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]Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Nikkole Salter's "Lines in the Dust" at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
Comedian Alex Edelman brings his acclaimed Broadway show, in which he muses on Jewish identity, empathy and how he came to hang out with a group of white nationalists, to the Mark Taper Foru…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Robert Brustein was a kingly critic with sometimes controversial opinions; don't discount his influence on American theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Alfred Molina, John Douglas Thompson and Chris Perfetti star in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of 'Inherit the Wind,' the Scopes "monkey" trial drama, directed by Michael Michetti.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
East West Players doesn't pull any punches in its revival of "Spring Awakening," the Tony-winning musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
In 'Life Sucks,' Aaron Posner takes his inspiration from Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a playful, contemporary reworking directed by Barry Heins at Los Angeles' Broadwater Main Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2023
Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench's 'Birds of North America' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in a production starring Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
Samuel Baum's 'The Engagement Party,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, opens at the Geffen Playhouse with a cast that includes Jonah Platt, Bella Heathcote and Wendie Malick.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2023
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's stunning "Infinite Life" has its world premiere off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in a co-production with Britain's National Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Playwright Luis Alfaro's latest work 'The Travelers,' presented by Latino Theater Company, creates an imaginative world unto its own onstage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:40PM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2023
"Henry Johnson," a new play by David Mamet, is in its world premiere run at the Electric Lodge in Venice.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
Daniel K. Isaac stars in 'Every Brilliant Thing,' a play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
'The Bluest Eye,' Toni Morrison's first novel, is presented at A Noise Within in a stage adaptation by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Andi Chapman.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Amy Brenneman stars in the L.A. premiere of Adam Rapp's 'The Sound Inside' at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Cameron Watson.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:09PM[SHARE]Tarell Alvin McCraney, Geffen Playhouse's new artistic director, discusses the "calling" of theater and his vision for the future of the Westside theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2023
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Alexis Scheer's critically hailed and adroitly constructed drama 'Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,' about the savage secret lives of teenage girls, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:48PM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2023
Harold Pinter's 1959 play 'A Slight Ache' is presented at the Odyssey Theatre in a production featuring Susan Priver, Henry Olek and Shelly Kurtz.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2023
The first 2024 Republican primary debate unwittingly made the case for why the humanities are fundamental to our nation's future.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Playwright and 'Succession' screenwriter Will Arbery's 'Heroes of the Fourth Turning' has its Southern California premiere in a Rogue Machine production at the Matrix Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:38PM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2023
Direct from Broadway, 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' from the British company Mischief, turns J.M. Barrie's tale into a farcical fiasco.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:35PM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
August Wilson, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled the Black experience in America, gets a stirring biography from Patti Hartigan.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Lisa Gay Hamilton takes on the stern matriarchal role in 'Zora Howard's Stew,' a Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama in 2021, at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2023
Patti LuPone, Sierra Boggess, Sutton Foster, Norm Lewis, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Skylar Astin join forces in "Everybody Rise! A Sondheim Celebration" at the Hollywood Bowl.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:58PM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2023
Antaeus Theatre Company presents a production of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' as a quasi-radio play, directed by Nike Doukas and starring Peter Van Norden.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Ramiz Monsef's 'The Ants,' a horror drama laden with social commentary, has its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:22PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2023
The Tony-nominated revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre in a production starring Tony-winner Stephanie J. Block as the Baker's Wife and Mont…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Will Power's 'Fetch Clay, Make Man' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre summons Stepin Fetchit and Muhammad Ali to the stage in well-acted drama directed by Debbie Allen.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2023
The world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's 'Love All' at La Jolla Playhouse brings to the stage the story of tennis great and equality champion Billie Jean King in production starring Chilin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PM[SHARE] 
