Monday, October 3, 2016
Gordon Davidson, the Center Theatre Group impresario who launched, defined and for 38 years personified Los Angeles' flagship theater, the Mark Taper Forum, has died, his family said. He was…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Four of the six plays in La Jolla Playhouse’s 2016-17 season will be world premieres, including veteran playwright Joe DiPietro diving into the seamy side of movie history with “Hollywoo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:43AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Will Eno, a playwright who’s been a critics’ favorite for the past decade but has been largely missing from L.A. stages, will finally get a prominent production here, thanks to the star …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:34PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Singer, actress and filmmaker Barbra Streisand and Itzhak Perlman, one of this era’s most honored classical musicians, are arts figures who will receive American’s highest civilian honor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who lives in Brooklyn overlooking the East River, spoke over the phone from this aerie, frequently breaking into a raspy, rust-encrusted laugh that sounded l…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
“Hello, Dolly!” is still glowin’ and goin’ strong as one of the signature, regularly revived American musicals, but the 1964 show about turn-of-the-century matchmaker Dolly Levi, wit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMThursday, November 5, 2015
A survey of nonprofit theaters nationwide shows that they’ve upped their game since the Great Recession when it comes to attracting donors and earning money, but that their audiences have …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:25AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
After more than 25 years of telling the world what he thinks of Los Angeles theater as a reviewer and essayist -- with the mandate to provoke that comes with that territory -- Steven Leigh M…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:02AMFriday, October 23, 2015
The Music Center’s refusal to fully open its books to Los Angeles County auditors isn’t sitting well with Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who is calling for the downtown performing arts c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:29AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Suzan-Lori Parks has reason to feel like a million dollars: On Wednesday she will be announced as the winner of the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, organizers said, raising her tota…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09PMThe MacArthur Foundation has given its "genius grant" imprimatur for 2015 to six visual and performing artists, ranging from the current darling of the Broadway stage -- "Hamilton" composer …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PMA Los Angeles theater website’s controversial but novel bid to prop up one of the 21st century’s dwindling occupations – professional theater criticism – has failed to take hold, wit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:33AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The 2016 season of the Mark Taper Forum won't premiere any new work, but it will venture persistently into minefields where divisions between religious and racial allegiances detonate dram…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:07PMThursday, August 27, 2015
The Segerstrom Center for the Arts has launched a $68-million campaign to reach a broader, more diverse public, centered on reconfiguring its outdoor plaza to make it busier and more attract…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:16PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
Lynn Manning overcame blindness from a barroom bullet to forge a 30-year career as a champion athlete, poet, actor, theater company founder and, especially, playwright inspired by his own ha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
"Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara" is back on its feet after a six-year interruption and is headed for the Geffen Playhouse and Laguna Playhouse this winter in what's billed as a new prod…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:49PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Tim Dang will step down a year from now as producing artistic director of East West Players, the downtown Los Angeles theater company he's led since 1993.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:31PMFriday, June 19, 2015
Like platinum and gold, Shakespeare's plays can be stretched and twisted into any number of unusual shapes without losing their intrinsic brilliance.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:02PMThe old adage, "you get what you pay for," has acquired new meaning on the Los Angeles theater scene, where a busy stage website, Bitter Lemons, is making this offer to theaters: Send us $15…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:02PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Gov. Jerry Brown has a reputation as a budget hawk who'll pounce on stray spending he thinks could leave California's state government with IOUs that its coffers can't cover - and he lived u…
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:09PMRachel Moore, a former dancer and the longtime top business executive of New York's American Ballet Theatre, will be the next president and CEO of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:09PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Americans’ donations to arts and culture rose 9.4% in 2014, the highest increase in nine categories tracked by Giving USA, an annual report on charitable contributions.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:51PMSunday, June 14, 2015
The old adage, “you get what you pay for,” has acquired new meaning on the Los Angeles theater scene, where a busy stage website, Bitter Lemons , is making this offer to theaters: Send …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:42AMThursday, June 11, 2015
Like platinum and gold, Shakespeare’s plays can be stretched and twisted into any number of unusual shapes without losing their intrinsic brilliance.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
Frank Sinatra isn’t closely identified with the Broadway stage, but producers on the Great White Way were happy to be singing one of his refrains as they released attendance figures for th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMMonday, May 25, 2015
South Coast Repertory looked to Louisville, Ky., for its new artistic director, Marc Masterson, but the Costa Mesa company and its audiences could be getting a national and even global conve…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMFriday, May 15, 2015
Gov. Jerry Brown has gone from an arts Scrooge in January to an arts Santa Claus of sorts in May.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMFriday, May 1, 2015
Motown Records didn't release every indelible pop-soul hit from the '60s and '70s, although sometimes that's how it seemed. The Drifters' "On Broadway," for example, was one that got away, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
For decades, the Los Angeles small-theater scene has operated under a single set of wage rules based on the willingness of professional, unionized actors to perform for token fees. Now this …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05PMLeaders of small theaters across Los Angeles County began reacting to their new reality Wednesday morning: drastically increased costs from a new $9 hourly minimum wage imposed by leaders of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:18PM 
