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Four Clowns Embraces the Darkness with 'Lunatics & Actors'

Four Clowns is a Los Angeles-based, internationally touring clown troupe whose definitions of clowning and physical theater are much different from that which people most often assume. It’s not Ringling Brothers, to say the least. The company was formed on these tenets: humanity, entertainment and redefining an audience’s relationship to the performers onstage.Its first show, aptly titled Four Clowns, was developed by director Jeremy Aluma with the company and produced at the inaugural Hollyw...

You Win Some, You Lose Some, in Love and "War Stories"

According to the website DiscoverLosAngeles.com, there were 4 million people living in the City of Los Angeles in 2015. If you add all of LA County, the number grows to 10.1 million. That’s a lot of hearts falling in and out of love at any given time.In Sarah Kelly’s new play, War Stories, we meet four of them: Chelsea (Sarah Schreiber), an actress constantly attracted to catastrophe; Sam (Clayton McInerney), a writer whose motto is ‘never fall in love with an actress’; J...

Bitter Lemons - Another Side

“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after”...

IT’S A BIT CHAOTIC INSIDE ‘YOUR MOTHER’S VAGINA’

There was an inherent awkwardness to my editor’s request, “I want you to review Your Mother’s Vagina at Hollywood Fringe.” Playwright/director Amy Chaffee is quite aware of the title’s projected discomfort. She has sewn it into the fabric of her two-hander journey through the convoluted friendship of struggling actress/bartender Leila (Beth Gudenrath) and part-time university academic/cocktail waitress Sue Anne (Rachel Hirshorn). Within three time-spanning scenes, they spend most of...

DCA & Fringe to Present L.A. Theatre Panel on June 24

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Hollywood Fringe Festival will present “LA Theater Scene and Paths Towards Success”, a panel&n...

One City One Pride Festival Scholarship Winners Announced

We have partnered with the City of West Hollywood’s One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival...