Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Leaders 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 03:18PMLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing a 12.2% spending increase for the Department of Cultural Affairs, which would receive the biggest boost during what has been a very lean, recessi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:04AMNational leaders of Actors' Equity Assn. on Tuesday imposed a $9 hourly minimum wage for members who perform in Los Angeles County theaters with fewer than 100 seats, overriding a recent vot…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:09AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Employment in Los Angeles County's creative industries rose by 6,000 jobs in 2013 after more modest gains the two previous years, according to the latest annual Otis Report on the Creative E…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMFriday, March 6, 2015
A play in which Tim Robbins and Charlayne Woodard squared off as antagonists would likely draw a sizable audience.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
“What’s in a name?” was a rhetorical question for Romeo when he was wooing Juliet, but David Geffen’s $100-million gift to Lincoln Center in New York City demonstrates that it can be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMFriday, February 27, 2015
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has roundly panned a plan to require a minimum wage of $9 an hour for actors who perform in dozens of small theaters in Los Angeles, saying it isn’t ju…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:46AMMonday, February 23, 2015
An impassioned, two-hour, open-mike meeting about the future of Los Angeles County's small-theater community Saturday at the Renberg Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center in Hollywood drew …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSaturday, February 21, 2015
To pay or not to pay, that is the question facing L.A.’s sprawling small theater scene, where dozens of stage companies provide a rich menu of choices for playgoers, along with the assuran…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, February 12, 2015
Arts and culture were an even smaller blip on the radar of America’s mega-philanthropists in 2014 than they were the year before, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual rank…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Members of arts boards don't have nearly as many opportunities to be applauded as the performers whose work they support, but the chance has arrived for Sue Bienkowski, longtime board presid…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:43PMLast spring, some heavy lifting in the California Legislature produced a budget bill that gave state arts funding its first legislated boost in more than a decade, albeit a modest one.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:45PMSaturday, January 3, 2015
Martin Benson deferred his enlistment in Civil War drama for half a century, but now the stage director is bringing a zeal for realism to "The Whipping Man," his first assignment concerning …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Some rock fans of the mid-1990s may have thought Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins was dealing with ancient history when he wrote and sang the band's biggest hit, "1979."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:36PMSaturday, December 6, 2014
Hershey Felder may be the most efficient performing artist on the planet.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
With Gloria Molina and Zev Yaroslavsky, the members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors who’ve been most active in pushing for government funding for cultural venues, about to s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Stephen Rountree will step down after 12 years as president of the Music Center to take a more narrowly focused, less highly compensated job at one of its key tenants, Center Theatre Group, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSaturday, September 27, 2014
For 10 summers Cornerstone Theater Company played Johnny Appleseed up and down California. Now it's harvest time.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Dale Franzen, who has led the Broad Stage in Santa Monica since its 2008 opening and helped spur its creation at Santa Monica College, has stepped down as its director in what she’s callin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:51PMFriday, September 12, 2014
Turning 50 compels some people to attempt a risky new adventure — sky diving, perhaps, or white-water rafting or, for extremists, running with the bulls at Pamplona.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Here’s catnip for musical theater lovers who are into “Into the Woods” in specific and Stephen Sondheim in general.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMFriday, August 29, 2014
A decade and a half has passed since Los Angeles city officials first resolved to renovate and reinvigorate the Vaudeville-era Vision Theatre as an arts hub for Leimert Park, itself a histor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:10PMFriday, August 22, 2014
It’s said that a coward dies a thousand deaths and a brave man only once, but Alton Fitzgerald White is about to die bravely for the 4,000th time playing Simba’s regal dad in “The Lion…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:39PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
The property-tax measure, a continuation of earlier levies, would benefit parks and cultural sites, among other places in the county. Previous beneficiaries include the Bowl and LACMA.The pr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSunday, August 3, 2014
If there’s a great theater lobby in the sky, Diana Gibson, a vivid and sometimes harsh presence on L.A.’s small-theater scene for more than 30 years, arrived there July 17 after her deat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:58PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
A diverse roster of big names in the arts, literature and entertainment – including Linda Ronstadt, dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones, author Maxine Hong Kingston, Broadway composer John …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
The builders of a subway that will run between Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Colburn School of Music are promising to deploy a triple helping of the most advanced noise-suppression measur…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:04PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Danielle Brazell, whose job over the past eight years has included regularly prodding City Hall to spend more money and pay more attention to L.A.’s nonprofit arts scene, has been nominate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:06PMMonday, June 9, 2014
When Carole King and her Broadway alter-ego, actress Jessie Mueller, took the stage separately during the Tony Awards ceremony, they probably succeeded in making lots of viewers feel that do…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMFrom the moment Tony Awards host Hugh Jackman entered hopping … and hopping … and hopping some more, all around Radio City Music Hall, a theme of Sunday night’s show was that Broadway …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
The labor and financial drama that has become a discordant leitmotif in the opera and symphonic world could be building for the Metropolitan Opera, America's biggest-budgeted performing arts…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:21PM 
