Los Angeles-area theater recommendations for Dec. 8, 2017: "Beauty and the Beast" at Casa 0101, "Santasia" at the Whitefire, "Wake" at City Garage and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at Actors …
Click. Click. Click. The sound comes from deep inside Michael Luwoye's mouth, near the back of his tongue. It's not intentional. The "Hamilton" star clicks when he's trying to order his thou…
Rory O'Malley's husband says O'Malley's head has gotten bigger since it's been wearing a crown. O'Malley doesn't argue. Playing King George III in the national tour of "Hamilton," after ruli…
Where do new musicals come from? For a while, the answer regularly seemed to be pop-music catalogs and movies guaranteed to put baby boomers in a nostalgic mood. Broadway became the great cu…
Mozart's final opera, "The Magic Flute," is not only one of the most frequently revived and crowd-pleasing of his works, but also possibly the most difficult to summarize. Prince Tamino's ar…
The first composer in the Western canon whose name we know and whose voice continues to exert considerable contemporary resonance was a woman " the 12th century Benedictine abbess Hildegard …
Will the Los Angeles Philharmonic be Jonathon Heyward's good luck charm? Heyward, a 25-year-old American who had been part of the L.A. Phil's prestigious Dudamel Fellowship Program for condu…
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…
At the start of Duncan Macmillan's "People, Places & Things," which concludes its triumphant run at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn on Sunday, Emma, an actress with a serious substance abuse…
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: Independent Shakespeare Company's "A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens," 24th Street Theatre's "Pang!," the Latino Theatre Company's "The Latina C…
A fascinating experiment is underway on Broadway. A substandard comedy that received, let's just say, mixed reviews out of town has been recast with fashionably hip actors in a new productio…
Nixon Library Sunday Concerts Handel's "Messiah" sing-a-long. Richard M. Nixon Library, 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda. Sun., 10 a.m. and noon. Free. (714) 993-5075. Sundays Live Celli…
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 Jersey Boys Tony-winnin…
The season of mashed potatoes and gluten-free vegan nut loaf is upon us! I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with a special advance edition of everything that's …
For better or for worse, Hollywood is stitching itself more thoroughly into the fabric of theater. Here are some of the latest threads " casting news, opening-night announcements and more. "…
Every season theater producers drop a wad of coins in the jukebox like gamblers pouring quarters into slot machines. Broadway jackpots might be rarer than Las Vegas windfalls, but the behemo…
"November " with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills." That's a little somethin' somethin' from L.M. Montgomery'…
Is there a play-doctor in the house? A concerned onlooker would have reason to make this plea during "Chasing Mem'ries: A Different Kind of Musical." Unfortunately, there's not much anyone c…
"Shameless" writer Molly Smith Metzler calls theater her "secret lover." "I always want to be with her the most," she says, "and when I'm doing anything else, I'm thinking about her." In thi…
This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: "Magic Fruit" from Cornerstone Theater Company, "Yerma in the Desert" from Greenway Arts Alliance and Urban Theatre Movement, "Sherlock Holmes and th…
What theater's quiet style has in common with the new architecture.
Center Theatre Group will announce Wednesday the addition of three productions to its 2018-19 season, including the 9/11 musical "Come From Away." Irene Sankoff and David Hein's show, which …
"King Charles III," British playwright Mike Bartlett's "future history play" that was nominated for a Tony Award last year, begins with the funeral procession for Britain's longest ruling mo…
If you can't beat 'em, parody 'em. Gerard Alessandrini, the man behind the popular "Forbidden Broadway" series, has made his theatrical career spoofing his musical theater betters. He's turn…
Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.), Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.) and David C. Nichols (D.C.N.) Openings Chism…