A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People," written by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, is on Broadway this season in a production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThe Fountain Theatre's founding artistic director, Stephen Sachs, reflects on his new play, "Fatherland," and new adventures as he prepares to step down at the end of the year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMIn "The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe," actor Nick Ullett, a cast member in William Friedkin's 2014 Harold Pinter revival, tells the tale of the madness that upended the productio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:03PMKristen Adele Calhoun's haunting "Black Cypress Bayou" wrestles with history and reparations in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PMA new revival of "The Wiz," featuring Wayne Brady and the hits "Ease on Down the Road" and "Home," opens at the Hollywood Pantages before its Broadway run.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PM'Mercury,' by Steve Yockey, the creator/showrunner of HBO Max's 'The Flight Attendant,' and 'Middle of the World' by TV executive Juan José Alfonso spin yarns designed to hook restless audi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM'English' by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego's Old Glob…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMJames Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMA radical reworking of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne gets its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:22PMRetired Yale School of Drama professor Gordon Rogoff died at 92. Theater critic Charles McNulty, his former student, shares an appreciation of Rogoff's legacy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PMBroadway star and three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera achieved her diva-dom through sheer hard work, humility and humanity.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58PM'POTUS,' Selina Fillinger's farce about the women charged with keeping a misbehaving president in line, has its L.A. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in a production directed by Jennifer Cha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PMKate Berlant plays an actor unable to cry on cue in her solo show 'Kate,' directed by Bo Burnham, at the Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe talented political parodist Randy Rainbow skewers Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis at the Orpheum Theatre, while announcing a new book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:58PMIn 2023, the theater lost many notables with long careers, including Michael Gambon, Frances Sternhagen, Glenda Jackson, Barry Humphries and Michael Blakemore. Praising those we lost makes t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:32PMWith Aubrey Plaza, John Turturro and Dianne Wiest on its stages, new musicals from Alicia Keys and Stephen Sondheim and critically hailed new plays by Annie Baker and David Adjmi, downtown u…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMDavid Hyde Pierce is in the cast of "Here We Are," Stephen Sondheim's final musical, at the Shed in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMatthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 satiric novel 'Babbitt' in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMAlex Edelman's 'Just for Us,' the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThe world premiere of 'Hell's Kitchen,' the semi-autobiographical musical by Alicia Keys, features a book by Kristoffer Diaz and sublime vocals by a cast that re-interprets some of Key's big…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:44PMAubrey Plaza, fresh off her 'White Lotus' success, makes her stage debut off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' starring opposite Christopher Abbott.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PMNikkole Salter's "Lines in the Dust" at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMComedian Alex Edelman brings his acclaimed Broadway show, in which he muses on Jewish identity, empathy and how he came to hang out with a group of white nationalists, to the Mark Taper Foru…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:20PMRobert Brustein was a kingly critic with sometimes controversial opinions; don't discount his influence on American theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMAlfred Molina, John Douglas Thompson and Chris Perfetti star in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of 'Inherit the Wind,' the Scopes "monkey" trial drama, directed by Michael Michetti.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMEast West Players doesn't pull any punches in its revival of "Spring Awakening," the Tony-winning musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMIn 'Life Sucks,' Aaron Posner takes his inspiration from Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a playful, contemporary reworking directed by Barry Heins at Los Angeles' Broadwater Main Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AMPlaywright Anna Ouyang Moench's 'Birds of North America' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in a production starring Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSamuel Baum's 'The Engagement Party,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, opens at the Geffen Playhouse with a cast that includes Jonah Platt, Bella Heathcote and Wendie Malick.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMKenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's stunning "Infinite Life" has its world premiere off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in a co-production with Britain's National Theatr…
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