Percy B. Long wore wingtips and rolled his own cigarettes. He managed the Webster Theater in the days before talkies, when trains ran swift and nights settled over plowed fields that spread …
While the country confronts the violent reemergence of white supremacists, Los Angeles is welcoming an antidote in "Hamilton." The hip-hop musical about equality and inclusion, officially op…
Oscar-winning director John G. Avildsen, whose "Rocky" sent a shot of adrenaline through movie theaters and turned Sylvester Stallone into one of cinema's most unforgettable boxers, has died…
I don't remember the name of the theater. It was long ago in an alley not far from the Trevi Fountain in Rome. The bus had dropped us off in the rain and we hurried to the ticket booth, wher…
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A real life look at the crazy odds and tortured dreams of making it in La La Land By Jeffrey Fleishman Feb. 17, 2017 Beyond a stretch of thrift stores and …
Denzel Washington strolls in dressed all baggy: ingratiating, sly, a man of eloquence and scat, quiet and crescendo. The bulk of him rises. So many things writ into him, saint, connive…
Emily Parker stood still on pointe. Arms spread like wings, she fixed her gaze somewhere in the distance. Dancers spun around her like ribbons in a breeze. A bend, a twist, a slide of foo…
The anguished warrior cried out from across the ages. "Train your eyes on those evil men, snatch them with your talons and, just as I die at my own hands, may they also be murdered by their …
Annette Bening will perform at the Geffen in 'Ruth Draper's Monologues,' channeling a performer who created dozens of idiosyncratic characters — not unlike Bening herself. Annette Beni…
Other companies have shied from 'The Death of Klinghoffer,' about the Achille Lauro hijacking and killing of Leon Klinghoffer, but Long Beach Opera embraces 'moving piece.'It is an opera tha…