Weekend Picks for May 10-13, 2018: "Hamilton" at Segerstrom; "Die, Mommie, Die!" at the Kirk Douglas; Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's "FishEyes"; Long Beach Opera's "The Love Potion"; Los Ange…
Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo has been creating some of Braodway's most memorable posters since the early 1970s. Now he's put more than 250 of his favorite designs in a book.
In one of the most entertaining numbers in the musical "School of Rock," which opened Thursday at the Hollywood Pantages theater, a substitute teacher rallies his 10-year-old students to "st…
Deborah Rosen & Dancers The SoCal-based troupe performs "Drifting ... A Suite of Dreamscapes." Brand Library & Art Center, 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale. Sat., 4 p.m. Free. (818) 548-2051. …
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 Boeing Boeing Marc Camoletti's …
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: "Opening Night: The Improvised Musical" moves to the Second City, "Cardboard Piano" plays in Long Beach, "Olive Kitteridge" writer Jane Alexander's "…
Outside a Manhattan rehearsal studio, Francis Jue is seated on the floor, alone, script in hand. The actor who's playing the character DHH " David Henry Hwang " is going over new lines for "…
Jayne Houdyshell and Reed Birney will reprise their Tony Award-winning roles in Stephen Karam's play "The Humans" when it's staged at the Ahmanson Theatre this summer, Center Theatre Group a…
Who knew you could make a Tony-nominated musical from a self-help book for parents? Tina Fey, that's who. "Mean Girls" picked up a leading 12 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, including one…
The 2018 list of nominees can be read as Broadway's lab results, and setting aside the spellbinding Springsteen and the integrity of "The Band's Visit," this year's slate tells us that the p…
Tony Award nominations can be read as Broadway's lab results, and it's clear from the slate announced Tuesday that the patient's health has taken a turn for the worse. The two big categories…
The musicals "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Mean Girls" each garnered 12 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, leading a pack dominated by Hollywood franchises such as "Harry Potter" and familiar ti…
She's won an Emmy and has been up for a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Now Amy Schumer will vie for a bit of Broadway gold: a Tony Award. The actress earned a Tony nomination Tuesday for her Bro…
"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
Bruce Springsteen moved just one letter away from EGOT status Tuesday as the Tony Awards announced that the singer-songwriter will receive a special award for "Springsteen on Broadway." Spri…
With one of Broadway's biggest days just around the corner, speculation over this year's Tony Award nominations is peaking. Will there be any surprises in the best musical category, where ma…
Theatergoers, divided into small groups, are guided to different parts of UCLA's Royce Hall, where Woolf's 1927 novel, one of the glories of literary modernism, is summoned in a theatrical s…
Theatergoers, divided into small groups, are guided to different parts of UCLA's Royce Hall, where Woolf's 1927 novel, one of the glories of literary modernism, is summoned in a theatrical s…
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 Worst Ever Live Stage version o…
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: A food truck at Dodger Stadium is at the center of the immigration-themed 'ICE' at 24th Street Theatre. Also: "For the Love Of (Or, the Roller Derby …
It was around this time in the interview that all hell broke loose. After sharing that I had made the trip from Los Angeles expressly to see her Lear, I told her that she had helped me to he…
Our theater critic talks with the notoriously difficult actress, whose return to Broadway in "Three Tall Women" has made her the odds-on favorite to lead Tony nominations when they're announ…
Be careful what you wish for. Tea with Glenda Jackson, an actress I've admired since watching "A Touch of Class" on TV with my mother as a teenager, turned out not to be the dream encounter …
Anna Camp and Thomas Sadoski costar in an uneven Pasadena Playhouse production of playwright Amy Herzog's drama-with-a-dash-of-"Psycho."
It might take a little longer yet before we can forget that Dance Theatre of Harlem almost didn't make it, that the main company was stilled by financial and administrative turmoil for eight…