Friday, December 9, 2022
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo bring their musical version of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. But the production can't escape the jukeb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Edward Albee's 'Fam and Yam,' a 1960 one-act inspired by the author's encounter with Broadway playwright William Inge, remerges at Venice's Pacific Resident Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:27PMSunday, December 4, 2022
Theater critic Charles McNulty runs through his 2022 high points, including 'The Inheritance,' 'Slave Play' and, yes, a divisive 'Oklahoma!'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
With an opera, a jukebox musical and a Broadway comedy running simultaneously this year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage has never been busier or more determined to move A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Ex-leader of A.C.T. talks about "Leopoldstadt" and the remarkable admission Stoppard makes about his relationship (or lack thereof) to his Jewish past.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, November 21, 2022
D.T. Max's "Finale," about Sondheim, and "Shy," by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, bring the singular Broadway personalities back to life.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:17PMFriday, November 18, 2022
Created and performed by theater artist and mentalist Vinny DePonto, 'Mindplay' probes the unreliable narrators of our minds in a Geffen Playhouse world premiere.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMSunday, November 6, 2022
The play's U.S. premiere brings the horror, but wastes the talents of Constance Wu, Finn Wittrock, Anna Camp and Adam Rothenberg on creaky characters.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:16PMFriday, October 28, 2022
Aaron Sorkin's hit Broadway stage adaptation of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' shapes the classic 1960 novel for a new era.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:29PMSunday, October 23, 2022
'Omar,' the new opera by singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens and film composer Michael Abels, gets its West Coast premiere by L.A. Opera.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
The Geffen Playhouse production of 'The Inheritance' superbly realizes playwright Matthew López's vision. At 6½ hours long, it's worth every minute.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:27PMThursday, October 13, 2022
The first Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Piano Lesson' stars Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
I wasn't particularly excited by sitting through another 'Funny Girl' revival. But I left understanding why tickets to see Lea Michele star as Fanny Brice in the musical are going for a king…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PMAngela Lansbury, the star of stage and screen who died on Tuesday, put her talents at the service of story.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:29PMFriday, September 30, 2022
Cecily Strong reprises her performance in an updated version of Jane Wagner's 'The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:17PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
A conversation with four older cast members starring in Antaeus Theatre Company's production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Everybody.' 'You learn simplicity, you learn economy.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:02PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Martyna Majok's 'Sanctuary City' movingly tracks the plight of those living in the shadows of citizenship.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PMFriday, September 16, 2022
Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma!' reveals the underside of the American story.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:59PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
What does Matt Shakman's decision to step down as as artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse say about the theater's future?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Bart DeLorenzo directs a revival of 'Ghosts,' Henrik Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece about family secrets that refuse to stay buried.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:05PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Sophocles' masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Roger Q. Mason's play "Lavender Men," which is having its world premiere at Skylight Theatre, brings Abraham Lincoln back from the dead to relive his relationship with a law clerk to whom he…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:47PMFriday, August 12, 2022
'The Prom,' the 2018 Broadway musical that gave rise to the 2020 film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden, has its L.A. premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
"Here There Are Blueberries," based on the story of a photo album from Auschwitz sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:09PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Mike Birbiglia returns to Center Theatre Group with an existential stand-up show centered on a YMCA pool.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:05PMFriday, 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 03:13PM 
