The Tony Awards cain't say no to Ali Stroker, who made history Sunday by becoming the first actor in a wheelchair to win the biggest honor in theater. The actress took home the Tony for feat…
When the cast of "The Prom" performed at the Tony Awards, it drove home the show's themes of acceptance and inclusion with a same-sex kiss. The musical, which entered the night with seven no…
Rachel Chavkin was glad to win the Tony Award for best director of a musical for "Hadestown" at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, but made it clear that she was profoundly unhappy about the l…
The Tony Awards are underway, and "Hadestown" has proved to be the show to beat. The musical entered the night with a leading 14 nominations and has won seven statues so far, taking home hon…
From her first song in Daniel Fish's daring revival of "Oklahoma!" actress Ali Stroker presents an Ado Annie like audiences have never encountered before. Partly it's her amazing voice, stro…
The 2019 Tony Awards can be seen live at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS " unless you live in the fourth dimension known as the West Coast. For theater fans here, CBS will continue its tradition of de…
At a time in America when lies are rampant in public life and alternative truth has been adopted as a winning political strategy, the 2018-19 Broadway season will be remembered for those gri…
It turned out not to be a horrendous year for new Broadway musicals, if you disqualify "King Kong," lower your IQ for "The Cher Show" and bring earplugs to "Be More Chill." "The Prom," a cam…
Rebecca Taichman won a Tony Award for directing a darkly enchanting production of the Paula Vogel play, now at the Ahmanson Theatre.
The Tony Awards sort out a Broadway year divided between the impulse to innovate and the desire to maintain the status quo.
Handicapping Sunday's Tony Awards: Can "Hadestown" beat "Tootsie"? Will Sorkin's "Mockingbird" be redeemed? And will the Tonys justly reward a female director?
The playwright gets personal in this documentary tale about his mother, a psych ward chaplain held captive by a suicidal convict. It's a sly, slippery tale.
Anaïs Mitchell's concept album-turned-folk opera is an exquisite marriage of story and song that advances the art of theater.
Heidi Schreck's "What the Constitution Means to Me" is more than a performance piece: It's the most moving play of the year.
The Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that it will make admission free " a switch made possible by $10-million gift from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Powers. Powers made t…
Nilo Cruz's 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Anna in the Tropics," is set in 1929 at a cigar factory in Florida, but the Anna of the title is Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's adulteress never actu…
Time passes, and even a contemporary classic can use a nip and tuck. David Henry Hwang, most famous for his Tony-winning 1988 play "M. Butterfly," performed some not insignificant cosmetic s…
The modern classic on gender roles and Orientalism gets an uneven revival at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa directed by Desdemona Chiang.
If it's not one thing, it's your mother " a bit of bumper sticker wisdom, perhaps, but on the heels of Mother's Day it's an apropos adage for three of this week's selections from Southern Ca…
Helder Guimarães is either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician. But however you classify him, he's excellent company in his new show, "Invisible Tango…
Kim Rosenstock, a writer for the Fox sitcom "New Girl," launched her career with the play "Tigers Be Still," first produced in New York in 2010. As Chance Theater's regional premiere of this…
John Bunzel may be a veteran film and television writer, but he has never wandered far from his roots in the theater, where he has been plying his trade for more than 30 years. Anyone who ha…
In the opening vignette of Sean Dorsey's latest work, "Boys in Trouble," the choreographer performs a gentle solo within the confines of a single spotlight. As he dances, his recorded voice …
This isn't "High School Musical." No, the members of this young company " from 7-year-old moppets all the way up to assured 18-year-olds " say things like: "I think a lot of people can agree…
Directed by Frank Marshall and featuring music by Moby, "Invisible Tango" has tricks that astonish and a storytelling charm that's more than mere magic show.