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 Down to My Last Egg A woman race…
Tony-winner Brian Dennehy stars in a double-bill of short works by Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett
Brian Dennehy needs no coddling from critics. A two-time Tony-winning heavyweight, he has nothing left to prove, having triumphed (through the blunt force of his acting) in Eugene O'Neill's …
It's about time somebody revisited Bruce Jay Friedman's "Steambath." First produced off-Broadway in 1970 and recycled as a television film in '73, the play was hailed as a piquant black come…
Review: 'Cost of Living': Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama brings an unflinching realism about the disabled and their caregivers to the Fountain Theatre.
Two of the best productions this fall have happened at intimate theaters that are keeping up with the exciting developments in American playwriting. Earlier this season, Branden Jacobs-Jenki…
Tony-winner Jefferson Mays single-handedly populates "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" at the Geffen Playhouse
Charles Dickens has become so yawningly familiar through adaptations that it can be jolting to experience his storytelling genius directly from the fictional works themselves. No literary pr…
THEATER 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 ¡Gaytino! Made in Ame…
Luis Valdez's new play explores immigration and the reality of the American dream in a story set during World War II about two families, one of Japanese heritage, the other of Mexican.
"King Kong," the stage animal first seen wreaking havoc in Australia, has arrived on Broadway with a seismic thud and a thundering roar. Just how horrifying is the new show? It has turned a …
"King Kong," the stage animal first seen wreaking havoc in Australia, has arrived on Broadway with a seismic thud and a thundering roar.
History figures prominently at Los Angeles' smaller theaters this weekend: a slice of L.A.'s past in "Remembering Boyle Heights"; the heated days of the House Un-American Activities Committe…
NEW YORK " The setting is uncertain in the opening moments of "American Son," an acutely topical new Broadway drama by Christopher Demos-Brown. But it is clear from the intense performance b…
In 'American Son,' a raw Kerry Washington returns to Broadway as an anguished mother seeking answers from the police about her missing son . It's a painfully topical, if imperfect, drama
THEATER 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 jackbenny Sibling musica…
Times critics Christopher Knight, Charles McNulty and Mark Swed take a closer look at how the Great Recession impacted the art world, theater and classical music in and beyond Los Angeles.
Times critics Christopher Knight, Charles McNulty and Mark Swed take a closer look at how the Great Recession impacted the art world, theater and classical music in and beyond Los Angeles.
obituary/appreciation of playwright Maria Irene Fornes
MarÃa Irene Fornés, a pivotal figure in the off-off Broadway movement, wrote diverse and profoundly humane plays that should be part of the American canon.
'Quack,' Eliza Clark's comedy having its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, takes the temperature of the feverish wellness industry.
"Quack," the lively, irritating and ultimately chilling new comedy by Eliza Clark about a TV medical guru in the mode of Dr. Oz, skips the introductory pleasantries and plunges straight into…
Welcome to the weekend. And go, Dodgers! I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week's essential arts news: POLITICS GETS THEATER WRONG Times theater critic…
Qui Nguyen's touted drama about refugees who fall in love in 1970s America after fleeing the Vietnam war, arrives in Los Angeles in an East West Players production
Reencountering Qui Nguyen's "Vietgone" in the new East West Players production, I am struck once again by the originality of the playwriting. A quick synopsis of the play might yield the fol…