Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner star in the Pasadena Playhouse production of 'A Doll's House, Part 2,' the clever Lucas Hnath comedy that earned Laurie Metcalf a Tony on Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:42PMFriday, May 16, 2025
Sarah Ruhl treats the world as her classroom, deriving spiritual lessons along with practical wisdom about life and art in a compelling new book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01PMSaturday, May 10, 2025
Yann Martel's 2002 novel, also made into a 2012 Ang Lee film, gets a stage adaptation that is wondrously dreamy and profound. As the tale's shipwrecked teen, Taha Mandviwala is mesmerizing.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:39PMFriday, May 2, 2025
'Maybe Happy Ending,' 'Dead Outlaw,' Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' and 'John Proctor Is the Villain' lead the competition for best musical and best play, with Audra McDonald in 'Gypsy' and Nicol…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:16PMMonday, April 28, 2025
a.k. payne's 'Furlough's Paradise,' winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, opens at the Geffen Playhouse under the direction of Tinashe Kajese-Bolden.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:13PMSunday, April 27, 2025
"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit," opens on Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
'Stranger Things: The First Shadow,' a prequel to the hit streaming series, opens at the Marquis Theatre, bringing Netflix branding to Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AMThursday, April 17, 2025
Keiko Green's 'You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World,' a comedy about family, loss and environmental destruction, has its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in a production …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AMMonday, April 14, 2025
"Regency Girls," a musical comedy about young women on a wild road trip in the Jane Austen-era, has its world premiere at the Old Globe in a production directed by Josh Rhodes.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:09PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Elevator Repair Service's stage adaptation of 'Ulysses,' presented by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, inspires a rereading of the James Joyce classic. Years later, the takeaways ar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AMMonday, March 31, 2025
George C. Wolfe directs the new Broadway revival of "Gypsy" starring six-time Tony-winner Audra McDonald.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:18PMWednesday, 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 06:00AM 
