Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Rachel Chavkin was glad to win the Tony Award for best director of a musical for “Hadestown” at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, but made it clear that she was profoundly unhappy about t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
A playwright exploring the Asian American experience and a film and video artist who addresses the representation of Puerto Ricans in culture are among the five people who will receive $75,0…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMFriday, May 3, 2019
“What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award-nominated play that has Broadway buzzing, will come to Los Angeles as part of the 2019-20 season lineup at the Mark Tape…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:44AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Center Theatre Group announced Monday that Meghan Pressman will be its next managing director and CEO, making her the first female managing director in the nonprofit company’s 52-year hist…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Gary Hayashi thought that if he could just get close enough to God, he would be cured. Hayashi was not like other men he knew at church, and he certainly wasn’t like his older brother, who…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” live concert is set to return to the Hollywood Bowl next month just in time for the film’s 30th anniversary, with Lea Michele as golden-voiced mermaid A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, March 1, 2019
“Once on This Island,” the underdog Tony Award winner last year for best musical revival, will lend some Caribbean sunshine to the 2019-20 Ahmanson Theatre season to be announced Friday …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Lakers star LeBron James and his impact on the city of Cleveland during his run with the Cavaliers will be the subject of the new play “King James,” written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Ra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMMonday, February 25, 2019
The Oscars may be over, but the Dolby Theatre is just getting started. For the first time, the 3,400-seat home of the Academy Awards will host a full slate of touring Broadway productions, i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Nudity in "Linda Vista" at the Mark Taper Forum is so abundant, actors can hear the audience gasp when it begins. Lead actresses Cora Chantal Thuy and Cora Vander Broek, director Dexter Bull…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMIn the darkly comic play “Linda Vista” at the Mark Taper Forum, three lead actors get naked. Not semi-naked, but totally naked. And not to take a bath or get dressed, but in service of s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
If you love pop-driven R&B, singer-songwriter John Legend will headline opening night of the Hollywood Bowl’s 2019 season. Fan of Hugh Jackman’s boisterous brand of musical theater? The …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
It didn’t take long for Donald Webber Jr. to hear about the hardships endured by residents of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, the monster storm that ravaged the island in late 2017. The…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:20PMMonday, January 14, 2019
The quadrangle in front of the historic Teatro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico is so quiet that you can hear a feral cat meowing as it lounges on the theater steps. The plaintive sound echo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
Lin-Manuel Miranda cried as he grasped the hands of his “Hamilton” costars during curtain call on opening night here, later raising a Puerto Rican flag and waving it high before wrapping…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:50PMFriday, December 7, 2018
A surprise challenger infiltrated the musical theater album category when the Grammy nominees were announced Friday: The television special “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” star…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:33AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
“Dear Evan Hansen,” the musical whose national tour shattered ticket sales records during an Ahmanson Theatre run that ended Saturday, will return to L.A. as part of Center Theatre Group…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:55PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Our latest roundup of love affairs between Hollywood and the theater world include Michael C. Hall, Keri Russell and Adam Driver, all among the well-known names from TV and film to head for …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMFriday, August 17, 2018
In an effort to lure a new generation of theatergoers, Center Theatre Group on Friday will start giving people 25 and younger free tickets to the first preview of productions at the Mark Tap…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, August 2, 2018
They didn’t set out to do it, but when the creative talents behind the Broadway musical “Waitress” assembled in a room, they looked around and realized something unusual: They were all…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSara Bareilles has spent the last five years of her life working almost exclusively on the musical “Waitress.” With the show still sailing on Broadway after more than two years and a nat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Shhhhh. John Lithgow is performing his solo show, “Stories by Heart.” The five audience members are riveted. Don’t speak, don’t fidget, and for God’s sake, don’t look at your pho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
“The Band’s Visit” won 10 Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical, leading actor and leading actress. But if you can’t get to New York to see the show, when might the show come…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:45PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Laurie Metcalf was anything but a shoo-in for a Tony Award, so her win Sunday for featured actress in “Three Tall Women” naturally raises the question: Did “Roseanne” controversy pla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMThursday, June 7, 2018
L.A. Times’ theater critic Charles McNulty said the performance in “The Iceman Cometh” was “revelatory.” The New York Times wrote that it was a “center-of-gravity” turn, equal …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, May 17, 2018
For five midcareer pros working in film/video, dance, music, theater and visual art, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is a remarkable prize: $75,000 to use at a time when work is often pois…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
“Frozen,” the Broadway musical, will launch its national tour at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in fall 2019, the Pantages announced Tuesday. Following its splashy New York opening in Ma…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo has been creating some of Braodway's most memorable posters since the early 1970s. Now he's put more than 250 of his favorite designs in a book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:48AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Jayne Houdyshell and Reed Birney will reprise their Tony Award-winning roles in Stephen Karam’s play “The Humans” when it’s staged at the Ahmanson Theatre this summer, Center Theatre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:35PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
The musicals “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Mean Girls” each garnered 12 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, leading a pack dominated by Hollywood franchises such as “Harry Potter” and…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:35PM"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25AM 
