"Wild" featuring Tony Award-winner Shoshana Bean & Paul Alexander Nolan. Pre-Order or Pre-Save The Lost Boys (Original Broadway Cast Recording), coming Friday, July 24th. Pre-save here: TheLostBoys.lnk.to/thelostboysalbum T…
COMEDY UNDER PRESSURE A writers' room in early television on deadline, and a production that hits every punchline Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor fictionalizes the writers' room behi…
Visiting Broadway for the first time is a super exciting moment in any theater fan's life. You're finally in New York, ready to see the biggest shows in the most famous venues, and you're ke…
Harold Arlen's Timeless Songs Take Center Stage in a New Book Musical at El Portal North Hollywood is set to get a sparkling shot of classic American songwriting, big-band swing music from t…
THE GREATEST STORY CONTINUES AT COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY CVRep's Executive Artistic Director Adam Karsten helms Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's powerful, profound, and provocative rock …
The full cast and creative team for the new musical Life After at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto have been announced and tickets are now on sale at Mirvish. With book, music & lyrics …
Karen, a young woman, is offered the chance to rescue her impoverished family from its dire straits if she agrees to become the companion of an enchanted bear for a year. Within the body of …
TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS RETURN TO PALM SPRINGS Unwanted Laughter by Marty Martin plays for one night only, November 9, 2024, at 7pm, as a fundraiser for Temple Isaiah's LGBT…
It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out…
THE SECRET GARDEN: A NEW MUSICAL STREAMING FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME StarVista Music has reissued of The Secret Garden: A New Musical, featuring an extraordinary ensemble of West End talent " …
Aditya Prakash's ROOM-i-Nation, an unprecedented adaptation of his 2023 album ISOLASHUN, comes to CAP UCLA's Nimoy Theater on October 4 & 5, 2024. Drawing from his vibrant Los Ange…
It's rare to see so many superstars on stage at once. That's what you'll get for Parents in Chains, a new comedy by Jay Martel, which will have a developmental workshop production at Hollywo…
If the heat in the kitchen is getting you down, you'll want to head on over to La Mirada Theatre, where the Broadway hit Waitress opens tonight and plays through October 13. Designed by an a…
HEADS. WILL. ROLL. The Revolutionists is feminist history laced with an argument for the value of art in revolution. Playwright Lauren Gunderson (The Book of Will, Silent Sky, Exit, Pursu…
A GREAT BIG BROADWAY SHOW Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, starring Bernadette Peters & Lea Salonga, and directed by Sir Matthew Bourne " side by side with Julia McKenzie " with …
HOLY HADES! HERE COME LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE! Otherworld Theatre, North America's premier fantasy and genre live theatre production company, is bringing The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson…
A PLAY NOT WORTH EXPLORING Doggedly determined to fight yesterday's battles, Nell Benjamin's chronic farce The Explorers Club manically mocks the heyday of male British explorers. Fudd…
EXTRA! EXTRA! MUSICAL COMEDY WHORE CAUGHT ON FILM! David Pevsner's solo musical show Musical Comedy Whore! is about sex, love … and musicals. Whether acting in stage hits When Pigs Fly …
WRITERS READY AND RARIN' TO GO Chicago's amazing company, Writers Theatre, has announced its 2020/21 Season with a new adaptive producing model, one committed to remaining flexible and respo…
GO AHEAD…ASK Theatre of the Electric Mouth (ThEM) " a newly formed theatre collective " will release its first audio drama, Ask the Void, on September 15, 2020, landing on on Spotify, Stit…
LOVVE CONNECTION 3 Way Lovve is a modernized Shakespearean love tragedy with its lead character, Willie Kenwood aka Lovvespear, a talented street painter who is discovered by an art tycoon, …
YORK'S YOUNG PERFORMERS MAKE GOOD MON., JUNE 8, 7:10 pm EST Top: Josh Colley and Aidan Gemme Bottom: The full cast of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Photos by Carol Rosegg. CLICK HE…
MY WHITE NIGHT I first saw Lillias White when she made her Broadway debut in Barnum in 1981; I've been watching her work for almost four decades since, and I promise you she never fails to b…
MIXING IT UP For over four decades, The Groundlings has proved itself to be one of the premiere comedy troupes in the nation, creating more stars than the Big Bang. Performers showcase mater…
THE MUSIC MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN When 5-Star Theatricals announced their production of The Music Man, which opens next week in Thousand Oaks, I actually got excited. I never tire of seeing…
