Gordon Davidson, the Center Theatre Group impresario who launched, defined and for 38 years personified Los Angeles' flagship theater, the Mark Taper Forum, has died, his family said. He was…
Four of the six plays in La Jolla Playhouse's 2016-17 season will be world premieres, including veteran playwright Joe DiPietro diving into the seamy side of movie history with "Hollywood," …
Will Eno, a playwright who's been a critics' favorite for the past decade but has been largely missing from L.A. stages, will finally get a prominent production here, thanks to the star powe…
Singer, actress and filmmaker Barbra Streisand and Itzhak Perlman, one of this era's most honored classical musicians, are arts figures who will receive American's highest civilian honor, th…
Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who lives in Brooklyn overlooking the East River, spoke over the phone from this aerie, frequently breaking into a raspy, rust-encrusted laugh that sounded l…
"Hello, Dolly!" is still glowin' and goin' strong as one of the signature, regularly revived American musicals, but the 1964 show about turn-of-the-century matchmaker Dolly Levi, with songs …
A survey of nonprofit theaters nationwide shows that they've upped their game since the Great Recession when it comes to attracting donors and earning money, but that their audiences have co…
After more than 25 years of telling the world what he thinks of Los Angeles theater as a reviewer and essayist -- with the mandate to provoke that comes with that territory -- Steven Leigh M…
The Music Center's refusal to fully open its books to Los Angeles County auditors isn't sitting well with Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who is calling for the downtown performing arts cente…
Suzan-Lori Parks has reason to feel like a million dollars: On Wednesday she will be announced as the winner of the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, organizers said, raising her tota…
The MacArthur Foundation has given its "genius grant" imprimatur for 2015 to six visual and performing artists, ranging from the current darling of the Broadway stage -- "Hamilton" composer …
A Los Angeles theater website's controversial but novel bid to prop up one of the 21st century's dwindling occupations " professional theater criticism " has failed to take hold, with few th…
The 2016 season of the Mark Taper Forum won't premiere any new work, but it will venture persistently into minefields where divisions between religious and racial allegiances detonate …
The Segerstrom Center for the Arts has launched a $68-million campaign to reach a broader, more diverse public, centered on reconfiguring its outdoor plaza to make it busier and more attract…
Lynn Manning overcame blindness from a barroom bullet to forge a 30-year career as a champion athlete, poet, actor, theater company founder and, especially, playwright inspired by his own ha…
"Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara" is back on its feet after a six-year interruption and is headed for the Geffen Playhouse and Laguna Playhouse this winter in what's billed as a new prod…
Tim Dang will step down a year from now as producing artistic director of East West Players, the downtown Los Angeles theater company he's led since 1993.
Like platinum and gold, Shakespeare's plays can be stretched and twisted into any number of unusual shapes without losing their intrinsic brilliance.
The old adage, "you get what you pay for," has acquired new meaning on the Los Angeles theater scene, where a busy stage website, Bitter Lemons, is making this offer to theaters: Send us $15…
Gov. Jerry Brown has a reputation as a budget hawk who'll pounce on stray spending he thinks could leave California's state government with IOUs that its coffers can't cover - and he lived u…
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Rachel Moore, a former dancer and the longtime top business executive of New York's American Ballet Theatre, will be the next president and CEO of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Americans' donations to arts and culture rose 9.4% in 2014, the highest increase in nine categories tracked by Giving USA, an annual report on charitable contributions.
The old adage, "you get what you pay for," has acquired new meaning on the Los Angeles theater scene, where a busy stage website, Bitter Lemons , is making this offer to theaters: Send us $…
Like platinum and gold, Shakespeare's plays can be stretched and twisted into any number of unusual shapes without losing their intrinsic brilliance.