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Alan Mandell, an acclaimed classical actor and one of the foremost interpreters of playwright Samuel Beckett's work, has died.
East West Players presents, in a co-production with Hypokrit Live Arts, the Southern California premiere of Jacklyn Backhaus' "Wives," directed by Arpita Mukherjee.
L.A. Opera is set to unveil a monumental new curtain created by the Cuban-born artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. More than a year in the making, the utilitarian art work will serve as the vis…
With distinct Gothic-style design details and appearances in many movies and TV shows, Los Feliz's Shakespeare Bridge has become a prized neighborhood emblem.
Inside psychotherapist Jane Garnett's $25 EMDR healing rave, where metronome-timed tapping and electronica offer an accessible twist on mental wellness.
The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of 'The Peterson Show' by Janine Nabers, a play that reunites the cast of a beloved Black sitcom after the TV dad has gone to jail.
San Diego's Old Globe presents the world premiere musical 'Begin Again,' based on the 2013 film by John Carney, with a book by Jenna Clark Embrey and Molly Beach Murphy and music and lyrics …
In 'The Ford/Hill Project,' a new docudrama created by Elizabeth Marvel and director Lee Sunday Evans now at REDCAT, the Senate testimonies of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford are entwin…
A photo of President Trump reviewing what looks to be a rendering of a demolished Kennedy Center was featured in a court filing Thursday asking for an emergency hearing over the center's rec…
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a revival of José Rivera's "Marisol," directed by Amanda Weier, at Atwater Village Theatre.
Darko Tresnjak directs Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 'The Visit' at Pasadena Playhouse, starring Tony winner Jefferson Mays and Melinda Page Hamilton.
The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to immediately close the performing arts venue, a few hours after a federal judge ruled that President Trump's name could not be restored t…
The touring production of Broadway's 'Water for Elephants' puts a circus on stage. It's not as easy as its highly trained acrobats make it look.
Director Darko Tresnjak and star Jefferson Mays from Pasadena Playhouse's hit show 'Amadeus' are back with an adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 'The Visit.'
The Getty Villa production of Evelina Fernández's 'Antigone: In the Language of Kings," co-produced by Latino Theater Company, resets Sophocles tragedy to pre-conquest Tenochtitlan, Mexico.
Samuel D. Hunter, whose plays 'Grangeville' and 'A Case for the Existence of God' are running concurrently in the city, sits down with theater critic Charles McNulty to talk about his prolif…
Ellen McLaughlin's modern verse translation of Shakespeare's 'Pericles' has its West Coast premiere at Boston Court Pasadena.
Gregg T. Daniel directs "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at A Noise Within, part of the theater's continuing exploration of the August Wilson Century Cycle.
New L.A. Phil conductor-in-residence Anna Handler follows Dudamel's epic farewell at the Hollywood Bowl with Beethoven's Fifth.
L.A. theater director Bart DeLorenzo adapts and directs a new version of Ibsen's savagely timely 'Enemy of the People' at the Odyssey Theatre.
For the last year, 'Gracias Gustavo' garlands have adorned Los Angeles. Over the weekend, a supremely happy-seeming Dudamel milked the thanks in a four-concert blowout.
Dolly Parton loved LGBTQ+ people, and we loved her — in part because she showed us that our country still loves us too.
In a Monday court filing, lawyers for the Justice Department argued that the Kennedy Center may need to be torn down if it doesn't receive the renovations proposed by President Trump.
The wait is over, and the Vision Theatre Performing Arts Center is preparing to reopen, ushering in a new era of performance, events and Black culture in Leimert Park.
As Lumiere in "Beauty & the Beast" at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, actor Danny Gardner must sing and dance with live flames on his hands. Here's how his 7-pound 'handlesticks' are cre…
