Thursday, May 23, 2013
The "Little Miss Sunshine" minibus is fueling up to head cross-country again, this time from the West Coast to New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
When soprano Natalie Dessay showed up for rehearsals for the 2011 production of "La Traviata" at the annual Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, she encountered a rather unwelcome presence --…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, May 20, 2013
William Shakespeare is believed to have written 154 sonnets during his life. Carrying around the complete volume has never been physically burdensome since each poem is a mere 14 lines. But …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMLike the Oscars, the Tony Awards are preceded each year by a bevy of award shows that render the main event something of a foregone conclusion.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:35AMThursday, May 16, 2013
Annette Bening will return to the Geffen Playhouse next season in a new production consisting of monologues by the American dramatist Ruth Draper. The company said the new production, which …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:35AMThe last several months have been wildly up and down for David Mamet. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright saw his new play "The Anarchist" flop on Broadway, while a revival of his "Glengar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York has tapped a prominent producer from the world of commercial Broadway to serve as its next president. Jed Bernstein, whose credits include …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:18PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Attendance at touring Broadway shows nationwide dropped for the second straight season, according to a newly released report from the Broadway League. The report said that 12.7 million peopl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:56PMThursday, May 9, 2013
The plug has been officially pulled on a controversial new German production of Wagner's "Tannhauser" that used Nazi costumes and other imagery from the Third Reich.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Herbert Blau, a renowned and influential theater director who helped to shape the California Institute of the Arts during its early years, has died at 87. He died at his home in Seattle on F…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:46PMMonday, May 6, 2013
Helen Mirren reverted to Jane Tennison mode on Saturday when she cracked down on noisy street drummers who disrupted a performance of her West End play "The Audience."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:23PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Los Angeles Opera is receiving $4.3 million in new gifts for its young-artists program. The money is coming from the Colburn Foundation and Eugene and Marilyn Stein, the company announced T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:01PMThere's no need to stop the presses for this bit of Broadway foregone conclusion.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:29PM"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," a new stage biography of the American singer-songwriter, will have an out-of-town tryout in San Francisco in September before making its scheduled Broad…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
As the classical-music world continues to struggle with graying and shrinking audiences, companies are experimenting with ways to attract new crowds. On Tuesday, 13 opera companies across th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMTwo Los Angeles-based artists -- jazz musician Billy Childs and theater director John Malpede -- are among the 20 recipients of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards for 2013.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Despite a federal budget crunch that has resulted in a sequester, the National Endowment for the Arts announced this week it has awarded $26.3 million in new grants to cultural organizations…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMDaniel Day-Lewis will soon have a new role to obsessively inhabit -- recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Juilliard School in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMMonday, April 22, 2013
There have been a number of stage plays devoted to the lives of visual artists -- Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko have all received the grand theatrical treatment. But Chinese …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:12AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Riding the wave of strong ticket sales, Tom Hanks has added 16 performances to his Broadway run in the Nora Ephron play "Lucky Guy." The play had been scheduled to close its limited engageme…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMThe 26-year-old opened the small-stage production of 'Slipping' in L.A. while filming a pilot in Virginia, and now he's off (early) to rehearse a play in London.Convincing a rising Broadway …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PMMonday, April 15, 2013
In the wake of largely negative reviews and falling box-office receipts, the current Broadway production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," starring "Game of Thrones" actress Emilia Clarke, will c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:50PMComposer Caroline Shaw has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music for her a cappella composition "Partita for 8 Voices."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:18PM"Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar's play about a corporate lawyer who has hidden his Pakistani Muslim heritage, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The two finalists were "4000" by Amy Herzog…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:28PMThursday, April 11, 2013
The new 2013-14 season of Dance at the Music Center will feature works by choreographers Matthew Bourne, Ethan Stiefel and Alexei Ratmansky. The season, which the Music Center announced this…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThe death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. "Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:28AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
The couple finished 'Assisted Living,' at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, after beginning it almost 30 years ago. Hurricane Sandy provided the final push.As a writer behind the musical "Wicked," W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:56PMDirector Julie Taymor has reached a settlement in her epic legal battle with the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark." In a joint statement released Wednesday, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:32PMThe Ford Theatres in Hollywood is featuring a new performance series named after county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky as part of its new 2013 summer season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AMCellist Yo-Yo Ma was in Washington this week to press for an increase in arts funding from the federal government. The musician was joined by former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum, and th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:18AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Audiences who attended Sunday's performance of "Tribes," Nina Raine's play currently running at the Mark Taper Forum, were able to witness a rare bit of understudy musical chairs.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:22PM 
