Friday, 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 01:30PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Two years ago, William Shatner made his long-awaited return to Broadway in his one-man show "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It." This fall, fellow "Star Trek" veteran George Takei will bol…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:42PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
William Forsythe has been named associate choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet, the company announced Wednesday when unveiling its upcoming season. The 2015-16 roster of ballet offerings …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Laura Linney will play the role of American novelist Patricia Highsmith in the new stage drama "Switzerland" at the Geffen Playhouse, the company will announce Tuesday. The two-person cast w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMPresident Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2016 calls for slight increases in federal funding for cultural institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Norman Lear, the television veteran behind the sitcom "All in the Family" and other hits, and Barbara Cook, the Broadway stage legend, have been added to the current season of the Wallis Ann…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:57PMFriday, January 30, 2015
In a large workshop at CBS Television City on the edge of Hollywood, the palace of Versailles was slowly taking shape.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMWednesday, January 28, 2015
In his most recent movies, Woody Allen has worked with actors including Emma Stone, Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett. This year, the filmmaker will team up with a different kind of star when h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Los Angeles Opera will celebrate its 30th-anniversary season in the fall with a main-stage lineup featuring Plácido Domingo and Woody Allen working on "Gianni Schicchi," the L.A. debut of "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMSunday, January 25, 2015
— The first standing ovation of San Diego Opera's season opener Saturday came at the start of the evening, not at the end.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:15PMFriday, January 23, 2015
Bradley Cooper, riding high on the dual successes of "American Sniper" in cinemas and "The Elephant Man" on Broadway, will soon be heading to London, where he will open the stage production …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:53PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
In one of the more intriguing collaborations of the current New York theater season, Julie Taymor will direct actress Anne Hathaway in a play about drone warfare that will open this spring a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PM"The Elephant Man" on Broadway will close one day earlier than previously announced so that star Bradley Cooper can attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Cooper has received two…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05PMEsa-Pekka Salonen has been named composer in residence at the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra announced Wednesday. Salonen, the former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, wi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:32PMMonday, January 19, 2015
A group of Los Angeles theater leaders will announce this week an aggressive plan to diversify Southern California theater companies, the productions they present and the audiences they draw.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45AMFriday, January 16, 2015
It's a rewarding but undeniably hectic time to be Kelli O'Hara.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
The Tony Award-winning Broadway production of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" will launch a national tour in September, with Chicago as the first stop. The 44-week tour, which produ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMMonday, January 12, 2015
President Obama has chosen a noted Los Angeles theater leader to join the National Council on the Arts in Washington.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:13PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Not even Sting himself could save his own Broadway musical "The Last Ship" from going down.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PMMonday, January 5, 2015
For the second year in a row, Disney's "The Lion King" has emerged as Broadway's undisputed monarch, beating out perennial rival "Wicked" for the No. 1 box-office spot for 2014.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
The end of 2014 provides an opportunity to take a look back at some of the notable figures in the arts who died in the last year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMMonday, December 29, 2014
Bradley Cooper scored two box-office successes over the Christmas weekend with the Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man" and the limited release of his latest movie, "American Sniper."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMFriday, December 26, 2014
Famously fussy and protective of his stage musicals, Stephen Sondheim isn't the most natural fit for the movie business, where the surrender of creative control to bottom-line-minded produce…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Sony's theatrical release of "The Interview" is officially kaput, but a small New York stage company is taking up the cause by hosting a live reading of the movie's screenplay.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:36PMHaving played dozens of roles on the operatic stage, Renee Fleming will venture into new territory this spring when she makes her Broadway debut in the play "Living on Love." The soprano wil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Richard Linklater's 2003 crowd pleaser "School of Rock" will become a Broadway musical when the world-premiere production opens at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York on Dec. 6, 2015, prod…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
The top conductors of the San Diego Opera and the San Diego Symphony will be departing their respective organizations in the months to come.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
The new movie version of "Into the Woods" is big in many ways — big stars (Meryl Streep, Chris Pine), big visual effects (giant beanstalk, angry giantess) and big score (booming orchestra …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMFriday, December 12, 2014
The Geffen Playhouse will honor George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, as well as Sir Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, at its annual fundraising gala that is set to take place …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:50PMMonday, December 8, 2014
A cultural columnist at the Wall Street Journal has been disinvited to shows by a top Broadway press agent in response to a column she wrote in which she confessed to leaving a number of sho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:51PMBradley Cooper has already made the new Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man" a hot ticket, with fans lined up in front of the theater for scarce seats and behind it for autographs and self…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:47AM 
