Broadway theaters to reopen Wednesday after an expensive rainout by Mike Boehm

The Broadway League, which represents producers and theater owners, announced on its website Tuesday that it expects "most shows" to resume on Wednesday, when the majority are scheduled for …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:17am on October 31, 2012☆⚑

Broadway theaters to reopen Wednesday after an expensive rainout by Mike Boehm

On Broadway, the name “Sandy” normally calls to mind an adorable canine star – the heroine's sidekick in the musical “Annie,” whose current revival directed by …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:00am on October 31, 2012☆⚑

TV's Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin will costar in new play by Mike Boehm

Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin, who played to many millions of weekly television viewers when they were Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in “MASH on CBS and attorney Michae…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00pm on October 25, 2012☆⚑

'Book of Mormon' sets new one-week box-office mark at Pantages by Mike Boehm

Mormons in Africa apparently have elbowed aside witches in Oz to achieve what the Pantages Theatre says is the highest one-week box-office gross in L.A. theater history.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 4:49pm on October 23, 2012☆⚑

Shakespeare expert Barry Edelstein to lead San Diego's Old Globe by Mike Boehm

Barry Edelstein, a Shakespeare expert who has held executive positions at two New York City theaters, has been picked as the next artistic director of San Diego’s Old Globe.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 5:57pm on October 16, 2012☆⚑

SCR gets $600,000 to do a play with and about Santa Ana Latinos by Mike Boehm

South Coast Repertory is the first of seven Southern California arts organizations to detail its plans for its share of $3.65 million in grants that the James Irvine Foundation issued this m…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00am on October 12, 2012☆⚑

Audra McDonald weds fellow musical theater star Will Swenson by Mike Boehm

There’s no word whether they sang at their own wedding, but one of Broadway’s most decorated stars, Audra McDonald, tied the knot Saturday with Will Swenson, a fellow musical the…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 4:48pm on October 7, 2012☆⚑

Landmark Stephen Sondheim festival finds new life online by Mike Boehm

Theater is a notoriously ephemeral art, but the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is using its website to summon the decade-old glories of the 2002 "Sondheim Celebration," which…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00am on September 21, 2012☆⚑

Pasadena Playhouse keeps artistic director, hires new executive by Mike Boehm

Sheldon Epps has a 'multi-year' extension of his Pasadena Playhouse artistic director contract, and Elizabeth Doran will take over as executive director from Charles Dillingham.Sheldon Epps …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:51pm on September 13, 2012☆⚑

Cherry Jones, Raul Esparza give Sundance Theatre Lab star power by Mike Boehm

The annual Sundance Theatre Lab at Robert Redford ’s Sundance resort in Utah means hard work in a relaxed setting for playwrights who get three weeks to tinker with nascent …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on July 10, 2012☆⚑

Working fast for charity, 24 Hour Plays returns to Broad Stage by Mike Boehm

The 24 Hour Plays, a staple of the New York City theater community's charitable effort for arts education since 2006, made its L.A. debut last June at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica -- wher…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 2:52pm on June 15, 2012☆⚑

ArtPlace grants will bring $1.2 million to downtown L.A. by Mike Boehm

ArtPlace grants go to Broadway Arts Center, CalArts, SCI-Arc and Cornerstone Theater Company in. Also, Mercado La Paloma in South L.A. gets funds.Grand Avenue and LA Live have been the focal…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 2:52pm on June 14, 2012☆⚑

Valley and Soka performing arts centers set for second seasons by Mike Boehm

Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge and Soka Performing Arts Center at Soka University in Aliso Viejo have ambitions for sophomore year.The Valley Performing Arts Center at…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:00am on June 5, 2012☆⚑

Fresh name and perspective for UCLA's performing arts series by Mike Boehm

The new season of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, formerly UCLA Live, includes a return to theater and a focus on residencies aimed at spurring creativity.If names predict des…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 26, 2012☆⚑

Opera designer Robert Israel's sculptures will cheer sick kids by Mike Boehm

Veteran opera and stage designer Robert Israel has done 11 huge sculptures for a new children's hospital wing in Baltimore. The UCLA professor -- currently working on a ballet at La Scala in…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:03am on March 24, 2012☆⚑

L.A. region's arts development ambitions face uncertain future by Mike Boehm

A state law that recently abolished community redevelopment agencies has advocates pondering the future of cultural projects and their funding in L.A., Long Beach and elsewhere.On a typical …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:00am on March 17, 2012☆⚑

John Malkovich's message to the theater world on its special day by Mike Boehm

John Malkovich will give the annual message for World Theatre Day in Paris at a March 22 kickoff gala of events leading up to the 50th annual celebration on March 27. Here's the text he'll d…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:16pm on March 9, 2012☆⚑

A big show in NYC, but little in LA for Japan quake benefit by Mike Boehm

The New York City nonprofit theater world has come together for a star-studded benefit for Japanese theater companies on this Sunday's anniversary of the massive northern Japan earthquake an…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:59pm on March 8, 2012☆⚑

'Spring Awakening' team to bring fairy-tale show to La Jolla by Mike Boehm

`Spring Awakening' creators Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater are working on a musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, `The Nightingale.' It will have a workshop staging this summe…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 5:49pm on March 6, 2012☆⚑

Mike Tyson to debut onstage in one-man Vegas show about himself by Mike Boehm

Mike Tyson will make his stage debut next month in Las Vegas with "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth -- Live on Stage." After that, the controversial former heavyweight champ may take his one-man…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00am on March 3, 2012☆⚑

NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits Watts Towers, Willowbrook by Mike Boehm

NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits Watts and Willowbrook to check on arts projects there funded by his agency. What does he think of Watts Towers? 'Wow.'NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 5:09pm on February 24, 2012☆⚑

Obama's 2013 budget calls for 5% increase for arts and culture by Mike Boehm

President Obama's 2013 budget proposal calls for a 5.5% increase for arts and culture. Total outlays for grantmaking agencies and Washington cultural institutions would reach nearly $1.6 bil…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:27am on February 14, 2012☆⚑

Al Pacino, Andre Watts among National Medal of Arts winners by Mike Boehm

Al Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 6:41pm on February 10, 2012☆⚑

'Clybourne Park' actors cheer news they're going to Broadway by Mike Boehm

`Clybourne Park' will move on to Broadway despite producer Scott Rudin's withdrawal. The cast cheered when it received the news backstage at the Mark Taper Forum on Thursday.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:36pm on February 3, 2012☆⚑

Stephen Eich resigns as Pasadena Playhouse executive director by Mike Boehm

Stephen Eich is resigning after 2 1/2 years as executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse. He helped see the company through a financial crisis that included an eight-month shutdown, bankr…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00pm on February 2, 2012☆⚑