Monday, September 24, 2018
It would be hard to find a more enchanting setting for a play than the Huntington’s Chinese Garden in San Marino. This is the locale for playwright and director Stan Lai’s “Nightwalk i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Hotel Modern returns to REDCAT with KAMP, a re-creation manipulated by Dutch visual and performing artists Pauline Kalker, Arléne Hoornweg and Herman Helle of the of the Auschwitz concentra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMIn “The Great War,” the Dutch theater company Hotel Modern simulated the reality of the World War I battlefield in all its muddy, body-mangled horror through the projection of toy soldie…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Gloria," a workplace comedy set in a toxic Manhattan magazine office, receives its West Coast premiere in an Echo Theater Company production
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:36PMIt’s a given in a work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that something startling will sooner or later occur that will have you rethinking everything you thought you understood about the play. In …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
"The Heart of Rock & Roll," a new jukebox musical inspired by the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, receives its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMEven when Huey Lewis was new, he was retro. More old way than new wave, his band, Huey Lewis & the News, is as much a part of the 1980s as the movie “Back to the Future” (which memorably…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Geffen Playhouse presents the world premiere of Oscar-nominated screenwriter José Rivera's The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona"at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Jo Bonney.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:17PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Jason Alexander directs "Native Garden," Karen Zacarías' comedy about neighbors disputing property lines, horticulture and difference.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a tale about backbiting teenagers at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:08PMThe title of Jocelyn Bioh’s “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,” is an accurate description of this entertaining comedy, which transplants a familiar American scenario to a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Anne Bogart directs Euripides' last play about a young, overconfident ruler who rejects the rowdy new religious sect that has swept into Greece.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMThe surviving Greek tragedies pose inordinate challenges to contemporary theater practitioners, but Euripides’ “Bacchae,” one of his most beloved works, may be the trickiest of all to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PMFriday, September 7, 2018
Review of Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Sweat," set in a factory turn in Pennsylvania, where economic fears are igniting racial tensions
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PMThe state of the nation play has a long tradition in Britain, where playwrights are encouraged to think of the theater as a public forum, a place to debate the issues of the day and track th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:35PMSunday, August 26, 2018
When “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations,” the Broadway-bound jukebox musical, is in motion, it’s a force almost as irresistible as any of the powerhouse R&B band…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:48PMReview of "Ain't Too Proud," a jukebox musical about the lives of "The Temptations."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:12PMAt this peak, his plays were popular in a "Hamilton" sort of way, but that didn't necessarily earn Neil Simon respect among theater writers. The Times' theater critic looks at the trajectory…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:37PMWednesday, August 22, 2018
In his critics notebook, Charles McNulty opines that Heath Ledger's short legacy as a screen actor offers us enough evidence of the rarity of his talent.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Two new Broadway musicals with commercial hooks have opened this summer, one progressive in its approach to gender and sexuality, the other regressive about such matters. But the same proble…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:06PMThe rom-com magic that propelled the Julia Roberts movie and the progressive gender politics the drive the Go-Go's jukebox musical can't quite overcome fundamental flaws in two of Broadway's…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:21PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
The gender bending in the New Swan Shakespeare Festival production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream' is pulled off with aplomb, and if the comic approach goes a little too far, at least the shena…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe gender bending in the New Swan Shakespeare Festival production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream' is pulled off with aplomb, and if the comic approach goes a little too far, at least the shena…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
The playwright of “Cost of Living” and "Ironbound" invites us into worlds that theatergoers have been trained to look past: domestic workers with foreign accents, factory laborers who st…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:12PMMartyna Majok, the Polish-born American playwright whose play “Cost of Living” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama this year, invites us into worlds that theatergoers have been trained to l…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:10PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Capitalism and its discontents: Two new plays chronicle worlds undone by money — Ben Power's brilliantly acted adaptation of the origin story for the company too big to fail, with Sam Mend…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMBeyond being two of the most anticipated new dramas in London this summer, Ben Power’s English adaptation of Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s “The Lehman Trilogy” at the National…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, June 29, 2018
The Geffen Playhouse premieres Peet's play, which centers on a 10-year-old tennis phenom, her mother and her coach and which stars Mamie Gummer, Abigail Dylan Harrison, Caroline Heffernan, T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:22PMAmanda Peet, an actress whose conventional beauty is spiked with a refreshing awkwardness, has branched out into writing. Her play “The Commons of Pensacola” made a respectable showing a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:20PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Kate Burton portrays the parental magician in a gender-flipped take on Shakespeare's "The Tempest," directed by Joe Dowling, at the Old Globe.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:07PMCasting a woman as Prospero in William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” is no longer a novelty. Helen Mirren starred as Prospera in the 2010 Julie Taymor film and, more recently, Harriet Wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:05PM 
