From her first song in Daniel Fish’s daring revival of “Oklahoma!” actress Ali Stroker presents an Ado Annie like audiences have never encountered before. Partly it’s her amazing voi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AMIt was already an incredibly busy time for Israeli actor, director and artist Yehezkel Lazarov. He was performing in one show in Tel Aviv, about to direct another and scheduled to curate an …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM"Come From Away," "Indecent," "Junk," "Latin History for Morons," "Escape to Margaritaville" and, opening April 23, "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical": Six recent plays and musicals to lan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMChristopher Ashley, the reigning Tony Award winner for best director of a musical, calls it “an extraordinary moment,” but it’s actually been an extraordinary year: “Come From Away,�…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMQ&A with Gerard Alessandrini, creator of "Spamilton: An American Parody." The commercial and critical hit off-Broadway opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on Nov. 12 as the "Ham…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMBritish theater director Marianne Elliott and London’s National Theatre are on a roll. “War Horse,” their first joint blockbuster, and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFor the veteran director, the nomination for directing the Bette Midler juggernaut is his first Tony nod in 20 years -- a sweet moment for a four-time winner.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:36PMFew actors have so eclectic a resumé as Alan Cumming. Perhaps best known as political operative Eli Gold on CBS’ “The Good Wife,” the 51-year-old actor won a Tony Award for his portr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMWhen Phillipa Soo was growing up in suburban Chicago, she would climb onto her parents’ coffee table in her pink tutu to perform. There, before a rapt audience of her brother and stuffed a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMBroadway has been good to Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick. His elegant home on New York’s Upper West Side has a gorgeous view of Central Park. In his living room, with its …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:04AMIt's been 50 years since the debut of "Flora, the Red Menace," the first Broadway musical from composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:38PMOn Sept. 22, 1964, after the long-awaited Broadway opening of "Fiddler on the Roof," invited guests gathered at New York's swank Rainbow Room to celebrate. The first review that came in that…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMPlaywright Christopher Durang humorously looks at people through a cracked lens. He's been popular, but not Broadway-popular. Then he started thinking: Chekhov. 'Vanya and Sonia ...' resulte…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThis year, the annual event is in the hands of of a man whose passion for music is as embedded in his spirit as dance. He promises an eclectic schedule.NEW YORK — You hear choreographe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMJoshua Henry reprises his Tony-nominated role in the musical from John Kander and Fred Ebb, which revisits a chilling episode in U.S. history. Actor Joshua Henry admits he didn't know much a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMThe Tony-winning director stepped in to work with the musical before Broadway. For the tour arriving at the Pantages, more changes were made. More tension, more laughs.Few properties have be…
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