Wednesday, June 12, 2019
At a time in America when lies are rampant in public life and alternative truth has been adopted as a winning political strategy, the 2018-19 Broadway season will be remembered for those gri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMIt turned out not to be a horrendous year for new Broadway musicals, if you disqualify “King Kong,” lower your IQ for “The Cher Show” and bring earplugs to “Be More Chill.” “Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Rebecca Taichman won a Tony Award for directing a darkly enchanting production of the Paula Vogel play, now at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11PMMonday, June 10, 2019
The Tony Awards sort out a Broadway year divided between the impulse to innovate and the desire to maintain the status quo.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15AMThursday, June 6, 2019
Handicapping Sunday's Tony Awards: Can "Hadestown" beat "Tootsie"? Will Sorkin's "Mockingbird" be redeemed? And will the Tonys justly reward a female director?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
The playwright gets personal in this documentary tale about his mother, a psych ward chaplain held captive by a suicidal convict. It's a sly, slippery tale.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:53PMAnaïs Mitchell's concept album-turned-folk opera is an exquisite marriage of story and song that advances the art of theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Heidi Schreck's "What the Constitution Means to Me" is more than a performance piece: It's the most moving play of the year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Time passes, and even a contemporary classic can use a nip and tuck. David Henry Hwang, most famous for his Tony-winning 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” performed some not insignificant cosmet…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:14AMMonday, May 20, 2019
The modern classic on gender roles and Orientalism gets an uneven revival at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa directed by Desdemona Chiang.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:26PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Helder Guimarães is either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician. But however you classify him, he’s excellent company in his new show, “Invisible Tan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Directed by Frank Marshall and featuring music by Moby, "Invisible Tango" has tricks that astonish and a storytelling charm that's more than mere magic show.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:25AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Playwright Lucas Hnath is back on Broadway with “Hillary and Clinton,” a zesty drama on America’s most picked-apart political couple that finds Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow in top f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMWith an assist from actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, the new work is yet another way to hear the singular voice of this leading American playwright.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:16PMThursday, May 9, 2019
“I just want to do Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ over and over again,” Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. “I don’t want to do anything else, because nothing else …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PMWiest, in L.A. for Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." talks theater, "Law & Order" and why she would work with Woody Allen again "in a second."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:28PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.” These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PMHow old is Dolly Gallagher Levi? The question arises whenever “Hello, Dolly!” is performed. The character is described in Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker,” the basis of the music…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PM“Daniel’s Husband,” an absorbing drama by Michael McKeever that was a hit off-Broadway, explores the debate on same-sex marriage from a less obvious angle. Set in the “perfectly appo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:41PMMichael McKeever's poignant drama opens at Fountain Theatre with Bill Brochtrup, Tim Cummings and Jenny O’Hara in a moving, crowd-pleasing production.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:28PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Long story short: It was a strange Broadway season — one in which old formulas proved unreliable and a few long-shot experiments yielded unexpected rewards. Rendering an up or down verdict…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMInterior. Restaurant at a Beverly Hills hotel, early March. Music spritzing luxuriously in the background. A publicist finishes her breakfast. In walks a frazzled middle-aged theater critic.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:14AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
The Tony nominations send a message of support to artists with fresh sensibilities, but occasionally at the expense of worthier work.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMThe writer gets snubbed Tuesday by the Tony Awards, but his "How to Kill a Mockingbird" does pick up nine nominations — tying "The Ferryman" for the most nods for any play.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:02PMMonday, April 29, 2019
“A Doll’s House, Part 2,” which is receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, had its official opening on Thursday at Broadway’s Golden Theatre in a separate production c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:48PMThursday, 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 09:45PM 
