The truth of that old theatrical saying that there are no small parts, only small actors, was redeemed last season on Broadway, with a bevy of featured performances that transcended their li…
The Tony Awards airing Sunday on CBS will be chock full of well-known names, as the stage adaptations of "Frozen," "Mean Girls," "SpongeBob SquarePants" and a new "Harry Potter" play are amo…
Openings Brilliant Traces A man receives an unexpected visitor " a distraught young woman " at his remote cabin in Alaska in Cindy Lou Johnson's drama. Beverly Hills Playhouse, 254 S. Robert…
Joe Mantello is a Tony nominee for "Three Tall Women" and also the man guiding the new revival of "The Boys in the Band" starring Zachary Quinto. They talk about the 50th anniversary as well…
Joe Mantello is a Tony nominee for "Three Tall Women" and also the man guiding the new revival of "The Boys in the Band" starring Zachary Quinto. They talk about the 50th anniversary as well…
The era of Times Up and #MeToo might seem like the exact wrong time to revisit "My Fair Lady," the 1956 Lerner & Loewe classic about a phonetics professor who, as part of an amusing bet, tra…
Before being seduced into theater, Ethan Slater was a high school and college wrestler " the sport a source of discipline, work ethic and body awareness. "I knew where my body was at all tim…
You take the helm of a play with near-universal regard as a masterpiece, a Pulitzer winner that picked up seven Tony Awards its first time on Broadway. No pressure, right? Marianne Elliott, …
L.A. Times' theater critic Charles McNulty said the performance in "The Iceman Cometh" was "revelatory." The New York Times wrote that it was a "center-of-gravity" turn, equal parts joyful a…
"Mean Girls" may have tied for the most Tony nominations this year, but heading into the awards ceremony Sunday, the show about a singing queen bee looks like the frontrunner in only one cat…
The Old Globe in San Diego presents Ursula Rani Sarma's stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best seller, directed by Carey Perloff.
Happy Weekend! I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the week's culture news, including the latest on architecture (O.C. and Italy editions) and plenty of the…
James Ehnes & Max Levinson Violinist Ehnes and pianist Levinson play pieces by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Bach and Ravel in this Philharmonic Society of Orange County presentation. Samueli Theat…
Benita Bike's DanceArt The company presents an interactive program. Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave., Culver City. Sun., 1:30 p.m. Free. (818) 353-5734. Louise Reichlin & Dancer…
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 Bordertown Now Veteran satirica…
When Alan Dunn set out to create an immersive dinner theater experience, he drew influence from two disparate ideas: Paris in the 1920s and West Hollywood's longtime celebrity hangout Chatea…
There's a thing or two to kvetch about at Eclectic Company Theatre in Valley Village. For one, parking is limited. And the building is old and idiosyncratic: Company members have to reach be…
This week at L.A.'s small theaters: New American's comedy "Meanwhile, Back at the Super LairÂ…," Boston Court's family drama "Her Portmanteau," Celebration's take on "Cabaret" and Theatri…
Casa 0101 in Boyle Heights is waging a fundraising battle to keep its doors open. Judging by its splendid "Beauty and the Beast" running through June, it would be a tragedy for the neighborh…
Director John Doyle's acclaimed reworking of the Broadway musical, which won the 2016 Tony for revival, rolls its national tour into the Hollywood Pantages Theatre and later Segerstrom Cente…
John Doyle, the British director who brought fresh life to well-trod Sondheim musicals by having the casts of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company" double as the band, is a master of transformation. …
The Broadway revival starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane may have been nominated for 11 Tony Awards, but the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production is no less welcome, with a cast featur…
It should come as no surprise that the man who commissioned Tony Kushner to write "Angels in America" would have unwavering faith in the drama. But the outstanding feature of Tony Taccone's …
Coppelia Long Beach Ballet stages the classic fable about a young man who falls in love with a life-sized dancing doll. Terrace Theater, Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Lon…
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 A Very British Lesbian Writer-p…