216 stories by "Mike Boehm"
Here's catnip for musical theater lovers who are into "Into the Woods" in specific and Stephen Sondheim in general.
A decade and a half has passed since Los Angeles city officials first resolved to renovate and reinvigorate the Vaudeville-era Vision Theatre as an arts hub for Leimert Park, itself a histor…
It's said that a coward dies a thousand deaths and a brave man only once, but Alton Fitzgerald White is about to die bravely for the 4,000th time playing Simba's regal dad in "The Lion King."
The property-tax measure, a continuation of earlier levies, would benefit parks and cultural sites, among other places in the county. Previous beneficiaries include the Bowl and LACMA.The pr…
If there's a great theater lobby in the sky, Diana Gibson, a vivid and sometimes harsh presence on L.A.'s small-theater scene for more than 30 years, arrived there July 17 after her death at…
A diverse roster of big names in the arts, literature and entertainment " including Linda Ronstadt, dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones, author Maxine Hong Kingston, Broadway composer John Ka…
The builders of a subway that will run between Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Colburn School of Music are promising to deploy a triple helping of the most advanced noise-suppression measur…
Danielle Brazell, whose job over the past eight years has included regularly prodding City Hall to spend more money and pay more attention to L.A.'s nonprofit arts scene, has been nominated …
When Carole King and her Broadway alter-ego, actress Jessie Mueller, took the stage separately during the Tony Awards ceremony, they probably succeeded in making lots of viewers feel that do…
From the moment Tony Awards host Hugh Jackman entered hopping … and hopping … and hopping some more, all around Radio City Music Hall, a theme of Sunday night's show was that Broadway do…
The labor and financial drama that has become a discordant leitmotif in the opera and symphonic world could be building for the Metropolitan Opera, America's biggest-budgeted performing arts…
Among the untold thousands of actors who've tackled the title role of "Macbeth," John Walcutt may have been the first whose director instructed him to think of himself as a legitimate heir t…
In a symmetrical bit of casting for a show that first won acclaim as a television play in 1953, the Ahmanson Theatre’s fall production of “The Trip to Bountiful” will add V…
In a symmetrical bit of casting for a show that first won acclaim as a television play in 1953, the Ahmanson Theatre's fall production of "The Trip to Bountiful" will add Vanessa Williams an…
Sure it pays for a theater critic to be right, but for Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal, coming from the right has paid off to the tune of $250,000 -- the amount of a prize he'll …
San Diego Opera announced Tuesday that its bid to make crowdfunding a key to its survival had brought in $328,475 since last Friday, nearly a third of the online and telephone campaign's goa…
William Shakespeare's 450th birthday falls on Wednesday, per historians' best reckoning in the absence of ironclad documentation. It’s time to remember that “in delay there lies …
Two prominent theater productions are focusing on the actor-singer and political figure. The actors playing him, Keith David and Daniel Beaty, meet over a meal to talk about a man they've lo…
'CSI' alum William Petersen, making his L.A. stage debut in 'Slowgirl,' and Geffen Playhouse's Randall Arney recount a shared theatrical history.From David Mamet's first expletive-laced succ…
President Obama is set to nominate the low-profile Jane Chu, CEO of Missouri's Kauffman Center, as the next National Endowment for the Arts chairman.Opting for arts-administration and fundra…
State Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) said Wednesday that he would submit a bill that would commit at least $25 million a year from state tax coffers to California’s government arts grant m…
With apologies to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, the title of this theater tale could be "Out of the Woods."
Forced to jettison a master of disquieting stage menace, Harold Pinter, when its revival of “The Birthday Party” broke an axel or two during rehearsals last month, the Geffen Pla…
California arts companies can only dream of getting a $250,000 grant from the budgetarily challenged California Arts Council.
