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434 stories by "Ashley Lee"

2024 Tony Awards winners list updated live: Daniel Radcliffe, 'The Outsiders' and 'Stereophonic' take honors by Ashley Lee

The musical "Hell's Kitchen" and the play "Stereophonic" headed into the Tonys ceremony tied with the most nominations, and Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson were among those v…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 7:22pm on June 16, 2024[SHARE]

'Plays still matter to the health of Broadway': Leslie Odom Jr. on 'Purlie Victorious' by Ashley Lee

The Tony nominee explains why this 'Purlie Victorious,' premiering Friday on PBS' Great Performances series, isn't a musical " and why it's all the better for it.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:00am on May 21, 2024[SHARE]

2024 Tony Awards: 'Stereophonic' and 'Hell's Kitchen' lead nominations by Ashley Lee

The nominees for Broadway's biggest prize were announced Tuesday, with "Stereophonic" and "Hell's Kitchen" receiving 13 nods each. Here's the full list of 2024 Tony nominations.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:30am on April 30, 2024[SHARE]

Mark Taper Forum to reopen with 'American Idiot,' Larissa FastHorse's 'Fake It Until You Make It' by Ashley Lee

Robert O'Hara's new "Hamlet," as well as the Broadway tours of "Life of Pi" and "Parade," are among Center Theatre Group's 2024-25 season offerings.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00am on April 29, 2024[SHARE]

Inside 'Moonlight' writer Tarell Alvin McCraney's inaugural Geffen Playhouse season by Ashley Lee

The Geffen Playhouse's 2024-25 season lineup includes premieres by Sara Porkalob, a.k. payne and Jake Brasch, plus a 20th anniversary staging of artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Th…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:00am on March 19, 2024[SHARE]

'Where are you really from?' A Latine landmark disrupts Pasadena Playhouse's 100-year history by Ashley Lee

TV veteran Gloria Calderón Kellett explains how Hollywood treating her with 'zoo animal fascination' inspired her history-making play 'One of the Good Ones,' opening Sunday.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:00am on March 16, 2024[SHARE]

'The Wiz' revival now in L.A. is a 'risk.' It could also change how Broadway does business by Ashley Lee

Musicals have come to follow a Broadway run with a national tour. 'The Wiz,' starting Tuesday at the Pantages, is doing the opposite " and the strategy is paying off.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:00am on February 13, 2024[SHARE]

A Black actor was denied a wig for a major Broadway tour. She's now suing for racial discrimination by Ashley Lee

Broadway actor Zuri Washington hopes her racial discrimination suit reignites conversations about the industry's inequitable treatment of Black hair and the harmful perpetuation of the 'angr…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:32pm on January 18, 2024[SHARE]

Commentary: Broadway hasn't always shown up for female fans. A surprise smash proved their power by Ashley Lee

A filmed performance of 'Waitress,' starring Sara Bareilles, captures how the musical won over Broadway's most underappreciated audience: women.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:00am on November 29, 2023[SHARE]

Actors' Equity, Broadway League settle after historic effort to organize 'Waitress' tour by Ashley Lee

The settlement comes after Equity attempted to organize a nonunion tour of the Sara Bareilles musical, the first effort of its kind in more than 20 years.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00pm on November 6, 2023[SHARE]

American theater is in crisis. Some big names want Congress to help by Ashley Lee

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phylicia Rashad and others will unveil a new bill Thursday as the industry struggles: 'If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:00am on September 28, 2023[SHARE]

Inside the unsavory, unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson musical with Broadway in its sights by Ashley Lee

The gonzo journalism pioneer could be 'pretty despicable.' And unlike its bio-musical counterparts, a new SoCal show about the author doesn't shy away from it.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:00am on August 24, 2023[SHARE]

'A Strange Loop,' 'Funny Girl' lead Center Theatre Group's 2023-24 season by Ashley Lee

Center Theatre Group announces its 2023-2024 season, which includes 'A Christmas Story, The Musical,' 'Hadestown' and other offerings.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00pm on July 24, 2023[SHARE]

What it's like to lead a national Broadway tour with your spouse by Ashley Lee

Broadway stars Stephanie J. Block and Sebastian Arcelus have been married for 15 years and play a married couple onstage in Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods.' The national tour arrives in …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 1:44pm on June 26, 2023[SHARE]

Tony Awards 2023 live updates: Nonbinary actors Alex Newell, J. Harrison Ghee make history by Ashley Lee, Jessica Gelt, Charles McNulty

Broadway marks the 2023 Tony Awards on Sunday after a tumultuous run-up. Stay here for live updates on the winners, effects of the writers' strike and more.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:37pm on June 11, 2023[SHARE]

The 2023 Tony Awards were nearly canceled. Here's how to watch the ceremony by Ashley Lee

Broadway's biggest night will broadcast live from New York City on June 11, airing on CBS and Paramount+. A preshow ceremony will stream for free on Pluto TV.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:00am on June 9, 2023[SHARE]

After two 'catastrophic' years for Broadway, have the Tonys become too big to fail? by Ashley Lee

The threat to this year's Tonys underscored their sway over the industry. Some say making them the 'be-all, end-all' of shows' survival is risky business.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:00am on May 25, 2023[SHARE]

How 'Six' turned a huge theater faux pas into a game-changing phenomenon by Ashley Lee

Filming live theater is usually a form of sacrilege. A musical about the wives of Henry VIII turned it into grassroots marketing for a new generation of fans.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on May 21, 2023[SHARE]

Writers Guild clears path for Tony Awards to proceed " with alterations by Ashley Lee

The WGA announced Monday that it would not picket the Broadway awards show, scheduled for June 11, allowing it to proceed in altered form.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:31am on May 16, 2023[SHARE]

Tony Awards cancel June 11 live telecast amid ongoing writers' strike by Ashley Lee, Meg James

The Tony Awards Management Committee and television partner CBS will meet Monday to determine next steps for the awards show.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:29pm on May 12, 2023[SHARE]

J. Harrison Ghee, Alex Newell make Tony Awards history as first nonbinary-identifying actor nominees by Ashley Lee

Ghee and Newell's nominations follow last year's historic first, when composer Toby Marlow's became the Tony Awards' first nonbinary nominee and winner.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:38am on May 2, 2023[SHARE]

The overwhelming, glorious quest of starring in a Stephen Sondheim revival by Ashley Lee

Merle Dandridge, Montego Glover, Annaleigh Ashford, Katie Rose Clarke and Britney Coleman, each starring in a Stephen Sondheim musical, reflect on the texts of the late theater legend.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00am on April 30, 2023[SHARE]

Broadway's trailblazing 'KPOP' musical is abruptly closing. What went wrong? by Ashley Lee

The creative team behind the ambitious spectacle discuss its sudden end and potential future: 'We never got a fair chance.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:07pm on December 8, 2022[SHARE]

Loud boos. Audible vomiting. How Broadway's edgy 'Oklahoma!' fared across America by Ashley Lee

Daniel Fish and members of the cast reflect on the bold revival of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical " and the more extreme reactions it's elicited from audiences.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00am on October 15, 2022[SHARE]

A Chicago theater's staff unionizes amid protests of its board of directors by Ashley Lee

The organization's employees see unionization as 'a new way to rebalance power structures in the American theater.'

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 4:45pm on August 9, 2022[SHARE]
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