Monday, 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“The New Colossus,” a performance work created by the Actors’ Gang in collaboration with company artistic director Tim Robbins, is inspired by the stories of ensemble members’ ancest…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Quiara Alegria Hudes' powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a family grappling with ghosts of the past opens at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles — but not without some problems.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PMFriday, February 9, 2018
At a time when the issue of immigration is used like a political football, it’s easy for some to distance themselves emotionally from the debate. Martyna Majok's drama pulls us back into r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PMDarja, an immigrant from Poland who calls the industrial wastelands of New Jersey home, can regularly be found waiting for a bus near the factory where, until it was shut down, she was emplo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMMonday, February 5, 2018
Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer-nominated play centers on an Iraq-bound Marine whose story is interwoven with his father's Vietnam past and his grandfather's Korean War history. The result is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Artist and choreographer Ann Carlson calls upon a cast of two women, two men, one boy, three herding dogs and a flock of sheep to explore "instinct, sentience, attachment and loss."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMTo bah or not to bah — that is not the question of “Doggie Hamlet,” a site-specific performance work by choreographer and director Ann Carlson that involves a flock of sheep, three her…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:20PMMonday, January 29, 2018
Critic Charles McNulty takes in the scene as Bradley Whitford, Joshua Malina and a starry cast lead a one-night-only reading organized by the Fountain Theatre at L.A. City Hall. The message:…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:44PMAt the electric reading of William Goldman’s screenplay for “All the President’s Men” at Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday night, Watergate once again had the freshness of current ev…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMFriday, January 26, 2018
The irreverent Chicago theater company the Hypocrites brings its adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical to Pasadena.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMMonday, January 22, 2018
"Shakespeare in Love" at South Coast Rep captures the rom-com spirit of Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning screenplay, while Philip Whitchurch's “Shakespeare his wife and the dog…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:12PMWelcome to the Shakespeare Emporium, your one-stop shopping choice for all your Shakespeare accessories. Tote bags and sweatshirts will advertise your love of the Bard. A Stratford-upon-Avon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
One of the last performances I saw in 2017 was one of the sliest: Billy Crudup in David Cale’s “Harry Clarke” at New York’s Vineyard Theatre. I caught this off-Broadway solo work at …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Playwright Bess Wohl, who trained as an actor at the Yale School of Drama, has written a play that asks actors to do more than speak the speech trippingly on the tongue, as Hamlet advised th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMFriday, January 12, 2018
A few years ago, Poor Dog Group, founded in 2008 by a group of young theater artists who met while studying at the California Institute of the Arts, brought in a licensed therapist to hold g…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMFriday, December 15, 2017
The power of individual performers redeemed 2017, a theatrical year overrun with flotsam and jetsam but one that at least gave us Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen in unforgettable form on …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Where do new musicals come from? For a while, the answer regularly seemed to be pop-music catalogs and movies guaranteed to put baby boomers in a nostalgic mood. Broadway became the great cu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PMFriday, December 1, 2017
At the start of Duncan Macmillan’s “People, Places & Things,” which concludes its triumphant run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn on Sunday, Emma, an actress with a serious substan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:55PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
A fascinating experiment is underway on Broadway. A substandard comedy that received, let’s just say, mixed reviews out of town has been recast with fashionably hip actors in a new product…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMMonday, November 20, 2017
Every season theater producers drop a wad of coins in the jukebox like gamblers pouring quarters into slot machines. Broadway jackpots might be rarer than Las Vegas windfalls, but the behemo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:15PMFriday, November 17, 2017
Is there a play-doctor in the house? A concerned onlooker would have reason to make this plea during “Chasing Mem’ries: A Different Kind of Musical.” Unfortunately, there’s not much …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:05PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
“King Charles III,” British playwright Mike Bartlett’s “future history play” that was nominated for a Tony Award last year, begins with the funeral procession for Britain’s longe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMMonday, November 13, 2017
If you can't beat 'em, parody 'em. Gerard Alessandrini, the man behind the popular “Forbidden Broadway” series, has made his theatrical career spoofing his musical theater betters. He’…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMFriday, November 10, 2017
Following in the audaciously silly footsteps of “The Book of Mormon” and “Spamalot,” “Something Rotten!” is a Broadway musical that sets out to pinion you with laughter. Punchlin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMFriday, October 27, 2017
The theater excited Albert Camus’ communal instincts as a writer, but the stage wasn’t the ideal medium for his brand of political existentialism. “Caligula” is perhaps his most full…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
“Gem of the Ocean” may not rank at the top of August Wilson’s plays, but anyone doubting the soul-shaking power of this drama should brave Orange County traffic to see this wrenching n…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMMonday, October 23, 2017
As one theatergoer’s bliss is another theatergoer’s cornball, let’s accentuate the positive before delving into the negative of a show that reveals just how thin the line is between ho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
After acclaim for HBO's "The Leftovers" and an Emmy nomination for FX's "Fargo," Carrie Coon talks about returning to the stage to star in Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" off-Broadway at New York T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Dick Gregory, the comedian and civil rights activist who died this year, played the role of the Shakespearean fool to white America, quipping subversive sentiments about race relations in a …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PMThursday, October 12, 2017
Bravo, Bruce. The star of Broadway's fall season delivers a piece of theater that few will forget - two hours of longing, loss, quiet melancholy and reflection, all from the man who was born…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PM 
