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Historical and contemporary. Dramatic and vaudevillian. A big show and a personal story. The words Jo Bonney uses to describe Father Comes Home From The Wars by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks are full of contradictions. As is the production itself—and with good reason—said Bonney, who is directing the show’s run at the Mark Tape...

Jo Bonney Directs an Intimate Epic, a Contemporary History

The five plays that make up the 2016 season at the Mark Taper Forum are set across three centuries and two continents. They tackle race and religion, war and family strife, broken hearts and long friendships. But they do have one thing in common: all five plays have a woman playwright and/or a woman director behind them.And perhaps what’s mo...

In 2016, Women Run the Mark Taper Forum

It was December 1974—one of those monochromatic winter days in Paris when the sky, the streets, and the river all seem to turn the same shade of gray.

Samuel Beckett in Prison

“My whole day is about fitting people’s bodies,” said costume designer and 2010 Richard E. Sherwood Award winner Ann Closs-Farley—which is one reason why Women Laughing Alone With Salad, which plays the Kirk Douglas Theatre through April 3, 2016, was a dream job for her. On a daily basis, the actors Closs-Farley works with deal with the sam...

Costume Designer Ann Closs-Farley's Dream Job

Immersive art installations have become all the rage in Los Angeles, and God—and the Ahmanson Theatre—have both taken notice. Whether it’s the throngs of people lined up outside the Broad Museum to snag a spot in its Infinity Mirrored Room or the disappointment of so many Angelenos in not securing a reservation to Los Angeles County Muse...

Artist James Turrell Shines Through the Set for 'An Act of God'

Walk into restaurants, boutiques, and bookstores across Los Angeles, and you’ll find chefs and salespeople touting all things “local”: steaks from locally raised cows, handbags by local artisans, and books by local authors. But you hear this buzzword far less often in the city’s theatres, despite the fact that “Los Angeles is a playwritin...

Celebrating the Playwrights in Our Backyard