Stella Adler

Idealism is a dirty business in Tracy Scott Wilson’s “The Good Negro,” now at the Stella Adler Theatre. It’s Birmingham, 1962, and the civil rights movement led by MLK-like Reverend Lawrence (Phrederic Semaj) finds a public relations dream in...

Everybody loves a good heist, and Ted Lange’s “Let Freedom Ring,” now at the Stella Adler Theatre, has a delicious premise: In the Philadelphia of 1846, a canny band of African Americans, led by freeman Prince Africanus (Lange, who also......

Among the neon signs on Hollywood Boulevard, the Stella Adler Theatre’s quiet marquee says “Hello” — a polite cleared throat in a clamor of catcalls. Those who answer this mild greeting enter the unflashy, beguiling, occasionally unsettling...

Those who didn’t get a chance to see David Sedaris’ “The Santaland Diaries” during last season’s sell-out at the 2nd Stage, take heart. The production is being reprised at the more commodious Stella Adler space, where tickets will, one hopes,......

David C. Nichols reviews Blank Theatre Company's revival of 'The Cradle Will Rock' at Stella Adler Theatre...

Whether to be a hot dog vendor or a birthday party clown may not equal the profundity of Hamlet’s existential question, but we live in diminished times. So when Elliot, the slacker hero of Ryan Eggold’s “Amy and Elliot,” rattles......

Works by David Sedaris (left), Christopher Durang and Michael John LaChiusa will topline the Blank Theatre Company's 2009-10 season. The Hollywood-based company, led by Daniel Henning and actor Noah Wyle, will start its season later than usual in November...

The rabbit hole is getting crowded again. It’s been 144 years since Lewis Carroll introduced the world to an inquisitive girl named Alice, but her surreal adventures still resonate – Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” arrives in theaters in...

For a theater company to launch its first season in the middle of a recession takes guts. To do so in El Segundo -- far off the beaten track of Los Angeles' main theater hubs -- would seem almost foolish.......

When the Blank Theatre Company launches its 18th annual Young Playwrights Festival next month, the line-up will include 12 plays by dramatists ages 14 to 19 from six states. The festival, which runs June 3 to 27, will take place......

A man walks down a pier on the Jersey shore alone at night, leans on a decrepit railing and falls through into the black waves below. Just as his strength gives out, he feels a pair of arms around him -- a rescue. He owes his life to another man. This...

The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has produced its fair share of art, but farce has been one area hitherto neglected. Christopher Durang, operating with his customary lunatic hilarity, bravely steps into the breach. In “Why Torture Is Wrong, and......