"Dear Evan Hansen," the heart-wrenching Broadway hit that dominated this year's Tony Awards with six wins including best musical, will come to Los Angeles as part of Center Theatre Group's 2…
Jane Kaczmarek will star as the Stage Manager in an upcoming production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," a co-production of Pasadena Playhouse and Deaf West Theatre. The play, directed by To…
Contestants in "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's #Ham4All campaign were vying for a rare prize: tickets to opening night of the musical in Los Angeles, plus airfare, hotel accommodatio…
Joshua Henry is at a loss for words. It doesn't happen often. The gregarious, golden-voiced actor who stars as Aaron Burr in the national tour of "Hamilton" opening Aug. 16 at the Hollywood …
"Have you heard of a show called 'Hamilton'?" Emmy Raver-Lampman's agent asked her in spring 2015. The actress had just concluded the national tour of "Wicked" in Los Angeles. The hype surro…
Wendie Malick is set to star alongside a cast with notable television résumés for the world premiere of playwright Paul Rudnick's "Big Night," Center Theatre Group announced Tuesday. The p…
Tony-winning actor Mandy Patinkin dropped out of the Broadway show "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" on Friday, after an announcement that he would be replacing African American ac…
National Theatre's acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Angels in America," starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, will be broadcast live to theaters in the U…
Deaf West Theatre was created by the deaf community as a place where deaf actors could come together with hearing actors in service of vivid theater. The company's productions of "Big River"…
Joe Mantegna may be best known as an actor, most recently starring as FBI special agent David Rossi on the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds." But he's no stranger to the stage, having won a T…
For 11 nights in late May and early June, Julius Caesar was brutally stabbed to death without much fuss as part of the Public Theater's annual Shakespeare production in Central Park. On June…
The show features 246 songs. It's 24 hours long, split into six-hour chapters. And, yes, you are expected to sit through all six hours. This is theater of the unexpected; it is theater of ca…
In the midst of the social media-firestorm surrounding the Public Theater's staging of "Julius Caesar" featuring the brutal stabbing of an orange-haired dictator, Donald Trump Jr. asked two …
You could barely move backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday night. Turn right and you'd bang into Matthew Broderick, turn left and you'd slam into Edward James Olmos, and Louis Gosse…
In Los Angeles, the pursuit of art and the quest for love share a common denominator: If you find yourself regularly braving the 405 or 10 freeways in search of fulfillment, it must be serio…
Laurie Metcalf got a call from producer Scott Rudin on Tuesday morning. It was great news: The actress had been nominated for a Tony Award for her lauded performance as Nora Helmer in playwr…
After a month worrying about the fate of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the hundreds of community organizations that the agency supports nationwide, the arts world found…
Teachers from a Pacoima middle school camp overnight and are first to score seats for the musical's national tour, but only after a little drama in the ticket line.
Center Theatre Group will partner with regional theaters in Chicago, New York and London to co-commission works by renowned playwrights including Pultizer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and Paul…
The musical "Allegiance," inspired by the early life of actor George Takei in World War II internment camps, will come to L.A. in 2018, co-producers East West Players and the Japanese Americ…
Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has only one thing to say about the fact that "Spamilton," a popular "Hamilton" spoof, will launch its national tour at the Kirk Dougla…
Tim Robbins' first time getting paid as an actor was through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a gangly 15-year-old performing street theater in New York with Theater …
To borrow a line from Sonnet 18, summer's lease hath all too short a date when the Independent Shakespeare Co. wraps up its annual free performances in Griffith Park each September. The nonp…
The story of the American West would be incomplete without the indigenous people who occupied this territory long before the arrival of European immigrants. Giving the descendants of indigen…
King Kong had no chance against the Beast. Disney's "Beauty and The Beast," the new live-action adaptation of the studio's 1991 animated classic, is on its way to shattering box office recor…