Christopher Hawthorne: Was there some link between the violence in Wright's personal life that sent him careening to California and the work he produced here? And what was it about pre-Colum…
Since peak plastic in 2001, CD sales have dropped 88%, from 712 million units to 85.4 million in 2017, according to Nielsen Music. With casual music fans done with discs in favor of streamin…
After tickets for nominees and their family and friends, tickets for the studios, tickets for media, etc., are given away, there are only a few hundred left. "Members receive an email around…
If you want the summary, all of the acting awards went as expected; Guillermo del Toro won Best Director; and Shape of Water won Best Picture. But here's everything.
Continuity of tradition dominates the ballet world " and so does the new ways tradition can be embodied, reinterpreted and sometimes undermined year after year. Last performed in 2014, the L…
Maria Contreras-Sweet and her investors group have a plan: "to turn the rubble of Harvey Weinstein's former New York-based studio into a new, female-focused film and TV company run by women.…
"Mozart in the Jungle" star Saffron Burrows tries to channel Jacqueline Kennedy in this one-woman production at the Wallis, but a big wig can't make up for a thin script.
This week's  small-theater round-up includes Celebration Theatre's "Six Characters in Search of a Play," City Garage's "The School for Wives," Little Victory's "Unemployed Elephants" and …
"Allegiance" is a musical about the incarceration of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. In mass-market, story-and-song form, it encourages audiences to think deeply about a time when Ame…
Emphasizing world premieres and re-imagined classics, the Geffen Playhouse has unveiled plans for the 2018-2019 season, the first under new artistic director Matt Shakman. The Geffen will pr…
I felt sure two of this year's Oscar contenders would satisfy my seasonal yearning for intelligent screen storytelling, but in both cases, I found myself quarreling with the writing and the …
Like many Americans, I find it increasingly easy to talk myself out of going to the movies. There's plenty to watch at home and so little to lure me back onto the roads and into those unfath…
Michael Michetti's revitalizing production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center shakes out the cobwebs of an American classic that has…
Boston Court in Pasadena presents a new production of Tennessee Williams' classic, set in contemporary times and propelled by Michael Michetti's pitch-perfect direction.
Paula Vogel's "Indecent" and Matthew Bourne's "Cinderella" have been added to the Center Theatre Group's 2018-19 season at the Ahmanson Theatre.
"On Saturday evening, Tibetan social media users posted photos and videos of the ancient Jokhang Temple complex in the region's capital, Lhasa, a UNESCO world heritage site, with one of its …
The last play in Quiara Alegria Hudes' trilogy about an Iraq War veteran trying to forge a life back in the States proves more difficult to stage effectively in this Latino Theater Company p…
When we last checked in on Elliot at the end of "Water by the Spoonful," the middle work in Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes' three-play Elliot cycle, he was in Puerto Rico with his cousin Yaz scatte…
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Compiled by Matt Cooper. Openings ABBAmania Tribute sho…
The actress says she jumped at the chance to play Mrs. Robinson in a stage version of "The Graduate" at Laguna Playhouse. "Why not?" she asked.
The letter was more than 1,000 years old. In 1900, a Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu unearthed an ancient Buddhist cave library near the town of Dunhuang in western China. When he pried open t…
From all outward indications, "Nice Fish," an Interact Theatre Company production at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, should be a keeper. The elegantly simple situation " two guys ice-…
Princess dresses are not the sole purview of little girls. At the first preview of Disney Theatrical's new Broadway musical "Frozen" on Thursday night, the royal gowns were an equal-opportun…
Spotlight on Los Angeles theater: Justin Tanner's "El Nino," the new drama "An Illegal Start" at the Santa Monica Pier carousel, the new comedy "Wicked Pagan Gays" at the Zephyr and Olivia D…
Somewhere in Los Angeles, a Jo-Ann fabrics and a 99 Cents Only store must be seriously depleted. Their stock seemingly can be found onstage at the Lex Theatre, where the Celebration company'…