Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Bryan Cranston, the Emmy-winning star of AMC's "Breaking Bad," will costar with Annette Bening in "It's a Wonderful Life" at the Geffen Playhouse on Dec. 10.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
L.A. Dance Project, founded and directed by Benjamin Millepied, will be a new program at the Music Center. Hugh Jackman continues to bring in big money at the box office for his latest Broad…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:14AMMonday, November 21, 2011
The beleaguered profession of criticism has received another stake through the heart courtesy of Stephen Sondheim. "It takes a long time to learn not to pay attention to critics, or at least…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:04PMFriday, November 18, 2011
On Thursday, police in downtown L.A. swooped in to arrest dozens of protesters from the Occupy L.A. movement. Among those seized and hauled off to jail was Nancy Linehan Charles, a veteran t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:08PMKim Cattrall has returned to the New York stage after many years in a new revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives." The production originated in London last year before traveling to Toronto …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:26PMJim Parsons, who stars in TV's "The Big Bang Theory," is in talks for a Broadway revival of "Harvey." "Finding Neverland," the new musical that was canceled at the La Jolla Playhouse, will h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMThursday, November 17, 2011
Kirsten Dunst will join Mark Ruffalo and Billy Crudup in a screen adaptation of Adam Rapp's Pulitzer finalist play "Red Light Winter." The Intiman Theatre in Seattle is launching a $1 millio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:23AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
The Old Globe's 2012 summer season will feature the West coast debut of "Divine Rivalry," Michael Kramer's new historical drama about Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as the San …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PML.A. Theatre Works will embark on a two-week tour of China, performing "Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers" by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons. The play dramatizes the Washington…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:19PMStreet artists are suing AEG in a dispute over lost artwork in a penthouse in downtown L.A. The musical "Leap of Faith" appears headed to Broadway in the fall of 2012, with a substantially r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Artist Ai Weiwei says thousands of supporters have donated more than $800,000 to help him pay off a tax bill and fine imposed by the Chinese government. An investor in Broadway's "Spider-Man…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMFriday, November 4, 2011
Producers in New York have pulled the plug on the revival of "Funny Girl" that was to open at the Ahmanson Theatre in early 2012 before transferring to Broadway in April. The J. Paul Getty T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMThursday, November 3, 2011
The highly anticipated revival of "Funny Girl" that was set to open in early 2012 at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. before transferring to Broadway in April has been put on indefinite hold, or…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:37PMJulie Taymor, who was booted from the director's chair of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" before the show opened on Broadway in June, will be eligible for consideration in the best director …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:03PMLong Beach Opera will launch a new series of programs thanks to a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:29PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Alan Alda was at the Geffen Playhouse on Tuesday evening for the first preview performance of his new play "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie." After the performance, Alda gave a speech …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:46PMGil Cates, the founder and producing director of the Geffen Playhouse, died on Monday at age 77. Protestors at Occupy LA have created art on two large wooden fences that the city has built t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Gil Cates, who died Monday at the age of 77, wore many hats during his long career in Hollywood. Cates served as the head producer of the Academy Awards telecast for a record 14 times. He di…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:21PMHugh Jackman is back on Broadway this fall in a new concert show that is instructively titled "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway." For his first week in preview performances, the star racked up…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, October 31, 2011
It seems a bit behind the curve if you ask us, but "The Simpsons" on Fox finally got around to parodying Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Sunday's episode. The parody was part o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:58PMActress Jan Maxwell, currently in the Broadway revival of "Follies," was hit by a vehicle Saturday while crossing the street, but is expected to make a quick recovery. Stephen Sondheim cance…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:35AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Jessica Bendinger, the screenwriter of the 2000 cheerleading movie "Bring It On," has reached a settlement in her legal dispute with the musical stage version of the movie that will begin a …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:43PMVideo of a live performance from "Bring It On: The Musical," which begins performances at the Ahmanson Theatre on Sunday, is posted on the Internet. The L.A. stop is the first on a national …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:15PMGerman art forgers who fooled a number of collectors, including actor Steve Martin, have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in jail. A previously unknown painting by Velazquez meets the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:40AMThursday, October 27, 2011
"Anonymous," the new movie from disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich, revives the age-old Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship arguing that Edward de Vere was in fact the man behind…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took satirical aim at Broadway on Wednesday's episode in the way that they know best -- with ample profanity and wall-to-wall sex jokes. They…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:35AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Starting Wednesday, the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre will host a one-week run of the play "Windows," a one-man biographical play in which Gates is played by German actor Clemens Schick. The play…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:55PMFilmmaker Joss Whedon has secretly made a movie adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." A group of international archaeologists is among the latest to denounce the planned Muse…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:31AMMonday, October 24, 2011
"South Park" is heading to Broadway this week, with a stop at the hit musical "Wicked." The episode, titled "Broadway Bro Down," airs on Wednesday, and features a musically themed plot, orga…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:17PMFriday, October 21, 2011
"Relatively Speaking" -- the new Broadway omnibus production featuring three short plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May -- boasts more A-list writing talent per square foot than a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Annette Bening is returning to the Geffen Playhouse -- but instead of starring in a regular season production, the four-time Oscar nominee will appear in a one-day-only production of Joe Lan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:42PM 
