Christine Lakin

Are you an actor who suffers from depression due to constant rejection? Have you had nightmares about strangers looking you over as if you're meat? Do you break into a cold sweat at the words "open casting call"? Perhaps "Worst Audition Ever" can...

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle named the winners of its annual awards on Monday for stage productions that opened last year. Sharing the honors for best production were the national tour of "The Book of Mormon" at the Pantages Theatre; "Cyrano" at...

The nominations for the 2011-2012 Ovation Awards were announced Tuesday evening. Leading the way were Center Theatre Group with 29 nominations, followed by the Celebration Theatre and Musical Theatre West, with 16 nominations each. Productions that...

Turn up the "klezmer" — that's Yiddish for music — the opening night of the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival is going to be quite the shindig. "Jewtopia," staring Ivan Sergei, Joel David Moore and Jennifer Love Hewitt, kicks off the 13th year...

“When you’re a kid, you’re a kid all the way….” “West Side Story” meets Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun in “A Christmas Westside Story,” the latest pop culture mash-up from the deliriously daft...

Margaret Gray reviews Troubadour Theater Company's "Two Gentlemen of Chicago" at the Falcon Theatre....

It's time to break out the spiked eggnog again. The Troubadour Theater Company's intensely wacky improvisers, found regularly at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre in Burbank, are back with their annual Christmas show. "The First Jo-el" combines the giant...

It's been six years since Craig Kilborn caught his fans and the industry off guard by walking away from his job as host of CBS' "The Late Late Show." Now he's attempting a comeback with a new show that is......

Teen sex comedies don't come more mindless than Joseph A. Pineda's "Going Down," a movie so seriously underinspired it's hard to imagine it appealing to anyone but fantasy-prone middle schoolers who can barely wait to live it up like their older...