It was all done with bamboo skewers, recycling and free pizza. The ambitious set of "The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder," a play about the struggle to compile the Oxford English Dictionary…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMMessy, bold, desperately funny and deeply felt: "Neighbors" is worth getting to know.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMLeading lighting designer Jennifer Tipton turns 73 on Saturday, and she'll probably spend her birthday working.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMTalk about a fairy tale: “General Hospital” supercouple Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) were a Harlequin Romance on steroids. Now Geary finds equally fractured enc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMHitchcock. King Lear. C.S. Lewis — Dakin Matthews has played his share of hefty dramatic roles on Los Angeles and Orange County stages as well as in television and film. Theatergoers f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMShrug off that fur, have a cocktail and dish the dirt with “Fallen Angels,” Art Manke’s irresistible production of a rarely seen Noel Coward comedy, now at the Pasadena Pla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:28PMDoes anyone in Ireland have a happy childhood? From Frank McCourt to Martin McDonagh, the Emerald Isle seems to eat its young with alarming frequency. And according to “Silent,” …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:59PMThis December, celebrate sleight of hand — and I don’t mean shopping online. “Nothing to Hide,” the new magic show at the Geffen Playhouse featuring Derek DelGaudio a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:44PMDorothy isn’t the only one who got lost in Kansas. After World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese women married American GIs and resettled across the United States. We meet five of tho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:21PMShe dressed elephants and Audrey Hepburn, and apparently preferred the elephants. Hollywood’s most legendary costume designer dishes the dirt in a nostalgic one-woman show, “A Co…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:46PMIt looks like “Mad Men,” but you’d never catch Don Draper at this shindig. The City Garage staging of Eugene Ionesco’s midcentury absurdist farce “The Bald Sopr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PMThe House of Atreus looks good on leather. Leather couches that is -- part of the seating at T1, the Bergamot Station Arts Center and new home of City Garage. The company’s inaugural p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMShame and the British. They go together like tea and crumpets, Sandhurst and Sid Vicious. But South Coast Repertory’s broad staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s exercise in indignity, &…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMOne percenters, hide those offshore accounts: Occupy LA—or something a lot like it—has been spotted at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center. The corruption of the privileged…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:27PMCome for the cupcakes, stay for the play. The Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival offers tasty concessions, but its onstage revels serve up plenty of eye candy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PMIn December 1988, the residents of a small Scottish town hosted unusual guests: dozens of corpses that lay for days in streets, fields and gardens until investigators could process them as f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMAll the best stories are told in the kitchen — even the darkest ones. Think of Hélène Cixous’ “Oy!,” now at the Actors' Gang, as the rise and fall of the Third Reic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PMThey’re looking for a few good denouements. The Promenade Players Theater Company’s “Six Characters Looking for an Author” and Katselas Theatre Company’s solo s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PMJoin the actors in Room 28 at the Western Plaza for this up close and personal take on Stephen Belber's cult drama.Sex, drugs and a cheap motel for $15 an hour: Who says L.A. doesn't know an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMSex, drugs and a cheap motel for $15 an hour: Who says L.A. doesn’t know anything about culture? The Smith and Martin Company and needtheater have taken the stage directions of “…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMDouglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed” follows four people who, as one of them puts it, couldn’t identify their feelings in a police lineup. Translation: the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMIt’s the end of the world as they know it, but the characters of George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” feel positively giddy. In Ellen Geer’s fleet, bouncy s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:09PMBoy meets girl. Girl meets boy’s mom. Trouble ensues. This familiar love-hate triangle shapes “No Way Around but Through,” Scott Caan’s linguistically contorted dark …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PMHe’s holy, he’s handsome, he’s dead. The good works — and good looks — of Pope John Paul II form the touchstone of “Charity: Part III of a Mexican Trilogy…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PMLike the man said, always be closing. In Cody Henderson's "The Bewildered Herd," now at Greenway Arts Alliance, everyone's after someone else's mental real estate. When he's not helping win …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews A Noise Within's effervescent staging of Molière's "The Bungler"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews Ken Sawyer's revival of "Deathtrap" at L.A.'s Gay and Lesbian Center.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:39PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews "The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King," Andrew Dolan's drama on race and marriage now at the Atwater Village Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:31PMEverybody say "amen": The joint is jumping over at Celebration Theatre with its raucous, exultant staging of "The Color Purple."Everybody say "amen": The joint is jumping over at Celebration…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews Celebration Theatre's revival of the musical adaptation of "The Color Purple"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:22PMThe gleeful "Night" uses sketch comedy, song and a dizzying number of wigs to survey the glories and pratfalls of the American Dream. The gleeful "Night" uses sketch comedy, song and a dizzy…
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