Monday, April 28, 2025

'Furlough's Paradise' imagines utopia for two Black cousins on a quest for liberty by Charles McNulty

a.k. payne's 'Furlough's Paradise,' winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, opens at the Geffen Playhouse under the direction of Tinashe Kajese-Bolden.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:13PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

'Dead Outlaw,' a musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach, makes its way to Broadway by Charles McNulty

"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit," opens on Broadway.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05PM
Friday, April 25, 2025

Josefina López brings Boyle Heights to Broadway in 'Real Women Have Curves: The Musical' by Andrea Flores

The Boyle Heights-inspired musical "Real Women Have Curves" makes its Broadway debut on Sunday, April 27. Playwright Josefina López speaks to De Los about its origin story.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:31PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Netflix and 'Stranger Things' take on Broadway. Enter at your own peril by Charles McNulty

'Stranger Things: The First Shadow,' a prequel to the hit streaming series, opens at the Marquis Theatre, bringing Netflix branding to Broadway.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AM
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Playwright Keiko Green invites audiences to party like it's the apocalypse by Charles McNulty

Keiko Green's 'You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World,' a comedy about family, loss and environmental destruction, has its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in a production …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Post-Trump purge, can the Kennedy Center save itself? How Mark Morris showed the way by Mark Swed

Visit the embattled Kennedy Center post-Trump purge, and the place can feel abandoned. Leave it to dance provocateur Mark Morris to show a way forward for the national arts center.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:16AM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Inside Geffen Playhouse's 2025-26 season: Athol Fugard, Pearl Cleage and multiple world premieres by Ashley Lee

The season includes new works from Roxana Ortega, Rudi Goblen and Beth Hyland, as well as notable premieres of plays by Douglas Lyons and Sara Porkalob.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:38PM
Monday, April 14, 2025

In the new musical 'Regency Girls,' young women in trouble discover empowerment on a road trip by Charles McNulty

"Regency Girls," a musical comedy about young women on a wild road trip in the Jane Austen-era, has its world premiere at the Old Globe in a production directed by Josh Rhodes.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:09PM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

'Last Repair Shop' for LAUSD musicians gets $1-million gift, plus a visit from Yo-Yo Ma by Catherine Womack

The LAUSD program that provides free working instruments and was featured in the Oscar-winning doc 'The Last Repair Shop' receives $1 million to safeguard its future. Yo-Yo Ma marks the occa…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AM

Who's afraid of James Joyce? Elevator Repair Service takes a tour of 'Ulysses' by Charles McNulty

Elevator Repair Service's stage adaptation of 'Ulysses,' presented by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, inspires a rereading of the James Joyce classic. Years later, the takeaways ar…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AM
Monday, March 31, 2025

Alden Ehrenreich's mission to make L.A. a 'theater city' involves a 119-year-old trolley station by Kaitlyn Huamani

Actor Alden Ehrenreich bought a historic trolley station in Cypress Park and transformed it into a hub for artistic work and creativity, with the goal of making L.A. a 'theater city.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:18PM

In Broadway's latest 'Gypsy,' Audra McDonald takes our critic from doubt to spiritual epiphany by Charles McNulty

George C. Wolfe directs the new Broadway revival of "Gypsy" starring six-time Tony-winner Audra McDonald.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:18PM
Sunday, March 30, 2025

'Saul' brothers bond over 'Glengarry' stage work, shared comedy instincts by Stuart Miller

'Better Call Saul' screen siblings Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean have reunited on Broadway for the revival of 'Glengarry Glen Ross.' Like Jimmy McGill, Odenkirk is feeling his way through …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:33PM
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Inside 'Maybe Happy Ending,' the revolutionary robot musical that has Broadway audiences aglow by Ashley Lee

This intimate spectacle was a hit in Asia for years, before the isolation of the pandemic and the existential threat of AI. The Times spoke with the cast and creative team about the musical'…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:47AM
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

