Karla, a struggling stand-up comic, is furiously jotting in her notebook while trying out different versions of a new routine. "I've been single for so long, I've started having sex dreams a…
Los Angeles theater picks this week are "In a Word," "Walking to Buchenwald," "Daytona" and a bilingual "Aladdin."
It has all the hallmarks of a movie trailer " the fast pace, the quick cuts, the relentless beat. "Something primal," a deep voice intones. "Something raw. Something otherworldly. Something …
A searing cello solo. Latin American art takes over Los Angeles. And the passing of a great man of the stage. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the week's…
Marc Masterson, artistic director of South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, will leave his post when his contract expires at the end of the current season, the theater announced Thursday eveni…
He was a very small figure seated on a wide expanse, a large stage empty but for a cellist on a chair. The Hollywood Bowl shell was lighted midnight blue. The amphitheater was probably kept …
Music is a gathering place that can be big enough to accommodate a crowd or small enough to nestle two yearning hearts. Rarely has this been as poignantly conveyed as in the 2007 movie "Once…
Just how high is the demand for the Broad's upcoming "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" exhibition? After 50,000 tickets sold out in less than an hour earlier this month, the museum announced …
Michael Friedman, the composer best known for his Broadway musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," died Saturday at age 41 of complications from AIDS, according to the Public Theater in New …
Fall Festival Katie Critchlow and Christopher Sellars of Utah's Ballet West perform as part of this showcase presented by Ballet Repertory Theatre. Golden West College, Mainstage Theater, 15…
The straightforward production of "Iphigenia in Aulis" that opened Wednesday at the Getty Villa's outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater might be retitled "Clytemnestra," so enliven…
There are no easy outs in the Grove Theater Center revival of David Harrower's "Blackbird" " not for its two characters locked in brutal psychological warfare, nor for anyone in the audience…
With DACA ending, a Dreamer's tale of navigating the American immigration system leads our list of small-theater picks for the week.
When Geert Chatrou whistles, it's easy to picture the birds trilling and flitting around Snow White in the classic 1937 film. The two-time world champion from the Netherlands stands onstage …
"Dear Evan Hansen," the heart-wrenching Broadway hit that dominated this year's Tony Awards with six wins including best musical, will come to Los Angeles as part of Center Theatre Group's 2…
America lacks a truly great international music and theater festival. It's time we create one like the Austrian event where top talents push their art forward.
The L.A. Times' theater team shortlists current offerings in this new weekly feature on the city's small houses.
Nixon Library Sunday Concerts Guitarist Gregg Goodhart performs. Richard M. Nixon Library, 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda. Sun., 2 p.m. Free. (714) 993-5075. Sundays Live Flutist Susan…
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes and ,Charles McNulty. Compiled by Matt Cooper. Openings Madness, Mayhem and Other Stimulants … When Women Write! Three-week festival spotlight…
If you were among the 175 million people who downloaded "Serial," the true-crime podcast phenomenon that went on to win a Peabody Award, the plinking piano chords in its theme song are proba…
Jane Kaczmarek will star as the Stage Manager in an upcoming production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," a co-production of Pasadena Playhouse and Deaf West Theatre. The play, directed by To…
The L.A. artist known for performances that employ the body and blood in visceral ways (and for drawing the ire of conservatives) is organizing a performance series at the Broad.
Randall Arney, the former artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles who was dismissed in February after 17 years at the theater, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Geffen of…
At a ceremony last week to mark the opening of the $700-million USC Village, C.L. Max Nikias, the university's president, spoke at some length about the architecture of the new complex and w…
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Philip Brandes (P.B.). Openings Festival of Living Art Works by Munch, Picasso, Banksy, et al., are re-created and set to a musical …