Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Connectivity Staged reading of Nancy Beverly's drama about two strangers struggli…
Ai Weiwei is weary from travel. The Chinese artist and human rights activist shuffles into the Marciano Art Foundation's cavernous Theater Gallery " he arrived in L.A. from Berlin just last …
'Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden': Playwright and director Stan Lai leads audiences on a nocturnal cultural journey at the Huntington's Chinese Garden.
It would be hard to find a more enchanting setting for a play than the Huntington's Chinese Garden in San Marino. This is the locale for playwright and director Stan Lai's "Nightwalk in the …
Get ready to party like it's 1919: the Los Angeles Philharmonic is turning 100! Plus, we've got news on a David Lynch-inspired opera, experimental theater and moody paintings of women. I'm C…
Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Come Together: When the 1960s M…
Hotel Modern returns to REDCAT with KAMP, a re-creation manipulated by Dutch visual and performing artists Pauline Kalker, Arléne Hoornweg and Herman Helle of the of the Auschwitz concentra…
In "The Great War," the Dutch theater company Hotel Modern simulated the reality of the World War I battlefield in all its muddy, body-mangled horror through the projection of toy soldiers a…
A hybrid work that fuses performance, sculpture and video, and a museum show that brings the U.S. and Mexico closer together. The arts season is happening! Here's what to check out in the co…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Gloria," a workplace comedy set in a toxic Manhattan magazine office, receives its West Coast premiere in an Echo Theater Company production
It's a given in a work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that something startling will sooner or later occur that will have you rethinking everything you thought you understood about the play. In "A…
"The Heart of Rock & Roll," a new jukebox musical inspired by the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, receives its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe.
Even when Huey Lewis was new, he was retro. More old way than new wave, his band, Huey Lewis & the News, is as much a part of the 1980s as the movie "Back to the Future" (which memorably unl…
Percy B. Long wore wingtips and rolled his own cigarettes. He managed the Webster Theater in the days before talkies, when trains ran swift and nights settled over plowed fields that spread …
Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Hot Off the Press Los Angeles Wo…
Among the shows playing in Los Angeles' bustling smaller theaters this week are two Pulitzer Prize drama finalists, one receiving its West Coast premiere, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Gloria," t…
With the new fall season comes a whole new list of cultural events, exhibits and shows. This season's highlights include the Los Angeles premiere of the Tony-winning Broadway sensation "Dear…
Matt Shakman had just returned from Ireland after a months-long stint as director of "Game of Thrones" and was launching into his next project, a pilot for USA Network, when the call came. T…
Geffen Playhouse presents the world premiere of Oscar-nominated screenwriter José Rivera's The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona"at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Jo Bonney.
Jason Alexander directs "Native Garden," Karen ZacarÃas' comedy about neighbors disputing property lines, horticulture and difference.
Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a tale about backbiting teenagers at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
The title of Jocelyn Bioh's "School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play," is an accurate description of this entertaining comedy, which transplants a familiar American scenario to a new c…
Anne Bogart directs Euripides' last play about a young, overconfident ruler who rejects the rowdy new religious sect that has swept into Greece.
The surviving Greek tragedies pose inordinate challenges to contemporary theater practitioners, but Euripides' "Bacchae," one of his most beloved works, may be the trickiest of all to stage.…
Ballet Repertory Theatre's Fall Festival The company opens its 42nd season with a new contemporary piece, plus Act 2 of "Swan Lake" and more. Golden West College Mainstage Theater, 15751 Got…