Writer Janet Dulin Jones has been working on a screenplay, now a play, about the life of Charles Dickens since 1990. Director and co-writer Paul Lazarus has worked with her for the past 3 years. Now they've collaborated with the Antaeus Company, Los Angeles's classical theatre ensemble () to bring Dickens to the stage. This weekend, for five performances only, Los Angeles audiences finally get a chance to sneak a look at this mysterious story - an tale of Dickens' own life and his investigations of murder, treachery, and skullduggery in 1830s London. more ›

The nominees for the 2004-2005 Ovation Awards have been announced. You can read the full list here. The Ovations are an annual peer-judged awards ceremony for Los Angeles theatre, and are voted on by represesntatives from the member theatre companies of LA Stage Alliance. more ›

What's going on this weekend? How about a trip to Bavaria in the 1620s, to a war-torn region divided between Protestants and Catholics, and all via the rafters of a North Hollywood warehouse? The Antaeus Company's successful run of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage And Her Children: A Chronicle Of The Thirty Years' War has been extended for two more weeks. Laist caught one of the remaining shows this Thursday and was enthralled. more ›