Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The writer-actor behind "Wiesenthal" is back with the solo show "The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln," channeling the stories and spirit of Abe's widow.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:03AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Nilo Cruz’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Anna in the Tropics,” is set in 1929 at a cigar factory in Florida, but the Anna of the title is Anna Karenina. Tolstoy’s adulteress ne…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:14AMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Kim Rosenstock, a writer for the Fox sitcom “New Girl,” launched her career with the play “Tigers Be Still,” first produced in New York in 2010. As Chance Theater’s regional premie…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AMFriday, May 3, 2019
The Economist recently called disruptive innovation — an idea that changes a whole system — the most influential business theory of the early 21st century. Not to front, but theater peop…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:53PMMonday, April 29, 2019
Ask theater director Jo Bonney to describe playwright José Rivera’s new work — “The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona,” a world premiere that begins previews Tuesday at the Gef…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:48PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Reviving a beloved musical can be a daunting proposition. Do you keep faith with tradition, or do you try something new? If you opt for a little of both, how much of each? It’s hard to fin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
In the first scene of the play “Steel Magnolias,” Robert Harling’s 1987 love letter to small-town Southern women, two Louisiana friends share favorites from their recipe boxes. Cuppa C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMFriday, April 5, 2019
If you can’t get out to see Southern California’s super bloom before tourists trample it flat, don’t despair: L.A. theater has its own spring fever, with productions celebrating love, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMSunday, March 31, 2019
La Virgen de Guadalupe — an apparition of the Virgin Mary — is an icon of the Catholic faith, the patron saint of Mexico and a symbol of Mexican independence venerated throughout the Ame…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:50PMFriday, March 8, 2019
There are only so many seats in a theater, only so many performances in a run, and once the set is struck, a production won’t exist in exactly the same form again. How can we cope with the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past” — which rings particularly true in the theater, where plays remind us of lost joy, exorcise pesky ghosts, heal wo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, February 1, 2019
The national tour of director Jerry Zaks’ exuberantly received revival of “Hello, Dolly!” has finally reached the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. And though it brings us neither Bette Midl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMFriday, January 11, 2019
The holidays are over, and we’ve gotten the memo: For the next 11 months, SUVs may not wear reindeer horns and people must coexist without eggnog. L.A. theaters have packed away the Dicken…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
Forget "The Nutcracker" and "Christmas Carol," at least for a minute. L.A.'s small theaters serve up a drag Tupperware queen, musical Jane Austen, Sandra Tsing Loh and an all-female "Julius …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, July 20, 2018
If you could communicate with dogs, what would you ask them? Having pondered this problem more than I should probably admit, I think my first question would be: “Why do you roll on dead wo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
On a country estate in mid-19th century Russia, the aristocrats play cards, drink vodka, take snuff and philosophize, the servants do all the work, and everybody is imprisoned in a private h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMFriday, June 1, 2018
This week at L.A.'s small theaters: New American's comedy "Meanwhile, Back at the Super Lair
," Boston Court's family drama "Her Portmanteau," Celebration's take on "Cabaret" and Theatricum…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
There was a time, not too long ago, when it seemed like you could barely sit down in New York City without watching one of Wendy Wasserstein’s plays. The writer, who died in 2006 at only 5…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMMonday, May 7, 2018
In one of the most entertaining numbers in the musical “School of Rock,” which opened Thursday at the Hollywood Pantages theater, a substitute teacher rallies his 10-year-old students to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, May 4, 2018
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: "Opening Night: The Improvised Musical" moves to the Second City, "Cardboard Piano" plays in Long Beach, "Olive Kitteridge" writer Jane Alexander's "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, April 16, 2018
A beat-up 10-speed bicycle leans against the wall in Michael Ritchie’s office on the second floor of the Center Theatre Group’s annex building in downtown L.A. Befitting a theater compan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:12AMFriday, April 6, 2018
This week in L.A.'s small theaters: Bellina Logan in "Confessions of a Mulatto Love Child," Claire Booth Luce's modern classic "The Women" in Burbank, Echo Theater Company's "What Happened W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
The writer and actress Sarah Jones is gorgeous, about 8 feel tall (at least it seems that way) and rail thin, with a wide mane of hair. When she walks onstage at the Geffen Playhouse, where …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:50AMFriday, March 9, 2018
This week's offerings on SoCal's smaller stages: "Bingo Hall" from the Native American theater company at the Autry, "3 Plays by Pat Kinevane" at the Odyssey, "The Madres" at Skylight and th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
The composer has some dishy tidbits to share in his new autobiography, but in matters such as his falling out with lyricist Tim Rice, Webber pulls back. What the man behind "Phantom," "Cats,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, February 9, 2018
This week's theater picks: "The City of Conversation," examining the right-left divide in American politics; Shakespeare's "Henry V"; "The Cake," about religious divides and family bonds; an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, January 19, 2018
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: Rising playwright Anna Ziegler's "A Delicate Ship" at the Road on Magnolia, Aaron Posner's "The Chosen" at the Fountain, "The Last Wife" at Theatre 4…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20PMThursday, January 18, 2018
The line between real life and entertainment can seem increasingly blurry these days, especially for those in Tinseltown who find themselves in traffic alongside the celebrities whose charac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Mozart’s final opera, “The Magic Flute,” is not only one of the most frequently revived and crowd-pleasing of his works, but also possibly the most difficult to summarize. Prince Tamin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMFriday, October 27, 2017
Our weekly picks for L.A.'s small-theater scene include Antaeus' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Danny Glover in East West Players' "Yohen," the Odyssey's "Macbeth x 5" and "Encuentro de las Ame…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
James Cagney is remembered best for playing tough-talking gangsters in Warner Bros. movies in the 1930s and ’40s, which, according to “Cagney,” a loving and cartoonish small-scale bio-…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:15PM 
