Thursday, October 15, 2015
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements. The biggest statement by far was "Fun Home" winning five Tonys, including the best musical award, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52AMFriday, August 21, 2015
The Fountain Theatre, established 25 years ago, began, as many things used to do, with a fateful phone call.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:01PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
On the outside, Dan, the 31-year-old computer guy with a fleshy middle, knows he comes off as "unassuming and plain." Good at math, he tells us he's 5-foot-10, 200 pounds and that 52 is the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:57PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Shortly after savoring Rogue Machine Theatre's scrupulously acted production of Samuel D. Hunter's "A Permanent Image" and just before attending the much-praised Antaeus Company revival of W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:36PMMonday, August 3, 2015
It's hard to go wrong with "Spamalot" at the Hollywood Bowl. The Tony-winning show, based on the cult movie comedy "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," leaves no silliness unturned as it affec…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45AMMonday, July 20, 2015
It's only fitting that American Conservatory Theater should inaugurate the Strand, its new second stage in the city's tech corridor, with a recent play by the inexhaustibly original British …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
"Kiss Me, Kate," the 1948 backstage musical comedy with the matchless Cole Porter score, seems made for blissed-out summer nights - a classic to be savored with gelato and Prosecco for those…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMSaturday, June 27, 2015
How does it feel seeing your life pass before your eyes in a documentary?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Terrorists make the covers of newspapers while those who selflessly give comfort and support in times of crisis are usually relegated to the back pages.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51PMThursday, June 11, 2015
The lesson of "Waterfall," the ersatz new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse, is that you can't judge a show by the resumes of the artists.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
How can you not love a musical about a badly mistreated pint-sized prodigy whose passion for reading rescues her from the bullies and boors around her?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15AMMonday, June 8, 2015
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
How do the voters make their Tony Award decisions? Here's the capricious breakdown.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:54AMThe world isn't a meritocracy, the prize doesn't always go to the most deserving and Vincent van Gogh isn't the only artist to have gone to his grave unheralded.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:09AMThursday, June 4, 2015
"Murder for Two," a musical whodunit performed cabaret-theater style by two indefatigable actors, is part tag team, part tug of war.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMThe Public Theater's game-changing artistic director has been retooling the American musical
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:54PMWho's the toast of Broadway at the moment? While fans of Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O'Hara duke it out, let's raise a glass to Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's game-changing artistic dire…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Of the 10 Tony Award nominees in the lead actor and actress categories for drama, five are English. We look at what the Brits have brought to Broadway stages over the past season, and why th…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:40PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
This year, the discussion around the Academy Awards was all about the unbearable whiteness of being an acting nominee. The Tony Awards can hardly brag about diversity. It's never a good sign…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:52AMSunday, May 31, 2015
Time veils the past in mystery for everyone, but theater artist Lars Jan's case is exceptional. His late father, an enigmatic Polish-born Cold War operative, remains an elusive figure despit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:20PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Deaf West Theatre has a way of reimagining musicals. The company's practice of assigning certain roles to two actors, one singing, the other signing, opens the art form up to deaf performers…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Before moving to L.A., I was on the faculty of Brooklyn College's MFA program in theater. If I were still there, I'd make "Just Kids" required reading.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMDramatic adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work should carry a warning to audiences that the characters and situations they're about to encounter are likely to be disturbing in the extreme.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMThe musical theater stalwart casts herself as the victim and opens old wounds in recounting her life and career.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM'The King's Speech' gives voice to a mature view of the affliction and those who struggle with it.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMNot a banner year by any stretch, but good work will always out. This year, the advantage fell decidedly to directors who weren't afraid to let their artistry show.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMAs anyone who caught “The Pain and the Itch” at the Theatre @ Boston Court a couple of seasons back can verify, Bruce Norris doesn't write plays to win popularity contests.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMThere's a perky ray of sunshine with gawky eyeglasses and a cautious smile brightening this agreeable adaptation from the Tony-winning team of James Lapine and William Finn (whose collaborat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMLouisville's Marc Masterson will be taking over at the playwright-friendly venue, and he can't go wrong following these suggestions.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the prodigiously talented author of "The Brother/Sister Plays," has called August Wilson a mentor, though Wilson's stylistic influence hasn't been conspicuous.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:57PM 
