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Stage Rows BY BILL RADEN We at Stage Rows would like to formally thank Stage Raw for inviting us to share the hottest if not-very-well substantiated L.A. stage rumors and bald-faced show plugs in...
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall BY BILL RADEN, with additional reporting by PAULINE ADAMEK and STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Theater critics and gossip columnists as a class tend to be a rather narcissistic bunch. It...
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Tectonic Issues of Our Stage The Shocking Nature of Nature For those of you that may not have noticed, the spring equinox silently descended on Los Angeles a week ago Thursday — March 20 at 9:57 a.m....
View ArticleDateline Los Angeles — Where the Theater Ain’t Easy
Dateline Los Angeles . . . Where the Theater Ain’t Easy Dateline Los Angeles — Where the Theater Ain’t Easy When it comes to understanding the decline of theater and its dwindling cultural reach in...
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Vanity Fair, the LAWees, and the End of Jacob Sidney’s Mustache Vanity Fair to Los Angeles Theater: Drop Dead! There are many metrics that one may use for judging the relative health and wellbeing...
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What We Did on Our NYC Vacation, and the Charlies! What We Did on Our NYC Vacation As the crow flies, the distance between Los Angeles and New York is approximately 2,449.79 miles. As we fly, on the...
View ArticleThe Dog Ate Our Gossip
The Dog Ate Our Gossip For those of you who have been dedicated and loyal readers of this column, Stage Rows owes you an apology: We blew our deadline this week, and we are sorry. We wish we had...
View ArticleWhy the Fringe
Why the Fringe? According to something called the United States Association of Fringe Festivals, there are 24 such gatherings currently being hosted by U.S. cities stretching from New York...
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