A play in which the cast acts out the real immigration stories of family and friends would seem to have "Trump" written all over it, but "The New Colossus" " the latest from the Actors' Gang…
Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer-nominated play centers on an Iraq-bound Marine whose story is interwoven with his father's Vietnam past and his grandfather's Korean War history. The result is…
Artist and choreographer Ann Carlson calls upon a cast of two women, two men, one boy, three herding dogs and a flock of sheep to explore "instinct, sentience, attachment and loss."
To bah or not to bah " that is not the question of "Doggie Hamlet," a site-specific performance work by choreographer and director Ann Carlson that involves a flock of sheep, three herding d…
Harold Pinter wrote "The Hothouse" in the 1950s, then buried it in a drawer before resurrecting it in 1980 for a production that he himself directed. During the interim, what Pinter initiall…
Our weekly theater recommendations include Jeanine Tesori's "Violet" at the Chance Theater in Anaheim, the premiere of "Two Fisted Love" at the Odyssey, the Culture Clash-Buyepongo show "Sap…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes learned storytelling among a sprawl of aunts, uncles and cousins. When her mother's talkative Puerto Rican American family got toget…
The 2018 Ovation Awards gave top honors to Actors Co-op's production of "33 Variations," and East West Players' "Next to Normal," the former taking the award for best production of a play in…
"Hello, Dolly!" which won four Tony Awards last year including best musical revival, is coming to Los Angeles as part of the Hollywood Pantages' 2018-19 season, the theater announced Tuesday…
Critic Charles McNulty takes in the scene as Bradley Whitford, Joshua Malina and a starry cast lead a one-night-only reading organized by the Fountain Theatre at L.A. City Hall. The message:…
At the electric reading of William Goldman's screenplay for "All the President's Men" at Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday night, Watergate once again had the freshness of current events. Co…
In his Los Angeles Opera program note for Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," which opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, music director James Conlon points out that the orig…
THEATER 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.). Compiled by Matt Cooper. Openings…
The irreverent Chicago theater company the Hypocrites brings its adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical to Pasadena.
What's happening on L.A.'s smaller stages? "Alright Then" by Orson Bean at Pacific Resident Theatre; "The Hothouse" by Antaeus; "The Chinese Wall" at Group Rep; "The Enchanted Nightingale" a…
Performing-arts events in Southern California for the week of Jan. 25 include downtown L.A.'s Night on Broadway, 'Rotterdam,' Pilobolus.
"Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of the Temptations" has been added to Center Theatre Group's 2018-19 season, Artistic Director Michael Ritchie announced Wednesday. The musical, with a …
The Broadway hit "Rock of Ages" will try to return to its Los Angeles roots, one of the show's producers says. Matthew Weaver of Media Weaver Entertainment said he wants to restage the produ…
Pam MacKinnon is a hot commodity on Broadway, where her work has scored Tony, Drama Desk and Obie awards, but now the director is headed west: American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco …
In the annals of Leonard Bernstein, it is common to dismiss the West Coast. The composer was a native Bostonian and a New York icon who didn't have all that much to do with us. Though a medi…
"Shakespeare in Love" at South Coast Rep captures the rom-com spirit of Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning screenplay, while Philip Whitchurch's "Shakespeare his wife and the dog" …
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New principal guest conductor Susanna Mälkki led the L.A. Phil through a program centered on a extremely difficult 1968 cello concerto by the German composer Berndt Alois Zimmermann, whose …
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: Rising playwright Anna Ziegler's "A Delicate Ship" at the Road on Magnolia, Aaron Posner's "The Chosen" at the Fountain, "The Last Wife" at Theatre 4…
The line between real life and entertainment can seem increasingly blurry these days, especially for those in Tinseltown who find themselves in traffic alongside the celebrities whose charac…