During his tour of duty as a gunner in Iraq, former Marine Sgt. Christian Ellis experienced his share of trauma — the battles, the killings, an assault that left him with a spinal injury. …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PMElsa and Anna have set a move-in date for their new home at Disney California Adventure: "Frozen," the new live show adapted from the hit 2013 movie, will officially begin performances Ma…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PM"Hamilton" fever took hold at the Grammy Awards on Monday when cast members of the hip-hop Broadway phenomenon performed live on the CBS broadcast and took home the award for musical theater…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:03PMThe last time anyone checked, Atticus Finch wasn't a hyper-verbal, precociously talented tech-head with a massive emotional chip on his shoulder. Nonetheless, the upright, plain-spoken hero…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:34AMFans of "Frozen" will have to wait two more years before the highly anticipated musical stage adaptation opens on Broadway. Disney announced Tuesday that the new version of the hit animated …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:34AMCBS has tapped one of its own comedic talents to host one of its most prestigious awards-show telecasts — but will it be enough to bring back viewers? James Corden will follow in the hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05PMIn the Book of Genesis, God proclaimed, "Let there be light," and there was light. In the theater, there are stage hands to do that job, and on a recent morning, a crew had lighted the Ahman…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:47PMScoring tickets for the national tour of "Hamilton," which kicks off next year in San Francisco before heading to Los Angeles, may not be as simple as walking up to the box office and asking…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:34PMThe highly anticipated new production of Harold Pinter's "The Room" by The Wooster Group has run into difficulties after the licensing company for the play said that critics may not review …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:34PMBefore Janet McTeer began performances as the coldly calculating Marquise de Merteuil in the current London revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," she received a brief word of advice from "A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:34PM'Hamilton" is coming to Los Angeles, but local audiences eager to catch the Broadway musical that has become a critical and audience sensation in New York will have to wait until next year…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AMA new production of Verdi's "Macbeth" starring Plácido Domingo and the company premiere of Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" will kick off the 2016-17 season at Los Angeles Opera, leaders are expe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMHaving directed Madonna in her MDNA tour and logged significant time behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil, Michel Laprise is someone who knows how to make a strong visual impact working in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMWhen David Bowie died Sunday, the new stage musical that he co-wrote, “Lazarus,” was nearing the end of its world-premiere run at the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop. The producti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMThe upcoming "Harry Potter" sequel that is set to open at the Palace Theatre in London next year has cast a black actress to play the role of the adult Hermione, a decision that author J.K…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:13PMFor the Irvine Barclay Theatre, 2015 was supposed to have been a year of celebration — a 25th anniversary season spotlighting the company's reputation as one of Orange County's premiere pr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:18AMSometimes it takes a grande dame to play a grande dame. For months Marie-Christine Barrault has traveled France playing the noted writer and intellectual Marguerite Yourcenar, the author of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:10PMWhen it comes to writing music for the plays of William Shakespeare, few living composers can claim as much experience as Patrick Doyle, the two-time Academy Award nominee who has collaborat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:44AMThe producers of a recent Los Angeles production of "Carrie," a musical based on the popular Stephen King novel, are being sued by the advertising agency that created the show's local and o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:42PMPlácido Domingo is recovering from surgery to remove his gallbladder and is expected to leave the hospital soon, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The spokeswoman said that the "surgery went…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:10AMA small group of actors and theater professionals in Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against Actors' Equity Assn. seeking to reverse the union's new 99-seat theater plan, enacted in April…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:34PMThe late Shirley Temple Black and her family are giving money and memorabilia totaling more than $5 million to the planned Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, leaders announced…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMPlacido Domingo was admitted to a New York hospital late Tuesday after experiencing intense pain and is scheduled to undergo surgery to remove his gallbladder early next week, his spokeswoma…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PM"The Simpsons" on Fox doesn't often feature cameo appearances by classical musicians. One of the most recent examples was eight years ago when tenor Plácido Domingo snapped a towel at Hom…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMLos Angeles Opera is adding two prominent members of the local business community to its board of directors.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMGlenn Close began her journey down "Sunset Boulevard" in 1993, with a production in Los Angeles that eventually catapulted her and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical to Broadway, where they w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMBrian Friel was never a household name, but within the theater world, and especially among Irish actors, the playwright was a beloved figure whose poetically loquacious dramas provided ju…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMEloisa Maturén, the wife of conductor Gustavo Dudamel, will star in a Los Angeles stage production of the popular Spanish play "Ay Carmela!" that will feature music by her husband and sets …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMWhen Danny Elfman announced last week a Halloween concert at the Hollywood Bowl, tickets for the event sold out in a matter of hours. In response to the demand, the film composer has added a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PMOfficials at Lincoln Center in New York bade farewell to Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday, formally renaming the storied classical music venue David Geffen Hall in recognition of the entertain…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PMFans of Benedict Cumberbatch who missed out on tickets to his London stage performance in "Hamlet" will have the opportunity to catch the British actor in Shakespeare's most famous play st…
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