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The old factory building on the corner of E. 4th Place and S. Hewitt Street in the Arts District is covered in a dynamic angular mural by Danish artist Mikael B. that resembles neon-colored …
In their newest production which opens this weekend, the Cornerstone family takes a look at the Watts neighborhood's Jordan Downs Housing Project. Dating from the 1940s, the site is currentl…
It may have come out during in the very different early '90s, but the themes and family dynamics in Falsettos still resonate today, especially for the LGBTQ community. With a book written…
Despite its provocative name, the focus of The Pussy Grabber Plays is not about graphic accounts of sexual assault by our current president as claimed by nearly two dozen women. Though it de…
Menopause and mid-life struggles aren't exactly exciting concepts, but Hot Flashin', the new play written, produced and starring Gina Jourard, aims to make it a memorable theatrical explorat…
Based on Jacqueline Susann's novel, 1967's Valley of the Dolls was a campy and trashy flop. But it's a beloved flop, filled with glamorous costumes, bat shit-crazy acting and such quotable l…
When it comes to comedy, two heads are quite often better than one. Same can go for music. Sirius XM Radio host Seth Rudetsky ("On Broadway" and "Seth Speaks")Â is bringing in an extra hot…
In the new play Wild Son: The Testimony of Christian Brando, the troubled Hollywood figure's friend Champ Clark shares his intimate perspective and a first-hand portrait, based mostly …
Presented in Spanish with English supertitles, the Latino Theatre Company's Revolutions/Revoluciones promises a colorful "theatrical fever dream," as it chronicles the story of a mother tryi…
From a bountiful Easter brunch and a 4/20 "high" tea to the return of Esa-Pekka Salonen and Dr. Ruth herself, here are the 14 best things to do in Los Angeles this week!
The art of puppetry is often dismissed as light entertainment only for children, but the presentation of Mementos Mori at the Broad Stage promises to be something entirely different. The apt…
Source Material, the company Samantha Shay founded in Iceland and New York after attending CalArts in Los Angeles, is a revolving extended family of interdisciplinary music, visual and theat…
In her essay "The White Album," Joan Didion conflated her impressions of such 1960s touchstones as the Black Panthers, The Doors and The Manson Family into a wide-ranging look at the era in …
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it in dew, cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two? The touring cast of Broadway's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would want you to believe that they d…
Zipper Concert Hall is part of the Colburn School. Named after the late composer-educator Herbert Zipper, who survived experiences in Nazi concentration camps and incarceration by Japanese f…
Not to be confused with The Broad art museum downtown, the Broad Stage is a multidimensional performing arts space that's like a miniature version of the Music Center, updated and relocated …
In some ways, the Vista Theater in Los Feliz is more of an Egyptian-style theater than the Egyptian Theatre a couple miles to the west in Hollywood. While both theaters have beautiful exteri…
The Artadia Awards were founded to fill the chasm in individual artist grants left by the dissolution of the National Endowment for the Arts program in the late 1990s. Argote and Athey will …
From a selection of events to mark International Women's Day to a pow wow at Cal State Long Beach, a celebration of the humanities and a discussion of truth, here are the 14 best things t…
Musical parodies of pop culture movie faves have been so done. But that doesn't mean they still can't slay, especially when they gather four of the drag world's most talented and treacherous…
Since its debut in the early 1980s, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has become a classic, but a divisive one, with people either loving it or hating it with equal passion. With the musical playin…
Commissioned for the L.A. Phil's centennial, Thought Experiments in F# Minor is, roughly, a narrated walking tour featuring surround-sound headphones and a 40-minute video guiding you throug…
In both his life and his art, fashion designer Alexander McQueen was thoroughly outrageous, so it's more than fitting that his final hour before his suicide in 2011 has inspired not a book o…
In Amy Raasch's theatrical piece The Animal Monologues, which she performed solo at Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica on Saturday, Feb. 23, the actor artfully embodied the unexpected …
Actor/performance artist Amy Raasch looks at human behavior from the perspective of various wild and captive creatures " and vice versa " through a series of surreal vignettes that initially…
With direction and choreography by Matthew Bourne and music by Prokofiev, Cinderella at the Ahmanson takes place in 1940s London during World War II, and it's basically a war-torn romanti…
"Most singers in the world aren't going to want to do this piece," composer David Lang confesses about his curious new opera, The Loser, which receives its West Coast premiere at the Thea…
Christiane Jatahy's fascinating puzzle box What If They Went to Moscow? is a multimedia theatrical piece and film loosely extrapolated from Anton Chekov's Three Sisters, in which the sisters…
From a cat video festival, to a vampire ball, to Fluxus-related performances and more, here are the 14 best things to do in Los Angeles this week!
It's been a little more than two weeks since the legendary Carol Channing died, but her presence and spirit can unquestionably be felt at Hello, Dolly! on the revival's national tour, whi…
Isabella Rossellini used all of her skills as an actor, writer, filmmaker, artist, director, model and budding animal behaviorist to thoroughly enchant a capacity audience at the Broad Stage…
Think Tank's new space in Little Tokyo will be a free gallery up front, a ticketed experience in the back, with some crossover " and memberships starting at $250 a year. "We feel it's almost…
Less than two years after she first took RuPaul's Drag Race by storm, L.A. native queen Valentina has got a handful of projects: playing the HIV-positive cross-dressing character AngelÂ�…
Katabasis promises a participatory ritual procession with the dancers, singers and musicians expanding ancient musical elements and mythic themes into their world folk and art pop music.
Actor-filmmaker Isabella Rossellini is on the road touring with her latest project, Link Link Circus, an unusual theatrical performance about the intelligence of animals that combines lighth…
Here in Los Angeles, at the Hollywood Pantages, the colorful musical Wicked is a hot ticket for new audiences and a winter highlight for old fans, especially since the current tour offers so…
Sandra Bernhard's fearless style made her a perfect first L.A. Weekly cover subject, along with other young groundbreaking female comedians making a name for themselves at local venues like …
Last month, 55 years to the day that Bob Baker opened the country's oldest continuously operating puppet theater, its landmark home on First Street downtown was closed to the public for good…
Interview with Val Kilmer.
The world of Twyla Tharp, and Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out
Behind the scenes of Athol Fugard’s newest play
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How a big city became America’s small-theater mecca
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The man taking over for Gordon Davidson
Polly Warfield, 1914–2003. Pamela Gordon, 1937–2003.
Though Mullally nails the officious manner and mercurial pettiness of the practiced office functionary, Bart DeLorenzo's detail-mired direction ultimately proves unable to bridge the miscalc…
His play is a Broadway hit, but don't ask Stew to come home again
