Wednesday, 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 11:10AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Los Angeles Opera will present the current touring revival of “Einstein on the Beach,” composed by Philip Glass and staged by Robert Wilson, as part of its 2013-14 season, the co…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMMonday, January 7, 2013
The Broadway debut of the new musical version of the popular 1982 Barry Levinson movie "Diner," featuring music by pop star Sheryl Crow, has reportedly been delayed until fall.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMJessica Chastain is once again in the Hollywood awards spotlight for her performance as Maya, a determined CIA agent on the trail of Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMFriday, January 4, 2013
Since George Clooney turned his play "Farragut North" into the Oscar-nominated movie "The Ides of March," writer Beau Willimon has become a highly sought after talent by theater companies ac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PMThursday, January 3, 2013
The holiday season is usually a bountiful time of year for Broadway shows. Hordes of tourists bring about a bump in box-office receipts for musicals and plays across the board.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:20AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
"Peter and the Starcatcher," the family-friendly Broadway play from Disney Theatricals that is an informal prequel to "Peter Pan," has had several theatrical lives. The drama had developmen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, January 1, 2013
Who will make cultural headlines in Los Angeles in 2013? The coming year will no doubt bring its share of surprises. But there are already some names that are likely to garner attention in t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMMonday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
'The Mother... With the Hat' is getting productions by South Coast Repertory and L.A. Theatre Works, but its title makes promoting it problematic."The Mother… With the Hat" is a play …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMThursday, December 27, 2012
Including award-winning composers and memorable actors, the theater world lost some big names in 2012.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, December 24, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Broadway season has not been kind to David Mamet. The playwright has seen his new drama "The Anarchist" close after less than a month while a highly touted revival of "Glengarry Glen Ros…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PMHBO has had much success turning such notable plays as "Wit," "Dinner with Friends" and "Angels in America" into cable-movie events. Now the premium cable channel is reportedly setting its s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, December 17, 2012
A high school production of the musical "Legally Blonde" in Ohio has been deemed by administrators to be inappropriate for its audiences, resulting in the apparent dismissal of a drama teach…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTheater critics will tell you what they hate. What they really, really hate. In London, it's a new stage musical called "Viva Forever!" that uses songs from the British pop group Spice Girls…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Anything goes in live theater. And that includes injuries, illnesses and all sorts of physical mishaps that come with performing in high-energy, high-impact productions eight times a week.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:18PMThe recent stage adaptation of the bestselling novel "Sideways" that debuted in May in Santa Monica is moving up in the world. The La Jolla Playhouse said it will produce the play starting i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMJust as the Broadway theater community was getting back on its feet following Hurricane Sandy, another potential showstopper is headed its way.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
The career makeover of Shia LaBeouf has taken another unexpected turn with the announcement that the young actor will make his Broadway debut in the spring alongside Alec Baldwin in a reviva…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:38AMMonday, December 10, 2012
The theatrical telling of the back story of "Deep Throat" is on its way to Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTwenty years ago, Al Pacino starred in the movie version of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," receiving an Oscar nomination for his performance as Ricky Roma, one of a group of shady rea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Dámaso Rodriguez -- a familiar presence in the Southern California theater scene for his work at the Pasadena Playhouse and the Furious Theatre Company -- has been named the new artistic di…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:23PM"The Honeymooners" lasted only one season on television but its legacy in the world of comedy has been far more enduring, thanks to re-runs and DVD. Next year, a new stage musical adapted fr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:27PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
"Once" is once again in the awards spotlight. The original cast recording for the popular Broadway show is among the Grammy nominees this year in the category of musical theater albums. The…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15PMLeaders at Los Angeles Opera are breathing a little easier now that a huge financial burden has been lifted from their shoulders.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMKathie Lee Gifford made a lot of money in the '80s as the spokeswoman for Carnival Cruise Lines, singing the lyrics "In the morning, in the evening, ain't we got fun?" on TV commercials.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PMWhat do David Mamet and Kathie Lee Gifford have in common? Both have flops on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMMonday, December 3, 2012
People didn't flock to the Cirque du Soleil show — or its ticket prices — as hoped.The surprising demise of Cirque du Soleil's "Iris" at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood has disapp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00PMDavid Mamet's talky new play 'The Anarchist' stars Patti LuPone and Debra Winger.With two productions running on Broadway this fall, David Mamet is once again the talk of New York theater. A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:59PM 
