Thursday, February 21, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Shia LaBeouf won't be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play "Orphans" in New York over "creative differe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:35PMA new play about artist Ai Weiwei's secret detention in 2011 will premiere in April in London. Written by British playwright Howard Brenton, "#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei" is set to open a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMOnce more to the barricades, "Les Misérables" fans.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Its Foursquare Foundation charitable arm loses a reported $2 million on the short-lived Broadway musical about church founder Aimee Semple McPherson.There was no divine intervention for the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMBanana Joe, the lovable affenpinscher who won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on Tuesday, has chosen Broadway for a victory lap.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
It's fair to say that the 1983 touring production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, wasn't a high point in the couple's catalog of professional …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:28AMMonday, February 11, 2013
The already bizarre case of Sergei Filin, the artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet who was attacked with acid last month, has a new twist: Suspicions reportedly are now being turned …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMSunday, February 10, 2013
"Once," the intimate, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that is based on the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, has won a Grammy Award on Sunday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30PMThe Metropolitan Opera's recent recording of Wagner's "Ring" cycle and the Chicago new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird were winners in the classical music categories at the Grammy Awards on Su…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:01PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
The playwright wanted to see 'Chinglish' produced in mainland China, but says the Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai scandal derailed it. It will play a Hong Kong festival.David Henry Hwang knows firsth…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:06PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Operatic tenor Jay Hunter Morris has withdrawn from Los Angeles Opera's upcoming production of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman," which is scheduled to begin performances on March 9 at the Doro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is looking to go bi-coastal and will make its Los Angeles debut in April with a production of "Slipping," starring Seth Numrich, at the Elephant St…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:05PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Now that they both have landed TV series that require them to spend significant time on the West Coast, Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Andrew Rannells will be performing on stage together …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:07AMCan't get to Madrid for the world premiere of Philip Glass' Walt Disney Opera? "The Perfect American," a fictionalized account of Disney's final days, will be broadcast live online on Wednes…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Lily Rabe, who has earned acclaim for her New York stage performances and whose Hollywood cachet has risen thanks to the popularity of the FX series "American Horror Story," will star in a n…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:18PMMonday, January 28, 2013
In a sign of the times for small and mid-size classical music organizations, the Sacramento Opera and Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra will merge their operations this year in order to cope…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PMThe character of Fantine in Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" is a prostitute who is so poor that she resorts to selling her teeth for money. Actress Anne Hathaway, who plays Fantine in the m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMThursday, January 24, 2013
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced on Thursday its nominations for its 2012 awards. Leading the way, with five nominations each, were productions of August Wilson's "Jitney," "Si…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Since being fired in 2011 from the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," director Julie Taymor has kept a relatively low public profile, her time presumably occupied by the ongoi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:08PMSunday, January 20, 2013
With a burst of shimmering confetti and streamers, Cirque du Soleil's "Iris" bade a festive "au revoir" to Los Angeles on Saturday at the Dolby Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMThursday, January 17, 2013
The revival of Cole Porter's "Can-Can" that opened at the Pasadena Playhouse more than five years ago has come back to life and is now aiming for Broadway. Producers said Thursday that they …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:43PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Cirque du Soleil is laying off 400 people, mostly from its Montreal headquarters, due to what the company is citing as production costs and expenses. The layoffs represent 8% of the company'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:32PMWith everything related to Abraham Lincoln back in vogue thanks to Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated movie, a new play about the seamstress who worked for Mary Todd Lincoln is set to open i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:24AMMonday, January 14, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
"Picnic," the 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by William Inge, is getting a rare revival on Broadway from the Roundabout Theatre with a cast of young, good-looking actors paired alongside …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27PM"Les Misérables" won the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy film on Sunday, adding to the movie's already considerable awards momentum. The movie adaptation of the honored stage musica…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:17PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
This week, Hungarian artistEötvös' opera 'Angels in America' makes its L.A. debut, followed by the world premiere of his new concerto, 'DoReMi,' for violinist Midori.The music of Hungarian…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, January 10, 2013
After it opened in New York in 1987, the Broadway production of "Les Miserables" garnered eight Tony Awards, including best new musical. Twenty-five years later, the movie version of the be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:39PMIt's been a good week for "Les Miserables," which was nominated this morning for the Academy Award for best picture.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Fiona Shaw, the versatile Irish actress who brought a searing "Medea" to Broadway in 2002, is set to return to the New York stage in a role that ought to raise eyebrows -- Mary, the mother o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10AM 
