1,324 stories by "Charles McNulty"
"In Your Arms," the audience-pleasing new dance musical receiving its world premiere at the Old Globe, seems designed, packaged and market-tested for Broadway.
The most tantalizing aspect of "La Mélancolie des Dragons," an eccentric performance work by French artist and director Philippe Quesne, is the gentle camaraderie of the longhaired heavy-me…
Commedia dell'arte meets British farce: In "One Man, Two Guvnors," Richard Bean gives Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy "The Servant of Two Masters" the Benny Hill treatment.
"Amélie," the new musical based on the offbeat 2001 French film that made a star out of a pixieish Audrey Tautou, does more than translate for an American audience the tale of a minor mirac…
The program for South Coast Repertory's production of Qui Nguyen's "Vietgone," which is having its world premiere in Costa Mesa, has some interesting biographical tidbits about the author th…
From the merest suggestion in Shakespeare's "Othello" that Desdemona may have had an African maid as a girl, Toni Morrison imagines hidden dimensions in the mind and heart of the Senator's d…
Funny the way success renders yesterday's avant-garde palatable to today's mainstream. Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard, once bewildering to theatergoers addicted to stories with a beginning, m…
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements. The biggest statement by far was "Fun Home" winning five Tonys, including the best musical award, t…
The Fountain Theatre, established 25 years ago, began, as many things used to do, with a fateful phone call.
On the outside, Dan, the 31-year-old computer guy with a fleshy middle, knows he comes off as "unassuming and plain." Good at math, he tells us he's 5-foot-10, 200 pounds and that 52 is the …
Shortly after savoring Rogue Machine Theatre's scrupulously acted production of Samuel D. Hunter's "A Permanent Image" and just before attending the much-praised Antaeus Company revival of W…
It's hard to go wrong with "Spamalot" at the Hollywood Bowl. The Tony-winning show, based on the cult movie comedy "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," leaves no silliness unturned as it affec…
It's only fitting that American Conservatory Theater should inaugurate the Strand, its new second stage in the city's tech corridor, with a recent play by the inexhaustibly original British …
"Kiss Me, Kate," the 1948 backstage musical comedy with the matchless Cole Porter score, seems made for blissed-out summer nights - a classic to be savored with gelato and Prosecco for those…
How does it feel seeing your life pass before your eyes in a documentary?
Terrorists make the covers of newspapers while those who selflessly give comfort and support in times of crisis are usually relegated to the back pages.
The lesson of "Waterfall," the ersatz new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse, is that you can't judge a show by the resumes of the artists.
How can you not love a musical about a badly mistreated pint-sized prodigy whose passion for reading rescues her from the bullies and boors around her?
Critic's notebook on last night's awards
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements.
How do the voters make their Tony Award decisions? Here's the capricious breakdown.
The world isn't a meritocracy, the prize doesn't always go to the most deserving and Vincent van Gogh isn't the only artist to have gone to his grave unheralded.
"Murder for Two," a musical whodunit performed cabaret-theater style by two indefatigable actors, is part tag team, part tug of war.
The Public Theater's game-changing artistic director has been retooling the American musical
Who's the toast of Broadway at the moment? While fans of Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O'Hara duke it out, let's raise a glass to Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's game-changing artistic dire…
