Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields directs the West Coast premiere of 'One Jewish Boy,' Stephen Laughton's two-hander starring Sharae Foxie and Zeke Goodman
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42PMThursday, March 20, 2025
Hugh Bonneville stars in 'Uncle Vanya,' a co-production between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Simon Godwin.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42AMSunday, March 16, 2025
Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham stars in 'Krapp's Last Tape,' one of three short Samuel Beckett plays on offer in 'Beckett Briefs,' an Irish Rep production now available for streaming via the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMSaturday, March 15, 2025
'Here There Are Blueberries' tells the story of an album of historical photos documenting the lives of ordinary Germans who were part of the bureaucracy of the Holocaust. Authors Moisés Kau…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:50PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall's production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PMMonday, March 10, 2025
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PMWednesday, March 5, 2025
Pasadena Playhouse revival of 'Topdog/Underdog,' Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, stars Brandon Gill and Brandon Micheal Hall in a production directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:06PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, a former Obama campaign organizer, '44,' about Barack Obama's presidency, returns to L.A. at Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:26PMFriday, February 21, 2025
The Tony-winning play 'Harry Potter and Cursed Child' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:17AMWednesday, February 19, 2025
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga star in 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends' in a pre-Broadway run at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:52AMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Rogue Machine Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Sophie Swithinbank's 'Bacon,' a two-hander directed by Michael Matthews that explores masculinity, bullying, sexuality and trauma.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50AMMonday, February 10, 2025
Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro directs a revival of Michael Frayn's backstage farce at the Geffen Playhouse in a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PMSaturday, February 8, 2025
'Fake It Until You Make It,' a satiric farce by Larissa FastHorse ('The Thanksgiving Play'), has its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, in a production directed by Michael John Garcés.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of "Wish You Were Here" at South Coast Repertory.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:22PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Theater critic Charles McNulty writes on how Shakespeare, and 'The Tempest' in particular, is helping him bear witness to the scale of loss caused by the Los Angeles wildfires.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:25AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
Playwright and director Richard Foreman, one of the pillars of New York's downtown theater scene, dies at 87.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:12AMMonday, December 16, 2024
New York City Center Encores! production of 'Once Upon a Mattress,' starring Sutton Foster, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre direct from Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:56PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
'Wicked,' soaring onscreen, has returned to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. This production reveals what the movie gets right, as well as weaknesses neither version can overcome.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMMonday, December 9, 2024
The Times' theater critic selects his top SoCal stage productions for 2024, including 'Funny Girl,' 'Fat Ham,' 'Primary Trust,' 'Pacific Overtures,' 'The Brothers Size' and 'Company.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2024
A theater critic reflects on his profession at a time when its very survival seems on the line and champions a return of critical thinking.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:51PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
Sam Pinkleton directs a festive revival of 'La Cage aux Folles" at Pasadena Playhouse, starring Cheyenne Jackson and Kevin Cahoon.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMFriday, November 15, 2024
Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi star in the Geffen Playhouse's new production of Samuel Becektt's absurdist classic 'Waiting for Godot.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
'Pacific Overtures,' Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is dazzlingly revived by East West Players in one of the best prod…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:50PMNew Broadway revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd," Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" test how far these works can be refashioned for modern sensibili…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2024
'Joan,' a new play by Daniel Goldstein at South Coast Repertory about the life of comedian Joan Rivers, mixes biography with the comedian's old stand-up material.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMMonday, November 4, 2024
"The Streetcar Project" brought Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" to Los Angeles for six performances, three in a Frogtown airplane hangar and three in a Venice Beach warehouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMAppearing together in 'The Roommate,' Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow bring their star power to Broadway and discuss friendship and longevity in theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMMonday, October 21, 2024
REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of the Wooster Group's production of Richard Foreman's 'Symphony of Rats.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PMFriday, October 18, 2024
'Kimberly Akimbo,' David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori's 2023 Tony-winning musical, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages in a production starring a divine Carolee Carmello
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:41PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
A stage version of Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake,' adapted by the film's star, Dave Jones, has its U.S. premiere at the Fountain Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:06PM 
