News: Onstage

‘Grey Gardens’ Before and After the Beales

In 1972, Gail Sheehy wrote an article for New York magazine profiling a mother and daughter of unconventional tastes who long ago turned their backs on public opinion. This was America’s first introduction to the Beales and their dilapidated mansion known as Grey Gardens....

‘Grey Gardens’ Before and After the Beales

A Backstage Ballet...An Actor and his Dressers

While serial murder is not often considered fertile ground for comedy, when one actor plays all eight of a play’s ill-fated characters, as in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (which plays the Ahmanson Theatre through May 1, 2016), the potential for comedic virtuosity becomes endless. But what are the logistics of playing ei...

A Backstage Ballet...An Actor and his Dressers

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

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

Musicals that Leaped from Page to Screen to Stage

Before The Bridges of Madison County became a Tony Award ®-winning musical, it was one of the highest grossing movies of 1995, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Meryl Streep and showcasing director and co-star Clint Eastwood’s astonishing range. A few years before that, it was a literary phenomenon: a few months after its April 1992 publ...

Musicals that Leaped from Page to Screen to Stage

'The Bridges of Madison County' Gets the Broadway Treatment

Before theater veteran Bartlett Sher directed The Bridges of Madison County on Broadway in 2014, and before its 1995 run as a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, the love story was a slim book penned in two weeks by an unlikely first-time Iowa novelist, college business professor Robert James Waller....

'The Bridges of Madison County' Gets the Broadway Treatment

The Fringe @ CTG has their cake (and eats it too) at ‘Matilda The Musical’

On Friday, May 29, The Fringe @ CTG attended the first performance of Matilda The Musical in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre. Afterward, Fringe guests were invited to the Ahmanson Founders Room, where they were joined by Cassie Silva, who plays Mrs. Wormwood, Matilda’s mother, and Justin Packard, who plays the Escape Artist....