Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The intersecting fan demographic for baseball and musical theater isn't large, but it is apparently substantial enough to warrant a new stage musical based on the popular 1988 movie "Bull Du…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:47PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Leighton Meester, who starred in the popular CW series "Gossip Girl," will play a flirtatious farm wife who arouses the passions of migrant workers in the upcoming Broadway production of Joh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:07PMDon't speak: The highly coveted role of Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen's musical adaptation of his 1993 movie "Bullets over Broadway" has been cast.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
The Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused of organizing an acid attack on the company's artistic director in January has been found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison. The decision, handed …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:44AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Hard as it is to believe that an opera singer can make gossip headlines, Maria Callas was, in her prime, a media phenomenon whose personal life was fodder for journalists and chroniclers of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:16PMFriday, November 29, 2013
Prosecutors in the case of a Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused of masterminding an acid attack on the company's artistic director want the defendant to serve nine years in a labor camp. A verdic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:21PMArtist John Baldessari has had a long association with the California Institute of the Arts, where he was a professor of art for nearly two decades. On Friday, the school announced that it…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
'Parfumerie' inspired three films, including 'You've Got Mail,' and the Broadway musical 'She Loves Me.' It is being staged at the Wallis Annenberg Center."Parfumerie," the 1936 Hungarian pl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Following weeks of rumors, James Franco has been confirmed to star in an upcoming production of "Of Mice and Men" on Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart -- better known as Magneto and Prof. Charles Xavier, respectively, to "X-Men" fans -- are currently taking a breather from the superhero franchise and starri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:49PMMonty Python's big reunion has sold out in less than a minute, leading the British comedy troupe to add four performances to its July engagement at the O2 Arena in London.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:37AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Theater leaders in Southern California will convene for a second panel on racial diversity that will serve as a sequel of sorts to last year's discussion hosted by East West Players in downt…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:27PMThursday, November 21, 2013
T.S. Eliot never lived to see the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical "Cats," based on Eliot's collection of poems "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." But Eliot's second wife and widow, Val…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:47AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Diane Disney Miller, who died on Tuesday at 79, was famous for being the elder daughter of Walt Disney. In Los Angeles, she was also known as a formidable cultural presence who played a cruc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:21AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
They are all officially senior citizens -- and so are many of their fans -- but that isn't stopping the surviving members of Monty Python from planning a reunion that is expected to take the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PMOn paper, at least, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" had the makings of a sure-fire Broadway hit. It boasted a rock score by U2's Bono and the Edge. It had Julie Taymor, the visionary directo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:31AMMonday, November 18, 2013
Bloomberg, the New York-based financial news giant, is shutting down its Muse brand of cultural journalism and has laid off its theater critic. The shake-up was part of a company-wide reorga…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the period musical comedy starring Jefferson Mays in multiple roles, opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York on Sunday, following engagements …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:52PMHelen Mirren keeps winning awards for playing Queen Elizabeth II.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:48PMFriday, November 15, 2013
An American dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow has quit the renowned institution, claiming that she would have had to pay a bribe in order to secure a solo role. Joy Womack, who hails fr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:39PMThursday, November 14, 2013
David Hyde Pierce played one of the title characters in Christopher Durang's acclaimed play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" when it debuted in 2012. The "Frasier" actor will return to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:54PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
"Newsies," the Disney musical that opened on Broadway in 2012, will launch a national tour that will come to Los Angeles in 2015, organizers said Wednesday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:58PMMonday, November 11, 2013
They're going to have to find a lot of words that rhyme with "inconceivable."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:12PMLike a beached marine animal, "Big Fish" has flopped on Broadway. The musical, which is based on the 2003 Tim Burton movie of the same name, is set to close at the Neil Simon Theatre in New …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:37PMThursday, November 7, 2013
L.A. Opera music director James Conlon recovers from surgery even as he prepares for Verdi's 'Falstaff' in L.A. and handled Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at New York's Metropolitan O…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMMonday, November 4, 2013
The Ovation Awards, L.A.'s biggest theater honors, were handed out Sunday at a ceremony at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:52AMFriday, November 1, 2013
Ewan McGregor will make his Broadway debut next year in a revival production of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:32AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
Proving that a big-budget musical can overcome initial bad reviews to become a mainstay on Broadway, "Wicked" is celebrating its 10th anniversary in New York on Wednesday, with special appea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:25PMCirque du Soleil said it will appeal the six citations named by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the June death of an aerialist during a performance of its "Ka" show i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:39AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Emmanuelle Riva, who received a best actress Oscar nomination earlier this year for her role as an ailing octogenarian in Michael Haneke's "Amour," is set to return to the stage for the firs…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMMonday, October 28, 2013
With seats scarce and ticket prices through the roof, "Betrayal" is one of the most coveted shows on Broadway. The production features real-life couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz enacting…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:16AM 
