216 stories by "Mike Boehm"
"The 24 Hour Plays” is an annual bid to capitalize on L.A.’s convenient convergence of celebrities and celebrity lust, in a show whose proceeds go to arts education programs for …
In terms of donations, arts and culture was Americans’ fastest-growing charitable cause in 2012, rising an estimated 7.8% to $14.44 billion, according to a leading annual research repo…
Arts advocates who tried to throw a touchdown bomb in Sacramento this spring were sacked for a loss instead Friday as the California Legislature passed a $234-billion budget that cuts fundin…
Center Theatre Group's Michael Ritchie and Edward Rada say they expect a $500,000 loss. As the nonprofit's nest egg shrinks, it needs a fundraising push. By some measures, L.A.'s Center Thea…
In live theater, a performer has to know how to make an entrance, and television critics reviewing Sunday's CBS telecast of the Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall in New York City appl…
Having developed a momentary case of the 20-year itch for the beloved production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” that it has been rolling out since 1993, Los Angeles Opera an…
Some people think “Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark” was the worst disaster ever to hit a New York City stage, but the problem-plagued musical’s balky machinery, injured flyin…
The director helmed the successful 'Nicholas Nickleby' for Royal Shakespeare Company and co-directed 'Les Misérables' into prominence.John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production o…
Mark Taper Forum actors Keith David, John Douglas Thompson and Glynn Turman relive their encounters with the playwright and with his mentor-director Lloyd Richards.Among the pleasures of see…
The ensemble, cooked up in 1983 at a now-defunct Italian restaurant, celebrates its 30th birthday and the composer's 200th with concerts this weekend. Large classical music ensembles are no …
An arts-funding bill moves a step ahead as advocates hope for change amid an improving economy.With California still ranked last nationally in per capita state spending on government grants …
“The Book of Mormon” and “Once,” Broadway musicals that dominated the two most recent Tony Awards, will come to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa during th…
Carole King’s life and times – and songs she wrote with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin -- will be the stuff of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” whose producers are…
The San Francisco Symphony’s musicians are on strike, leading to the cancellation of Thursday’s scheduled performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and the first in a series o…
Ending a 34-year run that made him one of the longest-tenured artistic directors on the Southern California theater scene, Thomas F. Bradac has announced he’ll retire as leader of Shak…
Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez has left as artistic director, saying company's mission has been changed to focus on South L.A. The board's chair defends its position.The Watts Village Theater Co…
It looks like “batter up!” again on the theatrical boards: Mickey Mantle is the subject of a new play that writer-producer David Leaf is working on with the cooperation of Danny …
'The Book of Mormon' will return to Hollywood Jan. 21-Feb. 9, 2014.The 2013-14 season at the Pantages Theatre will feature last year’s most decorated Broadway musical, “Once,&rdq…
Starring Deborah Cox and Constantine Maroulis, the production is playing at the Pantages Theatre but also being readied for Broadway.The lithe beauty in the form-fitting, flame-red sweater-j…
“What’s in a name,” quoth the Bard of Avon in “Romeo and Juliet.”
