Thursday, 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 07:19PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
New and recent works by director Robert Wilson, artist Matthew Barney and avant-garde musician John Zorn are among the highlights of the new 2014-15 season of the Center for the Art of Perfo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
For Daniel Radcliffe, the third time wasn't a charm at Tuesday's announcement of the Tony Award nominations.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:12PMWoody Allen received his first Tony Award nomination on Tuesday for writing the script for the stage musical version of his 1994 movie "Bullets over Broadway."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:05PMIt was a richly rewarding Tony Award morning for two regional theater companies, including one in Southern California.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:41AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Tim Robbins will take the Actors' Gang's production of " A Midsummer Night's Dream" to China, with performances in Beijing and Shanghai scheduled for June.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:52AMFriday, April 25, 2014
"Cabaret" is back on Broadway in a revival of a revival production — yes, that's right — that was first seen in 1998.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:26PMThursday, April 24, 2014
Artist Marina Abramovic and theater director Diane Paulus are among Time magazine's 100 most influential people for 2014. The annual list, which covers fields as diverse as arts, politics, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:11PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
William Shakespeare, whose 450th birthday is being celebrated around the world Wednesday, never seems to go out of vogue for movie directors eager to put their own spin on his classic texts.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:12PMMel Brooks will appear in a one-man autobiographical show at the Geffen Playhouse on Monday, "Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen." The show will have only one performance.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMMonday, April 21, 2014
Daniel Radcliffe returned to Broadway on Sunday with the official opening of Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Cort Theatre in New York. The drama is the third Broadway out…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:59PMFriday, April 18, 2014
San Diego Opera set a new deadline of May 19 to obtain new funding or close down after the resignation Thursday of 13 members of its board of directors, including President Karen Cohn.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:36PM"Jersey Boys," Clint Eastwood's big-screen adaptation of the Broadway jukebox musical, is scheduled to open June 20. On Friday, Warner Bros. released the trailer for the highly anticipated m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PMA new drama inspired by the life of author Patricia Highsmith and written by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith will be among the offerings of the Geffen Playhouse's 2014-15 season, w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:41AMThe president of San Diego Opera's board of directors resigned Thursday and walked out of an afternoon board meeting, deepening the uncertainty surrounding the troubled company.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Steve Martin will present the world premiere of his much buzzed about new musical "Bright Star" in September at the Old Globe in San Diego as part of the company's 2014-15 season, which was …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:35PMThe social-media buzz surrounding James Franco's Broadway debut on Wednesday in "Of Mice and Men" doesn't have to do so much with his performance or with the production, for that matter. The…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:28PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Phillip Hayes Dean, the theater actor, director and playwright whose stage biography of Paul Robeson is currently being performed in Los Angeles, has died at age 83.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PMSteven Soderbergh made his New York debut as a stage director on Tuesday with the official opening of "The Library," a school-shooting drama starring Chloe Grace Moretz, at the Public Theate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:44PMMonday, April 14, 2014
Annie Baker's "The Flick" -- a highly divisive drama that prompted an abundance of head-scratching and some audience walkouts during its off-Broadway run last year -- has won the 2014 Pulitz…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama took time Friday to attend the Broadway revival of "A Raisin in the Sun," starring Denzel Washington.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:10AMSunday, April 13, 2014
The play "Chimerica" and the Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" were the big winners Sunday at the Lawrence Olivier Awards in London. The annual awards — Britain's equivalent of the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:12PMFriday, April 11, 2014
San Diego Opera has enlisted the spin expertise of Mark Fabiani -- the former deputy mayor of Los Angeles and former special counsel to President Bill Clinton -- to handle the company's pu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:03PM"Bullets Over Broadway," the new musical by Woody Allen that he adapted from his own 1994 movie, opened Thursday at the St. James Theatre in New York amid lingering media speculation surroun…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PMThursday, April 10, 2014
Blair Underwood will be adding some star power to the Old Globe's annual summer lineup of plays by William Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Anne Hathaway has yet to make good on her oft-professed desire to perform in a Broadway musical. Her Oscar-winning turn as Fantine in the 2012 movie version of "Les Miserables" showed that s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:20PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Costume designer Jane Greenwood is the Susan Lucci of the Tony Awards — she has been nominated 16 times but has never won. This year, her five-decade losing streak will officially come…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Kristin Chenoweth, the pint-sized Broadway powerhouse, will be inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame this summer as the 43rd performer to receive the honor.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:02PMSan Diego Opera says 'Don Quixote' is its last production. Ticket holders share thoughts such as 'We feel defrauded and lied to.' A board member has put up $1 million to turn the tide.SAN DI…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Less than a week after it announced that it was postponing the deadline for its closure, San Diego Opera said it has received a $1-million gift from a board member that is intended to help t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30PMSan Diego Opera's leaders acknowledge a 'tough' road to keep the company open as calls for new leadership grow after abrupt closure vote.There's nothing opera buffs like better than a climac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM 
