Friday, March 6, 2026
Jean Davidson, the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is stepping down to take the top position at the Wallis Annenberg Center f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
With its intricate set design, period costumes and array of delicate powdered wigs, 'Amadeus' might be Pasadena Playhouse's most lavish production yet.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2026
President Trump says he will move to close the Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Former Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler appeared at Amoeba Music with the cast of the Broadway tour of 'Stereophonic.' Butler composed the music for the play, which follows the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Broadway superstar Ben Platt discusses returning to L.A. for a 10-day residency at the Ahmanson Theatre, sharing his marriage online but still maintaining boundaries, and the sources of his …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Palm Springs' historic Plaza Theatre, which first opened in late 1936 with the world premiere of a Greta Garbo film, returns to the spotlight with help from Cynthia Erivo.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
Shaina Taub is a triple threat, having written the music, lyrics and book for 'Suffs,' a musical about the women's suffrage movement that's staging its L.A. premiere at the Pantages.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
At the glitzy LACMA Art + Film gala, guests including Cynthia Erivo, Hannah Einbinder, George Lucas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Cindy Crawford and Dustin Hoffman erupted …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:38PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
We went backstage before curtain of the touring production of 'Les Misérables' at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Here's a look a the well-orchestrated chaos.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
The actors who play the sisterhood of stylists in 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' sit down for a candid beauty-shop conversation in light of the show's L.A. premiere at Center Theatre Group's…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
You'd be hard-pressed to find any greater pop-culture rebuke of the anti-immigrant, anti-DEI messages promulgated by the Trump administration than in the big-screen spectacle of Lin-Manuel M…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:26AM[SHARE]Manuel Oliver lost his son, Joaquin 'Guac' Oliver, in the Parkland school shooting. He's now bringing his gun-reform activism to the stage in a one-man show that's playing at Kirk Douglas Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Los Angeles will allow ticket holders for Center Theatre Group's 'Hamlet,' L.A. Opera's 'Rigoletto' and others to stay out past Mayor Bass' curfew; the Broad museum plans to close this weeke…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:08PM[SHARE]Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Danny Feldman announces a lineup that includes the comedy 'Eureka Day,' a fresh take on 'Brigadoon,' Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' and the hip-hop musical 'M…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2025
L.A. Opera lets patrons exchange tickets, MOCA and the Broad curtail hours, Center Theatre Groups tabulates revenue losses from cancellations. How L.A. arts groups have been affected by the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2025
'Twilight' actor Elizabeth Reaser and 'Ozark' actor Jason Butler Harner star as Nora and Torvald, picking up where Ibsen left off in Lucas Hnath's Tony-nominated play 'A Doll's House, Part 2…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
National Endowment for the Arts, facing an existential threat from President Trump, cancels grants for L.A. Theatre Works, L.A. Chamber Orchestra and other groups " some of which already spe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:10PM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
The L.A. County Museum of Art announces three commissions for large-scale outdoor art around its new David Geffen Galleries, including one work that could end up being a civic landmark like …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:08AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2025
A golden era at the Los Angeles Philharmonic approaches its end as the organization announces its final season under Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel before he departs for the New…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2025
The Kennedy Center downplays CPAC comments from longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon that a choir composed of Jan. 6 rioters will perform at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
A new board of Trump allies makes him chairman of the Kennedy Center and fires the arts organization's longtime leader, Deborah Rutter.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2025
President Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint himself chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The org says it has 'received no official communications' about…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2025
Historic landmarks by the likes of Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey and a noted Midcentury retreat by architect Ray Kappe have been lost. Here's our residential architecture list, to be updated reg…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2024
It's not often that two major stars of the small screen appear together onstage in one of the 20th century's most significant works of modernist drama. But that's just what's happened as Aas…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
Here's how you can watch, and stream, the 2024 Tony Awards on Sunday " all three hours of it.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2024
A year after winning the Regional Theatre Tony Award, Pasadena Playhouse unveils its 2024-25 season and readies to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its historic building.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
Helder Guimarães and Frank Marshall created the rare COVID-era theater hit with "The Present." They're back with "The Hope Theory," a magic show about the immigrant experience.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2023
The bestselling children's book series 'Dog Man' gets the musical treatment in a touring show playing at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2023
Named after late actor Leonard Nimoy, CAP UCLA's renovated, multi-use 300-seat venue at Westwood's historic Crest Theatre will be L.A.'s newest performing arts space.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2023
The titan of L.A. theater, Center Theatre Group, is shutting down the Mark Taper Forum for at least a year to save money. Will other theaters follow?
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