Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Homer's "The Odyssey" looms large in Suzan-Lori Parks' "Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)," her entrancingly intimate, anachronistically frolicsome Civil War drama that opened…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMSaturday, April 16, 2016
Actors are required to kiss all the time in their line of work, but can a smooch really be faked? Passion simulated either becomes real or risks looking contrived and yucky. Sarah Ruhl, the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:19PMFriday, April 15, 2016
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is far too independent an artist to feel comfortable in the role of African American spokesperson. But she didn't hold back when asked for her thoughts about the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
Before Irish actress Lisa Dwan takes the stage for the "Beckett Trilogy" she has been performing internationally to much acclaim, theatergoers are warned that they are about to be plunged in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Michael John LaChiusa, the richly talented author of such ambitious musicals as "Marie Christine" and "Hello Again," doesn't gravitate toward frivolity. His sensibility is unabashedly litera…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:21PMMonday, April 4, 2016
"The Revisionist," a play by actor-writer Jesse Eisenberg about a pompous, inconsiderate young American novelist who pays a visit to a Polish relative he barely knows, tests an audience's to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMThursday, March 24, 2016
For "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," homicidal ambition is the mother of musical comedy invention. This Tony-winning musical, about an acquisitive young man of questionable parentage …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:44PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
"Casa Valentina," Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Tony-nominated play, couldn't have found more trustworthy hands than those of director David Lee. The West Coast premiere took place Sunday at the P…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMFriday, March 18, 2016
For those who have been tracking the thrilling career of the Belgian-born, Amsterdam-based director Ivo van Hove, the last place you'd expect to find him working is Broadway. But the Flemish…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:26PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Jeff Daniels has returned to Scottish playwright David Harrower's disquieting drama "Blackbird," and his experience in the play has not only deepened but galvanized his performance. Excellen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PMFood is complicated, as any dieter can tell you. Eating, even for the naturally slender, is an emotional activity. When the narrator of Marcel Proust's sprawling masterpiece, "Remembrance of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PMSuccess for an actor — yes, even one of the classic Hollywood mold — can be a mixed blessing. For Leonardo DiCaprio, "Titanic" was both the greatest thing that ever happened to his caree…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PMLady Macbeth is such a larger-than-life theatrical figure that it's only natural that audiences would like more information about her than Shakespeare is willing to provide. His method, stil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:10PMBroadway, hardly a bastion of diversity, has been starting to see the wisdom in this "Hamilton"-rocked season of bringing new voices to the table. "Eclipsed," by the U.S.-born, Zimbabwean-ra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Large dumpsters, the kind often seen at construction sites or behind restaurants, play a prominent role in Dámaso Rodriguez's kinetic modern-dress production of William Shakespeare's "Romeo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:46PMIn the ancient world, long before modern psychology domesticated sex, Eros was considered a fearful, destabilizing, often ruinous force. In "The Mystery of Love & Sex," a recent play by Bath…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AMFriday, February 19, 2016
"Miss Julie," August Strindberg's 1888 classic, has inspired so many high-profile adaptations — the work has been relocated to Britain, Ireland, America, Russia and (most effectively) Sout…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:02PMFriday, February 12, 2016
God is headlining at the Ahmanson Theatre in the Broadway comedy "An Act of God," but please don't think of this as the Second Coming. This appearance is really more of a tease, an occasion …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:31AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
This is not a review. Samuel French Inc., the licensing agent representing the Harold Pinter estate in the U.S., has decreed that the Wooster Group's production at REDCAT of Pinter's first p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
History is given a warm theatrical salute in "Fly," a tap-dance-infused drama that tells the story of a group of Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American Army Air Corps fighters who helpe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05PMThursday, January 28, 2016
"Hamilton" is coming to the Hollywood Pantages Every Hollywood mover-and-shaker ought to see it.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:45AMA tremor of excitement ran through the Los Angeles theater scene on Tuesday with the announcement that "Hamilton," Broadway's biggest phenomenon since "Rent," will play the Hollywood Pantage…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:23AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
A flop with a glittering score. That was the consensus verdict after Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," a musical adapted from Voltaire's slim, satiric 1759 novel, closed on Broadway shortly aft…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMSaturday, January 16, 2016
There's nothing quite as gratifying as spending 90 minutes in the company of a gifted storyteller. James Lecesne holds his audience rapt at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where his solo show "The…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:13PMFriday, January 15, 2016
They weren't household names, and only one of their faces might be widely recognizable, but the deaths in rapid succession of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman represent an incalcu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50PMThursday, January 14, 2016
When literary classics are adapted for the stage with kid gloves, Masterpiece Tedium is usually the result. The reason is fairly straightforward. Art that makes a lasting impression must pos…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:52PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
Sandra Tsing Loh's midlife crisis may turn out to be the best thing that has ever happened to her career. Adultery, divorce and menopause have given this multidisciplinary humorist a banquet…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMSunday, January 10, 2016
Sometimes the word "unforgettable" can be taken literally. I can still feel that electric charge when I first encountered Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" in 2009. The world …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:49AMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Still haven't checked off those on your gift list who are of a more melodramatic or histrionic temperament? Never fear. There is a cornucopia of holiday goodies waiting for the thespians and…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:49PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Idina Menzel is such a beloved Broadway talent that it only makes sense that a show built around her would give us two Menzels for the price of one. "If/Then," the 2014 Broadway musical now …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:35PM 
