Taylor Mac knows how to throw down a challenge. Visiting L.A. last year with the music party/drag extravaganzas "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music" and "Holiday Sauce," the New York-based…
If "Billy Elliot" had a sequel, it might look like the life of Liam Mower. At age 12, Mower won the title role of the original West End production of "Billy Elliot: The Musical" in London. N…
"Smart Love" at Pacific Resident Theatre appears destined to be a garden-variety dysfunctional family portrait, but then Brian Letscher's new comedy unexpectedly pivots into a quirky take on…
Plácido Domingo added role No. 151 to his legacy Saturday night. Was this celebrated tenor-baritone-conductor-impresario and all-around operaholic counting all 65 years he has been on the…
"The End of Sex," a new play by Gay Walch at the Big Victory Theatre, commences with the kind of wink-wink, nudge-nudge sexual innuendo that could have been lifted from an episode of "2 Brok…
As the sun was going down Thursday night, the steel of Walt Disney Concert Hall reflected the colors of twilight and an oncoming chill in the air added a sense of expectancy. A baby grand pi…
When Amber Gray was auditioning for "Hadestown," Anais Mitchell's folk-operatic reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, she nearly blew it. The actress, who was making her Broadway deb…
Stirring photography, music inspired by the Silk Road and everything you needed to know about the Tony Award nominations but were afraid to ask. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the …
The Economist recently called disruptive innovation " an idea that changes a whole system " the most influential business theory of the early 21st century. Not to front, but theater people g…
"What the Constitution Means to Me," Heidi Schreck's Tony Award-nominated play that has Broadway buzzing, will come to Los Angeles as part of the 2019-20 season lineup at the Mark Taper Foru…
John E. Pizzini's first attempt at college didn't end as planned. At Michigan State University he studied engineering " a path his father pushed him to pursue " and he hated it. About two ye…
Long story short: It was a strange Broadway season " one in which old formulas proved unreliable and a few long-shot experiments yielded unexpected rewards. Rendering an up or down verdict o…
Interior. Restaurant at a Beverly Hills hotel, early March. Music spritzing luxuriously in the background. A publicist finishes her breakfast. In walks a frazzled middle-aged theater critic.…
There's a game-changing moment early in "Tootsie," the new Broadway musical based on the 1982 film, when an iconic but dated comedy suddenly gets new life " and cultural relevance " in 2019.…
The Tony nominations send a message of support to artists with fresh sensibilities, but occasionally at the expense of worthier work.
The 2019 Tony Awards nominations list is out, led by the musicals "Hadestown" with 14, "Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of the Temptations" with 12 and "Tootsie" with 11. Bryan Cranston…
Laurie Metcalf has a photo taped on her dressing room door of Hillary Clinton in sunglasses checking her Blackberry. Clinton looks cool, even imperious, but that persona is not in the house …
The Tony Award nominations Tuesday were dominated by new musicals and "Hadestown" led the way, the folk-operatic reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth collecting 14 nods. "Ain't Too P…
The writer gets snubbed Tuesday by the Tony Awards, but his "How to Kill a Mockingbird" does pick up nine nominations " tying "The Ferryman" for the most nods for any play.
Anne Nemer and her best friend from college, Elizabeth Bates, had a pretty good idea of what they were walking into when they attended "Tiny Beautiful Things" at Pasadena Playhouse. The play…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle celebrated its 50th anniversary Monday at its annual awards ceremony for local theater, held this year at Pasadena Playhouse. Here's the complete list of…
Ask theater director Jo Bonney to describe playwright José Rivera's new work " "The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona," a world premiere that begins previews Tuesday at the Geffen Play…
"A Doll's House, Part 2," which is receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, had its official opening on Thursday at Broadway's Golden Theatre in a separate production confirmin…
I wasn't old enough to see the original 1979 run of "Children of a Lesser God" by Mark Medoff, who died Tuesday at 79. But the 1986 movie and leading actress Marlee Matlin's Oscar win " the …
The stage adaptation of "Almost Famous" will make its world premiere at the Old Globe, the theater announced Friday. The musical features a book by Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed the …