It can be felt at the Getty Villa during a recent rehearsal for Deaf West Theatre’s upcoming production of “Oedipus,” as bodies move across the stage with practiced fluidity. The occasional ...

is being adapted into a stage musical at Los Angeles’ Deaf West Theatre, the production team announced Wednesday. The film, directed by Sia^n Heder and starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin ...

Deaf West Theatre, Inc. (DWT) was founded in 1991 to directly improve and enrich the cultural lives of thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who live in the Los Angeles area.

Inside a theater among the warehouses of L.A.’s Arts District, an ensemble of actors in their early 20s scattered across a bare stage like billiard balls after the strike of a cue. Some ...

Right around the time Pinocchio was written, something called the Milan Conference took place in Italy, which promoted the idea that sign language was not acceptable and that people who were deaf ...

So I had a dream that someday I would establish a deaf theatre for deaf people. And here it is." "It" is Deaf West Theatre, which Waterstreet believes to be the country's only professional ...

Now, with the help of director Michael Unger, she has adapted the script for a non-hearing audience at Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood. KPCC’s Steve Julian met with Unger, the deaf ...

Taking a page from Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles, Garden Theatre‘s production of “Pippin” is a musical beautifully understood by both the ears and the eyes. Deaf West Theatre is a pioneer ...

That study, which found that two in three Black Americans don’t see their stories represented in movies and shows, resonated with DJ Kurs, the artistic director of Deaf West Theatre, a Los ...

Deaf West Theatre artistic director DJ Kurs signed from the stage at Westwood’s Regency Village Theatre last Thursday night, referring to Sign Language Barbie, which Mattel released in 2000.