Friday, August 5, 2022
As Robert Egan retires as the leader of the Ojai Playwrights Conference after 20 years, he reflects on the organization's past, present, and future.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:47PMMonday, July 18, 2022
'Freestyle Love Supreme,' the show created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, opens at Pasadena Playhouse after enjoying a successful run on Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:05PMThursday, July 14, 2022
Following Michael Ritchie's departure last year, Center Theatre Group is still in the early stages of its search for its next artistic leader. What does this deliberate, albeit sluggish, app…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:33PMSunday, July 10, 2022
Jerry Mitchell's Hollywood Bowl production of "Kinky Boots," Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning musical, showcased a brilliant Wayne Brady.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMFriday, July 8, 2022
The Tony-winning stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' opens at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:18PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
Mike Donahue directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of this new true-crime musical set in a tightknit Jewish community in New Jersey.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:13PMSunday, July 3, 2022
A tribute to Peter Brook, the pathbreaking British theater director who died at age 97.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PMThursday, June 30, 2022
A solo play by the queer and transgender Tamil Sri Lankan American actor D'Lo opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
'The Beautiful People,' a new play by Tim Venable produced by Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre, is about two high school boys who have a sleepover on the eve of a school shooting that for…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, June 19, 2022
"Body of Work" is the "feel-good" show Gadsby thought she owed her fans after "Nanette" and "Douglas." But it's as subtly self-reflective as ever.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:39PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Michael R. Jackson's Black, queer musical 'A Strange Loop' was the big winner at the 75th Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08AMThursday, June 9, 2022
Rajiv Joseph's "King James" at the Mark Taper Forum centers on two fans living vicariously through basketball great LeBron James.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:17PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Michael Michetti directs a well-tuned version of Anton Chekhov's classic at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMMonday, June 6, 2022
Anton Chekhov's influence is seen in the Oscar-winning film "Drive My Car" and recent novels by Gary Shteyngart and Rachel Cusk. And stage productions, including a new "Uncle Vanya" at Pasad…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:23PMThursday, June 2, 2022
For his 1934 production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland, Max Reinhardt had the Hollywood Bowl dismantled, and oak trees were shipped in from Calabas…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Ramón de Ocampo stars in a new production of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Randy Rainbow, author of the new memoir, "Playing With Myself," insists that politics isn't what motivates its musical theater parodies.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMMonday, May 16, 2022
An updated version of Shakespeare's tragedy, set amid a climate apocalypse, stars Joe Morton as King Lear.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Dave Harris' 'Tambo & Bones' opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in a world-premiere production with Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:06PMMonday, May 9, 2022
"A Strange Loop" leads the 2022 Tony nominations, with a strong showing in the play category for "The Lehman Trilogy."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:13PMMonday, May 2, 2022
Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto star in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' at the Geffen Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMFans are flocking to see Hugh Jackman in 'The Music Man' and Patti LuPone in 'Company.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, April 28, 2022
"Hadestown," Anaïs Mitchell's Tony- and Grammy-musical reimagining the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, arrives in Los Angeles with a cast that includes Tony-winner Levi Kreis as Hermes.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:07PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical triumphantly arrives on Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMThursday, April 14, 2022
Phylicia Rashad leads a revival of Pearl Cleage's play about artists and activists at the convergence of the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
The strange, intriguing "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney" has its West Coast premiere at the Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:41PMThursday, March 31, 2022
Starring Christine Lahti, "I'll Be Seein' Ya" is seeing its digital world premiere from Center Theatre Group.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:21PMFriday, March 25, 2022
Two new plays, Boni B. Alvarez's 'Apartment Living' and Benjamin Benne's 'Alma,' throw a spotlight on the lives of everyday Angelenos.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:52PMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Acclaimed television and stage actress Holland Taylor will reprise her Tony-nominated 'Ann' one last time — at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:01PMMonday, March 14, 2022
'Trayf,' which recently saw its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, is an unorthodox tale of two 18-year-old Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:21PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
"The Lehman Trilogy,' which dramatizes the rise and fall of a banking giant, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre fresh from its heralded Broadway run.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:42PM 
