Marc Masterson, artistic director of South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, will leave his post when his contract expires at the end of the current season, the theater announced Thursday eveni…
Just how high is the demand for the Broad's upcoming "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" exhibition? After 50,000 tickets sold out in less than an hour earlier this month, the museum announced …
Randall Arney, the former artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles who was dismissed in February after 17 years at the theater, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Geffen of…
Randall Arney, the former artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles who was dismissed in February after 17 years at the theater, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Geffen of…
When the curtain finally rose and those first familiar notes of "Hamilton" rang out inside the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on opening night Wednesday, the audience erupted in applause so loud…
Hollywood Boulevard, 4:45 a.m. The sky is charcoal-colored and hazy, the nearly empty streets bathed in a blur of red, orange and green from a thicket of neon signage " the W Hollywood hotel…
The musical's storied rise from a single 4-minute, 20-second song to mixtape to Off-Broadway project to Broadway hit and worldwide sensation. London, you're next.
Growing up in 1980s Detroit as part of the Winans gospel clan, music was a way of life for BeBe and CeCe Winans " and later it became a calling. After the teenage brother-sister duo joined J…
The Hammer's annual fundraising soiree will be especially smart this year: The museum announced on Friday that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker th…
Debra Jo Rupp has had more than 300 TV and film roles, and she's still best known as doting mom Kitty Forman in "That '70s Show." But the actress is most at home onstage, she says, where she…
"Well, hello, Tony!" That could have been Bette Midler's mantra Sunday evening as she took the stage to accept her award for lead actress in a musical for "Hello, Dolly!" Throughout her more…
You could say Susan Stroman is crazy for the musical. In 1992 Stroman launched her career by choreographing the original Broadway production of "Crazy for You," a Wall Street-boy-meets-Main …
The Ford Theatres, the 97-year-old outdoor amphitheatre nestled in the Hollywood Hills, has finally completed its $72.2-million renovation, and the facility is promising a spirit of collabor…
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is hardly a shoestring operation, with its $255-million endowment and an annual budget of $120 million for the 2015-16 season. The 106-member orchestra led by Gu…
"Hamilton" may celebrate inclusion, but the frenzied quest for tickets to the musical's Los Angeles run has left some ticket hopefuls confused or worried they will be left out. Performances …
Los Angeles "Hamilton" fans, take note: 10 a.m. April 30. That's when individual tickets for the musical's run at the Hollywood Pantages will go on sale, the theater announced Tuesday. Ameri…
Randall Arney is stepping down as artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, the company said Tuesday. After 17 years with the company, Arney will leave when his contract ends…
When the Hollywood Bowl announces its 2017 summer season on Tuesday, the lineup will swing from the ABBA musical "Mamma Mia!" to a Gustavo Dudamel-conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony,…
Al Pacino stumbles onstage during rehearsals at the Pasadena Playhouse, his rumpled suit too loose, his hair disheveled, his eyes buggy. The set of playwright Dotson Rader's "God Looked Away…
If you missed George Takei's Broadway musical, "Allegiance" " or the subsequent one-night-only screening of the live production in movie theaters nationwide " then fear not.  It's com…
If there was an arts buzzword for 2016, it was "immersive." The word landed in our email boxes with invites to immersive theater events. It topped press releases announcing immersiv…
The portrait is tall and stately, its subject a distinguished gentleman who stands with chest puffed out, proudly. But here's the thing: He wears no pants. The man, it turns out, stands atop…
Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty has written that we're enjoying  "one of the most exciting periods in American playwriting in at least a generation," one in which "a cadr…
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced Friday that it has named Gerun Riley as its new president. Riley has spent 13 years with the Broad Foundation, which provides grants in educatio…
Christopher Verdugo, executive director of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, is engaged in something of an alphabet scramble: The leader of GMCLA is headed to the SFGMC - the San Francisc…