Saturday, December 12, 2020
This was the year that streaming versions of "Hamilton," "What the Constitution Means to Me" and "Ma Rainey" proved stage stories can shine on-screen.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:53PMFriday, June 5, 2020
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
"In Circles," Al Carmines' musical adaptation of Gertrude Stein's "A Circular Play," gets a topnotch revival at the Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:24PMFriday, September 13, 2019
Playwright Joshua Harmon's family comedy has its West Coast premiere.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Fall theater season highlight for Los Angeles include a musical version of 'Almost Famous,' Bill Irwin in "On Beckett," a revival of August Wilson's "Jitney" and a new standup show by comic …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:12PMMonday, September 9, 2019
John Leguizamo's one-man show, now at the Ahmanson, delves into the Latino history missing from his son’s textbooks. It's a funny, dizzying journey.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:21PMFriday, September 6, 2019
The annual outdoor production of classic Greek theater is Sophocles reimagined by Aaron Posner, known for adapting Chekhov into "Stupid ... Bird."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:49PMMonday, August 19, 2019
Jiehae Park's "Hannah and the Dread Gazebo," presented by the Fountain Theatre and East West Players, follows a New York woman to the DMZ as she unravels the mysterious death of her grandmot…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:44PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
'Fefu and her Friends,' María Irene Fornés' feminist classic, is reborn at the Odyssey Theatre
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:01AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Hal Prince redefined the musical and Broadway in the second half of the 20th century.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:24PMSunday, July 28, 2019
Geraldine Inoa's "Scraps" and Dionna M. Daniel's "Gunshot Medley: Part 1" explore pain in the fight for control over black bodies in America and demonstrate exciting new directions in Africa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:11PM"Into the Woods," Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical deconstruction of classic fairy tales, gets a starry, al fresco revival at the Hollywood Bowl with Sierra Boggess, Sutton Foste…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Rob Nagle, Lisa Fernandez and Justin Huen star in E.L. Lewis' latest play, 'Apple Season' at Atwater Village Theatre
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:55PMSunday, July 21, 2019
"X-Men" superstar and Broadway triple-threat Hugh Jackman performs his concert show, "Hugh Jackman: The Man. The Music. The Show," at the Hollywood Bowl.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:07PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Olivier-winning British comedy "The Play That Goes Wrong" arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre as a comedy of blunders with a fringe-theater soul.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, July 1, 2019
Betsy Brandt stars in a new Pasadena Playhouse version of "Riverdale" creator Aguirre-Sacasa's 2008 work, which centers on a prep-school sex scandal.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMThursday, June 13, 2019
PBS’ ‘American Masters’ explores the path-breaking gay writer Terrence McNally through interviews with Billy Porter, Nathan Lane, Rita Moreno and others.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:07PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Of the many cliffhangers the Tony Awards will resolve on Sunday, the story line that has me on the edge of my seat is whether “Hadestown” will be crowned best musical. Anaïs Mitchell is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMAt a time in America when lies are rampant in public life and alternative truth has been adopted as a winning political strategy, the 2018-19 Broadway season will be remembered for those gri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMIt turned out not to be a horrendous year for new Broadway musicals, if you disqualify “King Kong,” lower your IQ for “The Cher Show” and bring earplugs to “Be More Chill.” “Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Rebecca Taichman won a Tony Award for directing a darkly enchanting production of the Paula Vogel play, now at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11PMMonday, June 10, 2019
The Tony Awards sort out a Broadway year divided between the impulse to innovate and the desire to maintain the status quo.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15AMThursday, June 6, 2019
Handicapping Sunday's Tony Awards: Can "Hadestown" beat "Tootsie"? Will Sorkin's "Mockingbird" be redeemed? And will the Tonys justly reward a female director?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
The playwright gets personal in this documentary tale about his mother, a psych ward chaplain held captive by a suicidal convict. It's a sly, slippery tale.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:53PMAnaïs Mitchell's concept album-turned-folk opera is an exquisite marriage of story and song that advances the art of theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Heidi Schreck's "What the Constitution Means to Me" is more than a performance piece: It's the most moving play of the year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Time passes, and even a contemporary classic can use a nip and tuck. David Henry Hwang, most famous for his Tony-winning 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” performed some not insignificant cosmet…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:14AMMonday, May 20, 2019
The modern classic on gender roles and Orientalism gets an uneven revival at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa directed by Desdemona Chiang.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:26PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Helder Guimarães is either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician. But however you classify him, he’s excellent company in his new show, “Invisible Tan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Directed by Frank Marshall and featuring music by Moby, "Invisible Tango" has tricks that astonish and a storytelling charm that's more than mere magic show.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:25AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Playwright Lucas Hnath is back on Broadway with “Hillary and Clinton,” a zesty drama on America’s most picked-apart political couple that finds Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow in top f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PM 
