Sunday, December 6, 2015
NEW YORK " The youngsters from the new musical "School of Rock" are on a rescue mission. Not only are they trying to salvage their wacko teacher's dream of transforming their nerdy selves in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
With his gray mane and gravelly roar, Al Pacino skulks around the stage like an old lion in "China Doll," David Mamet's yakking character study of an aging oligarch still trying to intimidat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
Thespians, a superstitious lot, insist that "Macbeth" should never be directly referred to inside a theater. If an actor accidentally forgets to call Shakespeare's malevolent masterpiece "th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:59PM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
This fall season has provided Los Angeles theatergoers the opportunity to become better acquainted with the most exciting generation of playwrights to have burst onto the scene since I becam…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:52PM[SHARE]When the drizzle outside is as continuous as the chatter inside, you can be sure the play you're watching is set in Ireland. Such is the case in John Patrick Shanley's gentle dramatic comedy…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Knowledge has been a central subject of Western drama since Oedipus went on a manhunt and discovered that he himself was the culprit. Who are we? What are we doing here? And how shall we car…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
An appealing cast and some gorgeous singing enliven "Breaking Through," a new musical about an old subject " the music industry's uncanny knack for destroying the talent it packages for flee…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2015
"Hamilton," which began off-Broadway at the Public Theater and is now happily ensconced at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre, where tickets are fetching a Russian oligarch's ransom, is the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Courtney Love wears her ghostliness with a rock star's swagger. When she enters the playing area that has been set up at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where "Kansas City Choir Boy" opened Sunday…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Rajiv Joseph, the boldly adventurous author of "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," begins "Guards at the Taj" on a Beckettian note. The play, which opened Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse's …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PM[SHARE]"In Your Arms," the audience-pleasing new dance musical receiving its world premiere at the Old Globe, seems designed, packaged and market-tested for Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PM[SHARE]The most tantalizing aspect of "La Mélancolie des Dragons," an eccentric performance work by French artist and director Philippe Quesne, is the gentle camaraderie of the longhaired heavy-me…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PM[SHARE]Commedia dell'arte meets British farce: In "One Man, Two Guvnors," Richard Bean gives Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy "The Servant of Two Masters" the Benny Hill treatment.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PM[SHARE]"Amélie," the new musical based on the offbeat 2001 French film that made a star out of a pixieish Audrey Tautou, does more than translate for an American audience the tale of a minor mirac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PM[SHARE]The program for South Coast Repertory's production of Qui Nguyen's "Vietgone," which is having its world premiere in Costa Mesa, has some interesting biographical tidbits about the author th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PM[SHARE]From the merest suggestion in Shakespeare's "Othello" that Desdemona may have had an African maid as a girl, Toni Morrison imagines hidden dimensions in the mind and heart of the Senator's d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PM[SHARE]Funny the way success renders yesterday's avant-garde palatable to today's mainstream. Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard, once bewildering to theatergoers addicted to stories with a beginning, m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:26AM[SHARE]Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements. The biggest statement by far was "Fun Home" winning five Tonys, including the best musical award, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
The Fountain Theatre, established 25 years ago, began, as many things used to do, with a fateful phone call.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
On the outside, Dan, the 31-year-old computer guy with a fleshy middle, knows he comes off as "unassuming and plain." Good at math, he tells us he's 5-foot-10, 200 pounds and that 52 is the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:57PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
Shortly after savoring Rogue Machine Theatre's scrupulously acted production of Samuel D. Hunter's "A Permanent Image" and just before attending the much-praised Antaeus Company revival of W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
It's hard to go wrong with "Spamalot" at the Hollywood Bowl. The Tony-winning show, based on the cult movie comedy "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," leaves no silliness unturned as it affec…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45AM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2015
It's only fitting that American Conservatory Theater should inaugurate the Strand, its new second stage in the city's tech corridor, with a recent play by the inexhaustibly original British …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
"Kiss Me, Kate," the 1948 backstage musical comedy with the matchless Cole Porter score, seems made for blissed-out summer nights - a classic to be savored with gelato and Prosecco for those…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
Terrorists make the covers of newspapers while those who selflessly give comfort and support in times of crisis are usually relegated to the back pages.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
The lesson of "Waterfall," the ersatz new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse, is that you can't judge a show by the resumes of the artists.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2015
How can you not love a musical about a badly mistreated pint-sized prodigy whose passion for reading rescues her from the bullies and boors around her?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2015
How do the voters make their Tony Award decisions? Here's the capricious breakdown.
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