Monday, December 24, 2018
This Christmas, Hollywood's major film releases are competing for Americans' entertainment time with a slew of new shows on Netflix - and all those television series that slipped t…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:56AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
The nearly 9 million people who tuned in to watch the Tony Awards last year saw the coronation of a pop-culture king: “Hamilton” won 11 prizes and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda gave an impa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:36PMIn February, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul fell just short of Hollywood’s highest honor when “La La Land,” the Southland-set musical they penned the lyrics for, failed to win best picture…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:36PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
The first post-“Hamilton” Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and the nominees in the marquee best musical category were “Come From Away,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50AMThursday, April 27, 2017
A roundtable conversation with some of the creative minds behind "Bandstand," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and other new musicals navigating the post-"Hamilton" Broadway landscape.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMSunday, April 16, 2017
On Saturday night, just 48 hours before the splashy musical adaptation “Groundhog Day” was set to open on Broadway, composer Tim Minchin unexpectedly stepped onstage to address a preview…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:50PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Broadway last year yielded one show everyone talked about, "Hamilton," and a lot of other shows people saw when they were sold out of "Hamilton.” This year has no Lin-Manuel Miranda musica…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" has made history in numerous ways, injecting energy into the musical, populating the stage with people of color and bringing young audiences to a middle-aged …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33AMMonday, June 13, 2016
An air of both celebration and sobriety hung over the Tony Awards on Sunday, as one of the biggest hits in Broadway history was honored hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:31AMFriday, June 10, 2016
During rehearsal sessions for the Tony Awards, theater seats are adorned with cardboard images of nominees' names and faces. Broadway's biggest night, Sunday at the Beacon Theatre, is an ela…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Shortly after the news broke that "Hamilton" had landed 16 Tony Award nominations, the musical's director, Thomas Kail, sent a text to choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and others on the sho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PMSpringtime on Broadway is usually racked with strategy, stress and speculation. New shows vie for any possible edge to capture the Tony Awards' brass ring of best musical, on the (often corr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PM“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical about America's founding fathers wrote its own bit of Tony Award history Tuesday morning by picking up 16 nominations, breaking the rec…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PMSaturday, April 30, 2016
Springtime on Broadway is usually racked with strategy, stress and speculation. New shows vie for any edge possible to capture the Tony Awards' brass ring of best musical, believing the awar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:39AMSunday, March 13, 2016
If history is any indication, bringing a small, sweet movie from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to Broadway is a pretty good idea.That was the path taken by John Carney’s “Once,” whic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
As Will Ferrell's longtime creative partner, Adam McKay has a history in screen comedy, with directing credits on movies such as "Anchorman" and "Talladega Nights" and a founding role in "Fu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51PMMonday, July 27, 2015
More than a few students over the years have wished they were listening to hip-hop instead of learning about American history.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45AMMonday, June 8, 2015
The musical "Fun Home" follows the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel as she goes from an uncertain childhood in a small-town funeral home to a career as a highly successful lesbian author and …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29AMSunday, June 7, 2015
When the Tony Awards presentation gets underway Sunday night from Radio City Music Hall, it’ll feature a bevy of stars with deep ties to the theater (Bernadette Peters, Sutton Foster, Judi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:34PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
For years, theater pundits have complained that Broadway and the Tony Awards have become staid and spineless, filled with unnecessary revivals and musicals adapted from old movies.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Sure, “An American in Paris” and “Wolf Hall Parts 1
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:11PMMonday, April 27, 2015
The nominations for the 2015 Tony awards will be announced Tuesday morning in New York by Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMFriday, April 17, 2015
For the first hour of the Tudor stage epic "Wolf Hall," Anne Boleyn makes exactly one appearance. "Do you not know me?" she says, bitingly, to a key member of Henry VIII's court, then quickl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
A week from opening night, what might charitably be called a charge of creative tension ripples through a rehearsal for the new Broadway musical "Finding Neverland."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Composer John Adams' controversial "The Death of Klinghoffer" opened Monday night at the Metropolitan Opera to a chorus of protests, but inside the Lincoln Center theater, the show went on.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:40AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
After years spent calling for Neil Patrick Harris to host the Oscars, fans of the star got what they asked for Wednesday when he was named emcee of the 2015 ceremony.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:55PMMonday, June 23, 2014
NEW YORK -- When he was 12, Joshua Boone learned that his uncle had been killed in an act of gun violence. He knew the neighborhood in their Southeast Virginia town had problems with crime, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
The Tony Awards celebrated the best from the 2013-2014 theater season that ended in April, handing multiple awards to popular shows such as "The Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" and "A Ra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:20AMMonday, June 9, 2014
The main character in the Broadway show "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" spends much of the musical mystery knocking off those he believes stand in the way of his big score.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMSaturday, June 7, 2014
Yes, Hugh Jackman has hosted the show before, but since then, Neil Patrick Harris has been the host with the most — a tough act to follow. But don't count out the Wolverine factor.Yes, Hug…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
NEW YORK—Contemporary Broadway is filled with splashy adaptations of popular movies and revivals of long-ago hits. The hard-core, truth-to-power stylings of Tupac Shakur? Not so much…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM 
