Review: Deaf West confronts passion of 'Oedipus' at the Getty Villa in expressive new version
Sophocles' masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English.
Sophocles' masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English.
Roger Q. Mason's play "Lavender Men," which is having its world premiere at Skylight Theatre, brings Abraham Lincoln back from the dead to relive his relationship with a law clerk to whom he…
'The Prom,' the 2018 Broadway musical that gave rise to the 2020 film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden, has its L.A. premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.
"Here There Are Blueberries," based on the story of a photo album from Auschwitz sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse.
Mike Birbiglia returns to Center Theatre Group with an existential stand-up show centered on a YMCA pool.
As Robert Egan retires as the leader of the Ojai Playwrights Conference after 20 years, he reflects on the organization's past, present, and future.
'Freestyle Love Supreme,' the show created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, opens at Pasadena Playhouse after enjoying a successful run on Broadway.
Following Michael Ritchie's departure last year, Center Theatre Group is still in the early stages of its search for its next artistic leader. What does this deliberate, albeit sluggish, app…
Jerry Mitchell's Hollywood Bowl production of "Kinky Boots," Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning musical, showcased a brilliant Wayne Brady.
The Tony-winning stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' opens at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
Mike Donahue directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of this new true-crime musical set in a tightknit Jewish community in New Jersey.
A tribute to Peter Brook, the pathbreaking British theater director who died at age 97.
A solo play by the queer and transgender Tamil Sri Lankan American actor D'Lo opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
'The Beautiful People,' a new play by Tim Venable produced by Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre, is about two high school boys who have a sleepover on the eve of a school shooting that for…
"Body of Work" is the "feel-good" show Gadsby thought she owed her fans after "Nanette" and "Douglas." But it's as subtly self-reflective as ever.
Michael R. Jackson's Black, queer musical 'A Strange Loop' was the big winner at the 75th Tony Awards.
Rajiv Joseph's "King James" at the Mark Taper Forum centers on two fans living vicariously through basketball great LeBron James.
Michael Michetti directs a well-tuned version of Anton Chekhov's classic at Pasadena Playhouse.
Anton Chekhov's influence is seen in the Oscar-winning film "Drive My Car" and recent novels by Gary Shteyngart and Rachel Cusk. And stage productions, including a new "Uncle Vanya" at Pasad…
For his 1934 production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland, Max Reinhardt had the Hollywood Bowl dismantled, and oak trees were shipped in from Calabas…
Ramón de Ocampo stars in a new production of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.'
Randy Rainbow, author of the new memoir, "Playing With Myself," insists that politics isn't what motivates its musical theater parodies.
An updated version of Shakespeare's tragedy, set amid a climate apocalypse, stars Joe Morton as King Lear.
Dave Harris' 'Tambo & Bones' opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in a world-premiere production with Playwrights Horizons.
"A Strange Loop" leads the 2022 Tony nominations, with a strong showing in the play category for "The Lehman Trilogy."