On Friday the 33 students who make up the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance's inaugural class will graduate. More than 60% of them will leave USC employed, said Jodie Gates, the school's vi…
It's 44 BC, a bit before the ides of March, and Roman citizens are in the streets singing a cheeky ode to life in the Seven Hills " to the tune of Weezer's "Beverly Hills." This can mean jus…
A playwright exploring the Asian American experience and a film and video artist who addresses the representation of Puerto Ricans in culture are among the five people who will receive $75,0…
Playwright Lucas Hnath is back on Broadway with "Hillary and Clinton," a zesty drama on America's most picked-apart political couple that finds Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow in top form. I…
With an assist from actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, the new work is yet another way to hear the singular voice of this leading American playwright.
The scales are balanced between the straightforward and the offbeat in the 99-Seat Beat, our weekly recommendations for Southern California's small stages. Arthur Miller's "The Price" at Int…
Sniffles in the darkness. They're a sign of success, right? Yes, but at productions of the 1991 Broadway musical "The Secret Garden," they're a backhanded indicator. They come only when the …
Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk were set to grapple with Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 on Wednesday night at the Soraya in Northridge. The great 1944…
It was the summer of 1963 when photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured a protest over Wigs Parisian, a white-owned wig shop that opened on Harlem's 125th Street near the Apollo Theater. One m…
"I just want to do Beckett's 'Happy Days' over and over again," Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. "I don't want to do anything else, because nothing else comes near it.…
Wiest, in L.A. for Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." talks theater, "Law & Order" and why she would work with Woody Allen again "in a second."
"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd." These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a solid S…
Where are the programs? Are they on those cube benches in the middle of the stage? I think maybe I'll change seats, so this hanging banner isn't blocking my view of the dancer. Perhaps it's …
Julia Sweeney is no stranger to the solo show. "God Said, 'Ha!'" from 1996 recounted her brother's struggle with terminal cancer as well as her own diagnosis, just weeks before his death, of…
Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes and the group's longest-running vocalist, will be coming to Beverly Hills next month to discuss her career as one of Motown Records' leading la…
Writing in his cell as he awaits the gallows, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" curiously figures that what was to him "little but Horror" will to many appear "a mere series …
How old is Dolly Gallagher Levi? The question arises whenever "Hello, Dolly!" is performed. The character is described in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," the basis of the musical's book,…
In the dance world, nobody makes a case for damaged heroes as brilliantly as Matthew Bourne. In his reworkings of classic stories and scores, the British director and choreographer invariabl…
Chelsea Clinton's 2017 New York Times bestseller, "She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World," is heading from the page to California stages next month. Announced on Wednesday, …
Almost four years have passed since American Ballet Theatre promoted Misty Copeland to its top ranks, making her its first African American female principal dancer. But just try to find an A…
David Lang's "the loser," given its West Coast premiere Friday night by Los Angeles Opera at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, is sort of, but not really, about Glenn Gould. Gould's the winner in as…
American Ballet Theatre's latest touring production is an extravaganza with 174 costumes - each costing an average of $4,775 to make. Here's a deep look at meticulously researched and crafte…
"Daniel's Husband," an absorbing drama by Michael McKeever that was a hit off-Broadway, explores the debate on same-sex marriage from a less obvious angle. Set in the "perfectly appointed" h…
Michael McKeever's poignant drama opens at Fountain Theatre with Bill Brochtrup, Tim Cummings and Jenny O'Hara in a moving, crowd-pleasing production.
Martin McDonagh, the celebrated playwright who also found big-screen success with "In Bruges" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," began his career penning bleak Irish dramas as …