Wednesday, 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 04:18PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
The latest musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber has posted a closing notice on London's West End just two months after opening.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:29PMMonday, February 24, 2014
New dramas by award-winning New York playwrights Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck and Rajiv Joseph will be part of the 2014 Pacific Playwrights Festival, scheduled for April 25 to 27 at South Coast…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:13PMOperalia, the annual opera competition organized by Plácido Domingo, will take place in Los Angeles this year, marking the event's first return to the L.A. area since 2004.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
The Sunday Conversation: Robert Lopez's musical prowess proves prolific and highly eclectic.For someone who made his name with ribald musical comedies like "The Book of Mormon" and "Avenue Q…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMThe curtain closes on a number of stages along Theatre Row, a mile-long stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard, as rising rents and crime worries send troupes elsewhere. For more than two decades…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
The Los Angeles premiere engagement of Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has been extended by one week at the Mark Taper Forum. The productio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMSaturday, February 15, 2014
The scene in which Billy Budd (Liam Bonner) is hanged has meant careful planning to avoid injury. The production is the high point of L.A. Opera's year-long tribute to composer Benjamin Brit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, February 13, 2014
The future head of the National Endowment for the Arts will likely face many of the same funding challenges that have beset the organization for years, according to two former chairs of the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:06PMCicely Tyson will bring her recent Tony Award-winning performance in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" to Los Angeles as part of the Ahmanson Theatre's 2014-15 season, the Center Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:12PMIf you missed Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in their Broadway outing last year in "Romeo and Juliet," and you won't be able to catch the upcoming, timed-for-Valentine's-Day broadcasts of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:15AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Assailed as anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian when it premiered in 1991, John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" has long been an artistic hot potato that many major opera companies have found…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PMTuesday, February 11, 2014
Hugh Jackman will host the 2014 Tony Awards ceremony on June 8, marking the actor's fourth time hosting Broadway's biggest awards night, organizers announced Tuesday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:16PMMaggie Gyllenhaal will play the role originated by Glenn Close on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," which is set to open Oct. 30 in a production by the Roundabout Theatre in New …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:40PMPlácido Domingo, whose early international singing career took off after appearing with the New York City Opera, will appear at a concert this month to commemorate that company, which decla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:10AMThursday, February 6, 2014
"Matilda the Musical," the hit family-friendly show based on the Roald Dahl book, will launch a national tour at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 2015, organizers announced Thursday. T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMWednesday, February 5, 2014
One of the defining collaborations of Philip Seymour Hoffman's career was his long association with New York's Labyrinth Theater Company, which he helped to found and where he served as an a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
In 1989, actor Chazz Palminteri debuted his one-man show "A Bronx Tale" at a small theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. The modest play would later catch the attention of Robert De…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMTiming is everything in showbiz. And so it is with public controversies too.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:22PMMonday, February 3, 2014
The Seattle Seahawks took home the Super Bowl championship on Sunday, roundly beating the Denver Broncos, 43-8. Another big winner for the evening was operatic soprano Renée Fleming, whose …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:01PMSunday, February 2, 2014
Unlike many A-list Hollywood stars, Philip Seymour Hoffman never left theater behind. Stage acting and directing remained a cornerstone of Hoffman's career, which encompassed the lofty heigh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:55PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
Actor Steven Berkoff's exit amid apparent friction with director William Friedkin postpones the revival. Hold your RSVPs to the Geffen Playhouse's revival of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Pa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:17PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Steven Berkoff, the British stage and screen actor who was to have appeared in a revival of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Geffen Playhouse, said that he left the play after cla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMThursday, January 30, 2014
The upcoming revival of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Geffen Playhouse has been abruptly called off only two weeks before its official opening. Leaders at the Geffen said that …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27PMWednesday, January 29, 2014
When soprano Renée Fleming takes to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl, she will sing to music performed by the New Jersey Symphon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:38AMThe Canadian director is a force behind 'Totem,' a show about the evolution of the animal kingdom that features Cirque acrobatics and has settled in at Santa Monica. Cirque du Soleil is famo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its award nominations for 2013, and leading the pack are the recent revivals of the musicals "Dreamgirls" by the DOMA Theatre Co. and "The …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:40PMMonday, January 27, 2014
"Flesh and Bone," a new drama series set in the world of professional ballet, has landed at the cable network Starz, which has hired a real-life ballet dancer for the lead role. Sarah Hay, a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMSunday, January 26, 2014
The Broadway cast recording of "Kinky Boots" won the Grammy Award for musical theater album on Sunday. Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the songs for the musical, accepted the award, given out as par…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:48PMFriday, January 24, 2014
"Bakersfield Mist," the play by Stephen Sachs that was a recent sleeper hit at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, will be making the transatlantic journey to London's West End when it open…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PMIt has become something of a theater tradition to cast a good-looking young man in the role of John Merrick, the horribly deformed protagonist of "The Elephant Man." The role, which requires…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AM 
