Duke Ellington's opera of intraracial satire is staged in Long Beach.An opera by Duke Ellington? Well, almost, sort of. Like many of the Master’s creations, tunes and notions for Queen…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:42PMCirque du Soleil brings its Big Top to the Santa Monica Pier.Cirque du Soleil has certainly come a long way since it first pitched its tent on the beach at Santa Monica in 1988 (after an ini…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:17PMChristopher Plummer stars in his own staged memoir of a literature-loving life at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown L.A.Few enticements can feel as comforting as an invitation into the inner …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:05PMThis mock epic set in a Scottish bar irreverently considers folk traditions at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.The smaller room at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica has been repurposed as a ta…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:54PMDenis O'Hare's adaptation of Homer's epic poem bows at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.If war and conflict must be begrudgingly considered the natural condition of Mankind, then The Iliad of…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:30PMA dystopian drama of an authoritarian future arrives in Pasadena.Set on a distant, hardscrabble farm in a future designated by playwright Dawn King as “Soon,” Foxfinder posits a …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:57PMThree Samuel Beckett books are woven into this successful staging of the Irish icon's particular brand of comic bleakness.“Nothing is more real than nothing.” One might take some…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:35PMBrian Dennehy stars as a Lear-like former Irish cop in this revival of Sebastian Barry's drama at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown L.A.Thomas Dunne (Brian Dennehy), based upon the great-gran…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:41PMThe national tour of Broadway's Peter Pan prequel arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown L.A.The steely durability of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan mythology gets mightily flexed in th…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:16PMThe play that was later adapted by Ernst Lubitsch to become "The Shop Around the Corner" is the debut staging at the new Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills.Miklos Laszlo, a Jewish &eac…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:52PMThe writer so seminal that he's become an adjective finds his observations turned into a one-man play in West L.A.George Orwell remains one of the most cogent writers of the English language…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:27PMTeller of magic duo Penn & Teller directs this illusory consideration of mortality in Westwood.Anyone who can still relish the hokum of cunning patter and the crafty spinning of yarns should…
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