Jay Rasulo is going from the executive offices of the Walt Disney Co. to the top board position at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rasulo will become chairman of the board of the Los Angeles Phi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45PMHaving married its far-out avant-garde aesthetic to numerous classic dramas over the decades, the Wooster Group will attempt to adapt a documentary film for the stage when it debuts its new…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:20PMLos Angeles Opera said unaudited figures for its recently ended 30th anniversary season show a 19.9% increase in the number of tickets sold and a 27.6% rise in ticket revenue compared with …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:18PM“Toruk,” the traveling Cirque du Soleil show inspired by the 2009 James Cameron movie “Avatar,” will land in Los Angeles this fall for a brief stay. Cirque said that “Toruk – t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:18PM"Cats" — and cats — seem to follow Betty Buckley wherever she goes. As Grizabella, the raggedly forlorn Jellicle from the blockbuster Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, the actress delivered a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:04AMEast West Players has found its new artistic director from within its own ranks and will announce on Wednesday that Snehal Desai will succeed outgoing producing artistic director Tim Dang,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PMAudrey Tautou charmed movie audiences in the title role of “Amélie,” the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie about a Parisian waitress who embarks on a series of whimsical adventures. For the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:29PMDanny Feldman will succeed Sheldon Epps at the helm of the Pasadena Playhouse, the company announced on Thursday. Feldman will take on the dual roles of artistic and executive director at th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PMHow will Benjamin Millepied spend his time after he leaves the Paris Opera Ballet in July? The popular dancer-choreographer, who abruptly announced his resignation from the storied company …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:27PM"The Perfect American," the controversial Philip Glass opera that recounts the final months in the life of Walt Disney, will get its U.S. premiere next year — not by a major institution li…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:15PMThey were supposed to be a secret, but when word leaked that the new "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" in London was using real owls during performances, fans of the saga went wild on soci…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMNothing is free in this world. And nothing is free when it comes to the Tony Awards, either. Just ask the team behind the recent revival of "Spring Awakening." The annual award show — Bro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:33PMAs Broadway prepares for the Tony Awards on Sunday, CBS has kicked into promotional high gear, with comedian James Corden cross-pollinating his role as host of the network's "The Late Late S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17PMMeryl Streep won her third Academy Award in 2012 for portraying former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. This week, the actress channeled another conservative poltician, dressing up …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17PMMeryl Streep won her third Academy Award in 2012 for portraying former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. On Monday, the actress channeled another conservative poltician, dressing up …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17PMPeter Shaffer, the Academy Award-winning British playwright whose stage dramas "Amadeus" and "Equus" were turned into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 90. Shaffer died early Monday at the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:42PMThe 2016-17 season at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will boast a prestigious international lineup, with recent productions by Simon McBurney and Peter Brook making stop…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:07PMFrom its humble start in a small theater space in downtown Los Angeles to its three Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, including a nod for musical revival, Deaf West's production of "Spring …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PMA year after he surprised the arts world by giving $100 million to Lincoln Center, David Geffen is dropping another cool hundred million on a second New York institution, the Museum of Mo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:51PMAfter nearly four years of renovations at a cost of close to $66 million, the historic John Anson Ford Theatres complex in the hills of the Cahuenga Pass will be taking its bow, with a publi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:48AMThe victory lap for "Hamilton" received an awards boost on Monday when the hit show won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, making it one of a handful musicals to have nabbed the honor. Lin-Man…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMCirque du Soleil has joined Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams and others in boycotting North Carolina over the state's controversial "bathroom" law that would affect transgender pe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:19PMThe timing was undeniably strange, given how closely the two organizations work. The speculation has already started flying. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Opera…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:57PMIn the immortal words of Ursula the sea witch, "life's full of tough choices, innit?" Fans of Disney's animated feature "The Little Mermaid" now have another opportunity to catch the upcomi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25AMIn more than seven years since it opened to great fanfare, the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica has presented theatrical, dance and musical artists of the highest international cal…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:21PMThe phenomenon of screening popular movies with a live orchestra is heading under the sea with "The Little Mermaid" -- the 1989 Disney animated favorite -- which will come to the Hollywoo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:21PMThe producers of the hip-hop historical musical "Hamilton" have run into trouble over a recent open casting notice seeking "non-white" singers for Broadway and upcoming touring versions of t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:41AM"Constellations," the drama by Nick Payne that's had successful runs in London and New York, and "Barbecue," a two-family comedy from Robert O'Hara, will be part of the Geffen Playhouse's up…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMThe acclaimed Young Vic production of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," directed by the in-demand Ivo van Hove, is coming to Los Angeles, following recent runs in London and Broadwa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMA millionaire many times over who pulled himself up from modest means, Sebastian Paul Musco has simple advice for those want to get ahead in life: Work hard. As recounted during a recent int…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37AMDuring his tour of duty as a gunner in Iraq, former Marine Sgt. Christian Ellis experienced his share of trauma — the battles, the killings, an assault that left him with a spinal injury. …
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