March

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, which plays the Ahmanson Theatre March 22–May 1, 2016, arrives in Los Angeles with four Tony Awards®, including Best Musical and Best Director, under its belt. But while the gentleman at its center, Monty Navarro, makes murder look easy, the show itself had a long journey to Broadway. Director Darko Tr...

Director Darko Tresnjak's Guide to a Tony-Winning Show

May we present: GIFs featuring production footage from Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Sheila Callaghan’s audaciously funny new show, which plays the Kirk Douglas Theatre through April 3, 2016....

Working That Salad

On January 3, 2011, “Women Laughing Alone With Salad” became a thing. Edith Zimmerman, editor of The Hairpin, a general-interest website aimed at women, published a post featuring 18 stock photos of women in various states of hysterics over bowls filled with iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, melon and berries, and the occasional cucu...

What's So Funny About Salad?

In this age of bagged lettuce and pre-washed kale, meals don’t get much easier than salad. But it’s a little different when leafy greens take center stage, as they do in Women Laughing Alone With Salad, which plays the Kirk Douglas Theatre through April 3, 2016. Center Theatre Group’s prop team had to draw on their artistry, creativity, ingen...

Making Salad for the Stage

The Mystery of Love & Sex, playing the Mark Taper Forum through March 20, 2016, centers on the long, loving, and frequently fractious friendship between Charlotte and Jonny. So closely bound that they are practically family, they are also divided by religion, race, upbringing, and…well, you’ll just have to experience the play to find out th...

The Mystery of Friendship