The writer and actress Sarah Jones is gorgeous, about 8 feel tall (at least it seems that way) and rail thin, with a wide mane of hair. When she walks onstage at the Geffen Playhouse, where …
This week's offerings on SoCal's smaller stages: "Bingo Hall" from the Native American theater company at the Autry, "3 Plays by Pat Kinevane" at the Odyssey, "The Madres" at Skylight and th…
The composer has some dishy tidbits to share in his new autobiography, but in matters such as his falling out with lyricist Tim Rice, Webber pulls back. What the man behind "Phantom," "Cats,…
This week's theater picks: "The City of Conversation," examining the right-left divide in American politics; Shakespeare's "Henry V"; "The Cake," about religious divides and family bonds; an…
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: Rising playwright Anna Ziegler's "A Delicate Ship" at the Road on Magnolia, Aaron Posner's "The Chosen" at the Fountain, "The Last Wife" at Theatre 4…
The line between real life and entertainment can seem increasingly blurry these days, especially for those in Tinseltown who find themselves in traffic alongside the celebrities whose charac…
Mozart's final opera, "The Magic Flute," is not only one of the most frequently revived and crowd-pleasing of his works, but also possibly the most difficult to summarize. Prince Tamino's ar…
Our weekly picks for L.A.'s small-theater scene include Antaeus' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Danny Glover in East West Players' "Yohen," the Odyssey's "Macbeth x 5" and "Encuentro de las Ame…
James Cagney is remembered best for playing tough-talking gangsters in Warner Bros. movies in the 1930s and '40s, which, according to "Cagney," a loving and cartoonish small-scale bio-musica…
It's part haunted house, part art installation, part performance-art piece: The Rogue Artist Ensemble and East West Players' immersive "Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin" unfolds in an abandon…
The old Hollywood adage that directing is 90% casting holds just as true in the theater, especially with a new play: Those first performances can turn heads, build buzz, entice other theater…
The Broadway star Carmen Cusack arrives at the Silver Lake Reservoir dressed for a midday walk in shorts, sneakers, a hat and sunglasses. Even the most devoted theater fanatic would be hard-…
Jeremy J. Kamps' play "Runaway Home," now premiering at the Fountain Theatre, is set in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward three years after Hurricane Katrina. The waters may have long receded, but…
Our weekly picks in the small-theater scene: "The View UpStairs" at Celebration, "Exit Strategy" at the LBGT Center, "Br'er Cotton" at Zephyr and "Wicked Lit" in Altadena.
Los Angeles actresses Rebecca Mozo and Linda Park have learned what to expect when they tell TV and film colleagues that they're juggling pilot auditions and shooting schedules with theater …
If you enjoy Cirque du Soleil acrobats but believe they'd be even better with dirty jokes, then "Absinthe" is the spinoff you've been waiting for. Playing downtown in a tent at L.A. Live, "A…
"There's a beautiful line by T.S. Eliot," says the actress Jane Kaczmarek: "'Something about how we wander through life, '… and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star…
Chita Rivera originated some of the most indelible roles of Broadway's Golden Age: Anita in "West Side Story," Velma in "Chicago," Rosie in "Bye Bye Birdie." She also starred in the film ver…
I spent much of "The Lion," singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer's one-man musical at the Geffen Playhouse, inwardly commiserating with my twentysomething self. She hung out in so many coffee …
Panto, short for pantomime, is a family entertainment popular at Christmastime in Britain since the 1700s " and more recently here at the Pasadena Playhouse, where Lythgoe Family Produ…
During Alena Smith's play "Icebergs," in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, thirtysomething screenwriter Calder (Nate Corddry) sets up an air mattress in his Silver Lake living room…
When I was a kid watching cartoon on TV in New Jersey, I saw ads for Broadway shows: "Annie," "Peter Pan," "Barnum," "Evita" " fascinating, frustrating teasers that left plot lines mysteriou…
The Getty Villa, that reproduction Roman estate in the Pacific Palisades where the J. Paul Getty Museum keeps an antiquities collection, has presented a Greek or Roman play in its outdoor am…
There should be a special award for when one actor wins the Tony, but then another actor still finds a way to kill the role " to act the heck out of it and to make it new. I'd nominate Hugo …
From the title of Jerry Lieblich's play "D Deb Debbie Deborah," I was ready for an exploration of the fluidity of identity, perhaps at different stages of a woman's life. But in this West…