Thursday, March 7, 2013
Ending a 34-year run that made him one of the longest-tenured artistic directors on the Southern California theater scene, Thomas F. Bradac has announced he’ll retire as leader of Shak…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez has left as artistic director, saying company's mission has been changed to focus on South L.A. The board's chair defends its position.The Watts Village Theater Co…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
It looks like “batter up!” again on the theatrical boards: Mickey Mantle is the subject of a new play that writer-producer David Leaf is working on with the cooperation of Danny …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:53PMFriday, February 22, 2013
'The Book of Mormon' will return to Hollywood Jan. 21-Feb. 9, 2014.The 2013-14 season at the Pantages Theatre will feature last year’s most decorated Broadway musical, “Once,&rdq…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Its Foursquare Foundation charitable arm loses a reported $2 million on the short-lived Broadway musical about church founder Aimee Semple McPherson.There was no divine intervention for the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Starring Deborah Cox and Constantine Maroulis, the production is playing at the Pantages Theatre but also being readied for Broadway.The lithe beauty in the form-fitting, flame-red sweater-j…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, February 8, 2013
“What’s in a name,” quoth the Bard of Avon in “Romeo and Juliet.”
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Jessica Chastain is currently on Broadway in "The Heiress," playing Catherine Sloper, a rich girl with boyfriend and daddy problems.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:27AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
If the Pasadena Playhouse had decided to adopt a theme song when a dire economy and long-standing debts forced it to cease operations for most of 2010 while it tried to claw its way back to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:01PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
A new national survey of nonprofit executives suggests it isn’t just the uncertain economy that’s making it hard for charities – including arts and culture groups – t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:22AMFriday, January 18, 2013
Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Doro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AMScarlett Johansson is the latest star to take a shot at “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Tennessee Williams’ feverish 1955 classic about a wealthy Southern family with two daughter…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:19AMTuesday, January 15, 2013
The Pantages Theatre has added an asterisk or two to its claim in October that "The Book of Mormon" had set a new record for the biggest single-week box-office take in Los Angeles theater hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:30PMFriday, January 11, 2013
'House' made him familiar to TV audiences, but he's always been a man of the theater. He's at the Old Globe now, savoring the words in 'Pygmalion.'As 2013 begins, Robert Sean Leonard is the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:08PMFriday, December 21, 2012
In bygone days "extra, extra" is what newspaper hawkers used to shout to sell copies.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
The show at Pasadena Playhouse is based on the holiday family plays known as pantos.Kris Lythgoe had a problem that many a Los Angeles parent might relate to: Christmas was coming, and he wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, December 7, 2012
America's nonprofit theaters are feeling a bit better about their finances these days, according to a recent survey conducted by the sector's main national service organization, Theatre Comm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMWilliam Shakespare will get the full PBS treatment in "Shakespeare Uncovered," a six-part series announced this week to be shown on three consecutive Friday evenings starting Jan. 25.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
"Lincoln" has been a big hit in movie theaters, and on Jan. 22 Tony Kushner's screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film will arrive in book form, to be followed in late February by another new …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:07PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
Center Theatre Group, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse and A Noise Within will stage Christmas shows this year. Such productions can be a good source of revenue."What was merry Christmas…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, November 30, 2012
Theresa Rebeck’s "Dead Accounts" is on Broadway, loaded with stars -- including two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz in the lead as an unscrupulous Wall Street go-getter who has…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
The $50,000 NEA grant will help L.A.'s Latino Theater Company create the National Latino Theater Festival and Conference, set for 2014 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.Ten new plays produce…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSunday, November 25, 2012
Though Los Angeles-area theater leaders have seen an influx of shorter scripts lately, they're not worried about the future of intermission.As artistic director of L.A.'s Center Theatre Grou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Theater history has been made at least twice with shows centering on fictitious female evangelists.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMMonday, November 12, 2012
Twenty years ago, two California theaters found the money to develop what became a seven-hour play by a then-unknown Tony Kushner. Things have changed, and yet ....Twenty years ago this week…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:25PMSaturday, November 10, 2012
Two California theaters moved heaven and earth for Tony Kushner's play. Would it happen now?Show business is ruled by the "elevator pitch" – the need for any project to lend itself to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
"Annie" first leaped from newspaper comics pages to the Broadway stage in 1977, not pretending to be anything but a cartoon come tunefully to life. Director James Lapine's new revival of the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMGavin Creel and Jared Gertner, now starring as the lead missionaries in the Los Angeles production of “The Book of Mormon,” will get to hear British laughter come Feb. 25, when t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
It's well known that real estate closings can take forever, but in the case of the Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," starring Al Pacino as a real estate agent in a cut…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMFriday, November 2, 2012
For voters who think the presidential candidates' agendas for the arts are worth considering along with what they propose for the economy, healthcare, taxes and all the rest, Americans for t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:09PMNow that Sandy has ceased storming the Eastern Seaboard, “Chicago” has resumed storming the Broadway record book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM 
