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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Commentary: Four veteran stage actors discuss taking on risky roles later in life by Charles McNulty

A conversation with four older cast members starring in Antaeus Theatre Company's production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Everybody.' 'You learn simplicity, you learn economy.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:02PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Review: 'Sanctuary City,' a compassionate tale of post-9/11 undocumented life, is not to be missed by Charles McNulty

Martyna Majok's 'Sanctuary City' movingly tracks the plight of those living in the shadows of citizenship.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PM[SHARE]
Friday, September 16, 2022

Review: Daniel Fish's brooding, deconstructed 'Oklahoma!' electrifies the Ahmanson by Charles McNulty

Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma!' reveals the underside of the American story.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:59PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Commentary: Torn between two careers: Matt Shakman and the dilemma of the starry-eyed Geffen Playhouse by Charles McNulty

What does Matt Shakman's decision to step down as as artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse say about the theater's future?

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Review: A striking revival of 'Ghosts' at the Odyssey suffers from lack of ensemble cohesion by Charles McNulty

Bart DeLorenzo directs a revival of 'Ghosts,' Henrik Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece about family secrets that refuse to stay buried.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:05PM[SHARE]
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Review: Deaf West confronts passion of 'Oedipus' at the Getty Villa in expressive new version by Charles McNulty

Sophocles' masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Review: Was Abraham Lincoln gay? A new play in L.A. imagines his life through a queer lens by Charles McNulty

Roger Q. Mason's play "Lavender Men," which is having its world premiere at Skylight Theatre, brings Abraham Lincoln back from the dead to relive his relationship with a law clerk to whom he…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:47PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 12, 2022

Review: 'Prom' season is over the top at the Ahmanson Theatre by Charles McNulty

'The Prom,' the 2018 Broadway musical that gave rise to the 2020 film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden, has its L.A. premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Review: The banality of evil is central to a disturbingly resonant 'Here There Are Blueberries' by Charles McNulty

"Here There Are Blueberries," based on the story of a photo album from Auschwitz sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:09PM[SHARE]
Monday, August 8, 2022

Mike Birbiglia swims for his life in 'The Old Man and the Pool' at the Taper by Charles McNulty

Mike Birbiglia returns to Center Theatre Group with an existential stand-up show centered on a YMCA pool.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:05PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 5, 2022

Robert Egan 'is Ojai': Longtime Playwrights Conference artistic director takes a final bow by Charles McNulty

As Robert Egan retires as the leader of the Ojai Playwrights Conference after 20 years, he reflects on the organization's past, present, and future.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:47PM[SHARE]
Monday, July 18, 2022

Review: 'Freestyle Love Supreme' is the hip-hop improv potluck that leaves you stuffed and starved by Charles McNulty

'Freestyle Love Supreme,' the show created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, opens at Pasadena Playhouse after enjoying a successful run on Broadway.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:05PM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Inside Center Theatre Group's slow and systematic search for its next leader by Charles McNulty

Following Michael Ritchie's departure last year, Center Theatre Group is still in the early stages of its search for its next artistic leader. What does this deliberate, albeit sluggish, app…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:33PM[SHARE]
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Review: Wayne Brady sashays to the rescue in 'Kinky Boots' at the Hollywood Bowl by Charles McNulty

Jerry Mitchell's Hollywood Bowl production of "Kinky Boots," Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning musical, showcased a brilliant Wayne Brady.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PM[SHARE]
Friday, July 8, 2022

Review: 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' arrives at the Pantages in a burst of colorful excess by Charles McNulty

The Tony-winning stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' opens at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:18PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Review: 'A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill' is a charming albeit troubling true-crime musical by Charles McNulty

Mike Donahue directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of this new true-crime musical set in a tightknit Jewish community in New Jersey.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:13PM[SHARE]
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Appreciation: The radical majesty of British theater director Peter Brook by Charles McNulty

A tribute to Peter Brook, the pathbreaking British theater director who died at age 97.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Review: 'To T, or Not to T' alchemizes an internal saga and family drama into a moving comedy by Charles McNulty

A solo play by the queer and transgender Tamil Sri Lankan American actor D'Lo opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Review: 'The Beautiful People' is an uncomfortable look at combustible male rage by Charles McNulty

'The Beautiful People,' a new play by Tim Venable produced by Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre, is about two high school boys who have a sleepover on the eve of a school shooting that for…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]
Sunday, June 19, 2022

At Ace Hotel, being Hannah Gadsby has never been funnier by Charles McNulty

"Body of Work" is the "feel-good" show Gadsby thought she owed her fans after "Nanette" and "Douglas." But it's as subtly self-reflective as ever.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:39PM[SHARE]
Monday, June 13, 2022

Why the Tony triumph of 'A Strange Loop' is momentous for Broadway by Charles McNulty

Michael R. Jackson's Black, queer musical 'A Strange Loop' was the big winner at the 75th Tony Awards.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08AM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Review: LeBron mania informs a tale of friendship in Rajiv Joseph's 'King James' at the Taper by Charles McNulty

Rajiv Joseph's "King James" at the Mark Taper Forum centers on two fans living vicariously through basketball great LeBron James.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:17PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Review: A renewed 'Uncle Vanya' at Pasadena Playhouse shines with unforced naturalism by Charles McNulty

Michael Michetti directs a well-tuned version of Anton Chekhov's classic at Pasadena Playhouse.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PM[SHARE]
Monday, June 6, 2022

Commentary: How Anton Chekhov became the playwright of the moment by Charles McNulty

Anton Chekhov's influence is seen in the Oscar-winning film "Drive My Car" and recent novels by Gary Shteyngart and Rachel Cusk. And stage productions, including a new "Uncle Vanya" at Pasad…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:23PM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Once upon a time, a theatrical 'Dream' came true at the Hollywood Bowl by Charles McNulty

For his 1934 production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland, Max Reinhardt had the Hollywood Bowl dismantled, and oak trees were shipped in from Calabas…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Antaeus Theatre Company presents a brisk, if not especially resonant, 'Hamlet' by Charles McNulty

Ramón de Ocampo stars in a new production of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Randy Rainbow reveals the man behind the glitter " and how his father was like Trump by Charles McNulty

Randy Rainbow, author of the new memoir, "Playing With Myself," insists that politics isn't what motivates its musical theater parodies.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]
Monday, May 16, 2022

Review: In striving to be modern, the Wallis makes a mockery of 'King Lear' by Charles McNulty

An updated version of Shakespeare's tragedy, set amid a climate apocalypse, stars Joe Morton as King Lear.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Review: The high-octane 'Tambo & Bones' scrutinizes the inescapable legacy of minstrelsy by Charles McNulty

Dave Harris' 'Tambo & Bones' opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in a world-premiere production with Playwrights Horizons.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:06PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 9, 2022

Commentary: What the 2022 Tony nominations say about the state of Broadway by Charles McNulty

"A Strange Loop" leads the 2022 Tony nominations, with a strong showing in the play category for "The Lehman Trilogy."

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:13PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 2, 2022

Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee's shatterproof play by Charles McNulty

Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto star in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' at the Geffen Playhouse.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PM[SHARE]

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Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off