Tuesday, 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 02:22PMMonday, April 8, 2013
For its 2013-14 season, the Broad Stage in Santa Monica will present appearances by actress Patti LuPone, opera singer Bryn Terfel, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Los Angeles da…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:35PMThursday, April 4, 2013
New York theater institutions don't come much feistier or more dynamic than Elaine Stritch. The tart-tongued, 88-year-old force of nature -- whose stage career includes memorable collaborati…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Choreographer Twyla Tharp, whose work spans ballet, modern dance, jazz and Broadway, is to receive a lifetime achievement honor during this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Tharp is scheduled t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Chaz Bono has starred in his own documentary ("Becoming Chaz"), appeared on reality TV (ABC's "Dancing With the Stars") and authored a book ("Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man"). H…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:34PMHelen Hayes won the first Tony Award for actress in a play in 1947, the inaugural year for Broadway's biggest honor. Her prize for her performance in "Happy Birthday" is currently being sold…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:16PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Richard Griffiths, the portly British actor who won acclaim for his stage performances in "The History Boys," "Equus" and many other productions, was one of the most beloved figures in the L…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:34PMThursday, March 28, 2013
A Catholic group is speaking out against a new Broadway play by Irish novelist Colm Toibin that offers an alternative interpretation of the life of the Virgin Mary. "The Testament of Mary," …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:11AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
The title sea vessel in Los Angeles Opera's production of "The Flying Dutchman" by Richard Wagner is starting to resemble a beleaguered Carnival Cruise ship thanks to a series of unfortunate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:48PMFriday, March 22, 2013
'Smokey Joe's Cafe,' 'Stoneface' and 'Above the Fold' are slated.The Pasadena Playhouse will present a revival of "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and a new play from former New York Times journalist Ber…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, March 21, 2013
"Breakfast at Tiffany's," the beloved novella by Truman Capote, has hit Broadway with a rising star in the role of Holly Golightly -- HBO's "Game of Thrones" actress Emilia Carke.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
The expected legal settlement between the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and director Julie Taymor has failed to materialize, leading a federal judge in Ne…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:26PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle named the winners of its annual awards on Monday for stage productions that opened last year. Sharing the honors for best production were the national to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45AMMonday, March 18, 2013
After two consecutive years at the Beacon Theatre on New York's Upper West Side, the Tony Awards ceremony will return to the more spacious Radio City Music Hall this year.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:02PMSunday, March 17, 2013
Actor Matthew Arkin is not obese, but he effectively portrays a 600-pound man with the help of makeup, prosthetic neck and cheeks and advice from a once dangerously overweight actor.The morb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Although it seems like Hal Holbrook has owned the role of Mark Twain for decades, another actor has staked a theatrical claim to the white-haired novelist and wit. Val Kilmer has been worki…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMThursday, March 14, 2013
Sybil Christopher, who died last week in New York at 83, was a noted theater producer and the founder of Arthur, a Manhattan hot spot that attracted a ritzy celebrity clientele during the 19…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMIt was a VIP guest list that few Broadway productions could dream of.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:14AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Set for 2013-14: 'Harmony,' 'The Sunshine Boys,' 'Peter and the Starcatcher,' 'The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess' and the Queen musical 'We Will Rock You.'Fanilows, your wait is finally over. …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMThe theater producer has profited from the growing popularity of American-style musicals in Korea and hopes to become a major Broadway player.His offices in Seoul are nearly 7,000 miles from…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMMonday, March 11, 2013
One of Helen Mirren's four-legged co-stars in the new play "The Audience" apparently has been fired after it failed to obey the actress' royal commands in her role as Queen Elizabeth II. B…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMFriday, March 8, 2013
For the actress, its allure is the challenge of playing a great classical part plus the chance to work with playwright Neil LaBute, who adapted Strindberg's work. She makes her L.A. stage de…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, March 7, 2013
Logan Marshall-Green, who appeared last summer as one of the doomed space voyagers in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," will co-star alongside Lily Rabe in the Geffen Playhouse's revival of Strin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, March 4, 2013
The Windham-Campbell Prizes, a new literary award from Yale University, has announced its inaugural roster of winners. Among the nine recipients are three playwrights -- Naomi Wallace, Step…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:41PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Los Angeles' primary election for mayor is Tuesday. In a recent survey conducted by Arts for L.A., a nonprofit group that promotes cultural funding, the candidates responded to a series of q…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:33AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
When Andrew Lloyd Webber bade farewell to the U.S. touring production of "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood in 2010, he promised the audience that the beloved mu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45AM"The Death of Klinghoffer," the controversial 1991 opera by John Adams, is scheduled to make its much-belated Los Angeles-area debut in 2014. But the producing company won't be L.A. Opera, w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMMonday, February 25, 2013
In an Oscars broadcast that was packed with tributes to movie musicals, "Les Miserables" won three Academy Awards on Sunday, including a win for Anne Hathaway for supporting actress. The fi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45AMFriday, February 22, 2013
Helen Mirren's big return to the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the new play "The Audience," by Peter Morgan, now will be a global event. Fans around the world will be able to experience the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:15PMThursday, February 21, 2013
The casting hole created by Shia LaBeouf's abrupt departure from the Broadway revival of "Orphans" has been filled. Ben Foster will take the role of Treat, one of two brothers who hatch a pl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:27PM 