All's unfair in love and identity politics in Echo Theater Company's 'One Jewish Boy' by Charles McNulty

Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields directs the West Coast premiere of 'One Jewish Boy,' Stephen Laughton's two-hander starring Sharae Foxie and Zeke Goodman

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42PM
Monday, March 24, 2025

Ron Sossi, founder of the provocative Odyssey Theatre in L.A., dies by Cerys Davies

Ron Sossi, who challenged theater conventions in Los Angeles as the artistic director of the Odyssey Theatre for a remarkable 50-plus years, has died.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AM
Friday, March 21, 2025

Kennedy Center contract employee strips nude in protest video and is promptly fired by Jessica Gelt

Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that a…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:54AM
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Hugh Bonneville stars in an impressively poised revival of 'Uncle Vanya' at Berkeley Rep by Charles McNulty

Hugh Bonneville stars in 'Uncle Vanya,' a co-production between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Simon Godwin.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42AM
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Now streaming, Irish Rep's 'Beckett Briefs,' headlined by F. Murray Abraham, asks the essential questions by Charles McNulty

Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham stars in 'Krapp's Last Tape,' one of three short Samuel Beckett plays on offer in 'Beckett Briefs,' an Irish Rep production now available for streaming via the…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PM
Saturday, March 15, 2025

How a photo of Nazis eating blueberries inspired Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich's Holocaust play by Charles McNulty

'Here There Are Blueberries' tells the story of an album of historical photos documenting the lives of ordinary Germans who were part of the bureaucracy of the Holocaust. Authors Moisés Kau…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:50PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran deliver 'A Streetcar Named Desire' for the ages by Charles McNulty

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall's production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PM

Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Othello' breaks 'Harry Potter's' Broadway record by Kaitlyn Huamani

'Othello,' starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, hasn't officially opened on Broadway yet, but the show's earnings for its preview performances have already broken a record.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PM

L.A. Opera's silly 'Così fan Tutte' saved by the singing by Mark Swed

L.A. Opera sets 'Così fan Tutte,' Mozart's sophisticated study of love and constancy, in a swanky American country club.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PM
Monday, March 10, 2025

Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword by Charles McNulty

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PM

New LACMA building to get three outdoor artworks to join 'Urban Light' and the Rock by Jessica Gelt

The L.A. County Museum of Art announces three commissions for large-scale outdoor art around its new David Geffen Galleries, including one work that could end up being a civic landmark like …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:08AM
Friday, March 7, 2025

'Gracias Gustavo': Details of the L.A. Phil's plans for Dudamel's final season by Jessica Gelt

A golden era at the Los Angeles Philharmonic approaches its end as the organization announces its final season under Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel before he departs for the New…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50AM
Thursday, March 6, 2025

'Hamilton' cancels Kennedy Center run after Trump takeover by Kaitlyn Huamani

'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda said he doesn't want the show to play at what he called the 'Trump Kennedy Center.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20AM
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

A new revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Topdog/Underdog' misses the beat at Pasadena Playhouse by Charles McNulty

Pasadena Playhouse revival of 'Topdog/Underdog,' Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, stars Brandon Gill and Brandon Micheal Hall in a production directed by Gregg T. Daniel.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:06PM
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Review: '44,' a musical satire about Barack Obama by one of his campaign insiders, cuts up at the Kirk Douglas by Charles McNulty

Written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, a former Obama campaign organizer, '44,' about Barack Obama's presidency, returns to L.A. at Kirk Douglas Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:26PM
Friday, February 28, 2025

Commentary: How exuberant, ambitious operas in L.A. score big despite small casts and modest budgets by Mark Swed

Los Angeles is in the midst of a de facto chamber opera festival with productions across the region tackling the social and political issues of the moment.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PM
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Their community in ashes, the Palisades Symphony finds solace in music by Thomas Curwen

A month after the Palisades fire, the Palisades Symphony Orchestra performed a two-hour program dedicated to musicians who lost their homes and to the community.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:08AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre