In 2015, the Smithsonian asked music lovers to submit photos they'd taken of their favorite rock 'n' rollers. Four-thousand pictures later, the book "Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unse…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMIt has all the hallmarks of a movie trailer — the fast pace, the quick cuts, the relentless beat. “Something primal,” a deep voice intones. “Something raw. Something otherworldly. So…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWhen Geert Chatrou whistles, it’s easy to picture the birds trilling and flitting around Snow White in the classic 1937 film. The two-time world champion from the Netherlands stands onstag…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PM“Dear Evan Hansen,” the heart-wrenching Broadway hit that dominated this year’s Tony Awards with six wins including best musical, will come to Los Angeles as part of Center Theatre Gro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMJane Kaczmarek will star as the Stage Manager in an upcoming production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” a co-production of Pasadena Playhouse and Deaf West Theatre. The play, directed…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMContestants in “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s #Ham4All campaign were vying for a rare prize: tickets to opening night of the musical in Los Angeles, plus airfare, hotel accomm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:55PMJoshua Henry is at a loss for words. It doesn’t happen often. The gregarious, golden-voiced actor who stars as Aaron Burr in the national tour of “Hamilton” opening Aug. 16 at the Holl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM“Have you heard of a show called ‘Hamilton’?” Emmy Raver-Lampman’s agent asked her in spring 2015. The actress had just concluded the national tour of “Wicked” in Los Angeles. …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMWendie Malick is set to star alongside a cast with notable television résumés for the world premiere of playwright Paul Rudnick’s “Big Night,” Center Theatre Group announced Tuesday.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50PMTony-winning actor Mandy Patinkin dropped out of the Broadway show “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” on Friday, after an announcement that he would be replacing African America…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMNational Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Angels in America,” starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, will be broadcast live to theaters …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PMDeaf West Theatre was created by the deaf community as a place where deaf actors could come together with hearing actors in service of vivid theater. The company’s productions of “Big Ri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMJoe Mantegna may be best known as an actor, most recently starring as FBI special agent David Rossi on the CBS crime drama “Criminal Minds.” But he’s no stranger to the stage, having w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10PMFor 11 nights in late May and early June, Julius Caesar was brutally stabbed to death without much fuss as part of the Public Theater’s annual Shakespeare production in Central Park. On Ju…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe show features 246 songs. It’s 24 hours long, split into six-hour chapters. And, yes, you are expected to sit through all six hours. This is theater of the unexpected; it is theater of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:40PMIn the midst of the social media-firestorm surrounding the Public Theater’s staging of “Julius Caesar” featuring the brutal stabbing of an orange-haired dictator, Donald Trump Jr. aske…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMYou could barely move backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday night. Turn right and you’d bang into Matthew Broderick, turn left and you’d slam into Edward James Olmos, and Louis G…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:40PMIn Los Angeles, the pursuit of art and the quest for love share a common denominator: If you find yourself regularly braving the 405 or 10 freeways in search of fulfillment, it must be serio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMLaurie Metcalf got a call from producer Scott Rudin on Tuesday morning. It was great news: The actress had been nominated for a Tony Award for her lauded performance as Nora Helmer in playwr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:20PMAfter a month worrying about the fate of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the hundreds of community organizations that the agency supports nationwide, the arts world found…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMTeachers from a Pacoima middle school camp overnight and are first to score seats for the musical's national tour, but only after a little drama in the ticket line.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PMCenter Theatre Group will partner with regional theaters in Chicago, New York and London to co-commission works by renowned playwrights including Pultizer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and Paul…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMThe musical “Allegiance,” inspired by the early life of actor George Takei in World War II internment camps, will come to L.A. in 2018, co-producers East West Players and the Japanese Am…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMCenter Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has only one thing to say about the fact that “Spamilton,” a popular “Hamilton” spoof, will launch its national tour at the Kir…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PMTim Robbins’ first time getting paid as an actor was through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a gangly 15-year-old performing street theater in New York with Theate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:25PMTo borrow a line from Sonnet 18, summer’s lease hath all too short a date when the Independent Shakespeare Co. wraps up its annual free performances in Griffith Park each September. The no…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35AMThe story of the American West would be incomplete without the indigenous people who occupied this territory long before the arrival of European immigrants. Giving the descendants of indigen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMKing Kong had no chance against the Beast. Disney’s “Beauty and The Beast,” the new live-action adaptation of the studio’s 1991 animated classic, is on its way to shattering box offi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMKate Shindle was performing concerts on a cruise ship in the Bahamas when the musical “Fun Home” opened on Broadway in 2015. The show won five Tony Awards that year, including best music…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThe Geffen Playhouse on Wednesday announced one world and three West Coast premieres as part of its 2017-18 season. Kicking off the season are the West Coast premieres of Halley Feiffer’s …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PMConductor Christopher Rountree stands illuminated by a spotlight on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage. He takes a soothing breath and encourages the 2,100 middle school students seated befo…
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