Monday, June 18, 2012
Mary-Louise Parker, John Leguizamo and Cheyenne Jackson will be among the new faces joining the nominating committee for next year's Tony Awards. The committee decides on the Tony nominees b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:03PMThat's "Sir" Kenneth Branagh and "Dame" Zaha Hadid, to you.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, June 14, 2012
A Noise Within has reported an upswing in audiences in its first season at its new location in Pasadena. The classical repertory theater company, which was located in Glendale for close to 2…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMOscar-winning director Danny Boyle said that William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" served as an inspiration for his recently revealed designs for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London O…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Bill Condon hit the Hollywood jackpot when he was hired to direct the final two installments of the "Twilight" franchise. Following his sojourn into teen-vampire territory -- the final insta…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, June 11, 2012
The Tony Awards on CBS has solidified its position as the lowest-rated broadcast of the major entertainment awards shows.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:56PMSunday, June 10, 2012
Alan Menken, the multiple Oscar-winning composer of multiple Disney animated movies, took home his first Tony Award for another Disney property — the musical "Newsies."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:15PM"Once," the romantic new musical based on the 2006 indie movie of the same name, took the early lead at the Tony Awards on Sunday in New York, winning awards for book and choreography.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:11PMThursday, June 7, 2012
John Hurt performing Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" will be among the highlights of the Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2012-13 season, which will be announced Thursday by Center Theatre Group.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:22AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Ray Bradbury, who died on Tuesday at 91, will be remembered foremost as a science-fiction novelist and short-story writer whose works "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" have trans…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PMJon Favreau has emerged as the lead candidate to direct the planned movie version of the Tony Award-winning jukebox musical "Jersey Boys," according to a report this week in Variety.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMMonday, June 4, 2012
Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon are teaming up for a Broadway production of "Grace," a play by Craig Wright that is expected to open Oct. 4 in New York. The production will also star 82-year-o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:16PMThe legal case pitting director Julie Taymor against the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is underway in a federal court in New York. Though the trial isn't …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, May 31, 2012
"Leap of Faith," the recent Broadway musical that bombed at the box office and closed early, will receive a brief, Lazarus-like resurrection in June at the Tony Awards in New York. Producers…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
The 2012-13 season at the Ahmanson Theatre will feature Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," starring Jeff Goldblum, and the U.S. premiere of "Backbeat," a new musical about the origin of the Beatles…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:21PMBroadway shows brought in record revenues of $1.14 billion for the 2011-12 season, but attendance was largely flat compared to the last season, holding steady at 12.3 million. The results,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:42AMThursday, May 24, 2012
When it comes to raising money, the Obama reelection campaign knows it can count on the showbiz community.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:43PMThe theatrical expression to "break a leg" is a frequently used backstage salute that means "good luck." For Michael McKean, the "Spinal Tap" actor who was recently appearing in the Broadway…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:52PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
A new biographical stage production about the late rapper Tupac Shakur is expected to premiere in January at the Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago. The show, written by Lyle Miller, is title…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:27PMTickets for "The Book of Mormon" at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood will go on sale to the general public starting June 10, the show's producers announced Wednesday. A daily lottery for di…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMA scathing review of the new stage musical "An Officer and a Gentleman" has prompted the show's writer to hit back in an editorial that recently ran in the Australian press.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
LOS ANGELES - Richard Chamberlain and Brooke Shields have two of the lead roles in a new stage version of William...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:27PMThursday, May 17, 2012
The power of Christ has compelled Richard Chamberlain and Brooke Shields to take two of the lead roles in a new stage version of William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist," which is scheduled to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:21PMThe new 2012-13 season at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa is scheduled to feature recent comedies by Stephen Adly Guirgis and David Henry Hwang, as well as a world-premiere work by playw…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMThe Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, has been a box-office hit, playing to near-capacity audiences since beginn…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:22AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Fans of Barbara Cook who were expecting to catch the Broadway legend Saturday at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge will have to wait a little longer.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:03PMUnlike some blockbuster stage musicals that debut on Broadway before hitting the road for a national tour, "Bring It On: The Musical" is taking something of a reverse route -- touring first …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
"End of the Rainbow," the Broadway play about Judy Garland currently running at the Belasco Theatre, will make its Los Angeles debut in 2013 at the Ahmanson Theatre, with the Tony-nominated …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMMonday, May 14, 2012
Like them or not, Broadway musicals based on movies have become a staple of the New York theater scene. Risk-averse investors see them as a safe bet in an industry marked by escalating costs…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:55PMDan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley in the transatlantic hit television drama "Downton Abbey," will make his Broadway debut later this year in a revival of "The Heiress," starring Jessi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM 
