Friday, May 19, 2017
“Jersey Boys,” that perennial jukebox moneymaker, is back at the Ahmanson Theatre for reasons that are easily surmised. The coffers at Center Theatre Group are clearly crying out for rep…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PMPeter Brook talks about his production of "Battlefield" and the process of stripping away to get to theater's essence.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
A note in the press packet for the West Coast premiere of Guillermo Calderón’s “Kiss” at the Odyssey Theatre requests that critics “not give away details of the plot” in their rev…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Comedy of the crowd-pleasing variety is making a comeback on our stages this season. The Geffen Playhouse notched a hit with Matthew Lopez’s “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” a giggly r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:45PMMonday, May 8, 2017
“Archduke,” the title of Rajiv Joseph’s new play, sounds like the answer to a high school social studies quiz on 20th century European history. As I hope all of you remember, the assas…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
What a difference a year makes. When the 2016 Tony nominations were announced, the suspense was over how many “Hamilton” would get. The show was a lock in most of the major categories, s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Andy Karl, the star of the new Broadway musical “Groundhog Day,” reported for duty on Monday night at the August Wilson Theatre for the production’s official New York opening. It was u…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:35PMSunday, April 16, 2017
A door dominates the backdrop of Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” which picks up the story 15 years after Henrik Ibsen’s landmark drama ends. This is the door that Nora slam…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25PMThursday, April 13, 2017
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:18PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Draft Hillary Clinton to make a pro-NEA statement at the Tony Awards
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:21PMSince the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:15PMFriday, April 7, 2017
The trees are ropes resembling piano strings. The birds are folded sheets of stationery. The princes ride on stick horses. And the wolf stalking Little Red Ridinghood is mounted like a hunti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:55AMThursday, April 6, 2017
The moment I turned on my phone after landing in San Francisco for the opening of “Hamilton,” I was greeted with momentous local news: Carey Perloff, the artistic director of the America…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
A conversation with British actor, writer and director Simon McBurney is a meditative adventure not unlike one of his genre-blurring theatrical collages created with his London-based interna…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMFriday, March 31, 2017
The characters in “Rules of Seconds,” a new play by John Pollono at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, are a lively anachronistic mix. Their boots and pistols suggest the drama’s 1855 Bos…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PMThursday, March 30, 2017
It has been 44 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision decriminalized abortion, but the debate has hardly been settled. The rhetoric has only grown more inflammatory,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, March 24, 2017
The Wooster Group, venerable purveyor of postmodern performance collages, has come upon a gender-politics gold mine in the company's latest adventure in cockeyed cultural excavation. "The To…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Deaf West Theatre is back at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts after the company’s heralded revival of “Spring Awakening,” which catapulted itself to Broadway after i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15PMMonday, February 27, 2017
And the winner actually is … The final-act confusion over the best picture award that had movie moguls staggering out of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood after Sunday’s Academy Awards was…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:40PMFriday, February 24, 2017
A musical with all the dramatic richness of a memorable play opened at the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday — a rare sighting that could induce a theater critic to genuflect if not erupt in a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:35AMThursday, February 23, 2017
On the surface, Lee Chandler, the protagonist of “Manchester by the Sea,” and Troy Maxson, the central character of “Fences,” wouldn’t seem to have much in common. Sprung from diff…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, February 16, 2017
“New musicals are never finished, only abandoned,” director Christopher Ashley quipped by phone a few days before flying to New York for the start of rehearsals for “Come From Away,”…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMMonday, February 13, 2017
“Zoot Suit,” the landmark 1978 play by Luis Valdez that put the struggles of Mexican Americans front and center, is back where it originated at the Mark Taper Forum in an exhilarating re…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMSunday, February 12, 2017
Kneehigh, the seriously playful British theater company that turned the classic film “Brief Encounter” into a charmingly inventive multimedia stage play, is back at the Wallis Annenberg …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:05PMFriday, February 10, 2017
America’s widespread opioid crisis has sadly made a crucial part of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” more relatable. Mary, the strung-out mother in the play’…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:15PMSunday, February 5, 2017
Something miraculous happens in “Every Brilliant Thing.” Something you might want to include on your own list of life-enhancing pleasures should you follow the lead of the protagonist, w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:35PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Just as the short stories in collections by Anton Chekhov, Flannery O’Connor, Grace Paley and Alice Munro are meant to be savored one small masterpiece at a time and not gobbled up indiscr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:40PMMonday, January 30, 2017
There’s no avoiding politics these days. Not even a thrilling stage adaptation of the great American novel set on the high seas can offer complete escape. At Saturday’s matinee of “Mob…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMThursday, January 19, 2017
Last week an artistic leader greeted an opening-night audience with a spiel about why supporting theater is more important now than ever. She was referring to the new political reality, and …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMFriday, January 13, 2017
Penny Fuller plays a well-coiffed widow in “13 Things About Ed Carpolotti,” a charming cabaret-scale one-act musical in which her character finds out that the husband she’s mourning ha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PMMonday, December 19, 2016
For better or worse, 2016 has been a truly Shakespearean year. It has also been the year of Donald Trump, a figure who could no doubt hold his own in one of Shakespeare’s ruthless history …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM 
