Wednesday, 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 09:45PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Arthur Miller's play gets a timely revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company, director Jack O'Brien and costar Benjamin Walker, whose anguish and sorrow help to propel a domestic drama into …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMThe carpentry of an Arthur Miller play, all that sawing, hammering and sanding of wood, can sometimes distract from the impressiveness of the house that has been theatrically constructed. �…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMFriday, April 19, 2019
No contemporary play better captures America's cultural divides than Eleanor Burgess' "The Niceties," in which a standout black student and a distinguished white professor clash over race an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMCollege campuses have become the crucible of the new and expanded culture wars embroiling America, and no contemporary play does a better job of capturing the tenor of this fierce battle tha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Nia Vardalos reprises her role in Pasadena Playhouse's profoundly moving adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Dear Sugar" columns.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMCharacter, the way we conduct ourselves in the world, is in decline in America. Consider the evidence: A president who lies so prolifically that media outlets have assigned teams of reporter…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
After exploring how his Vietnamese parents met in a refugee camp in America in his breathtakingly original comedy "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen picks up the story of their lives in the u…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMIn “Vietgone,” playwright Qui Nguyen tells the story of how his parents met after escaping the Vietnam War and landing in the same resettlement camp in Arkansas. It’s a tale of traumat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Director and artist Lars Jan turns a classic Joan Didion essay, "The White Album," into a multimedia performance work featuring Obie-winning actress Mia Barron.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMJoan Didion’s 1979 essay “The White Album” is both a classic of new journalism and an artifact of the tumultuous period it chronicles. Composed as a series of high-resolution prose sna…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Glenda Jackson stars in "King Lear" on Broadway with a cast of powerhouse actresses, including Jayne Houdyshell, Ruth Wilson and Elizabeth Marvel. But the modern, manic production, directed …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMFor his Broadway production of “King Lear,” built around the one and only Glenda Jackson, director Sam Gold has decided to make use of every luxurious resource at his disposal — someti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PM 
