Friday, April 3, 2015
Punxsutawney Phil will look for his shadow on Broadway starting in 2017.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:38PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Productions of "1984" from Great Britain and "Carmen" from South Africa will be among the highlights of the 2015-16 season at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The company, which unveiled its…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMWednesday, April 1, 2015
Jay Leno will appear in a one-night benefit performance at the Geffen Playhouse in May, the Los Angeles theater company announced on Wednesday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:02PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
NBC's broadcast of "The Wiz," which is set to air this fall, will serve as a platform for Cirque du Soleil to catapult itself onto Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:32PMFriday, March 27, 2015
The latest stage musical from Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will have its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in September, the Los Angeles theater company announced on Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMMonday, March 23, 2015
"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" will be the latest Broadway hit to be turned into a movie.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:53PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Had it not been for a random encounter with a British Airways television commercial when she was 16, soprano Pretty Yende might be crunching numbers in an office today rather than performing…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMFriday, March 13, 2015
"Mr. Wolf," the new drama from Rajiv Joseph, is a play about family, faith and loss. But beyond that, the writer wants to keep the audience in the dark as much as possible.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMMax Richter has been composing inventive orchestral music for years, but naturally, American audiences really began noticing him en masse only when his compositions began appearing in movies…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThursday, March 12, 2015
Jamie McCourt is adding another board directorship to her expanding roster of cultural philanthropies.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:08PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
San Diego Opera has gone with an unconventional choice for its new general director, the first it has named since the company reinvented itself last year following a period of internal turm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Laura Linney paused for a moment before delivering a blunt assessment of her latest role, author Patricia Highsmith: "It's going to kick my butt."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30AMMonday, March 9, 2015
The Tony Award-winning musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" and "The Bridges of Madison County" will be part of the Ahmanson Theatre's 2015-16 season, Center Theatre Group in Los A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:25PMHelen Mirren is once again playing her signature role of Queen Elizabeth II, this time in the Broadway transfer of Peter Morgan's "The Audience," which was first seen in London in 2013. The…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:22PMFriday, March 6, 2015
"Fish in the Dark," Larry David's first Broadway play, is one of the hottest tickets in New York, playing to sold-out houses since previews began in February and generating high-profile pub…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:09PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
In the immortal words of Annie Wilkes, "Misery's alive! Misery's alive!"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:11PMSince his heyday as a music executive and entertainment mogul, David Geffen has given away hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations that now bear his name. In Los Angeles, there is …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:41PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Kenneth Novice has departed the Geffen Playhouse after serving as its managing director for more than five years, the company has announced.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:11PMThursday, February 26, 2015
The Juilliard School in New York will confer honorary doctorate degrees on directors Peter Sellars and Nicholas Hytner during its commencement ceremony in May.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:48PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Two legends will share the stage on Friday when Los Angeles Opera hosts a live conversation between Broadway diva Patti LuPone and operatic mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:52PMOne of the most talked about new musicals of the New York theater season is officially heading to Broadway, though the opening date chosen by its backers means it won't compete this year for…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
New works by Rajiv Joseph, Melissa Ross and Itamar Moses as well as a new Theatre Movement Bazaar piece inspired by "The Godfather" will be part of the 2015 Pacific Playwrights Festival, h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:44PMA new musical version of "A Bronx Tale" will premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey later this year in a staging co-directed by Robert De Niro, who helmed the 1993 movie version …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Oscar loves movies about show business, the conventional Hollywood wisdom goes, and the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday was no exception as "Birdman" took home four prizes, including the aw…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:53PMFriday, February 20, 2015
The announcement last year that Benedict Cumberbatch would be starring in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was a consummation devoutly to be wished for the actor's legions of female fans -- so much s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:26PMHaving recently ended his long tenure on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, veteran politician Zev Yaroslavsky has now joined the board of another L.A. institution.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:59PMThursday, February 19, 2015
To say the word "coin" in American Sign Language, you join the tip of your index finger to your thumb to create a circle, like making the "OK" sign. But if you place the palm of your other h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
In a confluence of show business scheduling, the two stars of "American Sniper" are both appearing on Broadway this week, though in separate shows. Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, who play…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:08AMFriday, February 13, 2015
The planned stage adaptation of the hit movie "Frozen" will feature some of the same talents that made the Oscar-winning animated feature.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:36PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Before the hordes of music fans descend on the Coachella Valley in April for the annual festival, the desert community will play host to a different kind of gathering in March devoted to th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMFriday, February 6, 2015
In an announcement that has taken many in the classical-music world by surprise, Alan Gilbert, who has led the New York Philharmonic as music director since 2009, will step down from the pod…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PM 
