Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Theater critic Charles McNulty selects his top productions in Los Angeles, including "Furlough's Paradise" at the Geffen Playhouse, "& Juliet" at the Ahmanson Theatre, "The Night of the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2025
Direct-address, an old playwriting technique, has been retooled by a new crop of playwrights (Bess Wohl, Jordan Tannahill, Douglas Lyons) to lend new immediacy to drama.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
June Squibb, busier than ever at 96, stars in the Broadway premiere of 'Marjorie Prime.' She also plays the title character in the film 'Eleanor the Great,' released earlier this fall.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2025
An appreciation of playwright Tom Stoppard, known for such plays as "Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead," "Travesties," "The Real Thing" and the trilogy "The Coast of Utopia"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:11PM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
Shaina Taub's 'Suffs,' which won Tony Awards for best book and score, has its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2025
In the world premiere musical adaptation of 'Working Girl,' Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck rely heavily on '80s nostalgia in a production directed by Christopher Ashley that cheapens the Mi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Jessica Stone, who was nominated for her direction of the Broadway musicals 'Kimberly Akimbo' and 'Water for Elephants,' was appointed to succeed Christopher Ashley as the next artistic dire…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PM[SHARE]Based on the Paramount Pictures horror movie franchise, 'Paranormal Activity,' written by Levi Holloway, mixes the supernatural with the everyday to terrifying effect.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
Writer-director Robert Icke's modern retelling of 'Oedipus' opens on Broadway, with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising their acclaimed London performances.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
Tony-winner Michael Arden directs the Broadway premiere of the musical adaptation of the 2012 documentary film 'The Queen of Versailles," which unites the show's star, Kristin Chenoweth with…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
South Coast Rep presents Lloyd Suh's "The Heart Sellers," a two-hander set in the wake of the Immigration and Nationality Act, in a production directed by Jennifer Chang that takes a histori…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
Gregg T. Daniel directs a fine production of August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at A Noise Within, as part of an ongoing reexamination of the playwright's 10-play cycle.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 25, 2025
In 'Guac,' Manuel Oliver, the father of a young man killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, tells the story of his son's life and the overwhelming impac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2025
A hit in Edinburgh, comic Julia Masli's "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" arrives at Pasadena Playhouse to find solutions to theatergoers' everyday woes
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:44PM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2025
Lauren Gunderson's "anthropology," now at Rogue Machine Theatre, and Jordan Harrison's "Marjorie Prime," opening on Broadway this fall starring June Squibb, extend the theater's exploration …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
Rudi Goblen's 'littleboy/littleman,' a tale of two immigrant brothers, infused with live music and poetry, has its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
The acclaimed touring production of Jocelyn Bioh's 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding,' set in a Harlem hair salon, reveals the precarious lives of immigrant workers in an exuberant workplace com…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Reviews of 'The Night of the Iguana' at Boston Court Pasadena, 'Fly Me to the Sun' at the Fountain Theatre and 'Adolescent Salvation' in an intimate Rogue Machine production at the Henry Mur…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Jonathan Spector's 'Eureka Day,' a satire with heart about the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment in an age of polarization, has its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
A concert version of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's acclaimed production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Yiddish has its West Coast premiere at the Soraya in Northridge.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
'Am I Roxie?,' a solo show by Roxana Ortega at the Geffen Playhouse, delves into the roller coaster of caring for her widowed mother, who's losing her memory.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Richard Bean's 'One Man, Two Guvnors' renews the hilarity by resetting Carlo Coldoni's 'The Servant of Two Masters' to Britain in the swinging '60s.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
The Troubadour Theater Company returns to the Getty Villa for 'Oedipus the King, Mama!,' a mashup of Elvis and Sophocles that's all shook up.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
With songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally and book by Robert Horn, 'Shucked' is a Broadway musical about corn that's too funny to be considered corny.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
A sensation on Broadway and London's West End, '& Juliet' updates Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with a dose of female empowerment and a slew of hits from juggernaut producer Max Marti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Echo Theater Company's West Coast premiere of 'Berta, Berta,' a romantic drama by Angelica Chéri that was inspired by a chain gang song from the notorious Mississippi prison Parchman Farm, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
In 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' the conflict between Cynthia Erivo's all-seeing, all-feeling Jesus and Adam Lambert's competitive yet remorseful Judas was thrillingly brought to life in their d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
'The Seagull: Mailbu,' adapted from Anton Chekhov, and 'Strife' by John Galsworthy, big cast plays of weighty substance, lend heft to Theatricum Botanicum's outdoor season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2025
'The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise' at Hollywood Pantages makes the most of a glorious catalog.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2025
An appreciation of playwright Richard Greenberg, author of 'Three Days of Rain' and 'Take Me Out,' among other plays, who premiered many of his works at South Coast Repertory before taking t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2025
Jake Brasch's 'The Reservoir,' directed by Shelley Butler, features a cast that includes Marin Hinkle at the Geffen Playhouse.
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