KCRW's Opening the Curtain

Okay, despite your best attempts to deny it and stretch it out, the end of summer is almost here. It’s time to plan your fall theater calendar. Here are some quick highlights from LA theaters.

Anthony talks with Steve Chiotakis about the ongoing Actors' Equity Lawsuit surrounding LA’s Intimate Theater and talks about what to look for in the coming months.

Church and State isn't a political play, it's a play about politics.

One of the Nice Ones is a dark black comedy that's not for the faint of heart. It's a nasty play with nasty language -- but it's essential.

In 1978 what the ramones needed was a major hit. What they got was Phil Spector and a gun. That's the back story of John Ross Bowie's Four Chords and a Gun.

If your shoes could talk, what would they say? Now imagine that they’ve been witness to the last half century of atrocities in Poland.

If I had to sum the play up, it's a bit like Chekhov decided to write a science fiction fantasy play with a bunch of asides set today on the the tip of Long Island.

Listening to Ibsen's classic Hedda Gabler at Antaeus Theatre Company, I was struck by unexpected resonances from a play I thought I knew.

Honky is a razor-sharp satire about race in America and what it means to sell white suburban youth black culture and what happens to all of us along the way.

“In & Of Itself”, Derek DelGaudio’s one man magic show, is exciting as much for the magic in the audience as the tricks onstage.

It's easy to see why Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize. It's also easy to see why American Theater magazine identified it as the most produced play of last season.

There aren't a lot of plays that reward a second viewing. The Day Shall Declare It does.

This week I want to tell you about two great shows...trouble is they've already left town. What does that tell us about LA's citywide audience and our presenting houses?

With Pocatello, Rogue Machine Theater returns to Samuel D. Hunter's small town, Idaho, this time with the closing of an olive garden. But the play's less about the closing of a chain restaurant and more about the loss of a way of life.

How are America and Poland connected since the Revolutionary War? That's both the promise and the challenge of Nancy Keystone's epic Ameryka.