"Hamilton" is finally here, and here it will stay from Aug. 11 until Dec. 30. Great, you say, but can I still get tickets? Yes indeed. And here are six ways to do it (spoiler: it probably wo…
Wait for it? No more. "Hamilton" is here. Let the countdown begin. Three days. Seventy-two hours. Four thousand, three-hundred and twenty minutes. No matter how you put it, the wait for the …
Barbara Cook's career can be divided into two parts: her Broadway ingénue years, in which she enchanted audiences with her glittering soprano, and her cabaret years, in which she basically …
Beth Morrison has been obsessed with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" for most her life. The black-clad, raven-haired indie opera producer has watched the original series 12 times. "It's absurd, b…
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Compiled by Matt Cooper. Openings Journey of the Monkey King Taiwan's Rom Shing H…
Nixon Library Sunday Concerts The Weston Duo performs music for piano and saxophone. Richard M. Nixon Library, 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda. Sun., 2 p.m. Free. (714) 993-5075. Sunday…
A classical farewell without the class, modern architecture on the movie screen, the loss and legacy of a theater legend. These scenes from the arts world kick off our weekly culture roundup…
Wendie Malick is set to star alongside a cast with notable television résumés for the world premiere of playwright Paul Rudnick's "Big Night," Center Theatre Group announced Tuesday. The p…
Add "Shout Sister Shout!" to the growing list of musicals that would make a more potent impression as a straightforward revue. The show, which is having its world premiere at Pasadena Playho…
Eugene O'Neil brought gravitas to the American theater. Tennessee Williams allowed it to lyrically sing. Arthur Miller raised its political temperature. And Edward Albee infused it with an a…
Lauren Yee's play starts out straightforwardly enough: An actress playing Yee (Stephenie Soohyun Park) is rehearsing the play with an actor portraying the playwright's father, Larry Yee (Fra…
British theater director Marianne Elliott and London's National Theatre are on a roll. "War Horse," their first joint blockbuster, and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," th…
Tony-winning actor Mandy Patinkin dropped out of the Broadway show "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" on Friday, after an announcement that he would be replacing African American ac…
"Sweet are the uses of adversity," the exiled Duke Senior asserts from his campground in the Forest of Arden in "As You Like It." For a drama critic attending a lackluster production of Shak…
"Sondheim on Sondheim" is, no surprise, all about Stephen Sondheim. But a new "symphonic version" given its premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl pro…
Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.) and David C. Nichols (D.C.N.) Openings Becoming Human Celebrity therapist and playwright Dr. Nicki J. Monti explores her difficult relationship …
National Theatre's acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Angels in America," starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, will be broadcast live to theaters in the U…
LONDON " For an American theatergoer in London this summer, there can be little doubt that the best new play of the year so far is Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" at the National Theatre.…
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.) Compiled by Matt Cooper. Openings Kids Koncerts Family-friendly show with Auntie Kayte. Will Geer's Theatricum Bo…
Deaf West Theatre was created by the deaf community as a place where deaf actors could come together with hearing actors in service of vivid theater. The company's productions of "Big River"…
A martial cadence is heard throughout the soul-rattling musical "Parade." You could think of it as the drumbeat of history " a history from which we repeatedly fail to learn. Time and the da…
Primo Passo Choreographer Daniel Ezralow reimagines some of his works in this world premiere. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Bram Goldsmith Theater, 9390 N. Santa Monica Bl…
THEATER 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.) Compi…
Since David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter," no romantic has been able to look at a banal railway station as simply a commuter hub. Each connecting line poses new amorous possibilities; e…
It's a hot one, but thankfully we have plenty of cool reads. This includes an essay that looks at the purpose of intermission, another that looks at how architecture is presented by the Nati…