Friday, January 27, 2012
Frank 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 10:01AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Off Center Festival, the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' bid to draw a younger audience, begins with 'Chautauqua!'Off Center Festival, the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' bid to draw a young…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMSunday, January 15, 2012
The playwright's two older children bring their father's 'Dividing the Estate' to the Old Globe while making plans to ensure his legacy.The playwright's two older children bring their father…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2012
Horton Foote's comedy "Dividing the Estate" features his daughter and son, Hallie and Horton Jr. Uniting to carry on their father's legacy means battling onstage as contentious siblings.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Andreas Mitisek, will do double duty starting in September, when he ll assume the same role in Chicago.Andreas Mitisek, will do double duty starting in September, when he ll assume the same …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:54AMOrange County's leading outsider stage director, Dave Barton, will work inside the county's theatrical Big House for the first time in spring.Orange County's leading outsider stage director,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:49AMOrange County’s leading outsider stage director, Dave Barton, will work inside the county’s theatrical Big House – South Coast Repertory – for the first time next spring as part of S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:02AMThe adventurous Southern California company's general director will do double duty starting in September, when he ll assume the same role in Chicago.The adventurous Southern California compa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:09AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
The current Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical, "Follies," will come to the Ahmanson Theatre in May. It fills a gap in the Ahmanson season created when a planned …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Les Waters, associate artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, will be the next artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville. The appointment reverses the Kentucky to California…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PMThursday, November 17, 2011
The National Endowment for the Arts announced $22.5 million in grants Thursday. The average grant slipped slightly from previous rounds, reflecting recent budget cuts.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:43PMThe touring musical "Fela!" will play at the Ahmanson Theatre starting Dec. 13, moved up from its previously announced April opening. The change provides flexibility for finding a show to re…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Hershey Felder will premiere "Lincoln -- An American Story for Actor and Symphony Orchestra," at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's the actor-pianist-composer's first musical that departs from the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:53PMTroubadour Theater Company won five Ovation Awards in ceremonies Monday night at the Orpheum Theatre. Rogue Machine won three trophies for its play "Small Engine Repairs," and Stefan Marks w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Sheldon Epps is back directing plays at Pasadena Playhouse. Now in his 15th year as artistic director, his attention had been diverted from the boards to bankruptcy proceedings as the theate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMSaturday, October 22, 2011
The Doris Duke Foundation has announced a new $50 million funding initiative for jazz, contemporary dance and theater, which includes the nation's biggest charitable grant program for indivi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
"Bakersfield Mist," the Fountain Theatre's hit production, is about to reach its 80th performance. Under Actors' Equity union rules, the extended run means a rare pay hike for actors in a sm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:37PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Antaeus Company's upcoming staging of the Noel Coward drama “Peace in Our Time” won't be the first in America after all, the Los Angeles ensemble acknowledged Tuesday -- or even the firs…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMMonday, September 26, 2011
Noel Coward's 1946 drama "Peace in Our Time" will have its first U.S. staging in October. L.A.'s Antaeus Co. has adopted the speculative historical play, adding nine Coward songs.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:27PMSaturday, September 24, 2011
Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa is celebrating its 25th anniversary. It didn't always define the performing arts as broadly as it does today.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Shakespeare Center of Los Angles will honor filmmaker Roland Emmerich and entertainment lawyer Bert Fields for their work in keeping the Bard prominent. Emmerich's new film, `Anonymous,' and…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:14PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
The [Inside} the Ford series offers a new translation -- into Tagalog -- of an admired play about Filipino immigrant farm workers in Depression-era California. Two other shows are world prem…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:06PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
USA Artists' online do-it-yourself fundraising initiative for artists has passed the $1 million mark after nine month. The L.A.-based organization says 125 projects have been funded.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
The Mark Taper Forum's 2012 season will feature one world premiere and five plays that already have either been seen on Broadway or have won a Pulitzer Prize. The shows include this year's P…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMThe Laguna Playhouse has picked Ann Wareham as its new artistic director, promoting her from associate producer. Wareham was a longtime executive at L.A.'s Center Theatre Group until recessi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
Anne Bogart and SITI Company will premiere a new adaptation of Euripides' "The Trojan Women" at the Getty Villa's outdoor amphitheater. Director Bogart says the play from 415 B.C., which env…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30PMFriday, August 19, 2011
The Pasadena Pops has announced its inaugural 2012 summer season at its new venue, the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Conductor Marvin Hamlisch will revisit his 1979 musical "They're Playing …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Cirque du Soleil’s “Iris” at the Kodak Theatre appears to boast (if that's the word) the highest face price ever commanded by an L.A. stage production – although it's a record with a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:25AMMonday, August 8, 2011
The recent run of "Les Miserables" at the Ahmanson Theatre set new box office records for average and single-show grosses. Like "God of Carnage," which this year set a record for a non-music…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, August 2, 2011
National Endowment for the Humanities issues $40 million in grants, including $3.2 million to California museums, scholars and documentary filmmakers. Documentaries win the biggest grants; o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:51PMFriday, July 15, 2011
There’s been a leadership change at Antaeus Company, the North Hollywood troupe where familiar faces from film and television often can be seen acting out their love of classic stage reper…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM 
