The hits of Britney Spears are featured in a new Broadway-bound musical, producers announced Tuesday. "Once Upon a One More Time," whose title references Spears' debut single, "...Baby One M…
A new Broadway musical by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convo…
A new Broadway musical by Jo Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convol…
It wasn't that long ago that a topic of concern was the graying of theater audiences. Today, we must address the high school takeover of Broadway stages. The success of "Dear Evan Hansen" ha…
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 Fan-Favorite One Act Plays Selec…
An intellectual's intellectual, playwright David Hare specializes in a kind of theatrical exegesis, exploring the philosophical motivations behind immensely complicated characters. No except…
There are only so many seats in a theater, only so many performances in a run, and once the set is struck, a production won't exist in exactly the same form again. How can we cope with the e…
On a rainy night, about 250 people gathered in Malibu for the final California performance of the noted New York contemporary-ballet company Jessica Lang Dance. But the company's founder and…
For a movie genre with huge box office appeal, the term "Chick Flick" gets little or no love from critics. Depending on their point of view, it's either a disdainful reference to frothy rom-…
He directed Annette Bening in her first role and wrote Robin Williams' reference letter for Juilliard, but Dakin Matthews says his own acting career didn't really take off until he was in hi…
Nia Vardalos is returning to "Tiny Beautiful Things." The writer and actress, who penned the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best-selling book, will reprise her starring role in a Pasad…
La Jolla Playhouse premieres new work from Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, the duo behind Tony winner "Memphis," but the distinctly American sound is a disconnect to the tale of the "people's …
The story of Princess Diana's life was bound to be turned into a big, boisterous, Broadway-style musical. But who would have guessed that the music would come from David Bryan, a founding me…
"Othello" is an extended free-fall " a national hero's plunge from widespread acclamation and joyful new marriage to legendary despair. In a gripping new staging for A Noise Within, director…
In fall 1981, the most anticipated new musical of the Broadway season was an adaptation of the 1934 Kaufman and Hart play "Merrily We Roll Along," with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, …
What a difference a hashtag makes. When Los Angeles Ballet presented August Bournonville's two-act story ballet "La Sylphide" five years ago, the performance seemed an elegy to lost love and…
Los Angeles Opera is a Mozart house, as any world-class house would be, and over three decades, the company has staged all of the genius' seven major operas except one. James Conlon, the com…
Matthew Bourne's Cinderella The choreographer re-imagines the Prokofiev ballet based on the classic fairy tale as a romantic fable set in London during WWII. Ahmanson Theater, 135 N. Grand A…
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 Cemetery of Tortured Souls Decea…
"Once on This Island," the underdog Tony Award winner last year for best musical revival, will lend some Caribbean sunshine to the 2019-20 Ahmanson Theatre season to be announced Friday by C…
Call it navel-gazing or, if you're feeling poetic, peering into the soul's very depths. At L.A.'s small theaters this weekend, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina does it. So too, in her way, does inqui…
Lakers star LeBron James and his impact on the city of Cleveland during his run with the Cavaliers will be the subject of the new play "King James," written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv …
At the Old Globe in San Diego, Nia Vardalos' lovely adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, "Tiny Beautiful Things," finds resilience in broken places.
Advice columns and theaters have more in common than you might think. Forums of instruction and delight, they appeal to anyone who could use some help negotiating the often trivial, ultimate…
The Oscars may be over, but the Dolby Theatre is just getting started. For the first time, the 3,400-seat home of the Academy Awards will host a full slate of touring Broadway productions, i…