The Wooster Group has developed such a signature multimedia aesthetic over the decades that it's refreshing to see this veteran avant-garde troupe willing to take a break from its playfully …
A radically revisionist "Antigone" made in the Black Lives Matter era seems the ideal vehicle to launch us into Black History Month and lead our weekly look at L.A.'s theater scene. Other pi…
John Malkovich will grace the London stage this summer to play an unpleasant yet prominent Hollywood movie tycoon accused of sexual misconduct. On Tuesday, producers announced that the Oscar…
Two South Africans, desperate to escape the impoverished futility of their lives, break into the home of an aging academic who walks in on them as they're ransacking the place for money. A p…
As I was leaving the theater the other night, an older gentleman with a lapel-grabbing voice and a friendly jack-in-the-box manner stopped me dead in my tracks. "What was the point of that?…
Consider this a friendly public service announcement from a concerned theater critic: Please, unless there's a truly compelling reason, let's agree to a moratorium on revivals of "Hamlet," "…
It might be heresy for a theater critic to admit, but Hollywood has done a better job of skewering the theater than the theater has done skewering Hollywood. Give me "All About Eve" over "On…
An emphasis on storytelling rather than star performances or staging pyrotechnics drives a crisp production of the macabre musical "Sweeney Todd" at South Coast Repertory.
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 Charo and John Davidson The guit…
Director Stephen Daldry made his name with the National Theatre whodunit "An Inspector Calls." Now the London revival comes to Beverly Hills, seeping with commentary about class divisions.
Sometimes a production can wrest a seemingly outdated play from certain retirement. Director Stephen Daldry did just that when he was a young gun storming the London theater scene in the ear…
"Do the right thing" is more easily said than put into practice, especially when there's no moral compass to guide our choices. Quandaries that resist tidy solutions figure in this week's pr…
"Magic Mike," Channing Tatum's dance-centric franchise about male strippers, will debut as a stage musical in Boston on Nov. 30, producers announced on Thursday. The world-premiere productio…
What to do this weekend? Our picks include the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of "Hello, Dolly!" and the immersive theater company Four Larks' mystical journey to the underworld. …
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical "Grey Gardens."
How quickly things change. In just four years, it's become unimaginable that anyone would write a musical about our nation's founders without giving them a hip-hop beat. But before "Hamilton…
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical "Grey Gardens." She had …
Aaaaand the arts season is back in full swing! I'm Carolina A. Miranda of the Los Angeles Times, with the week's essential arts news ... and disco cumbia: 'HAMILTON' IN PUERTO RICO It began …
The Black Cat Long Beach Opera and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra perform the U.S. premiere of this reimagining of the Edgar Allan Poe terror tale. The Beverly O'Neill Theater, 300 E. Oce…
Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Company Creation Festival This showcase featuring unconventional new works by various ensembles continues;…
The consequences of imperfect communication " say, a conversation among strangers at a roadside bar or the strained discussions between a husband and wife at a crossroads in their marriage "…
The sensationally acted Steppenwolf Theatre production at the Mark Taper Forum delivers compelling characters and funny dialogue, but at times the pacing sluggishly shifts into cable TV terr…
The plays of Tracy Letts can be broadly divided into two types: Those with men behaving appallingly and those with women behaving abominably. In "August: Osage County," his Pulitzer Prize wi…
Rafael West Valles, who plays Bobby Carney on Broadway in "The Ferryman," would not talk for this article. Neither would Sean Frank Coffey, who also plays Bobby Carney. Ditto for Annie Scarf…
We're all individuals, some more than others. And few quite like Carol Channing, who died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage. Those wigs, those eyes, that mouth, those teeth, the scarlet lips! As a fo…