The actors who play the sisterhood of stylists in 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' sit down for a candid beauty-shop conversation in light of the show's L.A. premiere at Center Theatre Group's…
Reviews of 'The Night of the Iguana' at Boston Court Pasadena, 'Fly Me to the Sun' at the Fountain Theatre and 'Adolescent Salvation' in an intimate Rogue Machine production at the Henry Mur…
Composer-turned-magician-turned-spiritual guide BC Smith is behind 'Phasmagorica,' an event that attempts to create the feel of a vintage séance. No tricks, he swears.
Jonathan Spector's 'Eureka Day,' a satire with heart about the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment in an age of polarization, has its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse
A concert version of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's acclaimed production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Yiddish has its West Coast premiere at the Soraya in Northridge.
'Am I Roxie?,' a solo show by Roxana Ortega at the Geffen Playhouse, delves into the roller coaster of caring for her widowed mother, who's losing her memory.
Gustavo Dudamel begins his official duties as music director designate by opening the New York Philharmonic's 2025-26 season in David Geffen Hall
In new play 'Color Theories,' the star/creator of 'Los Espookys' and 'Problemista' tackles border politics with a storybook simplicity.
Richard Bean's 'One Man, Two Guvnors' renews the hilarity by resetting Carlo Coldoni's 'The Servant of Two Masters' to Britain in the swinging '60s.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any greater pop-culture rebuke of the anti-immigrant, anti-DEI messages promulgated by the Trump administration than in the big-screen spectacle of Lin-Manuel M…
Manuel Oliver lost his son, Joaquin 'Guac' Oliver, in the Parkland school shooting. He's now bringing his gun-reform activism to the stage in a one-man show that's playing at Kirk Douglas Th…
A look at how Terry Riley, on the occasion of his 90th birthday celebration at the Ford, changed music with 'In C,' and what he's up to now in Japan.
The Troubadour Theater Company returns to the Getty Villa for 'Oedipus the King, Mama!,' a mashup of Elvis and Sophocles that's all shook up.
Tyrone Huntley played Simon alongside Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Hollywood Bowl. Days later he was back to his regular gig: seating people at the venue.
With songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally and book by Robert Horn, 'Shucked' is a Broadway musical about corn that's too funny to be considered corny.
Quests take place throughout the top deck of the American Pride, a 130-foot schooner docked at Long Beach's Pine Avenue Pier.
A sensation on Broadway and London's West End, '& Juliet' updates Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with a dose of female empowerment and a slew of hits from juggernaut producer Max Marti…
Echo Theater Company's West Coast premiere of 'Berta, Berta,' a romantic drama by Angelica Chéri that was inspired by a chain gang song from the notorious Mississippi prison Parchman Farm, …
Gustavo Dudamel begins his only week at the Hollywood Bowl this summer with a classical/jazz dialogue between Ellington and Ravel.
Robert Wilson, who changed everything he touched, was the most influential theater artist of our time. And for him all theater was opera.
In 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' the conflict between Cynthia Erivo's all-seeing, all-feeling Jesus and Adam Lambert's competitive yet remorseful Judas was thrillingly brought to life in their d…
Robert Wilson, a leader in avant-garde theater who collaborated with Philip Glass, David Byrne and Lady Gaga over his six-decade career, has died. He was 83.
Wallis Annenberg, philanthropist who made massive donations to arts, education and animal welfare causes and whose name is on venues around Los Angeles County, has died.
At the Bregenz Festival, the big attraction is opera spectacularly produced directly on Lake Constance, but there is more to surprise an Angeleno.
'The Seagull: Mailbu,' adapted from Anton Chekhov, and 'Strife' by John Galsworthy, big cast plays of weighty substance, lend heft to Theatricum Botanicum's outdoor season.