Monday, July 14, 2014
Lorin Maazel, who died Sunday at 84, was a maestro of the old school -- formidable, intimidating, sometimes autocratic. He was an eminence grise before he went gray and an intellectual who b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:53PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Following in the footsteps of Broadway's "Motown: The Musical," the Tony Award-nominated jukebox production that opened in New York last year, Concord Music Group is looking to launch a musi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:03PMTuesday, July 8, 2014
In John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," an urbane New York society lady is called out for having once dismissed the musical "Cats" as being an "all-time low in a lifetime of theatergoin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:42PMThe much-anticipated Broadway return of Bradley Cooper in a revival of "The Elephant Man" has been delayed by a few weeks, with the start of performances pushed back to Nov. 7 from a previ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThe movie "Black Orpheus," which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 and an Academy Award for foreign-language film, will become a Broadway musical under the creative guid…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, July 7, 2014
As San Diego Opera continues to regroup and work toward mounting its planned 2015 season, scheduled to begin in January, the troubled company has put cost-cutting measures in place that are …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMThursday, July 3, 2014
A thinly veiled satire of the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspaper empire, "Great Britain" is a play with a surfeit of topical relevance. The new stage dram…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
The five surviving members of Monty Python reunited on Tuesday at the O2 Arena in London for a new show that includes comedy sketches, songs and other forms of the troupe's trademark silly h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:09PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Before hitting it big with "Seinfeld," Jason Alexander was a working theater actor whose Broadway credits included a lead role in Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound." Alexander played Stanley, one…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMThe highly touted Monty Python reunion show that kicks off performances this week in London will also be seen in cinemas around the world, the comedy troupe's members announced.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:09PMMonday, June 30, 2014
Ken Watanabe will follow in the considerable footsteps of Yul Brynner when he takes on the role of the King of Siam in the upcoming Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMFriday, June 27, 2014
Mary Rodgers could be considered theater royalty solely by virtue of her birthright. As the daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, she had a front-row seat to the creation of some of the most…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:09PMAmber Tamblyn -- the former "Joan of Arcadia" star who is playing the long-lost lesbian offspring of Charlie Sheen's dead character on "Two and a Half Men" -- is set to spew profanity nightl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Sarah Hyland of ABC's "Modern Family" is joining the ensemble cast of the musical "Hair" at the Hollywood Bowl, organizers announced on Thursday. The production, which runs for just three pe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:34PMNothing teaches an actor punctuality and discipline like having to appear eight times a week in a play. For Lindsay Lohan, whose bad-girl reputation stemmed partly from showing up tardy for …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:28PMThe West End revival of David Hare's "Skylight" will be broadcast to cinemas around the world. The production stars Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:29PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Eli Wallach, who died on Tuesday at the age of 98, was an actor whose working-class demeanor often led to typecasting and character parts on the big screen. Onstage, where he began his caree…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
With all things Clinton back in the news, a recent musical comedy about the former president will be heading to New York next month as part of the annual New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:38PMMonday, June 23, 2014
Joey Luft, son of Judy Garland, will headline a show about his mother at this year's Summer at the Pasadena Playhouse, the company's annual performing arts offerings. The lineup also include…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:09PMThe Metropolitan Opera's decision last week to cancel its planned international cinematic broadcast of John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" has prompted harsh criticism from groups worldwi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PMFriday, June 20, 2014
"Holler if Ya Hear Me," known to many on Broadway simply as the Tupac Shakur musical, officially opened in New York at the Palace Theatre on Thursday as one of the first shows of the new Bro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:07PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Stephen Sondheim has publicly revealed some of the plot changes that have been made in the movie version of his musical "Into the Woods," which Disney will release in December. Few people wo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:59PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
A musical version of the 1992 movie "Honeymoon in Vegas" will officially open on Broadway in January, with a cast that includes Tony Danza, best known for TV's "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss?" a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMRupert Grint, who played aspiring wizard Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" movies, will be following his on-screen pal Daniel Radcliffe to Broadway in a revival of the Terrence McNally drama…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Composer John Adams has decried the Metropolitan Opera's decision to cancel a cinematic broadcast of his opera "The Death of Klinghoffer," saying that it goes against artistic freedom of exp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:34PMOfficials at the Metropolitan Opera in New York have canceled the company's live cinema broadcast of its upcoming production of John Adams' controversial "The Death of Klinghoffer," citing a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:47PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Jake Gyllenhaal will follow in his older sister Maggie's footsteps when he makes his Broadway debut later this season in the play "Constellations," which is scheduled begin preview performan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:57PMJames Franco is currently starring in the Broadway production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" through late July, but the ubiquitous celebrity has already lined up his next theater proj…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMFriday, June 13, 2014
A new Hedwig has been anointed and he/she is a Mormon -- a Broadway "Mormon," that is.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:27PMThursday, June 12, 2014
Organizers of the annual Tony Awards will be saving a bit of money on medallions in future ceremonies. Organizers said Wednesday they are dropping two categories — sound design of a play a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:46PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
A reliable staple of entertainment award shows, the "In Memoriam" montage of notable personalities who died in the past year was conspicuously absent from the Tony Awards ceremony Sunday. Or…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PM 
