Friday, November 17, 2017
Is there a play-doctor in the house? A concerned onlooker would have reason to make this plea during “Chasing Mem’ries: A Different Kind of Musical.” Unfortunately, there’s not much …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:05PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
“King Charles III,” British playwright Mike Bartlett’s “future history play” that was nominated for a Tony Award last year, begins with the funeral procession for Britain’s longe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMMonday, November 13, 2017
If you can't beat 'em, parody 'em. Gerard Alessandrini, the man behind the popular “Forbidden Broadway” series, has made his theatrical career spoofing his musical theater betters. He’…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMFriday, November 10, 2017
Following in the audaciously silly footsteps of “The Book of Mormon” and “Spamalot,” “Something Rotten!” is a Broadway musical that sets out to pinion you with laughter. Punchlin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMFriday, October 27, 2017
The theater excited Albert Camus’ communal instincts as a writer, but the stage wasn’t the ideal medium for his brand of political existentialism. “Caligula” is perhaps his most full…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
“Gem of the Ocean” may not rank at the top of August Wilson’s plays, but anyone doubting the soul-shaking power of this drama should brave Orange County traffic to see this wrenching n…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMMonday, October 23, 2017
As one theatergoer’s bliss is another theatergoer’s cornball, let’s accentuate the positive before delving into the negative of a show that reveals just how thin the line is between ho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
After acclaim for HBO's "The Leftovers" and an Emmy nomination for FX's "Fargo," Carrie Coon talks about returning to the stage to star in Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" off-Broadway at New York T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Dick Gregory, the comedian and civil rights activist who died this year, played the role of the Shakespearean fool to white America, quipping subversive sentiments about race relations in a …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PMThursday, October 12, 2017
Bravo, Bruce. The star of Broadway's fall season delivers a piece of theater that few will forget - two hours of longing, loss, quiet melancholy and reflection, all from the man who was born…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
“Our Town” has become such a chestnut that it’s easy to forget just how innovative it was when the drama premiered in 1938. Thornton Wilder’s style, so thoroughly absorbed by the 20t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50PMThe word “audience” comes from the Latin word “audientia,” meaning a hearing. People gather to listen, and an individual or group is given the opportunity to be heard. It is a basic …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMJohn Douglas Thompson, the British-born actor of Jamaican heritage who trained in America and is now a citizen here, has carved out a reputation as one of our leading classical actors. His O…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMonday, September 25, 2017
“Head of Passes,” Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play set where the land trails off into the sea in hurricane-prone Louisiana, has undergone quite a bit of tinkering since I saw it at Berkele…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMSunday, September 17, 2017
In a posh Beverly Hills hotel suite overflowing with gift baskets, Michael, the central character of Paul Rudnick’s tentative new comedy, “Big Night,” is anxiously primping for what ma…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20PMFriday, September 15, 2017
Karla, a struggling stand-up comic, is furiously jotting in her notebook while trying out different versions of a new routine. “I’ve been single for so long, I’ve started having sex dr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PMFriday, September 8, 2017
The straightforward production of “Iphigenia in Aulis” that opened Wednesday at the Getty Villa’s outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater might be retitled “Clytemnestra,” …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Who is Hamlet? This might seem like a strange question to ask about the most famous character in all literature, a figure incarnated by some of the most brilliant actors of the last four cen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, August 17, 2017
More than two years after “Hamilton: An American Musical” had its world premiere at New York’s Public Theater, becoming the biggest theatrical sensation in at least a generation, it’…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PMThursday, August 10, 2017
NEW YORK — Michael Moore looked like a fish out of water — or was it a deer in headlights? — at a preview of his Broadway show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” which had its official …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMJumping on bandwagons is my least favorite activity. Don’t force me to tell you all the must-see movies I’ve skipped (“Forrest Gump” is all you’ll get out of me), the No. 1 bestsel…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
Barbara Cook’s career can be divided into two parts: her Broadway ingénue years, in which she enchanted audiences with her glittering soprano, and her cabaret years, in which she basicall…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Add “Shout Sister Shout!” to the growing list of musicals that would make a more potent impression as a straightforward revue. The show, which is having its world premiere at Pasadena Pl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Eugene O’Neil brought gravitas to the American theater. Tennessee Williams allowed it to lyrically sing. Arthur Miller raised its political temperature. And Edward Albee infused it with an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PMFriday, July 28, 2017
“Sweet are the uses of adversity,” the exiled Duke Senior asserts from his campground in the Forest of Arden in “As You Like It.” For a drama critic attending a lackluster production…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
LONDON — For an American theatergoer in London this summer, there can be little doubt that the best new play of the year so far is Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” at the National …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMFriday, July 7, 2017
Since David Lean’s 1945 film “Brief Encounter,” no romantic has been able to look at a banal railway station as simply a commuter hub. Each connecting line poses new amorous possibilit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:55PMEnter any theater and an usher will probably volunteer answers to the questions on everyone's mind: How many minutes is the show, and is there an intermission? Why the answers matter more th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThursday, June 29, 2017
Dear Ted L. Nancy: Congratulations on the success of your series of “Letters From a Nut” books. I have to admit I never heard of them until I received an invitation to attend your show a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PMThursday, June 22, 2017
Shakespeare clearly lies outside the right-wing attack machine’s area of expertise. While Breitbart News and friends were busy waging a full-scale war against the New York Public Theater�…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
'Escape to Margaritaville,' Jimmy Buffett, La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Ashley
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