The less you know about the Temptations, the more you'll get out of "Ain't Too Proud," a finger-snapping, hand-clapping new jukebox musical passing through Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre en r…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:16PM[SHARE]It's a credit to Denzel Washington's career choices that he's gone four decades without making a single sequel. That's not to say that breaking the pattern with "The Equalizer 2" means he's …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AM[SHARE]Before "Big," before "Bachelor Party" "Â heck, before even "Bosom Buddies" " Tom Hanks studied theater at Chabot College and performed three seasons in the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:48PM[SHARE]On Wednesday, director Ridley Scott announced a plan that is virtually unprecedented in the history of Hollywood: With his new film "All the Money in the World" already in the can and less t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:08PM[SHARE]While there are few who would dispute the place Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "The Red Shoes" holds as the greatest dance film of all time " focusing as it does on the backstage en…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AM[SHARE]Where to begin with all that's wrong with Paul Rudnick's new play, "Big Night," which takes place in a swanky Hollywood hotel suite before and after the Academy Awards ceremony where a C-lis…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:14PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical finally reaches L.A., celebrating a time when politics was about passion, and everyone was an immigrant.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:16PM[SHARE]Jimmy Fowlie imagines the one-woman Emma Stone performs off-screen in 'La La Land,' nailing the narcissism of a certain kind of actress.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23PM[SHARE]Randall Arney Artistic Director Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024 Dear Sir: First, let me just say that I am a great admirer of your institution, the Geffen Playhous…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PM[SHARE]How do you make a comedy about the absurdity of modern terrorism? For bold, outside-the-box American playwright Rajiv Joseph ("Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"), you set the satire a century…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:32PM[SHARE]Back in style after 40 years, Luis Valdez's "Zoot Suit" is as custom-tailored a Los Angeles stage experience as they come: Commissioned back in 1977 by Center Theatre Group founding artistic…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PM[SHARE]Death, heavy as the fog that surrounds the Tyrone family home and somber as the low sea-monster cry of the foghorn echoing across the water, hangs over "Long Day's Journey Into Night."…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PM[SHARE]In "Singin' in the Rain," Debbie Reynolds plays a reluctant ingénue, drawn into "the pictures" after Gene Kelly, playing a silent-era matinee idol trying to escape a mob of autograph-seekin…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PM[SHARE]The most adorable character in all of French cinema finds her way to the American stage in the new musical adaptation of "Amélie," and while it's practically impossible not to love a singin…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:53PM[SHARE]It has been just over a decade since Bob Iger engineered the deal that brought Steve Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios to Disney, negotiating a $7.4 billion stock purchase that raised eyebrows a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play "The Beauty Queen of Lenane" was the first of half a dozen scripts to come pouring out of McDonagh during a particularly prolific period back in the mid-'90…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PM[SHARE]Princesses come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, though Disney's latest addition to its ever-growing gallery of empowered female heroines " Moana (voiced by Hawaiian actress Auli'i Cravalho…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]In "Vicuña," a diabolical real estate tycoon turned Republican presidential candidate orders a bespoke power suit for the campaign's final debate, but it's clearly the play itself that ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PM[SHARE]For nearly a quarter century, Deaf West Theatre has been pioneering opportunities for deaf actors and audiences to share theater experiences, incorporating sign language and projected tex…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PM[SHARE]In Disney's new live-action "Cinderella," four mice are ballooned into elegant white horses, two lizards are yanked by their tails to serve as makeshift footmen, and an oblivious old goose g…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]On Aug. 3, 2012, standup comedian Tig Notaro scrapped the set she was planning to deliver at Los Angeles' Largo theater and instead tried something more personal. "Hello, I have cancer," she…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28PM[SHARE]Tina Turner has better legs, and Mick Jagger's got more experience electrifying the crowds. Still, when it comes to singing septuagenarians, it's hard to top (what remains of) Monty Python.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PM[SHARE]Let's say you want to shag a sexy British indie rocker. "Song One" not only instructs you on how to go about it, but also suggests your lucky score could inspire the first track on his next …
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