Ballet, street dance theater, Mexican folk " there are enough offerings this spring to satisfy any dance lover's taste. Ford Theatres has a particularly strong lineup, kicking off spring wit…
A bevy of Broadway musicals will be back on local boards in the coming months, including old favorites like "Fiddler," "Phantom," "Les Miz," "Miss Saigon" and the 20th anniversary revival of…
Ready for your catharsis? The forecast for the spring season calls for a hurricane of tears, shot through with just enough laughter to keep theatergoers from going off the deep end. Based on…
Micaela Taylor thought the accolades might come by the time she was 30. But at 25, the choreographer and dancer is already watching the recognition grow " fast " for her unique style of move…
Veteran stage director Nataki Garrett has been named the sixth artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the company announced Tuesday, making her the first person of color to ho…
"The Late Late Show's" James Corden will hit the stage again for the 73rd Tony Awards show this summer. On Tuesday, CBS announced that Corden will host this year's ceremony from Radio City M…
Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize finalist, "The Wolves," a drama about high school girl soccer players processing life's difficulties, large and small, gets a superb Echo Theater production di…
"The Wolves," Sarah DeLappe's stunning debut drama that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, presents the world through the prism of girls soccer. The play, which is receiving a superb Echo Theate…
As political pawns in a long-running congressional chess game, Dreamers, those children of immigrants with aspirations for a promising life in the United States, make dispassion very difficu…
Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin uses a body language stripped of inhibitions. His dancers incarnate fear, despair, hysteria, joy and every feeling in between. He won't explain what's caus…
Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
Sabrina, the single mother at the center of Inda Craig-Galván's new play, "Black Super Hero Magic Mama," is acutely aware of the various ways her son's life can be upended. Gangs, drugs, …
Spring has arrived, and so have a slew of cultural happenings. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with your weekly roundup of all things culture " and Norwegian …
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 ABBA Mania Tribute show celebrat…
Well, that was a surprise! "(M)iyamoto Is Black Enough" " the first in what will be an ongoing collaboration between the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and …
Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls Nanny, the woman who guided him through boyhood, in a music-infused performance that proves theater, not TV, is the best way to experience this vivi…
"Lackawanna Blues," Ruben Santiago-Hudson's theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York cit…
When it comes to communication, humans can have dangerously selective hearing, as demonstrated this week in the 99-Seat Beat, our look at L.A.'s small-theater scene. Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer…
Kelli O'Hara stars in a Broadway revival at Studio 54 that's long on impressive theatrics but short on human connection.
The new Roundabout Theatre Company production of "Kiss Me, Kate" at Studio 54 has nearly everything that's needed for a top-drawer revival of this Cole Porter classic. First and foremost, th…
Leslie Odom Jr. is belting out show tunes with Pacific Symphony, Ohad Naharin's Batsheva Dance Company comes to UCLA, and Los Angeles Master Chorale performs two distinctly different requiem…
Get those "Seventy-Six Trombones" ready, because Hugh Jackman is starring in a Broadway revival of "The Music Man," producer Scott Rudin announced on Wednesday. Though the two-time Tony Awar…
For whatever reason " a worry about looming dystopia, perhaps " Germany is having its Babylonian moment. Major new opera productions here in Hamburg and in Berlin last weekend proved media s…
Fairy-tale nuts will get a huge kick out of "The Old Man and the Old Moon," a Pigpen Theatre Co. production now in a limited run at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Bev…