The labor and financial drama that has become a discordant leitmotif in the opera and symphonic world could be building for the Metropolitan Opera, America's biggest-budgeted performing arts…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:21PMAmong the untold thousands of actors who’ve tackled the title role of “Macbeth,” John Walcutt may have been the first whose director instructed him to think of himself as a legitimate …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMIn a symmetrical bit of casting for a show that first won acclaim as a television play in 1953, the Ahmanson Theatre’s fall production of “The Trip to Bountiful” will add V…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMIn a symmetrical bit of casting for a show that first won acclaim as a television play in 1953, the Ahmanson Theatre’s fall production of “The Trip to Bountiful” will add Vanessa Willi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMSure it pays for a theater critic to be right, but for Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal, coming from the right has paid off to the tune of $250,000 -- the amount of a prize he'll …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMSan Diego Opera announced Tuesday that its bid to make crowdfunding a key to its survival had brought in $328,475 since last Friday, nearly a third of the online and telephone campaign's goa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMWilliam Shakespeare's 450th birthday falls on Wednesday, per historians' best reckoning in the absence of ironclad documentation. It’s time to remember that “in delay there lies …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:41AMTwo prominent theater productions are focusing on the actor-singer and political figure. The actors playing him, Keith David and Daniel Beaty, meet over a meal to talk about a man they've lo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSan Diego Opera's leaders acknowledge a 'tough' road to keep the company open as calls for new leadership grow after abrupt closure vote.There's nothing opera buffs like better than a climac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM'CSI' alum William Petersen, making his L.A. stage debut in 'Slowgirl,' and Geffen Playhouse's Randall Arney recount a shared theatrical history.From David Mamet's first expletive-laced succ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMPresident Obama is set to nominate the low-profile Jane Chu, CEO of Missouri's Kauffman Center, as the next National Endowment for the Arts chairman.Opting for arts-administration and fundra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMState Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) said Wednesday that he would submit a bill that would commit at least $25 million a year from state tax coffers to California’s government arts grant m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:16PMWith apologies to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, the title of this theater tale could be "Out of the Woods."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMForced to jettison a master of disquieting stage menace, Harold Pinter, when its revival of “The Birthday Party” broke an axel or two during rehearsals last month, the Geffen Pla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:56PMCalifornia arts companies can only dream of getting a $250,000 grant from the budgetarily challenged California Arts Council.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMDenis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson toiled for years to adapt Homer's 'The Iliad' into a modern play, and O'Hare will face its challenges in 'An Iliad' on the Broad Stage starting this week.Denis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMAlec Baldwin has taken his lumps as a verbal loose cannon, but Americans for the Arts, a leading national advocacy group for nonprofit arts organizations, still trusts Baldwin as one of its …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30PMThe governor would reduce funds for the state arts council and the California Science Center. Arts advocates hope to offset cuts with a higher allocation from the general fund.Advocates of b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50PMBrian Dennehy will be extending his current L.A. run by one performance -- not in Sebastian Barry’s “The Steward of Christendom” at the Mark Taper Forum, which closes Jan. …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMDeborah Rutter, who grew up in Encino and began her career as an orchestra executive in Los Angeles, will be the next president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50AMPaul Robeson was one of the most widely accomplished Americans who ever lived -- All-American football player, lawyer, concert singer and recording artist, star actor on stage and screen in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:45AMThey're also racially divided in a take devised by Sheldon Epps and starring Jason George. Epps discusses how it came about.One of Barack Obama's most heartfelt moments as president and the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMBrian Dennehy confronts an almost-impossible part at the Taper in 'The Steward of Christendom,' a green monster of a play set in post-revolutionary Ireland.Brian Dennehy sat cross-legged on …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThe Geffen Playhouse confirmed Monday that the $397 it’s currently charging for the best seats to Bette Midler’s upcoming one-woman show have set a house record, blowing beyond t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:21PMWant to see Bette Midler’s upcoming run at the Geffen Playhouse in her one-woman show, “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers?” It’ll cost you. The best …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMHere’s the thing about having a long, busy acting career: one moment a performer finds himself at the extreme margin of agony, trudging the stage with Cordelia in his arms, and the nex…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMOlga Garay-English will step down Jan. 4 after 6 1/2 years as head of Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:07AMThirteen arts and cultural institutions have made the most recent top 400 list of American charities, ranked by the donations they took in.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMCulture Monster tried to get a little orchestral dust-up going this week but didn't get far.
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