Friday, November 2, 2012
Now that Sandy has ceased storming the Eastern Seaboard, “Chicago” has resumed storming the Broadway record book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM"The Heiress," Ruth and Augustus Goetz's oft-revived 1947 stage adaptation of "Washington Square," Henry James' novel of 1850s New York, is back again -- Thursday was opening night for the l…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
As the weakening super storm moves west, the lights are blazing again on the Great White Way after several days of closures and perhaps $5 million in lost revenue.NEW YORK – Sandy dimm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05PMThe Broadway League, which represents producers and theater owners, announced on its website Tuesday that it expects "most shows" to resume on Wednesday, when the majority are scheduled for …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:17AMOn Broadway, the name “Sandy” normally calls to mind an adorable canine star – the heroine's sidekick in the musical “Annie,” whose current revival directed by …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThursday, October 25, 2012
Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin, who played to many millions of weekly television viewers when they were Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in “MASH on CBS and attorney Michae…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Mormons in Africa apparently have elbowed aside witches in Oz to achieve what the Pantages Theatre says is the highest one-week box-office gross in L.A. theater history.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
Barry Edelstein, a Shakespeare expert who has held executive positions at two New York City theaters, has been picked as the next artistic director of San Diego’s Old Globe.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:57PMFriday, October 12, 2012
South Coast Repertory is the first of seven Southern California arts organizations to detail its plans for its share of $3.65 million in grants that the James Irvine Foundation issued this m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMSunday, October 7, 2012
There’s no word whether they sang at their own wedding, but one of Broadway’s most decorated stars, Audra McDonald, tied the knot Saturday with Will Swenson, a fellow musical the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:48PMFriday, September 21, 2012
Theater is a notoriously ephemeral art, but the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is using its website to summon the decade-old glories of the 2002 "Sondheim Celebration," which…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Sheldon Epps has a 'multi-year' extension of his Pasadena Playhouse artistic director contract, and Elizabeth Doran will take over as executive director from Charles Dillingham.Sheldon Epps …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:51PMTuesday, July 10, 2012
The annual Sundance Theatre Lab at Robert Redford ’s Sundance resort in Utah means hard work in a relaxed setting for playwrights who get three weeks to tinker with nascent …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, June 15, 2012
The 24 Hour Plays, a staple of the New York City theater community's charitable effort for arts education since 2006, made its L.A. debut last June at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica -- wher…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PMThursday, June 14, 2012
ArtPlace grants go to Broadway Arts Center, CalArts, SCI-Arc and Cornerstone Theater Company in. Also, Mercado La Paloma in South L.A. gets funds.Grand Avenue and LA Live have been the focal…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge and Soka Performing Arts Center at Soka University in Aliso Viejo have ambitions for sophomore year.The Valley Performing Arts Center at…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThursday, April 26, 2012
The new season of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, formerly UCLA Live, includes a return to theater and a focus on residencies aimed at spurring creativity.If names predict des…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Veteran opera and stage designer Robert Israel has done 11 huge sculptures for a new children's hospital wing in Baltimore. The UCLA professor -- currently working on a ballet at La Scala in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:03AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
A state law that recently abolished community redevelopment agencies has advocates pondering the future of cultural projects and their funding in L.A., Long Beach and elsewhere.On a typical …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMFriday, March 9, 2012
John Malkovich will give the annual message for World Theatre Day in Paris at a March 22 kickoff gala of events leading up to the 50th annual celebration on March 27. Here's the text he'll d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:16PMThursday, March 8, 2012
The New York City nonprofit theater world has come together for a star-studded benefit for Japanese theater companies on this Sunday's anniversary of the massive northern Japan earthquake an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:59PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
`Spring Awakening' creators Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater are working on a musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, `The Nightingale.' It will have a workshop staging this summe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:49PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Mike Tyson will make his stage debut next month in Las Vegas with "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth -- Live on Stage." After that, the controversial former heavyweight champ may take his one-man…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMFriday, February 24, 2012
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits Watts and Willowbrook to check on arts projects there funded by his agency. What does he think of Watts Towers? 'Wow.'NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:09PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
President Obama's 2013 budget proposal calls for a 5.5% increase for arts and culture. Total outlays for grantmaking agencies and Washington cultural institutions would reach nearly $1.6 bil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27AMFriday, February 10, 2012
Al Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:41PMFriday, February 3, 2012
`Clybourne Park' will move on to Broadway despite producer Scott Rudin's withdrawal. The cast cheered when it received the news backstage at the Mark Taper Forum on Thursday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:36PMThursday, February 2, 2012
Stephen Eich is resigning after 2 1/2 years as executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse. He helped see the company through a financial crisis that included an eight-month shutdown, bankr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00PMCenter Theatre Group's hopes of gaining some regard on Broadway -- and with it, perhaps some cash --appear to have run aground.Center Theatre Group's hopes of gaining some regard on Broadway…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMFriday, January 27, 2012
Gehry s first project for a stage company - the new home of Manhattan s Signature Theatre - will be named the Pershing Square Signature Center.Gehry s first project for a stage company - …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:26PMFrank Gehry's next building, the new home of New York's Signature Theatre, will open Tuesday. It's being named the Pershing Square Signature Center following a hedge fund's $25 million gift …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01AM 
