Monday, July 2, 2012
The Tony Award-winning play communicates the staggering waste of war but provides an opportunity to reconnect with the childhood enchantments of bedtime fables, folk tales and storybook adve…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
In his graceful assuming of various characters, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine lobs a searing riposte at Uganda's anti-gay bill in a new solo show.He roams the night in menacing military police garb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Full of the gritty textures of the '70s, August Wilson's play does something today's artists should emulate — reveal how rooted we are in our uniquely styled moment of history.The noti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
A study of American involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war, J.T. Rogers' 'Blood and Gifts' artfully lays out the shortsightedness of foreign players in a rocky region.Dramatic works about Afgh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]The Rogue Machine production of Enda Walsh's 'The New Electric Ballroom' at Theatre/Theater captures the haunting spectacle of three sisters who often revisit the past.Enda Walsh's "The New …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
At the Tony Awards, artistic quality and risk-taking win out over commerce as the little musical 'Once' and 'Clybourne Park' triumph.Will wonders never cease: David slayed Goliath in a rare …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2012
“Follies” bid farewell to the Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday night, and the emotion in the house was as charged as the emotion coursing through the Weismann Theatre, where the ex-F…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
Should Audra McDonald make room on a mantel? Is the movie world's new Spider-Man golden? And what about all those 'Follies' nominations?The Academy Awards telecast has been such a snooze in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
In a Monkey Wrench Collective production, Mark Ravenhill's play has a darker view of the artistic underground.Mark Ravenhill, the English playwright best known for his play with the unprinta…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
The new 90-minute musical by Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh benefits from its SoCal setting and its study of identity. But it's too diffuse.Commercial success has eluded Michael Jo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
A new body of domestic work on Broadway, including Tony front-runners 'Clybourne Park' and 'Other Desert Cities,' marks a strong change of pace for playwriting.Had you polled theater pundits…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Gershwin purists, this "Porgy and Bess" is probably not for you, even though its official title is "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess." The cast album of the current Broadway production is a str…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The quirky musical at the La Jolla Playhouse about contestants trying to win a pickup could use a tuneup, but its folksy, low-key approach is seductive."Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2012
Visiting L.A. after New York, this landmark Stephen Sondheim work is a dazzling reminder of how brilliantly constructed a musical can be.There's so much to praise in the blissful Broadway re…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
Little comfort can be found in this gripping examination of an American miscarriage of justice. But, man, it razzle-dazzles nevertheless.SAN DIEGO — Musicals are supposed to raise your…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Seventy-five million dollars can buy you a lot of things in the theater -- good press, bad press and a huge head-start at the box office, as “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
At New York's Belasco Theatre, Tracie Bennett is astonishing as the aging Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's biographical account of the final chapter of the performer's life.NEW YORK — J…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
John Lithgow leads a strong cast in his portrayal of star journalist Joseph Alsop in 'The Columnist' on Broadway at the height of the writer's public influence during the Cold War.NEW YORK &…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PM[SHARE]Not even timeless Gershwin songs can help lift the lackluster new musical comedy 'Nice Work if You Can Get It,' starring an oddly uninspiring Matthew Broderick.NEW YORK — Anyone out th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
NEW YORK -- The old “contents may have shifted during flight” warning seemed especially worrying for “One Man, Two Guvnors,” the London smash from the National Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Director Bart DeLorenzo's nimble staging and an enticing cast make this 'Ivanov' at Odyssey Theatre a winning exploration of confounding humanity."Ivanov," the play in which Anton Chekhov wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
A look at Beckett's and Pinter's literary origins, with questions raised about how we are educating our playwrights today
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
"Good People" by David Lindsay-Abaire has its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
"In Paris," a theatrical adaptation of a story by Ivan Bunin starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, has its U.S. premiere at the Broad Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2012
Steven Drukman's "The Prince of Atlantis" has its world premiere at South Coast Repertory.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:48PM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
Jordan Harrison's "Maple and Vine" has its West Coast premiere at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:45PM[SHARE]Jonathan Pryce stars in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" at Curran Theatre in San Francisco.
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