Gregory Itzin

Yesterday, USA Network announced its slate of returning hit series for this summer, with most premiering in June and July. (The network said that White Collar Season 5 would be coming in the fall, so fans of that show will have to wait a few extra months....

In Doris Baizley's new play "SexSting," a West Coast premiere by the Katselas Theatre Company, a 14-year-old girl shows up in a chat room. JohnnyD (JD Cullum), a 46-year-old regular, salaciously homes in on the girl, unaware that he's actually hitting...

Bill and Barb are pooped. Just days before wrapping the fifth and final season of HBO's critically acclaimed drama "Big Love," which begins new episodes on Sunday, Jan. 16, series stars Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn freely admit that their demanding...

Getting their due: Four artists are finally receiving visible credit for their life-size artworks outside Staples Center. (Los Angeles Times) Theater nods: The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award winners include Chris Pine for "The Lieutenant of...

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced its winners for 2010 at a ceremony at the Colony Theatre in Burbank on Monday evening. The awards, which recognize excellence in L.A. and Orange County theater, are voted on by theater critics......

The end is near, “Big Love” fans. After a frenzied Season 4 that seemed crammed tighter than a size 8 in size 2 skinny jeans, it now seems that the show has taken some lung-clearing deep breaths out in the......

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced its nominations for the 2010 season on Tuesday. The Antaeus Company's production of Shakespeare's "King Lear" topped the list with five nominations, while Rogue Machine's "Four Places," Actors Co-op's "Wit,"...

If "King Lear" has a moral, it's that if you're lucky enough to have a kingdom, it's probably not a good idea to divide it in two. The Antaeus Company production that just opened in a 49-seat house in North Hollywood turns that wisdom upside down:...

As a stage actor, Gregory Itzin is accomplished enough to have drawn a bead on the title role in the Antaeus Company's current production of "King Lear" -- quite a different take on being a head of state than the......

“King Lear” tests the limits of how much human suffering can be encompassed in a drama. The eminent scholar A.C. Bradley called the play “the most terrible picture that Shakespeare painted of the world.” Dr. Johnson was so shattered by......

Over the past few weeks, our forums posters have been nominating their favorite TV shows and programs from the 2009-10 season for the Gold Derby TV Awards. Voters have until Aug. 6 to vote for the final winner in each category. Two freshman shows lead the...

"Overall excellent nominations throughout with very few complaints," says our Emmy expert Chris "Boomer" Beachum, who gives us his take on Emmy's good, bad and ugly results. Earlier, we posted the views of Rob Licuria. Now let's hear from Boomer: THE GOOD...