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'The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise' at Hollywood Pantages makes the most of a glorious catalog.
An appreciation of playwright Richard Greenberg, author of 'Three Days of Rain' and 'Take Me Out,' among other plays, who premiered many of his works at South Coast Repertory before taking t…
Jake Brasch's 'The Reservoir,' directed by Shelley Butler, features a cast that includes Marin Hinkle at the Geffen Playhouse.
"Swan Lake" in Costa Mesa, an Indian-Bach mix with Vijay Gupta in Sierra Madre and ballet on a makeshift Television City stage are all parts of June's dance explosion in and around L.A.
Michael Arden's Tony-winning revival of "Parade," Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's musical about the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager accused and convicted of a heinous …
Nonprofit dance company Pointeworks creates opportunities on and offstage for women, including choreographers and composers, during ballet's off-season.
Salonen ends his troubled relationship with the San Francisco Symphony with Mahler's ferocious Second Symphony, leaving the audience roaring and musicians pounding their feet in praise.
Los Angeles will allow ticket holders for Center Theatre Group's 'Hamlet,' L.A. Opera's 'Rigoletto' and others to stay out past Mayor Bass' curfew; the Broad museum plans to close this weeke…
Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Danny Feldman announces a lineup that includes the comedy 'Eureka Day,' a fresh take on 'Brigadoon,' Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' and the hip-hop musical 'M…
L.A. Opera lets patrons exchange tickets, MOCA and the Broad curtail hours, Center Theatre Groups tabulates revenue losses from cancellations. How L.A. arts groups have been affected by the …
Cole Escola, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Darren Criss are among the performers who took home Tony Awards in a season in which A-list Hollywood actors and veteran stage performers hel…
The multifaceted entertainer's perfect Sunday in L.A. includes getting breakfast in Santa Monica, the movies in Century City and hosting a free dance class.
In a historic first, CNN will broadcast a live performance of a Broadway show on Saturday. 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' a stage adaptation of George Clooney's 2005 film, stars the actor as C…
Director Robert O'Hara's noir version of 'Hamlet,' starring Patrick Ball and premiering at Mark Taper Forum, audaciously but incoherently toys with Shakespeare's tragedy.
Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' is the front-runner in the Tony Award race for best play. But in one of the strongest playwriting categories in years, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Purpose' deserves to…
New York welcomes Gustavo Dudamel as its future conductor with an honorary doctorate from Juilliard and with cheers after Philip Glass' Symphony No. 11.
For L.A. Theatre Works producing director Susan Albert Loewenberg and managing director Vicki Pearlson, the company's legacy of audio drama holds new potential in the age of podcasting and a…
Michael Arden could follow his Tony win for directing 'Parade' with another Tony this year for 'Maybe Happy Ending.' Coming next: 'The Queen of Versailles' with Kristin Chenoweth and 'The Lo…
Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Danya Taymor reveal how the Tony-nominated play 'John Proctor Is the Villain' made it to Broadway, with help from 'Stranger Things' star Sadie Sink…
The tale of a Dublin bus conductor with a yen for Oscar Wilde drives this fantastic revival of 'A Man of No Importance,' from the 'Ragtime' team of Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lyn…
Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner star in the Pasadena Playhouse production of 'A Doll's House, Part 2,' the clever Lucas Hnath comedy that earned Laurie Metcalf a Tony on Broadway.
Sarah Ruhl treats the world as her classroom, deriving spiritual lessons along with practical wisdom about life and art in a compelling new book.
'Twilight' actor Elizabeth Reaser and 'Ozark' actor Jason Butler Harner star as Nora and Torvald, picking up where Ibsen left off in Lucas Hnath's Tony-nominated play 'A Doll's House, Part 2…
Seedy 1980s L.A. is the backdrop for rising playwright Roger Q. Mason's 'Hide and Hide,' part of their 'Califas Trilogy' exploring the past, present and future of the Golden State through a …
Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour's global hit 'White Rabbit Red Rabbit,' a theatrical experiment swathed in mystery, opens at the Fountain Theatre with a different actor handed the script righ…
