Thursday, April 25, 2019
After a disastrous tea last year, critic and actress meet again, this time to spar about "Lear." Jackson delves into disagreements with director Sam Gold, a powerful female cast including Ru…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM“Gulp!” That was my initial reaction when a publicist asked if I’d like to interview Glenda Jackson to discuss her performance in the new Broadway production of “King Lear.” Our pr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Bertie Carvel is a chilling media mogul and Johnny Lee Miller is the editor who may lose his soul in James Graham's "Ink," a London import about Murdoch's transformation of British journalis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:59PMThe British have a high regard for the state-of-the-nation play, that genre in which dramatists as different as David Hare, Alan Bennett, Richard Bean and Lucy Prebble take the temperature o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The hit 1980s film has been revamped as a hilarious stage production for the #MeToo era, smartly navigating new gender politics and starring Santino Fontana in a Tony-worthy turn playing the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMLet’s face it: There are more ways these days to get a musical version of “Tootsie” wrong than right. The world has changed since Dustin Hoffman donned a red tousled wig, talked in a s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Arthur Miller's play gets a timely revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company, director Jack O'Brien and costar Benjamin Walker, whose anguish and sorrow help to propel a domestic drama into …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMThe carpentry of an Arthur Miller play, all that sawing, hammering and sanding of wood, can sometimes distract from the impressiveness of the house that has been theatrically constructed. �…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMFriday, April 19, 2019
No contemporary play better captures America's cultural divides than Eleanor Burgess' "The Niceties," in which a standout black student and a distinguished white professor clash over race an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMCollege campuses have become the crucible of the new and expanded culture wars embroiling America, and no contemporary play does a better job of capturing the tenor of this fierce battle tha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Nia Vardalos reprises her role in Pasadena Playhouse's profoundly moving adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Dear Sugar" columns.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMCharacter, the way we conduct ourselves in the world, is in decline in America. Consider the evidence: A president who lies so prolifically that media outlets have assigned teams of reporter…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
After exploring how his Vietnamese parents met in a refugee camp in America in his breathtakingly original comedy "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen picks up the story of their lives in the u…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMIn “Vietgone,” playwright Qui Nguyen tells the story of how his parents met after escaping the Vietnam War and landing in the same resettlement camp in Arkansas. It’s a tale of traumat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Director and artist Lars Jan turns a classic Joan Didion essay, "The White Album," into a multimedia performance work featuring Obie-winning actress Mia Barron.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMJoan Didion’s 1979 essay “The White Album” is both a classic of new journalism and an artifact of the tumultuous period it chronicles. Composed as a series of high-resolution prose sna…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Glenda Jackson stars in "King Lear" on Broadway with a cast of powerhouse actresses, including Jayne Houdyshell, Ruth Wilson and Elizabeth Marvel. But the modern, manic production, directed …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMFor his Broadway production of “King Lear,” built around the one and only Glenda Jackson, director Sam Gold has decided to make use of every luxurious resource at his disposal — someti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Actor and playwright Heidi Schreck, former high school oratorical champion, brings her one woman show, "What the Constitution Means to Me," to Broadway at a time when her old championship to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:31PMWhen actor and writer Heidi Schreck was a high school student in Wenatchee, Wash., she was racking up college tuition money by giving speeches on the majesty of the Constitution in contests …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMMonday, March 25, 2019
The bottled-up fury of female caregivers grows to seismic proportions in "Marys Seacole," Jackie Sibblies Drury's new play that combines strands of theatrical DNA from Adrienne Kennedy and C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMAt a time when the politics of identity has become a central subject of theatrical inquiry, it’s only fitting that African American dramatists have been leading the charge. With their dive…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Times critic Charles McNulty lays out the most promising theater for spring, including Wiest in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” Hnath’s “Dana H.,” Vardalos in “Tiny Beautiful Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMReady for your catharsis? The forecast for the spring season calls for a hurricane of tears, shot through with just enough laughter to keep theatergoers from going off the deep end. Based on…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize finalist, "The Wolves," a drama about high school girl soccer players processing life's difficulties, large and small, gets a superb Echo Theater production di…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:01PM“The Wolves,” Sarah DeLappe’s stunning debut drama that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, presents the world through the prism of girls soccer. The play, which is receiving a superb Echo …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMRobert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMSabrina, the single mother at the center of Inda Craig-Galván’s new play, “Black Super Hero Magic Mama,” is acutely aware of the various ways her son’s life can be upended. Gangs, d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMFriday, March 15, 2019
Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls Nanny, the woman who guided him through boyhood, in a music-infused performance that proves theater, not TV, is the best way to experience this vivi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47PM“Lackawanna Blues,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New Yo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:25PM 