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT; IT'S GOING TO BE A GRUMPY RIDE John and Max are elderly neighbors in a cold Minnesota town. They both live alone in their homes since their wives have died, and exchan…
BONE CALL When a young Bekah Brunstetter set out to explore where she stood on issues like animal rights, faith, and even relationships, it was before she had ever learned to question what s…
GET SKINNED Joshua Harmon's new play Skintight assays the nature of love, the power of attraction, and the ways in which a superficial culture persists in teaching its children that all that…
HOT, HOT, HOT I'm guessing most of you have not seen David H. Bell's rousing Hot Mikado, a swing-era adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved 1885 operetta, The Mikado. It may be the fun…
KEEP IT GAY It's always springtime for Mel Brooks, who really does write musicals the way they used to. Even before Young Frankenstein, his 2001 triumph The Producers (based on the sidesp…
THERE WILL BE NO REVIEW This hasn't happened before and I hope it won't again. My regrets for a wasted night. I'm (sort of) sorry but, alas, I found last night's Goodman Theatre world premie…
GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE Los Angeles, dubbed as the City of Angels, is truly a magnificent destination that holds some of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the …
GREEK ACTIVE It only seemed natural that Michael Cacoyannis's 1964 film, Zorba the Greek, about a happy-go-lucky fisherman on the isle of Crete, should one day become a musical. It took J…
THE DEVIL’S AT THE DOOR "He knows not Who lives most easily on land, how I Have spent my winter on the ice-cold sea Wretched and anxious, in the paths of exile Lacking dear friends, hu…
YOU’VE GOT SOME FEET TO MEET Call us saps or suckers but we can't, it seems, get enough of "The Understudy Who Becomes A Star." Not when the sweet and satisfying story is stuffed with …
A READY ROGUE MACHINE OPENS OPPENHEIMER J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant, enigmatic and complex man. Ambitious and charismatic, Oppenheimer found himself uniquely placed to spearhead th…
GENDER-SWITCHED REENACTMENT OF THE KAVANAUGH/FORD TESTIMONIES ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 If you think the Senate hearings last week were high drama, imagine seeing them live in the th…
PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101. Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for Hotel Mariachi, …
SWEATING IT OUT Sweat, Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer winner for drama — couldn't have come at a better time. Since its arrival, the play has been hailed as a benchmark for our times. No…
TARANTINO IN THE STICKY SWAMPS OF SADNESS Tom Jacobson's Tar is from his The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a triad of works playing concurrently in Los Angeles. For half a century (1902-1951), the…
AN ACT IN THE DARK For her debut at 54 Below in NYC " a nearly solo cabaret which was recorded for release on Broadway Records " the triple-threat Arielle Jacobs opened by letting us know th…
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." Author Lois Lowry On June 28 & 29, Ford Theatres, in associat…
GAME OF THRONES — FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE BIG CURTAIN Since HBO’s Game of Thrones hit our screens back in 2011, the show has gone on to become one of the most popular and…
GIMME THAT DO-RE-MI, BOYS The 1960 musical Do Re Mi is about a would-be big shot named Hubie Cram, a wheeler dealer who just can’t make the big time. As his wife Kay says, they have 40…
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT THIS SUMMER WITH TWO BIG SHOWS The West End, one of the great epicentres of the Theatrical world, is undergoing something of a renaissance these days. It has always popula…
57 CHEVY: THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT ANTIDOTE, OR HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? There's palpable excitement surrounding the upcoming West Los Angeles engagement of Cris Franco's autobiographical comedy, …
SHORES ‘NUFF Texas-born playwright Del Shores, best known for his romp Sordid Lives (the hilarious play and movie that also introduced us to Leslie Jordan) is coming to the Celeb…
A BROADWAY AMUSEMENT PARK THAT FLIES LIKE A CARPET "Open sesame" indeed. It’s "Abracadabra" times ten as the arrival of Aladdin in Hollywood feels as triumphant as Prince Ali's magnifi…
YOU CAN’T TOP PIGS WITH PIGS After The Three Little Pigs‘ runaway success in 1933, Walt Disney attempted a few more shorts starring the little porkers, but they weren’t …
ACCOMPLISHED ACCOMPLICE Rupert Holmes’s Accomplice is the wittiest and most accomplished fooler play since Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Each time you think you know what is unfol…
DETECTING LOVE A 15-year-old math whiz, Christopher is an only child with Asperger's Syndrome. The anomaly is enough to push adolescence way beyond awkward. His autism manifests in manic mul…
