Friday, February 21, 2025
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]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga star in 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends' in a pre-Broadway run at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Rogue Machine Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Sophie Swithinbank's 'Bacon,' a two-hander directed by Michael Matthews that explores masculinity, bullying, sexuality and trauma.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro directs a revival of Michael Frayn's backstage farce at the Geffen Playhouse in a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
'Fake It Until You Make It,' a satiric farce by Larissa FastHorse ('The Thanksgiving Play'), has its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, in a production directed by Michael John Garcés.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Rogue Machine presents the Southern California premiere of Will Arbery's 'Evanston Salt Costs Climbing' in a Rogue Machine Theatre production at the Matrix Theatre directed by Guillermo Cien…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of "Wish You Were Here" at South Coast Repertory.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Theater critic Charles McNulty writes on how Shakespeare, and 'The Tempest' in particular, is helping him bear witness to the scale of loss caused by the Los Angeles wildfires.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Playwright and director Richard Foreman, one of the pillars of New York's downtown theater scene, dies at 87.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:12AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2024
New York City Center Encores! production of 'Once Upon a Mattress,' starring Sutton Foster, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre direct from Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2024
'Wicked,' soaring onscreen, has returned to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. This production reveals what the movie gets right, as well as weaknesses neither version can overcome.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2024
The Times' theater critic selects his top SoCal stage productions for 2024, including 'Funny Girl,' 'Fat Ham,' 'Primary Trust,' 'Pacific Overtures,' 'The Brothers Size' and 'Company.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2024
A theater critic reflects on his profession at a time when its very survival seems on the line and champions a return of critical thinking.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Sam Pinkleton directs a festive revival of 'La Cage aux Folles" at Pasadena Playhouse, starring Cheyenne Jackson and Kevin Cahoon.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2024
Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi star in the Geffen Playhouse's new production of Samuel Becektt's absurdist classic 'Waiting for Godot.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2024
'Pacific Overtures,' Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is dazzlingly revived by East West Players in one of the best prod…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:50PM[SHARE]New Broadway revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd," Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" test how far these works can be refashioned for modern sensibili…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2024
'Joan,' a new play by Daniel Goldstein at South Coast Repertory about the life of comedian Joan Rivers, mixes biography with the comedian's old stand-up material.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2024
"The Streetcar Project" brought Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" to Los Angeles for six performances, three in a Frogtown airplane hangar and three in a Venice Beach warehouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Appearing together in 'The Roommate,' Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow bring their star power to Broadway and discuss friendship and longevity in theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of the Wooster Group's production of Richard Foreman's 'Symphony of Rats.'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2024
'Kimberly Akimbo,' David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori's 2023 Tony-winning musical, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages in a production starring a divine Carolee Carmello
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A stage version of Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake,' adapted by the film's star, Dave Jones, has its U.S. premiere at the Fountain Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2024
CTG artistic director Snehal Desai makes his directorial debut at the company in a reimagined revival of the Green Day musical featured deaf and hearing actors in a collaboration with Deaf W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
A strong New York season of playwriting features David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face,' Max Wolf Friedlich's sleeper hit 'Job' and, off-Broadway at the Public Theater, James IJames' 'Good Bones'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California," directed by Sam Mendes, rises above a strong New York season of playwriting.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Caleb Eberhardt stars in the West Coast premiere of Eboni Booth's 'Primary Trust,' winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for drama, at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2024
After losing the 'daddy' of his dreams to COVID, comedian Sam Morrison tells the tale of his love and grief in "Sugar Daddy" at the Wallis in Beverly Hills.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Broadway performer Gavin Creel, who died Monday at age 48, won a Tony for "Hello, Dolly!" and was also nominated for roles in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Hair."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:54PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut playing a writer who succumbs to AI in the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's "McNeal" at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PM[SHARE] 
