Following in the audaciously silly footsteps of "The Book of Mormon" and "Spamalot," "Something Rotten!" is a Broadway musical that sets out to pinion you with laughter. Punchlines and pratf…
A spotlight on Los Angeles theater productions of "Rotterdam," "This Land," "deLEARious" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
Never take your pop culture for granted. Today's animated sitcom might just turn out to be tomorrow's sacred text " an evolution ingeniously depicted by Sacred Fools Theater Company in the d…
A wiry orange alien scuttles across a cracked parking lot near the corner of 4th and Main streets downtown. The creature towers over the acting secretary of the Interior, who stands before a…
You've read the New Yorker article. You've heard all of your artist friends talk about him. Now you can hear Chinese dissident artist Lin Bo speak at a downtown L.A. art gallery about the wo…
The exhibition, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, turns the entire museum interior into a giant cabinet of curiosities - very cold curiosities.
Mendelssohn's beloved overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" can be used two ways, both wondrous. One is as the standalone piece that the 17-year-old composer originally intended. In this f…
The immersive art-gallery theater piece "Caught," IAMA Theatre's "Redline" and "Sinner's Laundry," Coeurage Theatre's "The Secret in the Wings" and "The Red Dress" at the Odyssey are this we…
Q&A with Gerard Alessandrini, creator of "Spamilton: An American Parody." The commercial and critical hit off-Broadway opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on Nov. 12 as the "Ham…
Magic is in the air at the British Library here " specifically the magical world of one of the most famous characters in modern literature, Harry Potter. "Harry Potter: A History of Magic," …
The theater excited Albert Camus' communal instincts as a writer, but the stage wasn't the ideal medium for his brand of political existentialism. "Caligula" is perhaps his most fully realiz…
"Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World" opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York with three key works missing - pulled after complaints and threats by animal rights activists. Wi…
Our weekly picks for L.A.'s small-theater scene include Antaeus' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Danny Glover in East West Players' "Yohen," the Odyssey's "Macbeth x 5" and "Encuentro de las Ame…
In case turning back the clock to the stability and prosperity of the early 1960s seems an enticing alternative to today's sociopolitical turbulence, consider the fate of Lenny Bruce. The co…
"Gem of the Ocean" may not rank at the top of August Wilson's plays, but anyone doubting the soul-shaking power of this drama should brave Orange County traffic to see this wrenching new rev…
As one theatergoer's bliss is another theatergoer's cornball, let's accentuate the positive before delving into the negative of a show that reveals just how thin the line is between hokey an…
James Cagney is remembered best for playing tough-talking gangsters in Warner Bros. movies in the 1930s and '40s, which, according to "Cagney," a loving and cartoonish small-scale bio-musica…
When Gidon Kremer has a farsighted cause, it is wise to pay close attention. Over an uncompromising half-century career, the Latvian violinist and one of the last of the legendary artists to…
After acclaim for HBO's "The Leftovers" and an Emmy nomination for FX's "Fargo," Carrie Coon talks about returning to the stage to star in Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" off-Broadway at New York T…
Our weekly look at L.A.'s small-theater scene opens with a modern "eco-feminist" adaptation of "An Enemy of the People," Ibsen's classic about government corruption retold as the story of a …
It's part haunted house, part art installation, part performance-art piece: The Rogue Artist Ensemble and East West Players' immersive "Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin" unfolds in an abandon…
Henrik Ibsen: Ahead of his time. Father of modern drama. Often considered an early male feminist for confronting the constraints on women in the 19th century. The title character of one of h…
The old Hollywood adage that directing is 90% casting holds just as true in the theater, especially with a new play: Those first performances can turn heads, build buzz, entice other theater…
Dick Gregory, the comedian and civil rights activist who died this year, played the role of the Shakespearean fool to white America, quipping subversive sentiments about race relations in a …
Alice in Wonderland Festival Ballet Theatre presents a family-friendly take on Lewis Carroll's fantasy tale. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. Sun., 2 p.m. $39-$45. (949) 85…