1,324 stories by "Charles McNulty"
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
Draft Hillary Clinton to make a pro-NEA statement at the Tony Awards
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
The trees are ropes resembling piano strings. The birds are folded sheets of stationery. The princes ride on stick horses. And the wolf stalking Little Red Ridinghood is mounted like a hunti…
The moment I turned on my phone after landing in San Francisco for the opening of "Hamilton," I was greeted with momentous local news: Carey Perloff, the artistic director of the American Co…
A conversation with British actor, writer and director Simon McBurney is a meditative adventure not unlike one of his genre-blurring theatrical collages created with his London-based interna…
The characters in "Rules of Seconds," a new play by John Pollono at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, are a lively anachronistic mix. Their boots and pistols suggest the drama's 1855 Boston se…
It has been 44 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision decriminalized abortion, but the debate has hardly been settled. The rhetoric has only grown more inflammatory, a…
The Wooster Group, venerable purveyor of postmodern performance collages, has come upon a gender-politics gold mine in the company's latest adventure in cockeyed cultural excavation. "The To…
Deaf West Theatre is back at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts after the company's heralded revival of "Spring Awakening," which catapulted itself to Broadway after its Bev…
And the winner actually is … The final-act confusion over the best picture award that had movie moguls staggering out of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood after Sunday's Academy Awards was…
A musical with all the dramatic richness of a memorable play opened at the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday " a rare sighting that could induce a theater critic to genuflect if not erupt in a c…
On the surface, Lee Chandler, the protagonist of "Manchester by the Sea," and Troy Maxson, the central character of "Fences," wouldn't seem to have much in common. Sprung from different play…
"New musicals are never finished, only abandoned," director Christopher Ashley quipped by phone a few days before flying to New York for the start of rehearsals for "Come From Away," the mus…
"Zoot Suit," the landmark 1978 play by Luis Valdez that put the struggles of Mexican Americans front and center, is back where it originated at the Mark Taper Forum in an exhilarating reviva…
Kneehigh, the seriously playful British theater company that turned the classic film "Brief Encounter" into a charmingly inventive multimedia stage play, is back at the Wallis Annenberg Cent…
America's widespread opioid crisis has sadly made a crucial part of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" more relatable. Mary, the strung-out mother in the play's alcoholic …
Something miraculous happens in "Every Brilliant Thing." Something you might want to include on your own list of life-enhancing pleasures should you follow the lead of the protagonist, who i…
Just as the short stories in collections by Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley and Alice Munro are meant to be savored one small masterpiece at a time and not gobbled up indiscrim…
There's no avoiding politics these days. Not even a thrilling stage adaptation of the great American novel set on the high seas can offer complete escape. At Saturday's matinee of "Moby Dick…
Last week an artistic leader greeted an opening-night audience with a spiel about why supporting theater is more important now than ever. She was referring to the new political reality, and …
Penny Fuller plays a well-coiffed widow in "13 Things About Ed Carpolotti," a charming cabaret-scale one-act musical in which her character finds out that the husband she's mourning had been…
For better or worse, 2016 has been a truly Shakespearean year. It has also been the year of Donald Trump, a figure who could no doubt hold his own in one of Shakespeare's ruthless history pl…
"Amélie, A New Musical," which began at Berkeley Repertory Theatre last year, has brought its whimsical magic to the Ahmanson Theatre, where a retooled production starring Phillipa Soo (lat…
I'm not sure how you spent your Saturday night but I spent part of mine in a hotel room with a bunch of strangers looking at a naked man sprawled out on his bed like T.S. Eliot's "patient et…
