Saturday, September 17, 2016
David Mamet once described two of New York's leading drama critics as the syphilis and gonorrhea of the American theater. Edward Albee, whose death at age 88 on Friday marked the end of his …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:40PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
When playwright Robert O'Hara writes comedy, outrageousness is a given. His play "Bootycandy," a series of connected skits about growing up black and gay that was produced last year by Celeb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:55PM[SHARE]From London to NY and now in LA this Ivo Von Hove-drected Olivier/TONY-Winner arrives starring a dazzling cast lead by FREDERICK WELLER, CATHERINE COMBS and ANDRUS NICHOLS running through Oc…
SOURCE: touch.latimes.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
In Ivo van Hove's celebrated production of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," the direction is the star. The Belgian auteur, who leads Holland's preeminent theater company, Toneelgroe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:55PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
Calls for a national conversation on race are routinely made in the wake of crises, but a better idea would be a requirement for all citizens to familiarize themselves with the work of playw…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) has been described by classicist and novelist Erich Segal as "the least admired and most imitated" of the ancient Greek and Roman dramatists. His plays,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:45PM[SHARE]The new theater season is a loaded lineup, with offerings from Deaf West, Ivo van Hove and Anna Deavere Smith. Here are 13 picks: Sept. 10-May 21 A Noise Within's 25th anniversary A quart…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
The theater world lost two giants this summer, Zelda Fichandler, co-founder of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage and a heroic pioneer of the regional theater movement, and James Houghton, found…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
SAN DIEGO " The Old Globe's staging of "Love's Labor's Lost" proves that it is possible to fall in love with a production at first sight. John Lee Beatty's scenic design transforms the outdo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Summer Shakespeare. These words can strike fear in the heart of a reluctant theatergoer. Yes, the plays are supposed to be good for you. But semiprofessional productions in which the artisti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO " Steve Martin, the beloved comic whose career has branched out in unforeseen directions (bluegrass composer, art collector and curator, playwright) is often described as a modern …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:21PM[SHARE]LA JOLLA " Forget about all the TV pundits and op-ed columnists droning on about America's problems. Playwright Ayad Akhtar is the diagnostician the nation needs to interpret its faltering h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2016
No point in mincing words: Tennessee Williams is the greatest playwright America has ever produced. Yet more and more his reputation seems preserved in amber rather than renewed through reve…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Barbra Streisand didn't give us a foretaste of her Rose in "Gypsy," the classic musical about a formidable stage mother and her showbiz-bound daughters that she has been trying like Sisyphus…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2016
"A Chorus Line" is an ideal musical for the Hollywood Bowl, and this weekend's presentation faithfully staged by Baayork Lee didn't disappoint. The show's presentational style works well …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
SAN DIEGO " Feeling overwhelmed by this summer of tumult, when the news seems to go only from bad to worse? I have just the remedy:Â an English novelist who wrote delectable comedies of ma…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:13PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
"The Last Tiger in Haiti," a new play by Jeff Augustin that's receiving its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, begins in a tent shack in Port-au-Prince that is the home for a group of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
"Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" is that rare Broadway offering " a jukebox musical with a soul. The touring production, which opened Friday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, reveals t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2013, but for anyone encountering the work for the first time at the Mark Taper Forum, where the play opened Sunday in a sensati…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
The setting for "Big Sky," a new comedy by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros that opened Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse, is a Ritz-Carlton condo in a deluxe vacation community in Aspen, Colo.,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:11PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
"Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's landmark musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, had its coronation Sunday at the 70th Tony Awards. As expected, the show won for best musical, cap…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:38AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
The suspense over the Tony Awards is usually about which show will win for best musical, the prize with the most lucrative consequences. But this year we all know that "Hamilton," nominated …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
On Sunday, the Tony Awards will recognize artists who did exceptional work in the 2015-16 Broadway season. As always, there's a rich bounty of nominated talent to choose from, but the�…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
A precious First Folio of Shakespeare plays, one of several on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, has arrived at the San Diego Central Library, where it will remain for the next month…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Harold Bloom subtitled his magnum opus on Shakespeare "The Invention of the Human" in recognition of the Bard's unprecedented ability to imagine the lives of others. The question I've…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape," written in 1921, still has the tang of an experiment by a relatively young writer testing the frontiers of what the drama can do. Mixing brutal expressionis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:51PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
Antonio Salieri, relegated by posterity to the shadows as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's journeyman contemporary, will always have Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" to augment his notoriety, if not his f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
For those who have been tracking the thrilling career of the Belgian-born, Amsterdam-based director Ivo van Hove, the last place you'd expect to find him working is Broadway. But the Flemish…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PM[SHARE]Last year, the Tony Awards could have adopted the hashtag #TonysSoBritish. This year, the nominees announced Tuesday morning look like the anti-Oscars, so diverse is the roster. There may no…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PM[SHARE] 
