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Center Theatre Group
23 articles
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Youth director is leaving CTG
Entertainment |
January 17, 2007
Corey Madden, producing director of Center Theatre Group’s youth
program and a former associate artistic director of the Mark Taper
Forum, will leave the company in June, CTG announced Tuesday. Read more
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
CTG gets lion’s share of Ovations
Entertainment |
November 15, 2006
Center Theatre Group was the big winner Monday night at the Ovation
Awards, collecting eight statuettes in the peer-judged contest
recognizing excellence in Los Angeles theater. Read more
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
‘Jersey Boys’ is coming to L.A.
Entertainment |
August 30, 2006
A musical slot at the Ahmanson Theatre next spring will exchange a
“Mountain” for a Valli without budging from the 1960s pop charts. Read more
Friday, August 11, 2006
Want to snag Bening’s `Cherry Orchard’ gown?
Entertainment |
August 11, 2006
The Center Theatre Group, looking to test a new fundraising tactic,
is auctioning off little bits of itself online. Read more
Friday, May 5, 2006
Sing a song of Mamet
Entertainment |
May 5, 2006
Introducing David Mamet, songsmith, and Michael Ritchie, multiculturalist. Read more
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
CTG, small troupes to meet
Entertainment |
September 28, 2005
Michael Ritchie did not win friends with his first landscape-changing
decision as artistic director of Center Theatre Group: eliminating
the programs designed to develop new plays and foster multicultural diversity. Read more
Center Theatre Group leads in Ovation nods
Entertainment |
September 28, 2005
The swan song season for Center Theatre Group’s now-retired founding
artistic director Gordon Davidson yielded 24 Ovation Award
nominations on Tuesday – twice as many as the total for any other
theater company. Read more
Sunday, September 4, 2005
Friday, September 2, 2005
The play’s the thing in CTG plan
Entertainment |
September 2, 2005
L.A.’s flagship theater company has taken a two-year dip in red ink,
and its new leader’s response runs counter to intuition: The way to
stop losing money, says artistic director Michael Ritchie, is to
spend more. Read more
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Discounts made simple at CTG
Entertainment |
August 14, 2005
ATTENTION, theater ticket shoppers. Read more
Sunday, June 26, 2005
The reviews are already coming in
Entertainment |
June 26, 2005
In one of his first actions as Center Theatre Group’s new artistic
director, Michael Ritchie moved last month to eliminate four theater
development programs and curtail new play readings and workshops. Read more
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Cuts’ drama remains at CTG
Entertainment |
June 22, 2005
In the four weeks since Center Theatre Group’s new artistic director
Michael Ritchie announced that he would eliminate most of the
company’s formal programs for developing new plays – including the
annual New Work Festival as currently constituted and labs for
Latino, Asian, black and disabled writers – his actions have been
the talk of the theater community. Read more
Sunday, June 12, 2005
CTG monitors the moniker issue
Entertainment |
June 12, 2005
The Center Theatre Group, which welcomed a new boss in January, has
been quietly polling playgoers on possible new names. Read more
Sunday, June 5, 2005
CTG aims to conjure a magician
Entertainment |
June 5, 2005
After his recent and controversial announcement that Center Theatre
Group’s programs designed to develop new plays and playwrights would
be axed as of July 1, CTG’s new artistic director, Michael Ritchie,
sought to calm the waters by saying he hoped collaborations with
other small theaters would fill some of the resulting gaps in new
play development and ethnic-specific programming. Read more
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Center Theatre cuts new play programs
Entertainment |
May 24, 2005
The ax has fallen on Center Theatre Group programs designed to
develop new plays and playwrights – including a cluster of labs that
has been one of the most distinctive features of CTG’s Mark Taper
Forum for more than a decade. Read more
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Ritchie is preparing to get acquainted
Entertainment |
April 6, 2005
“If this production fails on a major, major scale, then, as I said to
the staff, you might as well start looking for someone else,” said
Michael Ritchie, “because this is everything in one package of what I
love about the theater.” Read more
Sunday, December 19, 2004
‘Think you got me pigeonholed?’
Entertainment |
December 19, 2004
Gordon Davidson opened the Mark Taper Forum with his staging of “The
Devils,” a glance at 17th century Catholic clergy and their sexual fantasies. Read more
Only tapering off
Entertainment |
December 19, 2004
Talk to people who have worked closely with Gordon Davidson, and one
begins to notice a recurrence of kudos in Yiddish. Read more
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Tenure ends, legacy endures
Entertainment |
December 15, 2004
Gordon Davidson watched his career flash before his eyes Monday
evening as the Center Theatre Group celebrated his 38 years as the
artistic director-producer of downtown Los Angeles’ premiere showcase
for new and traveling productions. Read more
