All stories by Charles Mcnulty on BroadwayStars

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Jake Brasch's 'The Reservoir' suffers from arrested character development at the Geffen Playhouse by Charles McNulty

Jake Brasch's 'The Reservoir,' directed by Shelley Butler, features a cast that includes Marin Hinkle at the Geffen Playhouse.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Tony-winning revival of 'Parade' turns a miscarriage of justice into gripping musical drama by Charles McNulty

Michael Arden's Tony-winning revival of "Parade," Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's musical about the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager accused and convicted of a heinous …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Monday, June 9, 2025

Tony Awards: Hollywood A-listers brought the spotlight to Broadway, but stage thespians carried the day by Charles McNulty

Cole Escola, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Darren Criss are among the performers who took home Tony Awards in a season in which A-list Hollywood actors and veteran stage performers hel…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:58PM[SHARE]
Friday, June 6, 2025

Another act of vandalism in downtown L.A. as Robert O'Hara defaces 'Hamlet' at the Taper by Charles McNulty

Director Robert O'Hara's noir version of 'Hamlet,' starring Patrick Ball and premiering at Mark Taper Forum, audaciously but incoherently toys with Shakespeare's tragedy.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]

CNN will broadcast a Broadway performance of George Clooney in 'Good Night, and Good Luck.' Don't miss it by Charles McNulty

In a historic first, CNN will broadcast a live performance of a Broadway show on Saturday. 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' a stage adaptation of George Clooney's 2005 film, stars the actor as C…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Cole Escola's 'Oh Mary!' is a hoot, but the Tony should go to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Purpose' by Charles McNulty

Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' is the front-runner in the Tony Award race for best play. But in one of the strongest playwriting categories in years, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Purpose' deserves to…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 29, 2025

L.A. Theatre Works, citadel of audio drama, keeps adapting to changing times by Charles McNulty

For L.A. Theatre Works producing director Susan Albert Loewenberg and managing director Vicki Pearlson, the company's legacy of audio drama holds new potential in the age of podcasting and a…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:28PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Director Michael Arden is no longer Broadway's best kept secret by Charles McNulty

Michael Arden could follow his Tony win for directing 'Parade' with another Tony this year for 'Maybe Happy Ending.' Coming next: 'The Queen of Versailles' with Kristin Chenoweth and 'The Lo…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:42PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 25, 2025

The playwright who cracked open 'The Crucible' with 'John Proctor Is the Villain' by Charles McNulty

Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Danya Taymor reveal how the Tony-nominated play 'John Proctor Is the Villain' made it to Broadway, with help from 'Stranger Things' star Sadie Sink…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:25PM[SHARE]

Simply impeccable: This musical at A Noise Within in Pasadena shines with understated excellence by Charles McNulty

The tale of a Dublin bus conductor with a yen for Oscar Wilde drives this fantastic revival of 'A Man of No Importance,' from the 'Ragtime' team of Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lyn…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:25PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Ibsen's 1879 play left audiences shocked. Now in Pasadena, the door opens to 'A Doll's House, Part 2' by Charles McNulty

Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner star in the Pasadena Playhouse production of 'A Doll's House, Part 2,' the clever Lucas Hnath comedy that earned Laurie Metcalf a Tony on Broadway.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:42PM[SHARE]
Friday, May 16, 2025

In 'Lessons From My Teachers,' playwright Sarah Ruhl finds wisdom in art, motherhood, even grief by Charles McNulty

Sarah Ruhl treats the world as her classroom, deriving spiritual lessons along with practical wisdom about life and art in a compelling new book.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 12, 2025

'White Rabbit Red Rabbit,' with a new star every night, opens at the Fountain by Charles McNulty

Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour's global hit 'White Rabbit Red Rabbit,' a theatrical experiment swathed in mystery, opens at the Fountain Theatre with a different actor handed the script righ…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11PM[SHARE]
Saturday, May 10, 2025

'Life of Pi' at the Ahmanson: An enchanting journey on the high seas by Charles McNulty

Yann Martel's 2002 novel, also made into a 2012 Ang Lee film, gets a stage adaptation that is wondrously dreamy and profound. As the tale's shipwrecked teen, Taha Mandviwala is mesmerizing.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:39PM[SHARE]
Friday, May 2, 2025

