Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson toiled for years to adapt Homer's 'The Iliad' into a modern play, and O'Hare will face its challenges in 'An Iliad' on the Broad Stage starting this week.Denis…
Alec Baldwin has taken his lumps as a verbal loose cannon, but Americans for the Arts, a leading national advocacy group for nonprofit arts organizations, still trusts Baldwin as one of its …
The governor would reduce funds for the state arts council and the California Science Center. Arts advocates hope to offset cuts with a higher allocation from the general fund.Advocates of b…
Brian Dennehy will be extending his current L.A. run by one performance -- not in Sebastian Barry’s “The Steward of Christendom” at the Mark Taper Forum, which closes Jan. …
Deborah Rutter, who grew up in Encino and began her career as an orchestra executive in Los Angeles, will be the next president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washi…
Paul Robeson was one of the most widely accomplished Americans who ever lived -- All-American football player, lawyer, concert singer and recording artist, star actor on stage and screen in …
They're also racially divided in a take devised by Sheldon Epps and starring Jason George. Epps discusses how it came about.One of Barack Obama's most heartfelt moments as president and the …
Brian Dennehy confronts an almost-impossible part at the Taper in 'The Steward of Christendom,' a green monster of a play set in post-revolutionary Ireland.Brian Dennehy sat cross-legged on …
The Geffen Playhouse confirmed Monday that the $397 it’s currently charging for the best seats to Bette Midler’s upcoming one-woman show have set a house record, blowing beyond t…
Want to see Bette Midler’s upcoming run at the Geffen Playhouse in her one-woman show, “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers?” It’ll cost you. The best …
Here’s the thing about having a long, busy acting career: one moment a performer finds himself at the extreme margin of agony, trudging the stage with Cordelia in his arms, and the nex…
Olga Garay-English will step down Jan. 4 after 6 1/2 years as head of Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday.
Thirteen arts and cultural institutions have made the most recent top 400 list of American charities, ranked by the donations they took in.
Culture Monster tried to get a little orchestral dust-up going this week but didn't get far.Â
Charlie Robinson says playing Willy Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' at South Coast Repertory makes him 'more thankful for the life I have.'When 13-year-old Luca Robinson caught a long touchdo…
The Orange County stage company plans to move a few doors down in February. Seating capacity is expected to triple from 49 to 150.The Chance Theater's audience won't need driving directions …
Diahann Carroll is no theatrical Rip Van Winkle, although one might think that was the case, going by early reports of her recently announced return to Broadway next spring opposite Denzel W…
California arts advocates are thanking Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles) for putting money where his mouth is by adding $2 million to the budget for the state’s arts grantm…
The $2 million budget boost for the California Arts Council likely will allow the Golden State to shed its dubious distinction as the nation’s stingiest state for arts-grant funding …
California’s arts grant-making agency announced Monday that it will get $3 million this year from state coffers instead of the $1 million called for in the budget legislators passed in…
The world is used to watching actual or fictitious Orange Countians on television in “Arrested Development,” “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and “The O.C…
For more than 20 years at UC Irvine, Dudley Knight devised innovative and sometimes controversial ways of teaching acting students to speak clearly while lending their characters authentic, …
The curtain has come down on one of the best theater-going deals anywhere: lifetime subscriptions to the Pasadena Playhouse that were offered briefly in 1994 for a one-time, $5,000 donation.
Tony Kushner’s landmark achievements have been “Angels in America,” the epic 1992 stage play that showed humanly flawed gay men loving, honoring and cherishing each other a…