Friday, August 14, 2015
Idina Menzel will be joined by several original Broadway cast members of the musical "If/Then" for seven stops on the national tour that arrives at the Pantages Theatre in December.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:27AMSunday, June 7, 2015
British actress Helen Mirren won the lead actress in a play Tony on Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's "The Audience."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PMBritish actress Helen Mirren won the lead actress in a play Tony on Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth in Peter Morgan's "The Audience."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
The musicals "American in Paris" and "Fun Home" led the nominations for the 2015 Tony awards announced Tuesday with 12 each, and the two part, 6-hour dramatization of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf H…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58AMMonday, June 10, 2013
Was Cyndi Lauper deserving of her Tony? Why did Cicely Tyson 's speech move him the most? Wondering why "Kinky Boots" upset the supposed front-runner "Matilda, the Musical" in Sunday's T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:19AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Theater fans can breathe a sigh of relief that there will be no Seth MacFarlane-style misfire on the Tony Awards show this year: Neil Patrick Harris is to return as host.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMFriday, March 29, 2013
The larger world may have discovered Richard Griffiths through the Harry Potter movies, but the theater world has long claimed him as one of its best.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:50PMFriday, January 25, 2013
He may have written one of the most critically praised revivals on Broadway this season, but the playwright Edward Albee sees the theatrical thoroughfare without a lot of romance or regard.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:31AMFriday, January 4, 2013
"One Night with Janis Joplin" will fill the to-be-announced slot in the 2012-2013 season at the Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:12PMThe Daily Mail in London is reporting that "Homeland" star and Emmy winner Damian Lewis is talking to producers about starring in a revival of the 1930s musical "Me and My Girl."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:40AMFriday, December 28, 2012
A closing notice was posted Thursday for "Dead Accounts," the Theresa Rebeck play that brought actress and Tom Cruise ex Katie Holmes back to Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Actor Justin Long, best known as the cool, laid-back personification of Apple products in the company's TV commercials, has been cast in the production of Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:32AMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Newly named Kennedy Center honoree Dustin Hoffman is probably best-known for movie roles that include Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate," Carl Bernstein in "All the President's Men" and Mic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMThursday, 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 05:18PMThursday, March 8, 2012
Patti LuPone, Richard Thomas and Mary Beth Hurt will star in the New York segment of what's billed as a national effort on Sunday to raise money for Japanese theaters on the anniversary of t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:43PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
The first thing you notice about Evan Brenner, who plays Buddha in a new one-man show at the Bootleg Theater, is that he looks nothing like the pot-bellied, crossed-legged, jolly-looking fig…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMFriday, February 17, 2012
The musical based on the 1993 movie “Sleepless in Seattle” scheduled to open June 12 at the Pasadena Playhouse has been postponed until the theater's next season. The new musical feature…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:34PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Broadway producer Jordan Roth was sitting in a downtown Los Angeles hotel lobby late Friday afternoon, laughing and giving a broad wave of his hand at the suggestion that he’d stumbled upo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:47PMFriday, February 10, 2012
A semi-staged version of "Merrily We Roll Along," the 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical that famously flopped after only two weeks on Broadway, was presented at New York's City Center.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:21PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
In a video for the Guardian newspaper, actor Simon Callow takes viewers on a tour of Dickens' London, from a factory and a warehouse where he was a child laborer, to the offices of his magaz…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:02AMFriday, February 3, 2012
The acclaimed production will move to Broadway despite a well-publicized spat.The acclaimed production will move to Broadway despite a well-publicized spat.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:23AMThe acclaimed production of playwright Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, will move to Broadway this spring after all, despite a well-publicized spat betwee…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:36AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
The New York Post is reporting the production of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Clybourne Park," will not transfer to Broadway this spring.The New York Post is reporting the productio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:54PMThe Broadway run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Clybourne Park" has been canceled by producer Scott Rudin.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:23AMSunday, January 8, 2012
To interview the director David Cromer, whose production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” will open at The Broad Stage Jan. 18, is to feel subtly but masterfully directed. Helen Hunt st…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:17AMWednesday, January 4, 2012
The Times’ Theater Beat reviewers – Philip Brandes, F. Kathleen Foley, Margaret Gray, David C. Nichols and Charlotte Stoudt – spend the year prowling Los Angeles area theaters, especia…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMTuesday, December 27, 2011
ould "Smash," the upcoming NBC series about making a musical on Broadway, actually spawn a musical for Broadway? CBS will air on Tuesday night the recent Kennedy Center Honors that recognize…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMThursday, December 8, 2011
The complications of class and race—and the gradations of such among African Americans—are among the themes in Lydia R. Diamond’s domestic comedy, "Stick Fly," directed by Kenny Leon w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Standing O's: Troubadour Theater Company and Rogue Machine were among the big winners at Monday's Ovation Awards ceremony, presented by LA Stage Alliance for excellence during the 2010-11 se…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:40AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Alan Rickman had a special visitor to his dressing room at the Golden Theatre Monday night: Daniel Radcliffe. The actors from the Harry Potter movies — Rickman played Severus Snape and Rad…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris issued a statement Tuesday afternoon responding to Julie Taymor's suit over her role in the troubled but popular Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:12PM 
