Tuesday, October 3, 2017
John Douglas Thompson, the British-born actor of Jamaican heritage who trained in America and is now a citizen here, has carved out a reputation as one of our leading classical actors. His O…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2017
"Head of Passes," Tarell Alvin McCraney's play set where the land trails off into the sea in hurricane-prone Louisiana, has undergone quite a bit of tinkering since I saw it at Berkeley Repe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 17, 2017
In a posh Beverly Hills hotel suite overflowing with gift baskets, Michael, the central character of Paul Rudnick's tentative new comedy, "Big Night," is anxiously primping for what may be t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2017
Karla, a struggling stand-up comic, is furiously jotting in her notebook while trying out different versions of a new routine. "I've been single for so long, I've started having sex dreams a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
The straightforward production of "Iphigenia in Aulis" that opened Wednesday at the Getty Villa's outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater might be retitled "Clytemnestra," so enliven…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
Who is Hamlet? This might seem like a strange question to ask about the most famous character in all literature, a figure incarnated by some of the most brilliant actors of the last four cen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2017
More than two years after "Hamilton: An American Musical" had its world premiere at New York's Public Theater, becoming the biggest theatrical sensation in at least a generation, it's still …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
NEW YORK " Michael Moore looked like a fish out of water " or was it a deer in headlights? " at a preview of his Broadway show, "The Terms of My Surrender," which had its official opening at…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Jumping on bandwagons is my least favorite activity. Don't force me to tell you all the must-see movies I've skipped ("Forrest Gump" is all you'll get out of me), the No. 1 bestsellers I've …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Barbara Cook's career can be divided into two parts: her Broadway ingénue years, in which she enchanted audiences with her glittering soprano, and her cabaret years, in which she basically …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Add "Shout Sister Shout!" to the growing list of musicals that would make a more potent impression as a straightforward revue. The show, which is having its world premiere at Pasadena Playho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
Eugene O'Neil brought gravitas to the American theater. Tennessee Williams allowed it to lyrically sing. Arthur Miller raised its political temperature. And Edward Albee infused it with an a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
"Sweet are the uses of adversity," the exiled Duke Senior asserts from his campground in the Forest of Arden in "As You Like It." For a drama critic attending a lackluster production of Shak…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
LONDON " For an American theatergoer in London this summer, there can be little doubt that the best new play of the year so far is Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" at the National Theatre.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, July 7, 2017
Since David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter," no romantic has been able to look at a banal railway station as simply a commuter hub. Each connecting line poses new amorous possibilities; e…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:55PM[SHARE]Enter any theater and an usher will probably volunteer answers to the questions on everyone's mind: How many minutes is the show, and is there an intermission? Why the answers matter more th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
Dear Ted L. Nancy: Congratulations on the success of your series of "Letters From a Nut" books. I have to admit I never heard of them until I received an invitation to attend your show at th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
Shakespeare clearly lies outside the right-wing attack machine's area of expertise. While Breitbart News and friends were busy waging a full-scale war against the New York Public Theater's p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2017
'Escape to Margaritaville,' Jimmy Buffett, La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Ashley
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 18, 2017
Hero Theatre organized a festival last year in celebration of Cuban American playwright MarÃa Irene Fornés, a key figure in the off-off-Broadway theater movement who has had an influence…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
The opening scene of "Constellations," the play by British dramatist Nick Payne that had a Broadway production in 2015 with Ruth Wilson and Jake Gyllenhaal, offers variations of the meet-cut…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
You know it's an interesting year for the Tony Awards when a critic is still arguing with himself in June over what should win best musical and best play. I'm divided between "Dear Evan Hans…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:36PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
Inequality is a brute fact of American life and Broadway, increasingly divided between blockbuster hits and struggling also-rans, is hardly immune. But the Tony Awards tried to impose some j…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2017
The secret to Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:02PM[SHARE]In turbulent times, history itself becomes a source of suspenseful drama, as anxious citizens look to the past to predict what fresh hell is in store for them. "Hold These Truths," a solo dr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PM[SHARE]For many aspiring thespians, the dream is to become a working actor. For Laurie Metcalf, a three-time Emmy-winner for her role as hapless Jackie on the sitcom "Roseanne" and a strong contend…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2017
Center Theatre Group's "50th Celebration," which gathered celebrities, devoted patrons, philanthropists and swells in their spiffiest attire for a Saturday night shindig at the Ahmanson, was…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:20PM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
"Jersey Boys," that perennial jukebox moneymaker, is back at the Ahmanson Theatre for reasons that are easily surmised. The coffers at Center Theatre Group are clearly crying out for repleni…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PM[SHARE]Peter Brook talks about his production of "Battlefield" and the process of stripping away to get to theater's essence.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
A note in the press packet for the West Coast premiere of Guillermo Calderón's "Kiss" at the Odyssey Theatre requests that critics "not give away details of the plot" in their reviews. Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2017
Comedy of the crowd-pleasing variety is making a comeback on our stages this season. The Geffen Playhouse notched a hit with Matthew Lopez's "The Legend of Georgia McBride," a giggly romp ab…
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