“We’re just going around in circles,” a character accurately observes in British playwright Mike Bartlett’s “Cockfight Play,” having its L.A. premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre. (…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMIt may sit uneasily with our notion of Shakespeare to imagine him tackling the hot-button issues of his era like a Jacobean David Mamet.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:08PMJ.B. Murray, the outsider artist and subject of the musical hagiography “Visionary Man” at the Hudson Mainstage, was an illiterate Georgia farmer who at age 70, after receiving a message…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMNew York is only three hours ahead of L.A., but in theatrical time, the distance often seems greater. Broadway events, like starlight from distant galaxies, can take years to reach us.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PMSometimes I wish Shakespeare had written a different version of “The Taming of the Shrew” — one in which the shrew is “tamed” with, say, empathy and affection instead of torture.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMA divorced couple and their new partners meet for a dinner that shakes up their lives in Peter Lefcourt’s romantic comedy “The Way You Look Tonight,” premiering at the Odyssey Theater …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:12PMThe Fountain Theatre follows up its award-winning 2012 production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “In the Red and Brown Water” with a vibrant incarnation of “The Brothers Size,” the sec…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:25PMWhenever I read about the artistic scandals of the past — the near-riot provoked by Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” for example — I glumly conclude that we have grown so jaded t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:39PMSon of Semele Ensemble has selected two startlingly different short plays for “Woman Parts,” a double bill planned, according to the program, as a corrective to the underrepre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30PMAmong the revivals and West Coast premieres that dominate our theatrical offerings, the startling phrase “world premiere” implies an exhilarating, possibly risky novelty: You can…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMYou may have seen your share of makeovers, but nothing like the one Sheila Callaghan inflicts on her heroine in “Everything You Touch,” her lushly written dark comedy world-premi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMI had never seen anything quite like it, and it grew on me slowly. But I can’t stop thinking about, and humming snippets from, La Mirada Theatre’s revival of “Floyd Collins…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:15PMEven the sparest account of the life of Paul Robeson, the lawyer, actor, singer and civil rights activist who died in 1976, has a mythic power: He accomplished more, against greater odds, th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMTheater review: Rae Gray and William Petersen of 'CSI' are a well-balanced odd couple discovering each other in the jungle.In Greg Pierce's "Slowgirl" at the Geffen Playhouse, 17-year-old Be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMAs irresponsible as it may be to encourage drinking at this time of year, you are more likely to enjoy “A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre if you…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PMBruce Norris, whose “Clybourne Park” won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for best play, has a merciless ear for the hypocrisies we all helplessly reveal with ever…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:19PMIf you’re craving the art and music of the late Walt Disney, you should go anywhere but the world premiere of the affectionate “When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney” at …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:14PMIn Rogue Machine Theatre’s beautifully directed and acted West Coast premiere of Deanna Jent’s heartbreaking play “Falling,” teenaged Lisa Martin begs her mother, Tam…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:29PMIn Susan Josephs’ new play, “The Interview,” premiering at Studio/Stage, couples must apply to the “U.S. Department of Parenting and Child Welfare” for permissi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMLike most little girls, I loved the movie “The Wizard of Oz” even though, or maybe because, it left me with so many questions.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:45PMThomas Wilkins, principal guest conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, had a tough show this weekend, when Blue Man Group was in town.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:05PMHow the Supreme Court’s rulings on gay marriage will affect comedy may not have been the first question on everybody’s mind Wednesday. But for the audience at Judy Gold’s o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:38PMClattering typewriters, jangling telephones and a haze of cigarette smoke, once journalism's inalienable backdrop, can no longer be found in any newsroom on Earth. But those who crave a glim…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:28PMThe 1994 movie “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” begins with a glimpse into the bleak lives of three struggling drag performers in Sydney, Australia, who have no…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:48PM“What else is there for a woman but l’amour ?” wistfully muses a character in Clare Boothe Luce’s “The Women,” in a good-humored revival at Theatre West.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:54PMEvery element of Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 film “Through a Glass Darkly” — the performances, the plot, even the scenery in Faro, Sweden — seems to exist solely to e…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:36PMJackie Robinson never appears in Brian Golden’s “Cooperstown,” currently enjoying its West Coast premiere at the Road Theatre Company’s shiny new second stage, but th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:26PMWell, Peter Pan, I -- speaking as a mother -- never liked you much either. So I retorted, inwardly, upon hearing the title of Michael Lluberes' new play, "Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mother…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMFrancophiles be warned: Beau Willimon’s new play, “The Parisian Woman,” at the South Coast Repertory is not actually about a Parisian woman. Its title is a vestige of its c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMIn 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder,' he portrays nine aristocrats bumped off by an ambitious relative. It requires a certain pallor and a lot of color.While Jefferson Mays was perfor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:48PMWhatever your cause for complaint — traffic, work, kids, in-laws — as you settle in to A Noise Within’s production of “The Grapes of Wrath,” you’ll soon s…
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