Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Now that baby boomers are reaching their seniority, it's no surprise that there has been a rush on "King Lear." Graying actors of a certain magnitude want their crack at the greatest role le…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:52PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Cate Blanchett is spectacular in Sydney Theatre Company's patchy production of Jean Genet's 'The Maids' in New York. Isabelle Huppert is also fierce, but seemingly at odds with the rest of t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, August 8, 2014
The tourist shops dotting the streets of downtown Ashland may leave the impression that this picturesque town was designed by Martha Stewart in a chichi Western mood, but a weekend spent her…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMMonday, August 4, 2014
The kitsch factor was high, but "Hair" proved to be a congenial choice for the Hollywood Bowl, where this counterculture classic from the late 1960s breezed in for three performances this pa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSaturday, August 2, 2014
When last seen in Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way," Lyndon B. Johnson was being serenaded with "Happy Days Are Here Again." After brokering the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMFriday, August 1, 2014
Critics often grouse about James Lapine's script. Some find Stephen Sondheim's music too muted. But a beautifully balanced production in Oregon shows how strongly connected the two parts are…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMFriday, July 18, 2014
At last, a Broadway show that doesn't feel the need to conk its audience over the head with hollow flash and empty dazzle. "Once," the Tony-winning musical based on John Carney's 2006 indie …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50PMThursday, July 17, 2014
After the lights are dimmed on Broadway in honor of Elaine Stritch, who died Thursday at 89, I'm not sure that they'll ever burn quite as fiercely again.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:23PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Plays, regardless of when they were written, take place in the eternal present. Updating a classic — for example, resetting Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in late-1920s Los Angeles, as S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
David Suchet, best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, plays another canny scrutinizer of nefarious human behavior in Roger Crane's "The Last Confession,"…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMDavid Suchet, best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, plays another canny scrutinizer of nefarious human behavior in Roger Crane's "The Last Confession,"…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMMonday, June 9, 2014
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," the musical with no marquee names or obvious marketing hook, won big at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, proving that a droll Edwardian tale of homici…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," the musical with no marquee names or obvious marketing hook, won big at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, proving that a droll Edwardian tale of homici…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, June 6, 2014
In a Broadway season in which revivals have eclipsed new plays it was still a surprise that the American drama that spoke most urgently to our time was Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMNew York (and L.A. and the U.S.) snap into focus when CTG's Michael Ritchie, Pasadena Playhouse's Sheldon Epps, the Geffen's Randall Arney and South Coast Rep's Marc Masterson gather.New Yor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThe Tony Awards will be handed out Sunday, and the safe money is on "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" for best musical and "All the Way" for best play. But nothing is guaranteed in a Br…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMThe Tony Awards will be handed out Sunday, and the safe money is on "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" for best musical and "All the Way" for best play. But nothing is guaranteed in a Br…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Last weekend my theatergoing got off to an especially bloody start at the Sacred Fools Theater, where I caught one of the last performances of "Taste," the world premiere of Benjamin Brand's…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMFriday, May 23, 2014
The exclamatory title of Sheana Ochoa's biography of legendary acting teacher Stella Adler invokes Marlon Brando's tormented cry in "A Streetcar Named Desire." It's a fitting allusion: Brand…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, May 22, 2014
One of the great interests in any revival of the Tennessee Williams classic “A Streetcar Named Desire” is seeing how a production will negotiate the balance of theatrical power between B…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:36PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
NEW YORK — If you happened to notice hell freezing over this Broadway season, please don't assume that it was another fluky manifestation of climate change. There's something I need to con…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Every great dramatic masterpiece poses a question about a protagonist that expresses the "darker purpose," to borrow a phrase from "King Lear," of a playwright's vision. The classic example,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
A cross section of life in Nampa, Idaho, is delivered through the theatrical equivalent of cinematic jump cuts in "different words for the same thing," a new play by Kimber Lee that opened S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:31AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham touches on a yearning for transcendence. This time, he imagines Brooklyn brothers beset by frustrations and mysteries.Pulitzer Prize winner Michael C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:25PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
What can you say about a Broadway season that was distinguished by adventurous revivals and crammed with superb performances? That it was a good year for actors and a challenging year for pl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMThe 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes is given a fluid, authentic production at the Old Globe in San Diego.— Elliot, the central figure of Quiara Alegría Hudes…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes is given a fluid, authentic production at the Old Globe in San Diego.The 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hud…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, April 25, 2014
The dance master teams with adventuresome colleagues to present two short stories conjoined as the non-dance theater piece 'Man in a Case.' There's a lot going on. Not all of it serves the a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:23PMThe dance master teams with adventuresome colleagues to present two short stories conjoined as the non-dance theater piece 'Man in a Case.' There's a lot going on. Not all of it serves the a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:23PMNo matter the musical style, the American classic's score always envelops the actors and drives the drama.Depending on your knowledge of the material and expectations going in, the touring v…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM 
