Saturday, August 3, 2024
Marianne Elliott's Tony-winning gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 'Company' dazzles at the Hollywood Pantages.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
'Clue: Live on Stage!,' playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, earns its exclamation point through the breathless exuberance of its physical comedy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Tom Jacobson's new plays 'The Bauhaus Project' and 'Crevasse' are thrilling in the scope of their ambition. They are also unsettling as America faces its own fascist peril.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Romance goes afoul in Abby Rosebrock's 'Dido of Idaho' at Echo Theater Company as offbeat comedy takes a brutal turn.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2024
Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere's 'Tartuffe' with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga's beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Rob Morrow and Marcia Cross star in an uneven revival of Jon Robin Baitz's 'The Substance of Fire' at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2024
With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Julianne Nicholson stars as a mother with boundary problems raising a precocious, strong-minded 11-year old daughter in playwright Annie Baker's A24 release.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2024
The West Coast premiere of a play by Mike Lew, 'tiny father' tells the story of an accidental father thrust into a neonatal ICU in this Geffen Playhouse production directed by Moritz von Stu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2024
Wins for "Stereophonic," "The Outsiders" and others prove that nonprofit and regional theaters can succeed by prioritizing ambitious work and giving it time to develop.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2024
A conversation with Michael R. Jackson, whose Tony-winning musical "A Strange Loop" is having its Los Angeles premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Directed by Kent Gash, a new revival of 'Jelly's Last Jam' at Pasadena Playhouse makes the almost classic musical worth another look.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2024
At a time of widespread retrenchment in American theater, Danny Feldman is boldly experimenting in real time at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2024
An interview with Jessica Lange, who received a Tony nomination for her performance in Paula Vogel's "Mother Play" and stars in the new HBO film "The Great Lillian Hall."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Jonathan Groff, star of the Broadway revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and director Maria Friedman explain how they cracked Stephen Sondheim's problematic musical.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2024
Guillermo Cienfuegos directs George Bernard Shaw's cunning sociopolitical drama "Misalliance" at Pasadena's A Noise Within.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2024
'Girl From the North Country,' now having its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages, stitches together Bob Dylan classics in a play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2024
Steve Carell in Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' and Jeremy Strong in Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' lend excitement to new Broadway revivals that struggle to update these plays for a contemporary …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2024
A cinematic presentation of a London production of "Macbeth" starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma has a limited engagement in movie theaters.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
'Stereophonic,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' 'Illinoise,' Alicia Keys' 'Hell's Kitchen,' Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Rachel McAdams, Jeremy Strong: This year even known quantities had to stret…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
Choreographer and director Justin Peck brings an athletic grace to a new, category-defying Broadway musical spun from a Sufjan Stevens' album. The singing? It's gorgeous
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
The Olivier Award-winning revival of "Cabaret," starring a physically precise and theatrically audacious Eddie Redmayne, comes to Broadway but misses his London co-star, Jesse Buckley
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Gregg T. Daniel directs a muscular revival of 'King Hedley II," a difficult play done well. Veralyn Jones' performance is extraordinary.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:05PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
The Broadway production of 'Fat Ham,' James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on 'Hamlet,' has its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It's gripping, outrageous fun.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Broadway touring production of Michael Mayer's 2022 revival of "Funny Girl" arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre with a star-making lead performance from Katerina McCrimmon.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2024
'One of the Good Ones,' by Gloria Calderón Kellett, co-creator of the rebooted 'One Day at a Time,' has its world premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Kimberly Senior and starring …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:48PM[SHARE]An exchange with Tricia Romano, author of 'The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture,' with one of her former…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People," written by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, is on Broadway this season in a production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2024
The Fountain Theatre's founding artistic director, Stephen Sachs, reflects on his new play, "Fatherland," and new adventures as he prepares to step down at the end of the year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
In "The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe," actor Nick Ullett, a cast member in William Friedkin's 2014 Harold Pinter revival, tells the tale of the madness that upended the productio…
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