Pasadena Playhouse opens Lucas Hnath’s ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
In “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” playwright Lucas Hnath cheekily proposes an answer to a question that has haunted the theater for more than a…
Pasadena Playhouse offers childcare for ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
I was unreasonably elated to discover that the Pasadena Playhouse is test-driving a program that offers Saturday childcare during the May 24 matinee of “A…
a.k. payne’s play ‘Furlough’s Paradise’ is at Geffen Playhouse
Playwright a.k. payne, photographed at the Geffen Playhouse, where “Furlough’s Paradise” is running through May 18. (Marcus Ubungen / For The Times) Among the notes…
Pasadena Playhouse buys back its landmark building
The Los Angeles Times declared the Pasadena Playhouse a “theater of unusual beauty” when it opened May 18, 1925, and for the next hundred years…
How Pasadena Playhouse is helping kids affected by the L.A. fires
On the first day Pasadena Unified School District reopened campuses after a two-week closure caused by the Eaton fire, I brought my daughter to her…
Review: Sara Porkalob shines in ‘Dragon Lady’ at Geffen Playhouse
Three generations of women are assembled in Sara Porkalob’s “Dragon Lady,” the first in her three-part series of musicals about what she refers to as…