Monday, June 11, 2018
The Tony Awards have closed the book on the 2017-18 season, and now that "The Band's Visit" has won 10 trophies and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has won six, producers and press agent…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:22AMRevivals redeemed a lackluster Broadway year. But now that the Tony Awards have closed the book on the 2017-18 season, it will be easy for producers and press agents to spin a self-congratul…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00AMSunday, June 10, 2018
Staging a sprawling, two-part Shakespearean drama outdoors is a brave task, so credit to the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles for pulling it off with a cast that includes Rondi Reed, Raffi …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:51PMTackling both parts of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” in an outdoor staging with a company of actors not primarily known as Elizabethan specialists is a recipe for a long and bumpy night. So…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
A look at six featured performances nominated for Tony Awards that stood out in the season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe truth of that old theatrical saying that there are no small parts, only small actors, was redeemed last season on Broadway, with a bevy of featured performances that transcended their li…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe truth of that old theatrical saying that there are no small parts, only small actors, was redeemed last season on Broadway, with a bevy of featured performances that transcended their li…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, June 8, 2018
Joe Mantello is a Tony nominee for "Three Tall Women" and also the man guiding the new revival of "The Boys in the Band" starring Zachary Quinto. They talk about the 50th anniversary as well…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMJoe Mantello is a Tony nominee for "Three Tall Women" and also the man guiding the new revival of "The Boys in the Band" starring Zachary Quinto. They talk about the 50th anniversary as well…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
The Old Globe in San Diego presents Ursula Rani Sarma's stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best seller, directed by Carey Perloff.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:37AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
Director John Doyle's acclaimed reworking of the Broadway musical, which won the 2016 Tony for revival, rolls its national tour into the Hollywood Pantages Theatre and later Segerstrom Cente…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:43PMJohn Doyle, the British director who brought fresh life to well-trod Sondheim musicals by having the casts of “Sweeney Todd” and “Company” double as the band, is a master of transfor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
The Broadway revival starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane may have been nominated for 11 Tony Awards, but the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production is no less welcome, with a cast featur…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:21PMIt should come as no surprise that the man who commissioned Tony Kushner to write “Angels in America” would have unwavering faith in the drama. But the outstanding feature of Tony Taccon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
A review of "Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics," which finds wisdom in Shakespeare's plays for contemporary political concerns during the Trump presidency.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Perfection is not attainable in this earthly realm, but Audra McDonald came as close as humanly possible in her L.A. Opera concert Sunday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:57PMPerfection is not attainable in this earthly realm, but Audra McDonald came as close as humanly possible in her Los Angeles Opera concert Sunday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The six-tim…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:55PMThursday, May 17, 2018
From David Henry Hwang ("M. Butterfly") and Jeanine Tesori ("Fun Home") comes this audacious play-with-a-musical that imagines a future where China is the preeminent power, looking to exert …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:37PMRest assured you’ve never seen a musical like “Soft Power” before. The show, a collaboration between Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (“M. Butterfly”) and Tony-winning com…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:35PMA funny thing happened after my disappointment over “Mean Girls” had me forswearing musicals in the middle of Times Square. I fell in love again with the art form through two rapturous r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:48PMTwo old shows have captured the hearts of Broadway this season, arguably more than hipper or edgier fare. Why? And how? Our critic's take on what makes this season's musical revivals truly s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10PMThursday, May 10, 2018
The actor's deeply felt performance in Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama on Broadway delivers a profound message about hurting those we care about most.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:12PMThe prospect of another long wallow in the misery of Harry Hope’s saloon should give even the most intrepid theatergoer pause. “The Iceman Cometh,” Eugene O’Neill’s marathon drama …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
The 2018 list of nominees can be read as Broadway’s lab results, and setting aside the spellbinding Springsteen and the integrity of "The Band's Visit," this year’s slate tells us that t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:18PMTony Award nominations can be read as Broadway’s lab results, and it’s clear from the slate announced Tuesday that the patient’s health has taken a turn for the worse. The two big cate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMMonday, April 30, 2018
Theatergoers, divided into small groups, are guided to different parts of UCLA's Royce Hall, where Woolf’s 1927 novel, one of the glories of literary modernism, is summoned in a theatrical…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMTheatergoers, divided into small groups, are guided to different parts of UCLA's Royce Hall, where Woolf's 1927 novel, one of the glories of literary modernism, is summoned in a theatrical s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PMThursday, April 26, 2018
Our theater critic talks with the notoriously difficult actress, whose return to Broadway in "Three Tall Women" has made her the odds-on favorite to lead Tony nominations when they're announ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMBe careful what you wish for. Tea with Glenda Jackson, an actress I’ve admired since watching “A Touch of Class” on TV with my mother as a teenager, turned out not to be the dream enco…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Anna Camp and Thomas Sadoski costar in an uneven Pasadena Playhouse production of playwright Amy Herzog's drama-with-a-dash-of-"Psycho."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
“Little Black Shadows,” a new play by Kemp Powers at South Coast Repertory, is set in the 1850s, when slavery in the South is an obdurate fact yet glimmers of a distant dawn are starting…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:37PM 
