Michaela Shepperd News Today

LOS ANGELES — So many fortuitous elements have come together in the Open Fist Theatre Company production of Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root.

If you arent hungry as you leave the Arkansas Repertory Theatre after seeing "Clydes," you havent been paying attention.

"Clydes," a dark comedy by Lynn Nottage, is about self-forgiveness and redemption.

Its an uplifting, wonderfully acted comedy about the power to dream.

Actors Theatre welcomes back the award-winning ensemble UNIVERSES (Ameriville, Slanguage, Rhythmicity) for a kinetic mix of poetry, jazz, blues, hip-hop, boleros, salsa, and storytelling. Party People is a dynamic performance that illuminates the complex legacy of these revolutionary movements, and the potential for cross-cultural coalitions to bring power to the people. Performances are in the Pamela Brown Auditorium April 5-16, 2023.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM is given a fresh spin by the Open Fist Theatre Company, changing the setting from Athens, Greece, to Athens, Georgia, in the antebellum South to mixed results.

A young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go of the past. International City Theatre presents Valley Song, a poignant and hope-filled coming-of-age story by South African master playwright Athol Fugard.

THEATRE REVIEW Open Fist Theatre Company, performing at nearby Atwater Village Theatre, presents a clever and hilariously successful twist on an already twisted Shakespearean tale of star-crossed lovers, controlling parents, semi-successful spells cast by mischievous but

Celebrated LGBT theater director is fired over claims hes a sex pest who performed oral sex on one shocked co-worker, inappropriately touched another - and told victim he masturbated to gang rape scene in Jodie Foster movie Michael A. Shepperd, longtime artistic director at Los Angeles Celebration Theatre, was fired after at least two actors alleged sexual misconduct He was accused of performing oral sex on co-worker Michael Taylor Gray in 2006, and inappropriately touched actor Andrew Diego, i...

The sexual misconduct allegations rocking L.A.s largest LGBTQ theater company Read full article May 28, 2021, 5:00 AM·17 min read Andrew Diegos Facebook post was the center of Celebration Theatres sexual misconduct investigation of artistic director Michael Shepperd, who was fired this week. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) As the longtime artistic director of Celebration Theatre, the city’s leading LGBTQ stage, Michael A. Shepperd has been an outspoken advocate for social justice. As a ga...