Terrorists make the covers of newspapers while those who selflessly give comfort and support in times of crisis are usually relegated to the back pages.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51PMThe lesson of "Waterfall," the ersatz new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse, is that you can't judge a show by the resumes of the artists.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PMHow can you not love a musical about a badly mistreated pint-sized prodigy whose passion for reading rescues her from the bullies and boors around her?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15AMCritic's notebook on last night's awards
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMBroadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29AMHow do the voters make their Tony Award decisions? Here's the capricious breakdown.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:54AMThe world isn't a meritocracy, the prize doesn't always go to the most deserving and Vincent van Gogh isn't the only artist to have gone to his grave unheralded.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:09AM"Murder for Two," a musical whodunit performed cabaret-theater style by two indefatigable actors, is part tag team, part tug of war.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMThe Public Theater's game-changing artistic director has been retooling the American musical
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:54PMWho's the toast of Broadway at the moment? While fans of Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O'Hara duke it out, let's raise a glass to Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's game-changing artistic dire…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMOf the 10 Tony Award nominees in the lead actor and actress categories for drama, five are English. We look at what the Brits have brought to Broadway stages over the past season, and why th…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:40PMThis year, the discussion around the Academy Awards was all about the unbearable whiteness of being an acting nominee. The Tony Awards can hardly brag about diversity. It's never a good sign…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:52AMTime veils the past in mystery for everyone, but theater artist Lars Jan's case is exceptional. His late father, an enigmatic Polish-born Cold War operative, remains an elusive figure despit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:20PMDeaf West Theatre has a way of reimagining musicals. The company's practice of assigning certain roles to two actors, one singing, the other signing, opens the art form up to deaf performers…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMBefore moving to L.A., I was on the faculty of Brooklyn College's MFA program in theater. If I were still there, I'd make "Just Kids" required reading.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMDramatic adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work should carry a warning to audiences that the characters and situations they're about to encounter are likely to be disturbing in the extreme.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMThe musical theater stalwart casts herself as the victim and opens old wounds in recounting her life and career.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM'The King's Speech' gives voice to a mature view of the affliction and those who struggle with it.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMNot a banner year by any stretch, but good work will always out. This year, the advantage fell decidedly to directors who weren't afraid to let their artistry show.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMAs anyone who caught “The Pain and the Itch” at the Theatre @ Boston Court a couple of seasons back can verify, Bruce Norris doesn't write plays to win popularity contests.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMThere's a perky ray of sunshine with gawky eyeglasses and a cautious smile brightening this agreeable adaptation from the Tony-winning team of James Lapine and William Finn (whose collaborat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMLouisville's Marc Masterson will be taking over at the playwright-friendly venue, and he can't go wrong following these suggestions.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMTarell Alvin McCraney, the prodigiously talented author of "The Brother/Sister Plays," has called August Wilson a mentor, though Wilson's stylistic influence hasn't been conspicuous.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:57PMEmily, the hands-on owner of a construction firm in Adam Bock's "A Small Fire," is never more at home than when barking orders to her workers at a building site.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMSometimes a musical finds its ideal home away from home.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMPhylicia Rashad-directed 'Immediate Family' is often touching, amusing and means to do some good; review
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMVera, the old Greenwich Village lefty with bad hearing and some trouble remembering words, was the main attraction of "4000 Miles," Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed drama about progressive …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMThe Tony Awards are a time for taking stock, but let’s not put an undue burden on this year’s nominations. To sort out the enigma of the 2014-15 Broadway season would require dusting off…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:19PMOne of the unrecognized ironies of the whole Actors' Equity brouhaha is that the union representing actors seems to understand better than most that the Los Angeles theater scene cannot rema…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMSpoiler alert: The title character of Rajiv Joseph's new play, "Mr. Wolf," kills himself after the first scene. This would preclude him from serving as the play's protagonist, but it doesn't…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:10PMLast year marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I — a hellish anniversary, to be sure, but one that couldn't go unmarked. Observe how the geopolitical consequences of that…
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