Saturday, April 5, 2014
San 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 09:00AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
'Henry V' director and narrator Alex Fernandez, a.k.a. Guillermo Cienfuegos, talks about managing dual artistic identities in theater and on TV.Shakespeare's "Henry V" begins with a narrator…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
"Heathers" has been resurrected -- shoulder pads, big bangs et al. -- as a cheeky stage musical. As Veronica Sawyer, the Winona Ryder character, might ask, what's the damage?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:14PMSan Diego Opera has postponed its closure by two weeks in order to give its board of directors time to seek out new funding from the city and other donors. The postponement comes in the wake…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Members of the New York Philharmonic will be making regular summer sojourns to the Santa Barbara area beginning this year as part of a new partnership with the Music Academy of the West. Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMLong before "Frozen" and John Travolta made her famous, Idina Menzel was a certifiable Broadway star with enough box-office clout to open a show. On Sunday, the Tony Award-winning actress, w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:01PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch will return to the London stage next year to play the mopey prince of Denmark in a new production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," which will run at the Barbican theater. The …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:26PMMonday, March 24, 2014
When part of the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre in London collapsed in December during an evening performance, the falling debris caused a number of injuries but no fatalities. On Monday, the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:07PMFriday, March 21, 2014
"The Phantom of the Opera" has been running on Broadway for more than 25 years. This week, the musical announced a first: a black actor has been cast in the title role in the New York produc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMWith the opening on Thursday of "Aladdin" at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York, Disney marks its 20th anniversary on Broadway. Whether that's a cause for celebration or consternation dep…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:34PMThursday, March 20, 2014
The departure reflects the increasing challenge of funding arts programs.The San Diego Opera shocked many in the arts world by announcing it will cease operations at the end of the current s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMA new Los Angeles production of the Phillip Hayes Dean play "Paul Robeson," starring Keith David, will resume performances Friday, the Ebony Repertory Theatre announced.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:06PMWednesday, March 19, 2014
It will be curtains for the venerated San Diego Opera.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:42PMA theater initiative aimed at encouraging people with autism to attend live performances is targeting younger children with a new offering involving a Disney Live! show at Madison Square Gar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:18PMThey are both outspoken artist-activists who have gotten into trouble with the law in their respective countries.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:03PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Roman Polanski will direct the stage musical version of his 1967 movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers" in a production that is scheduled to open in October in Paris.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle handed out its annual awards at a ceremony Monday evening held at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. As is customary with the group, each category featured m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:29AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Janis Joplin — the musical, that is — lives on, thanks to Live Nation.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMFor years, New York's American Ballet Theatre has been a regular presence at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, bringing premieres and touring productions to audiences in C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:14AMFriday, March 14, 2014
The late-career comeback of Sylvester Stallone took a detour to Broadway this week with the opening of his "Rocky" at the Winter Garden Theatre. The new show, which Stallone co-wrote and pro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:15PMThursday, March 13, 2014
Landmark Hayworth Theatre near MacArthur Park is bought by TV creator Jenji Kohan ('Orange Is the New Black,' 'Weeds') for $4 million.The historic Hayworth Theatre, a Spanish colonial-style …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Blythe Danner will return to Broadway in the new Donald Margulies play "The Country House," which is scheduled to open Oct. 2 in a production by the Manhattan Theater Club. But before bowing…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Riding a wave of publicity following her appearance at last week's Oscars ceremony, where her mispronounced name instantly became an Internet meme, Idina Menzel saw robust business at her ne…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:53AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Theater is a superstitious profession, especially when it comes to failure. On Broadway, the Foxwoods Theatre, which served as home for the troubled musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:14PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Coming off her acclaimed performance as the ornery P.L. Travers in "Saving Mr. Banks," Emma Thompson has brought her considerable comic energy to Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd," w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:03PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Adele Dazeem -- the John Travolta-anointed alter ego of Broadway star Idina Menzel -- received a special tribute at a recent performance of "The Book of Mormon" at the Pantages Theatre in Ho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:17PMAdele Dazeem was a big hit at the Academy Awards when she sang "Let It Go" from the Oscar-winning Disney animated movie "Frozen." And now the exotically named actress will be headlining a Br…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMMonday, March 3, 2014
John Travolta mangled her name when he introduced her at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday -- "Adele Dazeem" -- but Idina Menzel nevertheless managed to perform a rousing rendition of th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMFriday, February 28, 2014
The coming week looks like it will be an extremely busy one for actress Idina Menzel.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:14PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Audra McDonald, who has won five Tony Awards, will return to Broadway this spring to play Billie Holiday in a production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," a musical that features songs…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:21PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
"Big Fish," the elaborate stage musical based on the 2003 Tim Burton movie, flopped on Broadway last year, running for fewer than four months before closing at the Neil Simon Theatre in New …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:18PM 
