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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."
Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto star in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' at the Geffen Playhouse.
Fans are flocking to see Hugh Jackman in 'The Music Man' and Patti LuPone in 'Company.'
"Hadestown," Anaïs Mitchell's Tony- and Grammy-musical reimagining the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, arrives in Los Angeles with a cast that includes Tony-winner Levi Kreis as Hermes.
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical triumphantly arrives on Broadway.
Phylicia Rashad leads a revival of Pearl Cleage's play about artists and activists at the convergence of the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance.
The strange, intriguing "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney" has its West Coast premiere at the Odyssey Theatre.
Starring Christine Lahti, "I'll Be Seein' Ya" is seeing its digital world premiere from Center Theatre Group.