Friday, October 11, 2024
CTG artistic director Snehal Desai makes his directorial debut at the company in a reimagined revival of the Green Day musical featured deaf and hearing actors in a collaboration with Deaf W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, October 10, 2024
A strong New York season of playwriting features David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face,' Max Wolf Friedlich's sleeper hit 'Job' and, off-Broadway at the Public Theater, James IJames' 'Good Bones'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMJez Butterworth's "The Hills of California," directed by Sam Mendes, rises above a strong New York season of playwriting.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Caleb Eberhardt stars in the West Coast premiere of Eboni Booth's 'Primary Trust,' winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for drama, at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMFriday, October 4, 2024
After losing the 'daddy' of his dreams to COVID, comedian Sam Morrison tells the tale of his love and grief in "Sugar Daddy" at the Wallis in Beverly Hills.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Broadway performer Gavin Creel, who died Monday at age 48, won a Tony for "Hello, Dolly!" and was also nominated for roles in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Hair."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:54PMMonday, September 30, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut playing a writer who succumbs to AI in the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's "McNeal" at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMFriday, September 27, 2024
Maggie Smith, who won two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, was at her best on screen when she could bring the stage with her.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:18PMAfter 16 seasons, Rogue Machine Theatre co-founding producing artistic director John Perrin Flynn has announced his retirement at the conclusion of current season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of "Clarkston" by Samuel D. Hunter, a gay drama about two lost souls set in the titular Washington state town on the Snake River.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
James Ijames, whose 'Fat Ham' won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, confronts the grievous reality of lethal violence and racial injustice in 'Kill Move Paradise,' an earlier work now recei…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:04PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
Sara Porkalob stars in "Dragon Lady" at Geffen Playhouse, a solo show about her grandmother, a lounge singer who escaped a gangster-controlled nightclub in Manila before coming to the United…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Mike Donahue directs Martin Crimp's free-hand adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic "Cyrano de Bergerac' in a production starring Chukwudi Iwuji in the title role.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:44PMFriday, September 6, 2024
Will Power's "Memnon," a co-production between the Getty Villa and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, has its world premiere.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:07PMFriday, August 23, 2024
At Geffen Playhouse, Biljan Sheibani directs a crackling revival of 'The Brothers Size,' part of Tarell Alvin McCraney's acclaimed trilogy 'The Brother/Sister Plays.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:53PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
'Velour: A Drag Spectacular," created by Sasha Velour and Moisés Kaufman, is worthy of its title in world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:54PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Barry Edelstein adapts and directs 'Henry 6,' Shakespeare's early history play, condensed into two parts, as San Diego's Old Globe completes the playwright's canon with an entertaining adapt…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMFriday, August 9, 2024
Director James Marsh's film on the life of Samuel Beckett, starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Neil Forsyth, infuses surrealism into a conventional format.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:36PMSaturday, August 3, 2024
Marianne Elliott's Tony-winning gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 'Company' dazzles at the Hollywood Pantages.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, August 1, 2024
'Clue: Live on Stage!,' playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, earns its exclamation point through the breathless exuberance of its physical comedy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:36PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
Tom Jacobson's new plays 'The Bauhaus Project' and 'Crevasse' are thrilling in the scope of their ambition. They are also unsettling as America faces its own fascist peril.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Romance goes afoul in Abby Rosebrock's 'Dido of Idaho' at Echo Theater Company as offbeat comedy takes a brutal turn.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMFriday, July 19, 2024
Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere's 'Tartuffe' with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga's beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, July 16, 2024
Rob Morrow and Marcia Cross star in an uneven revival of Jon Robin Baitz's 'The Substance of Fire' at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Julianne Nicholson stars as a mother with boundary problems raising a precocious, strong-minded 11-year old daughter in playwright Annie Baker's A24 release.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, June 24, 2024
The West Coast premiere of a play by Mike Lew, 'tiny father' tells the story of an accidental father thrust into a neonatal ICU in this Geffen Playhouse production directed by Moritz von Stu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Wins for "Stereophonic," "The Outsiders" and others prove that nonprofit and regional theaters can succeed by prioritizing ambitious work and giving it time to develop.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, June 6, 2024
A conversation with Michael R. Jackson, whose Tony-winning musical "A Strange Loop" is having its Los Angeles premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Directed by Kent Gash, a new revival of 'Jelly's Last Jam' at Pasadena Playhouse makes the almost classic musical worth another look.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:48PMSunday, June 2, 2024
At a time of widespread retrenchment in American theater, Danny Feldman is boldly experimenting in real time at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM 
