Friday, October 10, 2014
Marking their second Broadway collaboration since starring together more than a decade ago in "The Producers," Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick opened on Thursday in a revival of Terrence M…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
The title character of Georges Bizet's "Carmen" is a lusty gypsy girl who works in a cigarette factory in 19th century Spain. Her occupation is proving to be troublesome in 21st century Aust…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Marian Seldes, the venerated stage actress who died Monday at 86, was a singular theatrical presence whose most notable performances were in plays by Edward Albee.Â
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:43PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the stage play based on the popular 2003 novel by Mark Haddon, opened on Broadway on Sunday in an imported production from London's Natio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
Anna D. Shapiro, the Tony Award-winning director of "August: Osage County," has been named the new artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, the company announced Thursday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
The musical "Doctor Zhivago," based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, tells a quintessentially Russian tale of romance and loss set against the upheaval of the early 20th century.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:17PM[SHARE]Musicals and murderers may not seem like a natural fit, but a number of them have managed to find their audiences. "Sweeney Todd" and "Assassins," both by Stephen Sondheim, are considered cl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Following months of speculation, Harvey Weinstein is set to officially open his long-gestating musical "Finding Neverland" on Broadway in April.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:18PM[SHARE]In 1979, the Mark Taper Forum made a last-minute change to its schedule, adding the new drama "Children of a Lesser God" by Mark Medoff when another title became unavailable due to a rights …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
"Waterfall," a new musical from writer Richard Maltby Jr. and Oscar-winning composer David Shire, will have its U.S. premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse in June before transferring to Seat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM[SHARE]The box-office success of "Aladdin" on Broadway has had Broadway watchers wondering where the Disney musical will pop up next on the international map.Â
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:35AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
The recent stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" will be coming to Broadway next year, where they will run in repertory for a combined 5 1/2 hours…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
Early preview performances of a play aren't typically covered by reporters and critics, who are usually polite enough, or at least bound by journalistic ethics, to wait until a production is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
A group of theater artists in Los Angeles is calling for major changes in the city's stage industry, saying that companies are relying on outdated modes of doing business and that union rule…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:52PM[SHARE]The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has canceled its opening night celebration as well as performances through Nov. 8 as a labor dispute with its musicians drags on with no end in sight. The comp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Violent, blood-soaked and filled with nudity, Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of "Macbeth" was intended to be a cinematic jolt -- a raw, realistic portrayal of medieval power plays that w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PM[SHARE]The Metropolitan Opera rolled out the red carpet on Monday for a contingent of celebrity guests attending the company's opening night festivities. But the media spotlight was dominated inste…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
For an actress well into her golden years, landing the role of a lifetime is a rare achievement. To play that role three times in close succession is something akin to seeing the show-busine…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
In a dark trailer filled with monitors and blinking lights, a crew of nearly 20 technicians has its attention fixed on a performance of Verdi's "La Traviata" unfolding on eight separate scre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Following in the footsteps of Britain's National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Stratford Festival in Canada is launching a new series of HD telecasts of its Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
With their abrasive characters and often profane language, the plays of Stephen Adley Guirgis aren't crowdpleasers in the conventional sense. The New York playwright specializes in chronicli…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20PM[SHARE]Angela Lansbury will reprise her 2009 Tony Award-winning role as Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's comedy "Blithe Spirit" in a North American tour that will begin in Los Angeles at the Ahman…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
Throughout his political career, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has been a notable advocate for arts organizations, especially local classical-music groups both large and s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
The role of Carrie Watts in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" represents an artistic summit for an actress of a certain age " as well as a potential awards magnet.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM[SHARE]"The Magic Flute" has received numerous modern and nontraditional interpretations over the years, but few have been as radical as the staging by South Africa's Isango Ensemble, which has giv…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM[SHARE]The recent Broadway revival of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" starring James Franco received mixed to negative reviews from critics but nonetheless proved to be a box-office success, rec…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
The streets of downtown Los Angeles will be alive with the sound of music next year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27PM[SHARE]The music of "The Simpsons" will be in the spotlight starting Friday when the long-running Fox animated series takes over the Hollywood Bowl for a live concert extravaganza featuring songs p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Having graduated from "High School Musical" and embarked on a wild detour in "Spring Breakers," Vanessa Hudgens will next take on the refinement of turn-of-the-century French society in "Gig…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PM[SHARE]NBC has bulked up the Broadway credentials of its upcoming live broadcast of "Peter Pan."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:20PM[SHARE]For her American fans, Gillian Anderson is most closely associated with her role as Agent Dana Scully from the Fox science fiction series "The X-Files," but in England, where the actress has…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE] 
