Tuesday, 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 12:55PMAt Sunday's Tony Awards ceremony in New York, many of Broadway's biggest stars — and some of Hollywood's too — were on hand to tout the theater community's achievements from the …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 08:00AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Hugh Jackman, who returned this year as host of the Tony Awards, kept the "X-Men" references to a minimum and put Broadway front and center during Sunday's ceremony in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15AMSunday, June 8, 2014
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a macabre musical about a social climber who comically bumps off the members of an aristocratic family, took home the Tony for new musical on Sunday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10PM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," a macabre musical about a social climber who comically bumps off the members of an aristocratic family, took home the Tony for new musical on Sunday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10PM"All the Way," a nearly three-hour historical drama about the early months of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency, took home the Tony Award for new play on Sunday. The play, written by Robert S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50PMAudra McDonald took home her sixth Tony Award on Sunday, winning for lead actress in a play for her performance as singer Billie Holiday in the revival of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Gril…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:38PMBryan Cranston won the Tony Award for lead actor in a play on Sunday for his performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in the historical drama "All the Way" by Robert Schenkkan.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30PMWoody Allen's feelings about awards shows are well known. He wasn't present to pick up any of his four Academy Awards and skipped out of this year's Golden Globes ceremony, where he was th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:26PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
The Oscar-winning songwriters of the Disney animated movie "Frozen" will debut a new stage musical at the La Jolla Playhouse next season. "Up Here," with songs by husband-and-wife team Rober…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:19PMA production of David Mamet's 2009 play "Race" and a new version of Culture Clash's "Chavez Ravine" are among the highlights of the Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2014-15 season, which was announced…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:02PMMonday, June 2, 2014
Kristen Bell, the former star of the cult-hit TV series "Veronica Mars," will transport herself back to the summer of love in the Hollywood Bowl's production of the rock musical "Hair" that …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:21PMWhen the Broadway industry convenes on Sunday at Radio City Music Hall for the annual Tony Awards, theater artists in Los Angeles will be gathering in a separate ceremony of their own to ho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:22AMThursday, May 29, 2014
The blue-skinned Na'vi creatures of the 2009 movie "Avatar" will get the Cirque du Soleil treatment in a new live production that is being developed by James Cameron and the Montreal company…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:58PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Two violinists who said that their instruments were not allowed on a US Airways flight have taken their grievances to YouTube in a video showing them protesting on the airport tarmac. Their …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:16PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Despite the lack of any new "Book of Mormon"-sized runaway hits, Broadway saw an upswing in attendance and ticket revenue for the 2013-14 season, with the industry reporting $1.27 billion in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:35PMThursday, May 22, 2014
Kevin Spacey, who has led the Old Vic as artistic director since 2004, will hand over the reins of the company to veteran stage director Matthew Warchus starting in the fall of 2015, the Lon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMA return engagement of Shakespeare's Globe and recitals by Joyce DiDonato and Brian Stokes Mitchell are among the highlights of the Broad Stage's new season, which was announced on Thursday.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMThe opera world now has its own version of the Melissa McCarthy-Rex Reed brouhaha.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:54PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
The office of the California attorney general is launching an audit of San Diego Opera, the company said on Tuesday, a day after the company announced it has reversed its decision to close a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:24PMHaving recently completed one stage production in Los Angeles, Annette Bening has already set her next theatrical outing: a role in Shakespeare's "King Lear" that New York's Public Theater w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:18PMElsa's love of cold climates will serve her well when the hit animated move "Frozen" becomes a live touring show for Disney on Ice. Feld Entertainment, which produces live touring family sp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:17PMMonday, May 19, 2014
"Venus in Fur" by David Ives and "Zealot" by Theresa Rebeck will be among the new and recent stage works presented by Costa Mesa's South Coast Repertory in its upcoming season, which was ann…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:33PMSan Diego Opera has officially reversed its decision to shut down and has announced a scaled-back 2015 season that will consist of three main-stage productions, down from the slate of four p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:48PMThursday, May 15, 2014
Ian Campbell, the long-serving general and artistic director of San Diego Opera, has officially parted ways with the company following a contentious two months during which the decision to c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:35PMIn 1995, a rising young soprano named Renée Fleming sang her first opening night at the Metropolitan Opera in a production of Verdi's "Otello," with Plácido Domingo in the title role. On T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:26PMMonday, May 12, 2014
James Gray recalled attending a performance at Los Angeles Opera that would eventually inspire him to make his latest movie, "The Immigrant," which opens Friday and stars Marion Cotillard, J…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:14PMFriday, May 9, 2014
San Diego Opera said Friday that it has reached its crowd-funding goal of $1 million, 10 days ahead of the May 19 deadline. But the financially troubled opera company said it wasn't ready to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PMAs the publicity for the latest "X-Men" movie ramps into fifth gear, veteran Broadway producer Sonia Friedman took the opportunity to announce late Thursday that Hugh Jackman -- Wolverine hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:19PMThursday, May 8, 2014
They've probably never shared a stage together, and they are a strange match even by the odd-pairings standards of entertainment awards. Peter Sellars, the innovative Los Angeles-based direc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:19PM 
