Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Martin Scorsese's 1977 film has been turned into a shlocky Broadway musical despite a Kander and Ebb score and additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMMonday, April 17, 2023
It's hard to imagine 'Ava: The Secret Conversations' getting produced at the Geffen Playhouse without Elizabeth McGovern on the marquee as the show's star.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:08PMFriday, April 14, 2023
Theater critic Charles McNulty interviews Snehal Desai, producing artistic director of East West Players, who has been named artistic director of Center Theatre Group.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
Chance Theater presents 'Colonialism Is Terrible, But Phở Is Delicious,' a comedy about food through a post-colonial lens.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMThursday, April 6, 2023
Manuel Puig's dramatic adaptation of his novel "Kiss of the Spider Woman" is directed by Michael Michetti at A Noise Within in Pasadena.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:49PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Randy Rainbow talks about his latest music video, 'Grumpy Trumpy Felon From Jamaica in Queens!',' prompted by Donald Trump's recent indictment.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:12PMPasadena Playhouse's producing artistic director, Danny Feldman, has proved that growth is still possible in a time of spiraling crisis for American theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Shakespeare Center L.A. and After Hours Theatre Co. present a partly immersive staging of 'The Tempest,' William Shakespeare's magical late romance.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, March 23, 2023
In 'The Thin Place,' an exploration of the line between the living and the dead, playwright Lucas Hnath turns theater into a seance.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:03PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,' Anna Deavere Smith's documentary play about the Rodney King uprising, is reconceived for a new era with many of the same problems.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:03PMSunday, March 19, 2023
The world premiere of 'The Lonely Few' at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse stars Tony winner Lauren Patten and an astonishing Ciara Renée.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:32PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
In 'The Critic's Daughter,' Priscilla Gilman writes about her complex relationship with her father, theater critic and Yale professor Richard Gilman.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
S.E. Hinton's classic young-adult novel 'The Outsiders' is transformed into a new musical, with a book by playwright Adam Rapp and a score by Jamestown Revival and Justin Levine.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45PMFriday, March 3, 2023
"The Lifespan of a Fact," which starred Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway, opens at L.A.'s Fountain Theatre with new actors sparring in an epic journalistic battle.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's musical, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's novel, gets a new production at at the Ahmanson Theatre with Broadway in the show's sights.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Pasadena Playhouse's Sondheim Celebration kicks into gear with a revival of "Sunday in the Park With George," directed by Sarna Lapine.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:53PMFriday, February 17, 2023
Kristina Wong's performance piece on a pandemic mask-making project opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:22PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
With the premiere of Diane Frolov and Susan Justin's 'Come Get Maggie,' Rogue Machine Theatre produces its first musical.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, February 13, 2023
Guillermo Cienfuegos directs a vivid and vivacious production of Shakespeare's comedy at A Noise Within, accomplishing what some starrier productions have failed to do.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PMSaturday, February 11, 2023
The Geffen Playhouse presents Lee Edward Colston II's epic family drama, about the secrets and unresolved traumas of a Black family in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, February 9, 2023
The Wooster Group's first foray into the work of Bertolt Brecht brings "The Mother," a "learning play," to postmodern life at REDCAT.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:19PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Tony winner Mary Zimmerman's performance collage based on the notebooks of the Italian Renaissance polymath arrives at the Old Globe in San Diego.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:09PMMonday, January 30, 2023
Circle X Theatre Co. presents the West Coast premiere of Mara Nelson-Greenberg's comedy at the Atwater Village Theatre in a production directed by Halena Kays.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PMMonday, January 23, 2023
The most authentic performance of the year may not get an Oscar nomination. But if you care about acting, you should see Paul Mescal in 'Aftersun.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The West Coast premiere of Warren Leight's "Home Front" stars C. J. Lindsey as a World War II Black naval officer whose union with a white woman tests the tolerance of postwar America.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:13PMFriday, January 13, 2023
Tony winner John Rubinstein stars in Richard Hellesen's biographical drama "Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground," a Theatre West and New L.A. Repertory presentation at the Hudson MainStage Thea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, January 12, 2023
An encounter with Dr. Phil Stutz, the subject of 'Stutz,' the Netflix documentary Jonah Hill made about his beloved Hollywood therapist.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMFriday, January 6, 2023
The Broadway debut of 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy is supercharged by Audra McDonald's seismic performance in 'Ohio State Murders,' which will close on Jan. 15.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:27PMThursday, January 5, 2023
The Broadway revival of 'Into the Woods' and the new off-Broadway revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along' bring new life to challenging Stephen Sondheim musicals.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:15PMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Rogue Machine presents the world premiere of Justin Tanner's 'Little Theatre,' a snapshot of one L.A. writer's beginnings.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:17PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Tony Award-winning legend Chita Rivera brings her concert 'Chita: The Rhythm of My Life' to the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PM 
