Saturday, July 29, 2017
Tony-winning actor Mandy Patinkin dropped out of the Broadway show "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" on Friday, after an announcement that he would be replacing African American ac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
National Theatre's acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Angels in America," starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, will be broadcast live to theaters in the U…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
Deaf West Theatre was created by the deaf community as a place where deaf actors could come together with hearing actors in service of vivid theater. The company's productions of "Big River"…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Joe Mantegna may be best known as an actor, most recently starring as FBI special agent David Rossi on the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds." But he's no stranger to the stage, having won a T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
For 11 nights in late May and early June, Julius Caesar was brutally stabbed to death without much fuss as part of the Public Theater's annual Shakespeare production in Central Park. On June…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
The show features 246 songs. It's 24 hours long, split into six-hour chapters. And, yes, you are expected to sit through all six hours. This is theater of the unexpected; it is theater of ca…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:40PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
In the midst of the social media-firestorm surrounding the Public Theater's staging of "Julius Caesar" featuring the brutal stabbing of an orange-haired dictator, Donald Trump Jr. asked two …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2017
You could barely move backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday night. Turn right and you'd bang into Matthew Broderick, turn left and you'd slam into Edward James Olmos, and Louis Gosse…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
In Los Angeles, the pursuit of art and the quest for love share a common denominator: If you find yourself regularly braving the 405 or 10 freeways in search of fulfillment, it must be serio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Laurie Metcalf got a call from producer Scott Rudin on Tuesday morning. It was great news: The actress had been nominated for a Tony Award for her lauded performance as Nora Helmer in playwr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:20PM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
After a month worrying about the fate of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the hundreds of community organizations that the agency supports nationwide, the arts world found…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
Teachers from a Pacoima middle school camp overnight and are first to score seats for the musical's national tour, but only after a little drama in the ticket line.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
Center Theatre Group will partner with regional theaters in Chicago, New York and London to co-commission works by renowned playwrights including Pultizer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and Paul…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PM[SHARE]The musical "Allegiance," inspired by the early life of actor George Takei in World War II internment camps, will come to L.A. in 2018, co-producers East West Players and the Japanese Americ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has only one thing to say about the fact that "Spamilton," a popular "Hamilton" spoof, will launch its national tour at the Kirk Dougla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
Tim Robbins' first time getting paid as an actor was through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a gangly 15-year-old performing street theater in New York with Theater …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
To borrow a line from Sonnet 18, summer's lease hath all too short a date when the Independent Shakespeare Co. wraps up its annual free performances in Griffith Park each September. The nonp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35AM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
The story of the American West would be incomplete without the indigenous people who occupied this territory long before the arrival of European immigrants. Giving the descendants of indigen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 18, 2017
King Kong had no chance against the Beast. Disney's "Beauty and The Beast," the new live-action adaptation of the studio's 1991 animated classic, is on its way to shattering box office recor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Kate Shindle was performing concerts on a cruise ship in the Bahamas when the musical "Fun Home" opened on Broadway in 2015. The show won five Tony Awards that year, including best musical, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The Geffen Playhouse on Wednesday announced one world and three West Coast premieres as part of its 2017-18 season. Kicking off the season are the West Coast premieres of Halley Feiffer's of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
Conductor Christopher Rountree stands illuminated by a spotlight on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage. He takes a soothing breath and encourages the 2,100 middle school students seated befo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
The crowd-pleasing adaptation of "Waitress" and the national tour of Tony winner "The Color Purple" highlight the Hollywood Pantages season for 2017-18, the theater announced Tuesday. Rou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2017
The soap in the bathroom of the Huntington Beach High School auditorium is strawberry scented, but inside the main theater it smells of raw ambition. This is the regional semifinals of what'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
Aladdin speaks only English. Princess Jasmine speaks only Spanish. The divide is the work of the evil Jafar, though the antagonist accidentally enables Rajah the tiger and Abu the monkey …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
The national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical "Hamilton" revealed its cast Thursday:Â Two-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry will play Aaron Burr, Michael Luwoye will be Alexande…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
When you can burn this article like a bra, women will cheer. That is the sentiment among Los Angeles theater professionals at the close of a year in which so many strong productions by women…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
In a "Hamilton"-less year, the Grammy nominees announced Tuesday for musical theater album consist of five eclectic shows: "Bright Star," "The Color Purple," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Kinky…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:20PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
Lena Hall stares into the mirror in her dressing room backstage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, where she is  making musical history in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."  To her righ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
If you missed seeing the Broadway hit "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" when it was at the Pantages this summer, take note. The show is coming to Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Tues…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
California may be in a drought, but inside Walt Disney Concert Hall it's cloudy with a chance of rain. Nebulous slate-colored thunderheads loom above the escalators that transport visitors f…
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