Wednesday, May 1, 2024
A cinematic presentation of a London production of "Macbeth" starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma has a limited engagement in movie theaters.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
'Stereophonic,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' 'Illinoise,' Alicia Keys' 'Hell's Kitchen,' Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Rachel McAdams, Jeremy Strong: This year even known quantities had to stret…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
Choreographer and director Justin Peck brings an athletic grace to a new, category-defying Broadway musical spun from a Sufjan Stevens' album. The singing? It's gorgeous
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
The Olivier Award-winning revival of "Cabaret," starring a physically precise and theatrically audacious Eddie Redmayne, comes to Broadway but misses his London co-star, Jesse Buckley
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Gregg T. Daniel directs a muscular revival of 'King Hedley II," a difficult play done well. Veralyn Jones' performance is extraordinary.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:05PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
The Broadway production of 'Fat Ham,' James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on 'Hamlet,' has its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It's gripping, outrageous fun.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Broadway touring production of Michael Mayer's 2022 revival of "Funny Girl" arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre with a star-making lead performance from Katerina McCrimmon.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2024
'One of the Good Ones,' by Gloria Calderón Kellett, co-creator of the rebooted 'One Day at a Time,' has its world premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Kimberly Senior and starring …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:48PM[SHARE]An exchange with Tricia Romano, author of 'The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture,' with one of her former…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People," written by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, is on Broadway this season in a production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2024
The Fountain Theatre's founding artistic director, Stephen Sachs, reflects on his new play, "Fatherland," and new adventures as he prepares to step down at the end of the year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
In "The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe," actor Nick Ullett, a cast member in William Friedkin's 2014 Harold Pinter revival, tells the tale of the madness that upended the productio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Kristen Adele Calhoun's haunting "Black Cypress Bayou" wrestles with history and reparations in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
A new revival of "The Wiz," featuring Wayne Brady and the hits "Ease on Down the Road" and "Home," opens at the Hollywood Pantages before its Broadway run.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2024
'Mercury,' by Steve Yockey, the creator/showrunner of HBO Max's 'The Flight Attendant,' and 'Middle of the World' by TV executive Juan José Alfonso spin yarns designed to hook restless audi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
'English' by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego's Old Glob…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 3, 2024
James Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
A radical reworking of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne gets its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Retired Yale School of Drama professor Gordon Rogoff died at 92. Theater critic Charles McNulty, his former student, shares an appreciation of Rogoff's legacy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Broadway star and three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera achieved her diva-dom through sheer hard work, humility and humanity.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
'POTUS,' Selina Fillinger's farce about the women charged with keeping a misbehaving president in line, has its L.A. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in a production directed by Jennifer Cha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Kate Berlant plays an actor unable to cry on cue in her solo show 'Kate,' directed by Bo Burnham, at the Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
The talented political parodist Randy Rainbow skewers Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis at the Orpheum Theatre, while announcing a new book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2023
In 2023, the theater lost many notables with long careers, including Michael Gambon, Frances Sternhagen, Glenda Jackson, Barry Humphries and Michael Blakemore. Praising those we lost makes t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2023
With Aubrey Plaza, John Turturro and Dianne Wiest on its stages, new musicals from Alicia Keys and Stephen Sondheim and critically hailed new plays by Annie Baker and David Adjmi, downtown u…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2023
David Hyde Pierce is in the cast of "Here We Are," Stephen Sondheim's final musical, at the Shed in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Matthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 satiric novel 'Babbitt' in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2023
Alex Edelman's 'Just for Us,' the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
The world premiere of 'Hell's Kitchen,' the semi-autobiographical musical by Alicia Keys, features a book by Kristoffer Diaz and sublime vocals by a cast that re-interprets some of Key's big…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Aubrey Plaza, fresh off her 'White Lotus' success, makes her stage debut off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' starring opposite Christopher Abbott.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PM[SHARE] 
