Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Time passes, and even a contemporary classic can use a nip and tuck. David Henry Hwang, most famous for his Tony-winning 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” performed some not insignificant cosmet…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:14AMMonday, May 20, 2019
The modern classic on gender roles and Orientalism gets an uneven revival at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa directed by Desdemona Chiang.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:26PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Helder Guimarães is either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician. But however you classify him, he’s excellent company in his new show, “Invisible Tan…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:05AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Directed by Frank Marshall and featuring music by Moby, "Invisible Tango" has tricks that astonish and a storytelling charm that's more than mere magic show.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 11:25AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Playwright Lucas Hnath is back on Broadway with “Hillary and Clinton,” a zesty drama on America’s most picked-apart political couple that finds Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow in top f…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMWith an assist from actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, the new work is yet another way to hear the singular voice of this leading American playwright.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 04:16PMThursday, May 9, 2019
“I just want to do Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ over and over again,” Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. “I don’t want to do anything else, because nothing else …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:50PMWiest, in L.A. for Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." talks theater, "Law & Order" and why she would work with Woody Allen again "in a second."
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:28PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.” These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a s…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:52PMHow old is Dolly Gallagher Levi? The question arises whenever “Hello, Dolly!” is performed. The character is described in Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker,” the basis of the music…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:52PM“Daniel’s Husband,” an absorbing drama by Michael McKeever that was a hit off-Broadway, explores the debate on same-sex marriage from a less obvious angle. Set in the “perfectly appo…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:41PMMichael McKeever's poignant drama opens at Fountain Theatre with Bill Brochtrup, Tim Cummings and Jenny O’Hara in a moving, crowd-pleasing production.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:28PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Long story short: It was a strange Broadway season — one in which old formulas proved unreliable and a few long-shot experiments yielded unexpected rewards. Rendering an up or down verdict…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMInterior. Restaurant at a Beverly Hills hotel, early March. Music spritzing luxuriously in the background. A publicist finishes her breakfast. In walks a frazzled middle-aged theater critic.…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:14AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
The Tony nominations send a message of support to artists with fresh sensibilities, but occasionally at the expense of worthier work.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMThe writer gets snubbed Tuesday by the Tony Awards, but his "How to Kill a Mockingbird" does pick up nine nominations — tying "The Ferryman" for the most nods for any play.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:02PMMonday, April 29, 2019
“A Doll’s House, Part 2,” which is receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, had its official opening on Thursday at Broadway’s Golden Theatre in a separate production c…
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After a disastrous tea last year, critic and actress meet again, this time to spar about "Lear." Jackson delves into disagreements with director Sam Gold, a powerful female cast including Ru…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM“Gulp!” That was my initial reaction when a publicist asked if I’d like to interview Glenda Jackson to discuss her performance in the new Broadway production of “King Lear.” Our pr…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Bertie Carvel is a chilling media mogul and Johnny Lee Miller is the editor who may lose his soul in James Graham's "Ink," a London import about Murdoch's transformation of British journalis…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:59PMThe British have a high regard for the state-of-the-nation play, that genre in which dramatists as different as David Hare, Alan Bennett, Richard Bean and Lucy Prebble take the temperature o…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The hit 1980s film has been revamped as a hilarious stage production for the #MeToo era, smartly navigating new gender politics and starring Santino Fontana in a Tony-worthy turn playing the…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMLet’s face it: There are more ways these days to get a musical version of “Tootsie” wrong than right. The world has changed since Dustin Hoffman donned a red tousled wig, talked in a s…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Arthur Miller's play gets a timely revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company, director Jack O'Brien and costar Benjamin Walker, whose anguish and sorrow help to propel a domestic drama into …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMThe carpentry of an Arthur Miller play, all that sawing, hammering and sanding of wood, can sometimes distract from the impressiveness of the house that has been theatrically constructed. …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMFriday, April 19, 2019
No contemporary play better captures America's cultural divides than Eleanor Burgess' "The Niceties," in which a standout black student and a distinguished white professor clash over race an…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMCollege campuses have become the crucible of the new and expanded culture wars embroiling America, and no contemporary play does a better job of capturing the tenor of this fierce battle tha…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Nia Vardalos reprises her role in Pasadena Playhouse's profoundly moving adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Dear Sugar" columns.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMCharacter, the way we conduct ourselves in the world, is in decline in America. Consider the evidence: A president who lies so prolifically that media outlets have assigned teams of reporter…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
After exploring how his Vietnamese parents met in a refugee camp in America in his breathtakingly original comedy "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen picks up the story of their lives in the u…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMIn “Vietgone,” playwright Qui Nguyen tells the story of how his parents met after escaping the Vietnam War and landing in the same resettlement camp in Arkansas. It’s a tale of traumat…
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