Monday, September 16, 2013
Culture Monster tried to get a little orchestral dust-up going this week but didn't get far.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:34AMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Charlie Robinson says playing Willy Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' at South Coast Repertory makes him 'more thankful for the life I have.'When 13-year-old Luca Robinson caught a long touchdo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
The Orange County stage company plans to move a few doors down in February. Seating capacity is expected to triple from 49 to 150.The Chance Theater's audience won't need driving directions …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMSaturday, August 3, 2013
Diahann Carroll is no theatrical Rip Van Winkle, although one might think that was the case, going by early reports of her recently announced return to Broadway next spring opposite Denzel W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
California arts advocates are thanking Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles) for putting money where his mouth is by adding $2 million to the budget for the state’s arts grantm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45PMThe $2 million budget boost for the California Arts Council likely will allow the Golden State to shed its dubious distinction as the nation’s stingiest state for arts-grant funding …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:35AMMonday, July 15, 2013
California’s arts grant-making agency announced Monday that it will get $3 million this year from state coffers instead of the $1 million called for in the budget legislators passed in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:48PMThe world is used to watching actual or fictitious Orange Countians on television in “Arrested Development,” “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and “The O.C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMFriday, July 5, 2013
For more than 20 years at UC Irvine, Dudley Knight devised innovative and sometimes controversial ways of teaching acting students to speak clearly while lending their characters authentic, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMFriday, June 28, 2013
The curtain has come down on one of the best theater-going deals anywhere: lifetime subscriptions to the Pasadena Playhouse that were offered briefly in 1994 for a one-time, $5,000 donation.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, June 27, 2013
Tony Kushner’s landmark achievements have been “Angels in America,” the epic 1992 stage play that showed humanly flawed gay men loving, honoring and cherishing each other a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, June 21, 2013
"The 24 Hour Plays” is an annual bid to capitalize on L.A.’s convenient convergence of celebrities and celebrity lust, in a show whose proceeds go to arts education programs for …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
In terms of donations, arts and culture was Americans’ fastest-growing charitable cause in 2012, rising an estimated 7.8% to $14.44 billion, according to a leading annual research repo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Arts advocates who tried to throw a touchdown bomb in Sacramento this spring were sacked for a loss instead Friday as the California Legislature passed a $234-billion budget that cuts fundin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:20AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Center Theatre Group's Michael Ritchie and Edward Rada say they expect a $500,000 loss. As the nonprofit's nest egg shrinks, it needs a fundraising push. By some measures, L.A.'s Center Thea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMMonday, June 10, 2013
In live theater, a performer has to know how to make an entrance, and television critics reviewing Sunday's CBS telecast of the Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall in New York City appl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Having developed a momentary case of the 20-year itch for the beloved production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” that it has been rolling out since 1993, Los Angeles Opera an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:25PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
Some people think “Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark” was the worst disaster ever to hit a New York City stage, but the problem-plagued musical’s balky machinery, injured flyin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThursday, May 16, 2013
The director helmed the successful 'Nicholas Nickleby' for Royal Shakespeare Company and co-directed 'Les Misérables' into prominence.John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Mark Taper Forum actors Keith David, John Douglas Thompson and Glynn Turman relive their encounters with the playwright and with his mentor-director Lloyd Richards.Among the pleasures of see…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The ensemble, cooked up in 1983 at a now-defunct Italian restaurant, celebrates its 30th birthday and the composer's 200th with concerts this weekend. Large classical music ensembles are no …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
An arts-funding bill moves a step ahead as advocates hope for change amid an improving economy.With California still ranked last nationally in per capita state spending on government grants …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
“The Book of Mormon” and “Once,” Broadway musicals that dominated the two most recent Tony Awards, will come to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa during th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Carole King’s life and times – and songs she wrote with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin -- will be the stuff of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” whose producers are…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
The San Francisco Symphony’s musicians are on strike, leading to the cancellation of Thursday’s scheduled performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and the first in a series o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:48PMThursday, 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 12:00PM 
