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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Youth director is leaving CTG

Entertainment | By Lynne Heffley | 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 | By Lynne Heffley | 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

One-man show

Entertainment | By Charles Mcnulty | September 24, 2006
NO one said it was going to be easy. Read more
 

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Jersey Boys’ is coming to L.A.

Entertainment | By Mike Boehm | 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 | By Christopher Reynolds | 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 | By Mike Boehm | May 5, 2006
Introducing David Mamet, songsmith, and Michael Ritchie, multiculturalist. Read more
 

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

CTG, small troupes to meet

Entertainment | By Mike Boehm | 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 | By Don Shirley | 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

He’s taking the plunge

Entertainment | By Diane Haithman | September 4, 2005
HEY, where’s the fire? Read more
 

Friday, September 2, 2005

The play’s the thing in CTG plan

Entertainment | By Mike Boehm And Don Shirley | 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 | By Don Shirley | August 14, 2005
ATTENTION, theater ticket shoppers. Read more
 

Sunday, June 26, 2005

The reviews are already coming in

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 | By Don Shirley | 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 | By Christopher Reynolds | 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 | By Diane Haithman | 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 | By Don Shirley | 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 | By Don Shirley | 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 | By Don Shirley | 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 | By Mike Boehm | 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 | By Irene Lacher | 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
 
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