Thursday, 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 02:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AM[SHARE]At 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 09:05AM[SHARE]It 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." "The Prom," a cam…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 06:53PM[SHARE]Anaïs 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 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 cosmetic s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:14AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Tango…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 11:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 form. I…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PM[SHARE]With an assist from actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, the new work is yet another way to hear the singular voice of this leading American playwright.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
"I just want to do Beckett's 'Happy Days' over and over again," Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. "I don't want to do anything else, because nothing else comes near it.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PM[SHARE]Wiest, in L.A. for Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." talks theater, "Law & Order" and why she would work with Woody Allen again "in a second."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd." These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a solid S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PM[SHARE]How old is Dolly Gallagher Levi? The question arises whenever "Hello, Dolly!" is performed. The character is described in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," the basis of the musical's book,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PM[SHARE]"Daniel's Husband," an absorbing drama by Michael McKeever that was a hit off-Broadway, explores the debate on same-sex marriage from a less obvious angle. Set in the "perfectly appointed" h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:41PM[SHARE]Michael McKeever's poignant drama opens at Fountain Theatre with Bill Brochtrup, Tim Cummings and Jenny O'Hara in a moving, crowd-pleasing production.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Long story short: It was a strange Broadway season " one in which old formulas proved unreliable and a few long-shot experiments yielded unexpected rewards. Rendering an up or down verdict o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AM[SHARE]Interior. Restaurant at a Beverly Hills hotel, early March. Music spritzing luxuriously in the background. A publicist finishes her breakfast. In walks a frazzled middle-aged theater critic.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The Tony nominations send a message of support to artists with fresh sensibilities, but occasionally at the expense of worthier work.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PM[SHARE]The writer gets snubbed Tuesday by the Tony Awards, but his "How to Kill a Mockingbird" does pick up nine nominations " tying "The Ferryman" for the most nods for any play.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:02PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2019
"A Doll's House, Part 2," which is receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, had its official opening on Thursday at Broadway's Golden Theatre in a separate production confirmin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
After a disastrous tea last year, critic and actress meet again, this time to spar about "Lear." Jackson delves into disagreements with director Sam Gold, a powerful female cast including Ru…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM[SHARE]"Gulp!" That was my initial reaction when a publicist asked if I'd like to interview Glenda Jackson to discuss her performance in the new Broadway production of "King Lear." Our previous enc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Bertie Carvel is a chilling media mogul and Johnny Lee Miller is the editor who may lose his soul in James Graham's "Ink," a London import about Murdoch's transformation of British journalis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:59PM[SHARE]The British have a high regard for the state-of-the-nation play, that genre in which dramatists as different as David Hare, Alan Bennett, Richard Bean and Lucy Prebble take the temperature o…
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