Tuesday, 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 02:37PMKemp Powers, who found inspiration in historical slave narratives, gets a visually arresting, at times haunting, production of his new play in Costa Mesa.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, April 16, 2018
Rarely has an exclamation point in a title been earned as thoroughly as the one in the new Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” starring Bette Midler. The show, which opened at the Sam S.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:12AMLili Taylor stars in artist Suzanne Bocanegra's "Farmhouse/Whorehouse," which combines text, music and film centered on the lives of Bocanegra's grandparents, whose small farm stood across t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMPath-breaking artists help us to see the world afresh by challenging our habitual patterns of perception. They shock us into new awareness by joining the disparate and sundering the similar.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, April 13, 2018
Joshua Harmon's funny play, in a glorious new production at the Geffen Playhouse, follows a gay man in his late 20s whose female BFFs get married, one by one, leaving him ever more anxious a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:20PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Four actors play all the characters of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in Bedlam's touring productions at the Broad Stage through Saturday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:57PMHowever you judge Bedlam, this young and adventurous New York company deserves extra points for a program with an unusual degree of difficulty. Imagine four actors taking on all the roles no…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:55PMFriday, April 6, 2018
With a theme of hope in the face of oppressive politics, the Wooster Group stages 'A Pink Chair,' a piece centered on the work of the late Polish writer and stage director Tadeusz Kantor, so…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMWe live in an age where the internet has become an open archive. YouTube warehouses our collective nostalgia. (Oh, the hours I’ve lost watching old music videos and classic tennis matches!…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMMonday, April 2, 2018
Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” belongs to a convention of comedy that isn’t coming back anytime soon. The figure of the scolding, abusive wife, a reliable source of hilarity…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:30PMPlaywright Amy Freed revisits the character of the scolding, abusive wife with this female-centric update of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:29PMFriday, March 30, 2018
The Times' theater critic sits down with the playwright to discuss two new productions of his masterpiece, "Angels in America" — one at Berkeley Rep and the other in New York, where Kushne…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThursday, March 29, 2018
Edward Albee's Pulitzer-winning drama is the vehicle for Glenda Jackson's return to Broadway. Laurie Metcalf, a Tony winner last year, and Alison Pill co-star.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMMonday, March 26, 2018
For one critic recalling the experience of seeing "Angels in America" 25 years ago, the current Broadway revival is perfectly timed, proving the political prescience of playwright Tony Kushn…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:46PMThe superb new Broadway production of “Angels in America” from London brought back my first encounter with the work at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993. I had traveled from New Haven to s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMThursday, March 22, 2018
When it shrugs off its Shakespearean aspirations, Disney's female-centric fairy tale succeeds with comic sweetness and a charming cast.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMNo one attending “Frozen,” the new Broadway musical that had its official opening on Thursday at the St. James Theatre, is meant to ponder the rise of extreme weather events. Leave it to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMTheater critic Charles McNulty notes promising productions in the coming season, including Joshua Harmon's "Significant Other," Stephen Karam's "The Humans," Amy Herzog's "Belleville" and Le…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
The performance artist sits down with Times theater critic Charles McNulty to discuss "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music," which explores oppression and resistance throughout American his…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:19AMThe professors and university mandarins having lunch at an elegant UCLA campus restaurant the other day had no idea that seated inconspicuously among them was a cultural revolutionary. Weari…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, March 2, 2018
"Mozart in the Jungle" star Saffron Burrows tries to channel Jacqueline Kennedy in this one-woman production at the Wallis, but a big wig can't make up for a thin script.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:45AMThursday, March 1, 2018
I felt sure two of this year's Oscar contenders would satisfy my seasonal yearning for intelligent screen storytelling, but in both cases, I found myself quarreling with the writing and the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMLike many Americans, I find it increasingly easy to talk myself out of going to the movies. There’s plenty to watch at home and so little to lure me back onto the roads and into those unfa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Boston Court in Pasadena presents a new production of Tennessee Williams' classic, set in contemporary times and propelled by Michael Michetti's pitch-perfect direction.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMMichael Michetti’s revitalizing production of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center shakes out the cobwebs of an American classic …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMMonday, February 26, 2018
The last play in Quiara Alegria Hudes' trilogy about an Iraq War veteran trying to forge a life back in the States proves more difficult to stage effectively in this Latino Theater Company p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMWhen we last checked in on Elliot at the end of “Water by the Spoonful,” the middle work in Quiara Alegría Hudes’ three-play Elliot cycle, he was in Puerto Rico with his cousin Yaz sc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
A new translation of Chekhov's play manages to modernize a classic without updating it. The result is a strong, smartly acted production under the direction of playwright Richard Nelson.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:51PMSometimes you don’t know how much you need Anton Chekhov until you re-encounter him. “Uncle Vanya,” one of the Russian writer’s four dramatic masterpieces, is on view here at the Old…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50PMMonday, February 19, 2018
Tim Robbins' theater company looks to its own members' family stories to create a new work about America's immigrants. The result is a little monotonous but ultimately powerful — and deepl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:52PM 
