L.A. Theatre-goers are in for a treat because for four successive Wednesday evenings from February 20th to March 13th, acclaimed actor/writer David Dean Bottrell takes to the Acme Comedy Theatre stage.
"There's nothing funnier, and there's nothing more terrifying, than the truth," says David Dean Bottrell, whose brilliant one man show, David Dean Bottrell Makes Love returns to L.A. as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
I was 20 minutes late when I arrived at the theatre. It was a small joint carved out of an old retail space and the metal door squeaked loudly as I pu...
The first time I ever appeared on stage was in a high school play. I was at the time, a nerdy, nervous 15 year-old with bad skin who had only audition...
About a year ago, I came out of "theatrical" retirement to act in a play here in Los Angeles. During the run I was interviewed by a local arts reporte...
Every once in a while, people in my business need a little pep talk. Over the past few years, I've given a fair amount of them via a mentoring program...
A couple of days ago, a friend sent me a link to a piece published on Newsweek.com that really pissed me off. Written by an openly gay entertainment w...
After several anxious months, the Hollywood community breathed a collective sigh of relief last week when it was announced that the land above the wor...
There have been a lot of news stories lately about celebrities showing up to raise awareness and funds for some of the areas of the world that have be...
When I was a young actor I was pretty damned determined to "make it." To me this meant I had no choice but to nag the hell out of any and all potentia...
Last July, I was in the gym, huffing and puffing away on the treadmill, when a stand-up comic approached me. Soon I found myself agreeing to appear in a show entitled Streep Tease.
I've never been a particularly patient person. I came from a family of slow-moving people who seemed to think that life was something that just unfold...
Recently, I was reading in one of the entertainment rags that in 2009, Steven Spielberg was paid $50 million dollars by Universal for theme-park royal...
A few weeks ago, the Oscar nominations came out and I was shocked to see that my name was not among the nominees. I suppose there's some logic to this...
Last night, I sat and watched the students in my acting class do some very good work. I've been blessed with a very gifted and unique group this time ...
I recently discovered that a short movie I wrote and directed had been viewed by over 100,000 people. This sort of floored me, mostly because it the odds against that little movie even being made were enormous.
bitterness, which grows quite beautifully in Southern California, has to be replaced with something a little more likely to blossom and bear fruit in the New Year.
Theatre in L.A. is sort of a strange beast. When I first arrived here to seek my fortune as a screenwriter, I was floored by the number of small theat...
It's not much of a surprise when megastars like Kanye West land in some kind of trouble. Whatever their moral compass may have been, it no longer works in the upper stratosphere.
The biggest reason I love Jews? They love bacon and Christmas more than I do. Friendly, funny, honest and loyal. As Marty's mother used to say, "What's not to like?"
Other people's family fights always make me uncomfortable. That's why I cringed a little last week as I watched Ryan O'Neal's oldest son, Griffin, spewing a few choice memories about his nutty father on Larry King Live.