LATR La Fringe Award Recipients

The 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival is now behind us.  Last night we had the extreme pleasure of handing out four La Fringe awards, all for outstanding contribution to theatre in Los Angeles.

The nominees and recipients were:
Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Los Angeles in a Solo Show
1. The Event
2. Brownsville Bred
3. The Most Dangerous Woman in [...]

Fringe Town Hall Cements Enthusiasm, Commitment

by K. Primeau~
Hollywood – An energetic crowd of performance artists, dancers, directors, producers, playwrights, theatre companies, and local council members waited in line to participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s community assembly last evening. The first public meeting to discuss the festival, set for June 17 to the 27, has been three years and one [...]

Welcome to the New LA Theatre Review

We have been working on a redesign of our on-line newspaper for some time.  In the last several weeks, during the holidays, instead of creating new content, we concentrated simply and completely on building the new site.  (And, of course, enjoying the holidays, we aren’t that altruistic!)
With this new design, we have added many features, [...]

The Conversation

Editor’s Note: This month the “Editor’s Page” will also be the front page because it goes far in expressing what we are about at Los Angeles Theatre Review and why we do what we do.
by Geoff Hoff
We Love Small Theatre
What are reviews?
Some people think of them as consumer advocacy. An expression of “Don’t see [...]

The Idea of Theatre

Editor’s note: This article first appeared as a blog post on LA Stage. It was written by one of the founding members of Rogue Machine. We liked it enough to ask permission to reprint it here. Thank you , Mr. Flynn, for your kind permission.
The Idea of A Theatre - [...]

What Does Every Theatre Want? Butts in the Seats

An Interview with Robert
Moskowitz
by Geoff Hoff
Robert Moskowitz
Robert Moskowitz hates to see empty seats in any theatre and wants to do something about it. He has thought about it a lot and the idea he has come up with is a theatre co-op, an organization designed, in theory, to relieve individual small theatres in Los [...]

Hollywood’s Lunitic Fringe

Is it finally time for a Hollywood Fringe Festival?
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by Jonathan Harris~
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Fringe theatre can be tricky to define. Many hold that to qualify as a true fringe production, a show must be cutting-edge, avant-garde or, at the very least, far riskier aesthetically than the mundane, status quo productions found at the majority of regional theatres across [...]