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 …
The national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical "Hamilton" revealed its cast Thursday:Â Two-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry will play Aaron Burr, Michael Luwoye will be Alexande…
When you can burn this article like a bra, women will cheer. That is the sentiment among Los Angeles theater professionals at the close of a year in which so many strong productions by women…
In a "Hamilton"-less year, the Grammy nominees announced Tuesday for musical theater album consist of five eclectic shows: "Bright Star," "The Color Purple," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Kinky…
Lena Hall stares into the mirror in her dressing room backstage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, where she is  making musical history in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."  To her righ…
If you missed seeing the Broadway hit "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" when it was at the Pantages this summer, take note. The show is coming to Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Tues…
California may be in a drought, but inside Walt Disney Concert Hall it's cloudy with a chance of rain. Nebulous slate-colored thunderheads loom above the escalators that transport visitors f…
Twelve years have passed since the premiere of ABC's hit series "Lost," but die-hard fans are still as crazy about it as ever. So is Michael Giacchino, the man who composed the series' music…
Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney will perform one more night in L.A. of their sold-out show, "Oh, Hello," representatives said Monday. The show had a five-night run at Hollywood's Mo…
The 400th anniversary of beloved poet and playwright William Shakespeare's death will be marked around the world on Saturday. Places like the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C…
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is known for taking on timely social issues via music and movement, and the New York company's upcoming three nights in Los Angeles are no exception, particul…
The Music Center of Los Angeles will announce its 2016-2017 dance season on Tuesday, and organizers say the boundary-pushing lineup features some of the art form's most exciting established …
Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland think they're the funniest people in the room. Their creators, however, comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, know that most of the time Faizon and St. Ge…
"Hit the Wall," a play about the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots, and "Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles," which sets a classic Greek tragedy in Boyle Heights, won the top award Monday night at the Lo…
Sheila Callaghan doesn't just want to make you laugh. She wants to tickle you until you squirm.The playwright behind Center Theatre Group's "Women Laughing Alone With Salad," opening at the …
The set for La Mirada Theatre's new musical "Empire" is so different that director and choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge has given it a name: Helga. The old-fashioned musical is all about w…
The Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Baldwin Hills is hot. Hot with sweat, hot with frenetic movement and hot with excitement. On a brisk January morning, the unassuming, cheerful space around …
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced its annual awards nominations Friday, and the L.A. LGBT Center's "Hit the Wall" led all contenders with seven citations, followed by "Mojada: A…
Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Sheldon Epps, a leading voice for more diversity onstage and in theater audiences, will step down from his post at the end of the 2016-17 season, officia…
Big Brother isn't watching you. You're watching him. An acclaimed adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian vision on the future, "1984," is crossing the Atlantic to make its U.S. debut on the…