Merce Cunningham died 10 years ago at 90. He was easily the greatest choreographer of the second half of the 20th century and a teeny bit into the 21st. He left behind an enormous body of wo…
Before Adam Driver opened "Burn This" on Broadway on Tuesday night, he had earned his first Oscar nomination for Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman." He also had devotees from his Emmy-nominated ro…
"We need someone young to fix this," Oskar Eustis decides. My new, top-of-the-line recording device, purchased for this interview, is not working, and I don't know why. I make a joke about a…
Nia Vardalos reprises her role in Pasadena Playhouse's profoundly moving adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Dear Sugar" columns.
Character, the way we conduct ourselves in the world, is in decline in America. Consider the evidence: A president who lies so prolifically that media outlets have assigned teams of reporter…
Ellen Reid, the Los Angeles composer whose debut opera centered on a young woman's agonizing struggle with the psychological effects of sexual assault, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music. …
Extra Ancestral A celebration of the African diaspora in L.A. features performers including Viver Brasil Dance Company. Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. Sun., 7 p.m. $…
Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Tiny Beautiful Things Nia Vardal…
The locale of "Southernmost," presented by Playwrights' Arena in Atwater Village, is as compelling as any character in Mary Lyon Kamitaki's entertaining but limited new play. Naalehu on the …
Journeys into the past is the common theme on the 99-Seat Beat, our weekly look at Southern California's small-theater scene. Reminiscences " comical and poignant " drive "The Lost Virginity…
She may be 86, move more gingerly these days and kvetch about her aches and pains, but make no mistake: Renée Taylor's still got it. Taylor's skills " as an actress, comedian, raconteur and…
"Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" is rollin' on to Broadway on Nov. 7, mere weeks before the legendary singer's 80th birthday. The biographical musical devoted to the rock 'n' roll icon's care…
With Brad Pitt and Diane Keaton as its cheering section, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art won unanimous approval Tuesday from the county Board of Supervisors for a $650-million new home …
After exploring how his Vietnamese parents met in a refugee camp in America in his breathtakingly original comedy "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen picks up the story of their lives in the u…
In "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen tells the story of how his parents met after escaping the Vietnam War and landing in the same resettlement camp in Arkansas. It's a tale of traumatic dis…
Center Theatre Group announced Monday that Meghan Pressman will be its next managing director and CEO, making her the first female managing director in the nonprofit company's 52-year histor…
Director and artist Lars Jan turns a classic Joan Didion essay, "The White Album," into a multimedia performance work featuring Obie-winning actress Mia Barron.
Joan Didion's 1979 essay "The White Album" is both a classic of new journalism and an artifact of the tumultuous period it chronicles. Composed as a series of high-resolution prose snapshots…
The dramas of King Lear, the Gay Men's Chorus and LACMA. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week's essential art news: A brazenly busy 'Lear' Theater cr…
Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings 15th Annual New Play Reading Fes…
If you can't get out to see Southern California's super bloom before tourists trample it flat, don't despair: L.A. theater has its own spring fever, with productions celebrating love, youth,…
Glenda Jackson stars in "King Lear" on Broadway with a cast of powerhouse actresses, including Jayne Houdyshell, Ruth Wilson and Elizabeth Marvel. But the modern, manic production, directed …
For his Broadway production of "King Lear," built around the one and only Glenda Jackson, director Sam Gold has decided to make use of every luxurious resource at his disposal " sometimes si…
Gary Hayashi thought that if he could just get close enough to God, he would be cured. Hayashi was not like other men he knew at church, and he certainly wasn't like his older brother, whom …
It's going to be a Stravinsky spring, right? The Los Angeles Philharmonic is about to kick off a two-week Stravinsky festival, Esa-Pekka Salonen celebrating Stravinsky's association with the…