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Danny Feldman is the new leader of the theater company, which celebrates its 100th birthday this summer with some serious questions about its future.
Growing up in 1980s Detroit as part of the Winans gospel clan, music was a way of life for BeBe and CeCe Winans " and later it became a calling. After the teenage brother-sister duo joined J…
The Hammer's annual fundraising soiree will be especially smart this year: The museum announced on Friday that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker th…
Enter any theater and an usher will probably volunteer answers to the questions on everyone's mind: How many minutes is the show, and is there an intermission? Why the answers matter more th…
What does it say about us when that quintessential symbol of union and hope " the wedding cake " becomes a flashpoint in the culture war? Bekah Brunstetter's new dramedy, "The Cake," grapple…
Openings Catlady Kevin Kelly and Nathan Shoop's new play uses the story of a woman who hoards feral cats to explore socio-economic issues. Loft Ensemble Theater, 13442 Ventura Blvd., Sherman…
Dear Ted L. Nancy: Congratulations on the success of your series of "Letters From a Nut" books. I have to admit I never heard of them until I received an invitation to attend your show at th…
Joe Mantegna may be best known as an actor, most recently starring as FBI special agent David Rossi on the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds." But he's no stranger to the stage, having won a T…
Frida Kahlo in opera. Beyond the "Julius Caesar" controversy. And 24 hours of song. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, lover of hot coffee and burritos, with the…
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.) Open…
Shakespeare clearly lies outside the right-wing attack machine's area of expertise. While Breitbart News and friends were busy waging a full-scale war against the New York Public Theater's p…
For 11 nights in late May and early June, Julius Caesar was brutally stabbed to death without much fuss as part of the Public Theater's annual Shakespeare production in Central Park. On June…
'Escape to Margaritaville,' Jimmy Buffett, La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Ashley
Debra Jo Rupp has had more than 300 TV and film roles, and she's still best known as doting mom Kitty Forman in "That '70s Show." But the actress is most at home onstage, she says, where she…
The show features 246 songs. It's 24 hours long, split into six-hour chapters. And, yes, you are expected to sit through all six hours. This is theater of the unexpected; it is theater of ca…
When Robert Xavier RodrÃguez's "Frida" had its premiere in 1991 at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, Frida Kahlo was certainly well known, but not the art-world rock st…
Hero Theatre organized a festival last year in celebration of Cuban American playwright MarÃa Irene Fornés, a key figure in the off-off-Broadway theater movement who has had an influence…
DANCE Compiled by Matt Cooper Red Giselle Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg presents this fantasy inspired by the tragic life of famed Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva. Segerstrom Hall, Seg…
Oscar-winning director John G. Avildsen, whose "Rocky" sent a shot of adrenaline through movie theaters and turned Sylvester Stallone into one of cinema's most unforgettable boxers, has died…
The opening scene of "Constellations," the play by British dramatist Nick Payne that had a Broadway production in 2015 with Ruth Wilson and Jake Gyllenhaal, offers variations of the meet-cut…
Now we know. It has been 45 years since Lou Harrison's "Young Caesar," an overtly gay opera for puppets with penises, had its hapless premiere in Pasadena, to the outrage of some of its spon…
You know it's an interesting year for the Tony Awards when a critic is still arguing with himself in June over what should win best musical and best play. I'm divided between "Dear Evan Hans…
Los Angeles Philharmonic winds down the season. The Tony Awards offer plenty of drama. And Frank Lloyd Wright turns 150. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer with the Los Angeles Times, wit…
The nearly 9 million people who tuned in to watch the Tony Awards last year saw the coronation of a pop-culture king: "Hamilton" won 11 prizes and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda gave an impassio…
For the veteran director, the nomination for directing the Bette Midler juggernaut is his first Tony nod in 20 years -- a sweet moment for a four-time winner.
