Philip Glass' "Satyagraha," Mozart's "The Clemency of Titus" and a world premiere by up-and-coming composer Ellen Reid will form part of Los Angeles Opera's 2018-19 season, the company annou…
A mill. A brook. A body. A pretty, fickle daughter. A blithe wanderer. A hunter. Nixies. A broken heart. An atmosphere of underlying weirdness. A strophic soundtrack underscoring all that is…
One of the last performances I saw in 2017 was one of the sliest: Billy Crudup in David Cale's "Harry Clarke" at New York's Vineyard Theatre. I caught this off-Broadway solo work at the end …
Playwright Bess Wohl, who trained as an actor at the Yale School of Drama, has written a play that asks actors to do more than speak the speech trippingly on the tongue, as Hamlet advised th…
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 I Am My Own Wife Doug Wright's T…
A few years ago, Poor Dog Group, founded in 2008 by a group of young theater artists who met while studying at the California Institute of the Arts, brought in a licensed therapist to hold g…
This week's highlights in the small-theater scene include Michael Kearns' show "Bloodbound" at Highways, Lounge Theatre's "Bugaboo & the Silent One" and "Freud's Last Session" at the Odyssey.
Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis, Michael Kearns, Disney's "Splash" and the '80s soap "Dynasty" all factor into this week's roundup of "The 99-Seat Beat," our weekly highlights from L.A.'s small-th…
On the first day of 2018, a dozen cities in Germany, from Augsburg to Wiesbaden, celebrated a new year with concerts that included music by Leonard Bernstein. No matter America's fraught rel…
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…
DANCE Compiled by Matt Cooper Ezralow Dance Company The troupe presents an evening of visually-enhanced contemporary dance. Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highw…
Robert Mann once explained in an interview that, zealously fired up after founding the Juilliard String Quartet in 1946, he went so far as to obtain an orgone accumulator. It wasn't enough t…
Playwright and "This Is Us" writer Bekah Brunstetter's "The Cake," a comedy about a Christian-conservative baker who balks at making a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, will follow its prem…
The Green One meets the Purple One, resulting in a swap of fur colors, in "How the Princh Stole Christmas!" This Grinch/Prince mash-up is the latest holiday show from the Troubadour Theater …
"Theater artists who really want to make a difference might be advised to break free from the constant stream of infuriating updates belching from their phones. It's not that the stage shoul…
The Nutcracker Ballet Repertory Theatre performs the holiday favorite. Golden West College Mainstage Theater, 15751 Gothard St., Huntington Beach. Ends Sun., 1 p.m. $15, $19. (714) 895-8150.…
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.). Openings The Annual One-Time-Onl…
It's the most wonderful time of the week " when the Essential Arts newsletter hits your inbox! I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and I just wanted to take the …
In general I have no patience for the argument, popular among classic liberals and Fox News viewers alike, that American college students these days are coddled or protected from especially …
Our weekly report on the small-theater scene starts at the Rubicon in Ventura, which escaped the Thomas fire but was forced to cancel previews and opening weekend performances of "A Christma…
The power of individual performers redeemed 2017, a theatrical year overrun with flotsam and jetsam but one that at least gave us Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen in unforgettable form on …
Technology flexes its muscles in the latest Cirque du Soleil show to visit Southern California. We know Cirque as a showcase for the limits to which humankind can push itself, but this time,…
Has any country ever suffered victory as Russia did at the end of the World War II in 1945? Loses were incalculably terrible, and the future was as scary as ever with Stalin still in power. …
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Alisan Porter and Friends The Season 10 winner of "The Voice" and sp…
Fires and art. Misty Copeland lands in Southern California. And a new lead for "Hamilton." I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the week's most important cul…