Odyssey Theatre - Culver City News

WOOF, an updated version of last winter’s critically acclaimed comedy hit GO PLAYby author-director Barra Grant (which I called “an extraordinarily hopeful visit into the amazing world of imaginati...

Into the Woods at The Morgan-Wixson and Alex in Wonderland at The Blue Door - Culver City News

Into the Woods is a musical mashup of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests, including Cinderella and her Prince,...

Interview: Director Katherine Chou of THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD at Los Angeles Theatre Center

Here’s my interview with Katherine Chou on directing a rare revival of The Dance and the Railroad, an early play by David Henry Hwang, why its message…

Dazzling and Energetic Catch Me If You Can stage musical at The Colony Theatre - Culver City News

Based on the Dreamworks motion picture, the stage musical Catch Me If You Can with book by Terrence McNally, music by Marc Shaiman, with lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, is now onstage at...

The world premiere of The Case-Book of C. Auguste Dupin opens at Theatre 40 - Culver City News

With Edgar Allan Poe’s creation of the character of C. Auguste Dupin, the master of the macabre forever changed crime fiction. Dupin became the first modern detective, inspiring future literary...

Interview: Writer/Director Howard Skora of TEXAS SODOMY: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF LAWRENCE V....

I spoke with Howard Skora about his decision to write about the human story behind one of the most important civil rights decisions in modern American…

Interview: Adaptor/Director John Strysik of THE CASE-BOOK OF C. AUGUSTE DUPIN

John Strysik is the adaptor/director of The Case-Book of C. Auguste Dupin in with its world premiere engagement opening at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills…

The Women of Lockerbie at The Actors’ Gang and Looking West by MUSE/IQUE at Skirball Cultural...

The Actors’ Gang in Culver City opens its upcoming 2026-2027 season with The Women of Lockerbieby Deborah Brevoort and directed by Christina Harris from September 10-27, 2026, produced in association...

Interview: Director John Perrin Flynn of A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD by Rogue Machine Theatre

Interview: Director/Producer James Paradise of A NUMBER at Madnani Theatre

Caryl Churchill's A Number was first produced in 2002 as one of the earliest dramatic examinations of the possibilities and physical and moral…

Kentwood Players opens Othello and holds auditions for She Loves Me musical in September - Culver...

Kentwood Players presents Othello, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of manipulation, madness and despair that begins when Iago, a resentful, egocentric individual who feels overlooked and undervalued by...

Interview: Maria Catarina Copelli on Costuming ANTIGONE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF KINGS at Getty Villa...

I spoke with costume designer Maria Caterina Copelli, an award-winning Brazilian costume designer whose career spans film, theater, opera, commercial…

Interview: Director Amanda Weier of MARISOL by José Rivera at Atwater Village Theatre

Open Fist Theatre Company is presenting a rare revival of Marisol, the Obie-winning work by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera, whose powerfully poetic…

Interview: Director Michael Keith Allen on PICK OF THE VINE at Little Fish Theatre

Little Fish Theatre’s beloved short play festival Pick of the Vine has returned with a brand-new collection of seven bold, funny, moving, and surprising…

Theatre Palisades Brings Kimberly Akimbo to The Odyssey Theatre - Culver City News

After losing their entire theater complex during the Pacific Palisades firestorm, Theatre Palisades has become a nomadic company sharing their productions in sites around the Westside of Los Angeles....

Interview: Actors Amber Liekhus and Jamar Gilbert of MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom stars A Noise Within resident artist Amber Liekhus in the title role, with ANW newcomer Jamar Gilbert taking on the role of…