Tony nominations reward audacious risk-taking on Broadway by Charles McNulty

'Maybe Happy Ending,' 'Dead Outlaw,' Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' and 'John Proctor Is the Villain' lead the competition for best musical and best play, with Audra McDonald in 'Gypsy' and Nicol…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:16PM[SHARE]
Monday, April 28, 2025

'Furlough's Paradise' imagines utopia for two Black cousins on a quest for liberty by Charles McNulty

a.k. payne's 'Furlough's Paradise,' winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, opens at the Geffen Playhouse under the direction of Tinashe Kajese-Bolden.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:13PM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 27, 2025

'Dead Outlaw,' a musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach, makes its way to Broadway by Charles McNulty

"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit," opens on Broadway.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Netflix and 'Stranger Things' take on Broadway. Enter at your own peril by Charles McNulty

'Stranger Things: The First Shadow,' a prequel to the hit streaming series, opens at the Marquis Theatre, bringing Netflix branding to Broadway.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Playwright Keiko Green invites audiences to party like it's the apocalypse by Charles McNulty

Keiko Green's 'You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World,' a comedy about family, loss and environmental destruction, has its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in a production …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AM[SHARE]
Monday, April 14, 2025

In the new musical 'Regency Girls,' young women in trouble discover empowerment on a road trip by Charles McNulty

"Regency Girls," a musical comedy about young women on a wild road trip in the Jane Austen-era, has its world premiere at the Old Globe in a production directed by Josh Rhodes.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:09PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Who's afraid of James Joyce? Elevator Repair Service takes a tour of 'Ulysses' by Charles McNulty

Elevator Repair Service's stage adaptation of 'Ulysses,' presented by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, inspires a rereading of the James Joyce classic. Years later, the takeaways ar…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AM[SHARE]
Monday, March 31, 2025

In Broadway's latest 'Gypsy,' Audra McDonald takes our critic from doubt to spiritual epiphany by Charles McNulty

George C. Wolfe directs the new Broadway revival of "Gypsy" starring six-time Tony-winner Audra McDonald.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:18PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

All's unfair in love and identity politics in Echo Theater Company's 'One Jewish Boy' by Charles McNulty

Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields directs the West Coast premiere of 'One Jewish Boy,' Stephen Laughton's two-hander starring Sharae Foxie and Zeke Goodman

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42PM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Hugh Bonneville stars in an impressively poised revival of 'Uncle Vanya' at Berkeley Rep by Charles McNulty

Hugh Bonneville stars in 'Uncle Vanya,' a co-production between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Simon Godwin.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42AM[SHARE]
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Now streaming, Irish Rep's 'Beckett Briefs,' headlined by F. Murray Abraham, asks the essential questions by Charles McNulty

Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham stars in 'Krapp's Last Tape,' one of three short Samuel Beckett plays on offer in 'Beckett Briefs,' an Irish Rep production now available for streaming via the…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PM[SHARE]
Saturday, March 15, 2025

How a photo of Nazis eating blueberries inspired Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich's Holocaust play by Charles McNulty

'Here There Are Blueberries' tells the story of an album of historical photos documenting the lives of ordinary Germans who were part of the bureaucracy of the Holocaust. Authors Moisés Kau…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:50PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran deliver 'A Streetcar Named Desire' for the ages by Charles McNulty

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall's production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:38PM[SHARE]
Monday, March 10, 2025

Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword by Charles McNulty

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

A new revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Topdog/Underdog' misses the beat at Pasadena Playhouse by Charles McNulty

Pasadena Playhouse revival of 'Topdog/Underdog,' Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, stars Brandon Gill and Brandon Micheal Hall in a production directed by Gregg T. Daniel.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:06PM[SHARE]
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Review: '44,' a musical satire about Barack Obama by one of his campaign insiders, cuts up at the Kirk Douglas by Charles McNulty

Written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, a former Obama campaign organizer, '44,' about Barack Obama's presidency, returns to L.A. at Kirk Douglas Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:26PM[SHARE]
Friday, February 21, 2025

Review: 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' brings authentic magic to the Hollywood Pantages by Charles McNulty

The Tony-winning play 'Harry Potter and Cursed Child' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:17AM[SHARE]

All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off