Friday, September 20, 2013
"Romeo and Juliet," Shakesepeare's most enduring tragic love story, has found its way back to Broadway after nearly three decades. Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad are this year's star-cross…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PMThursday, September 19, 2013
The late Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers will rise again in Los Angeles when Bette Midler reprises her recent Broadway starring role in "I'll Eat You Last" at the Geffen Playhouse. The pr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Fans of "Spider-Man" heaved a collective sigh of relief on Sunday when they learned that Ben Affleck hasn't been cast in the role of the high-flying masked superhero.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Gérard Mortier has been replaced as the artistic director of the Teatro Real opera company in Madrid, the organization announced on Wednesday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:54PM"Stomp" -- the enduringly popular physical-theater and percussion show that has been running in various forms since debuting in Britain in 1991 -- is set to return to the Los Angeles area in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMMonday, September 9, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
The composer's bouncing baby boy inspires a piece being presented at the Hollywood Bowl. Then there's that last name, but no, he's not related.Given his last name and the fact that he's a Lo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, September 5, 2013
Call it a revival of a revival of a classic musical. Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall will team up again to bring back their popular 1998 Roundabout Theatre Company production of "Cabaret" for an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:51PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Actor David Krumholtz has left the upcoming revival of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" at the Ahmanson Theatre. The production, starring Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch, is scheduled to begin …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:02PMRenée Fleming will return to Los Angeles Opera later this season in a production of André Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire," which is scheduled to run for three performances at the Dorot…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:30PMAt the center of "Passion," the new psychosexual thriller from master manipulator Brian De Palma, is a split-screen sequence featuring a classic work of modern choreography alongside a highl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThe acclaimed London revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" from the Menier Chocolate Factory will be broadcast to cinemas in the U.S. next month. The musical production will …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMThursday, August 29, 2013
"Heathers" -- the 1989 Winona Ryder comedy that immortalized such lines as "what is your damage, Heather?" and "I love my dead gay son!" -- is getting the musical-stage treatment in a produc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:49PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
Geoffrey Rush will reprise his role in the musical "The Drowsy Chaperone" for the big screen, according to news reports in Canada. The Oscar-winning actor, who has appeared in the hit stage …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMThe director of the 2001 French movie "Amélie" has expressed his displeasure over the planned adaptation of his movie for the musical theater, although he acknowledged that he gave his appr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:58AMMonday, August 26, 2013
Julie Harris, who died Saturday at 87, was often described as a Broadway legend, having received a total of six Tony Awards during her career. But like many stage actresses of her generation…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:58AMFriday, August 23, 2013
"Amélie," the whimsical 2001 French film starring Audrey Tautou, will become a stage musical with songs by composer Dan Messé, who has revealed the news on the Facebook page of his band, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:30PMThursday, August 22, 2013
The new season at L.A. Theatre Works is scheduled to feature a roster of top-notch theater names, including Neil LaBute, Tracy Letts and David Auburn. In addition, actors Jesse Tyler Ferguso…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMThe play is more than 400 years old and we all know how it ends, but suddenly William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is back in vogue.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
The Beatles tribute musical "Let It Be" has done solid business on London's West End since opening last fall. But the same jukebox production has failed to entice audiences in New York, lead…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:18AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Christopher Plummer will bring his one-man show "A Word or Two" to Los Angeles for a brief engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre next year. Center Theatre Group announced on Tuesday that Plumme…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, August 15, 2013
At the moment, it's still just a construction site located at the tony intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" is getting a total musical makeover in the Public Theater's new staging at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, August 12, 2013
They lined up early on Monday morning with their head shots and résumés in hand, all hoping to land a part in the mega-musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:35PMThursday, August 8, 2013
The Metropolitan Opera has sent a statement in response to an online petition criticizing the New York company for its upcoming production of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:22PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Plácido Domingo has returned to the stage for the first time since he was hospitalized in July after suffering a pulmonary embolism. The 72-year-old tenor performed at the Salzburg Festival…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMFriday, August 2, 2013
The Cleveland Plain Dealer laid off one-third of its newsroom staff on Wednesday, and among those to go was Donald Rosenberg, the newspaper's former senior music critic who was reassigned fr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, August 1, 2013
"The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" -- the stage sequel to the "The Laramie Project" -- will have its Los Angeles debut run in September at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood. T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMInner-City Arts, a skid row center that provides free arts education to underprivileged youth, has undergone an abrupt change in leadership, with President and Chief Executive Joseph Collins…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMMonday, July 29, 2013
The Pasadena Playhouse ended its fiscal year 2011 in the red, but company leaders are maintaining a sunny outlook for 2012, citing strong box office results for two recent shows -- "Sleeples…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:34PM 
