Monday, September 10, 2012
Beau Bridges will receive a lifetime achievement award from Theatre West at its 50th anniversary gala celebration this week in Hollywood.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:27PMThursday, September 6, 2012
Taking the high road, or throwing down the gauntlet? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has purchased ads promoting the faith in the playbill for the Los Angeles engagement of "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:41PMSome casting news is too intriguing to ignore. "PLGEO100100602011429"PLGEO100100602011429">">Cate Blanchett will team up with French film star Isabelle Huppert in a staging of Jean Genet'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:03PMFilmmaker Joe Wright, whose movie credits include "Atonement," "Pride and Prejudice" and the upcoming "Anna Karenina" will make his stage directorial debut this coming season at the Donmar …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
A memorial for the late theater producer Joan Stein has been set for Oct. 8 in Los Angeles. The service will be held at the Brentwood Theatre on the Veterans Affairs grounds at 11301 Wilshir…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:42PM"War Horse" on Broadway will ride off into the sunset in January. Producers of the Tony Award-winning drama have set a Jan. 6 closing date for the play at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. By the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:05PMFriday, August 31, 2012
President Obama is naming 10 new trustees to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the White House announced Friday. Among the appointees are Caroline Kennedy, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMThursday, August 30, 2012
The warring parties in the "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" lawsuits -- one-time director Julie Taymor and the show's producers -- have reached what appears to be a tentative settlement.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:18PMWednesday, August 29, 2012
One of the highest honors in the field of letters, the PEN Literary Awards, were announced Wednesday, and among the honorees are three playwrights. Christopher Durang is receiving the Mast…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:41PMPlácido Domingo will create his 140th operatic role when he debuts next month in Verdi's "The Two Foscari" at Los Angeles Opera. To note the occasion, the company is hosting a Twitter conte…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM"American Idol" alumnus Constantine Maroulis has revealed via Twitter that the new revival of the musical "Jekyll and Hyde," in which he will star alongside Deborah Cox, is to open on Broadw…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMOf laughter, that is. Or that's the intent of Sherman Oaks' Jon and Al Kaplan, who've turned 'Silence of the Lambs' into an off-Broadway success now opening in L.A.Mix together a pound of gr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMMonday, August 27, 2012
A Los Angeles revival of Ira Levin's “Deathtrap” has been canceled after the estate of the late author expressed objections to the use of nudity and some of the production's gay …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:51PMThursday, August 23, 2012
A new $64-million performance hall is coming to the campus of Chapman University in Orange County. The multi-purpose space is expected to begin construction in early 2013 with a completion s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMWednesday, August 22, 2012
The 2013 season at the Mark Taper Forum will feature plays by Bruce Norris and Sebastian Barry, as well as revivals of classics by August Wilson and Joe Orton.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:42PMAt the ripe age of 86, Dick Van Dyke is having an eventful year, both professionally and personally.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMMonday, August 20, 2012
When the national tour of "The Book of Mormon" lands in Los Angeles in September, a lottery for $25 tickets is to be held two hours prior to each performance at the Pantages Theatre in Hol…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMAndrew Upton is staying on at the Sydney Theatre Company, assuming the position of sole artistic director starting in January. For the last four years, Upton and his wife, actress Cate Blanc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMFriday, August 17, 2012
The singer-pianist accepts an invitation to take up the late Marvin Hamlisch's baton in 2013.When he takes to the piano on stages around the country, Michael Feinstein channels an old-school…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05PMMichael Feinstein -- the renowned singer and pianist who specializes in music from the Great American Songbook -- has been named the new lead conductor of the Pasadena Pops. He will succee…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMThursday, August 16, 2012
The original Jersey Boy is coming to Broadway. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons are set for a weeklong engagement at the Broadway Theatre in New York, from Oct. 19 to 27, in celebration of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
"The Lion King" is set to roar past "A Chorus Line" on Wednesday to become the fifth-longest running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The Broadway run of the high-flying cheerleading musical "Bring It On" is heading into overtime. Producers of the show said that they are extending its limited engagement through Jan. 20 at …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:52PMAn airport in Edinburgh, Scotland, has reversed its decision to cover up portions of an art poster that depicts Pablo Picasso's painting "Nude Woman in a Red Armchair."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Felicity Huffman will reunite with playwright David Mamet in the Los Angeles premiere of his election-year comedy "November," which will run at the Mark Taper Forum this fall. Huffman will b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AM"The Nutty Professor" was the last stage musical that Marvin Hamlisch completed before the composer died unexpectedly on Monday at 68. The show, directed by and based on the movie that starr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Marvin Hamlisch, who died Monday in Los Angeles at 68, was one of the most honored composers in the theater world, and one of the hardest working.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:41PMAs recently as July 11, Marvin Hamlisch had conducted a Pasadena Pops concert with Michael Feinstein. As an emcee, he shared jokes, traded patter, was in his element. Marvin Hamlisch, the st…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:45AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Terrence McNally's 'And Away We Go' gets a workout at Ojai Playwrights Conference as "Golden Age" with Bebe Neuwirth prepares for its New York premiere.There are some writers who slow down w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:12PMMark O'Donnell, a stage and comedy writer who won a Tony Award for his musical adaptation of the John Waters movie "Hairspray," has died at 58. He collapsed Monday in the lobby of his apartm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:07PMWhen she isn't busy hearing arguments at the highest court in the land, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can sometimes be found across town at the Kennedy Center as a spectator at t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AM 
