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…
Kate Shindle was performing concerts on a cruise ship in the Bahamas when the musical "Fun Home" opened on Broadway in 2015. The show won five Tony Awards that year, including best musical, …
The Geffen Playhouse on Wednesday announced one world and three West Coast premieres as part of its 2017-18 season. Kicking off the season are the West Coast premieres of Halley Feiffer's of…
Conductor Christopher Rountree stands illuminated by a spotlight on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage. He takes a soothing breath and encourages the 2,100 middle school students seated befo…
The crowd-pleasing adaptation of "Waitress" and the national tour of Tony winner "The Color Purple" highlight the Hollywood Pantages season for 2017-18, the theater announced Tuesday. Rou…
The soap in the bathroom of the Huntington Beach High School auditorium is strawberry scented, but inside the main theater it smells of raw ambition. This is the regional semifinals of what'…
Aladdin speaks only English. Princess Jasmine speaks only Spanish. The divide is the work of the evil Jafar, though the antagonist accidentally enables Rajah the tiger and Abu the monkey …