Anthony Byrnes

There’s a sketch of next season on artistic directors' walls or computers right now. Maybe it’s a bunch of Post-its on a whiteboard, maybe an elaborate Excel spreadsheet, or just some scribbled lines in a notebook — but there’s an idea about the future. My guess, if

As a writer, it's strangely frustrating to have something you wrote a long time ago (almost 10 years in this case) remain relevant for all the wrong reasons. Here's a piece I wrote back on February 2nd, 2016 about the collision of opening weekends in LA

How do we listen to someone in pain? That was the question that Peter Sellars posed to an audience at REDCAT back in 2004. It was a curtain raiser speech for an Antonin Artaud play, For an End to the Judgement of God. Sellars spoke directly to the audience in

Here are my quick picks for Theater in LA in the New Year. Let's start intimate at Rogue Machine with Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery. I've been a sucker for Hugo Armstrong's acting for literally decades. If you're lucky, you

One of the things I love about the theater is the chance to hear people’s stories each week. With a good play, I get to sit in a room with a whole new world of characters and see what makes each of them tick. What do they care about?

Let’s get this out of the way up front: if you can get a ticket to see the Geffen Playhouse’s Waiting for Godot, do. It's not to be missed. Got your ticket? Okay, let’s dive in. Waiting for Godot is one of those plays. The