Thursday, June 27, 2013
The new season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre will feature four main productions, including a world-premiere musical and Irish actor Barry McGovern in a piece dedicated to Samuel Beckett.Â
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:50PM[SHARE]When asked how Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage will change his play "8," Dustin Lance Black responded simply: "I'm going to have rewrite the ending."Â
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
"One Night with Janis Joplin" was a popular hit when it ran earlier this year at the Pasadena Playhouse, with actress Mary Bridget Davies as the tragic folk-rock singer who died in 197…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:30PM[SHARE]Los Angeles Opera is going to be $7 million richer thanks to a new gift from billionaire Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
It's officially curtains for Reprise, the Los Angeles theater company founded in 1997 that has brought numerous musical revival productions to the Freud Stage at UCLA. The company, which has…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
Terry Bradshaw -- NFL veteran, TV personality ... stage star? Bradshaw, a former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and current NFL commentator on Fox, is branching out into yet another ente…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:29PM[SHARE]When Stephen Moyer takes to the stage of the Hollywood Bowl next month as Billy Flynn in a production of the musical "Chicago," it will be the first time that American audiences get to s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:42PM[SHARE]Judd Hirsch will fill the shoes of the late Richard Griffiths in the revival of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" coming to the Ahmanson Theatre in September. Â
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
Stephen Moyer of HBO's "True Blood" will trade in his fangs for some dancing shoes this summer when he takes the role of Billy Flynn in the musical "Chicago" at the Hollywood Bowl, set to ru…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
James Gandolfini, who died unexpectedly on Wednesday after reportedly suffering a heart attack while in Italy, will forever be remembered for playing the neurotic New Jersey mobster Tony Sop…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50PM[SHARE]With a cast that includes Jesse Tyler Ferguson of ABC's "Modern Family," the Public Theater's new production of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" debuted this week at the Delacorte Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
Broadway shows posted a healthy uptick in box-office revenue in the week immediately following the Tony Awards, with best-play winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," by Christopher Du…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2013
Long Beach Opera announced Wednesday its 2014 season will include works by Duke Ellington, John Adams and Wynton Marsalis. The season will feature four productions -- the same as the current…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Riding high after winning six Tony Awards on Sunday, including the prize for new musical, "Kinky Boots" will launch a national tour in September 2014 that will begin in Las Vegas, producers …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
"Ann," the one-woman show starring Holland Taylor as former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, has posted a closing notice on Broadway. The play will have its last performance at the Vivian Beaumont T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Neil Patrick Harris is a busy man. When he's not working on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," or indulging in his passion for magic tricks, or filming cameos for the "Harold & Kumar" m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
The annual Tony Awards will begin at 5 p.m. PDT on Sunday with our coverage of the ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The CBS broadcast will be delayed until 8 p.m. PDT on the We…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber said Sunday that health problems had forced him to cancel his scheduled appearance at the Tony Awards ceremony in New York. Lloyd Webber was expected to appear at Sunday'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2013
The 67th annual Tony Awards ceremony will be broadcast Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBS. That's the same on both coasts, with the show airing live on the East Coast and three hours later on the We…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York has created a financial news empire, sustained a successful political career and amassed a personal fortune in the billions. Will he add a Tony to his …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Social media is changing the way that shows market themselves and reach out to the public. Actors let their thumbs to the talking.Getting up close to a Broadway star can cost you more than $…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:55PM[SHARE]Get ready for live 3-D en pointe action as the Mariinsky Ballet, with help from James Cameron's company, hits cinema screens.What does the cutting-edge, digital 3-D world of James Cameron ha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
A new musical version of the 2002 movie "Far From Heaven" has descended on Playwrights Horizons in New York. Starring Kelli O'Hara in the role originated by Julianne Moore, the musical trace…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Before her caterwauling duet of "Those Were the Days" with Carroll O'Connor became a signature moment of CBS' "All in the Family," actress Jean Stapleton had already sung her way through a n…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
We all know the musical about the singing nun. Well, this is the one about the singing rabbi.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Leslie Caron has danced with some of Hollywood's greatest performers, including Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. It's been years since the French film legend has danced on the big screen, but Ca…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:53PM[SHARE]The touring Cirque du Soleil show "Totem" will make a series of stops in Southern California starting in the fall that will include a three-week residency at the Santa Monica Pier. "Totem" i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Every award season seems to bring at least one campaign scandal, and Broadway is no different from Hollywood in this respect. Producers behind the recent critically acclaimed revival of Edwa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Mark Taper Forum has scratched a new revival of Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw" from its schedule and replaced it with the traveling solo show "Humor Abuse." Center Theatre Group, whic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:06PM[SHARE]The "Little Miss Sunshine" minibus is fueling up to head cross-country again, this time from the West Coast to New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AM[SHARE] 
