In February, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul fell just short of Hollywood's highest honor when "La La Land," the Southland-set musical they penned the lyrics for, failed to win best picture at th…
In the midst of the social media-firestorm surrounding the Public Theater's staging of "Julius Caesar" featuring the brutal stabbing of an orange-haired dictator, Donald Trump Jr. asked two …
Inequality is a brute fact of American life and Broadway, increasingly divided between blockbuster hits and struggling also-rans, is hardly immune. But the Tony Awards tried to impose some j…
"Well, hello, Tony!" That could have been Bette Midler's mantra Sunday evening as she took the stage to accept her award for lead actress in a musical for "Hello, Dolly!" Throughout her more…
"Smash," NBC's drama tracing the development of a fictional Broadway musical called 'Bombshell" about screen legend Marilyn Monroe, had a rocky two-season run. But the series had a rabid fan…
Julianne & Derek Hough: Move Beyond Live on Tour The siblings and former "Dancing With the Stars" pros perform. Microsoft Theater, 777 Chick Hearn Court, L.A. Sun., 8 p.m. $35-$129. (888) 92…
The music and lyrics from "Dogfight," now at the Hudson Mainstage, are by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the "Dear Evan Hansen" songwriting team. It's a consummate production of a not-perfect s…
You could say Susan Stroman is crazy for the musical. In 1992 Stroman launched her career by choreographing the original Broadway production of "Crazy for You," a Wall Street-boy-meets-Main …
The secret to Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work
In turbulent times, history itself becomes a source of suspenseful drama, as anxious citizens look to the past to predict what fresh hell is in store for them. "Hold These Truths," a solo dr…
For many aspiring thespians, the dream is to become a working actor. For Laurie Metcalf, a three-time Emmy-winner for her role as hapless Jackie on the sitcom "Roseanne" and a strong contend…
Mark the calendar: As we roll deeper into June, here are some of the performances and exhibitions that have caught the curiosity of Times critics, staff writers and contributors. 1. 'Young C…
Ojai takes a jazzy turn. Yuja Wang takes on Bartók. And LACMA features the history of an unsung Los Angeles gallery. Plus: the future of the movie theater, as well as the arts scene in Me…
I don't remember the name of the theater. It was long ago in an alley not far from the Trevi Fountain in Rome. The bus had dropped us off in the rain and we hurried to the ticket booth, wher…
New museums! Big retirements! Schubert and Beethoven and some fellas from Jersey. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the week's tastiest culture stories: L…
Terence Rattigan's "Separate Tables," two one-acts cobbled into one evening at Theatre 40, is a prime example of 1950s theater at its most retro: chatty, discursive and often busy to a fault…
Peter Brook's "Battlefield," which opened at the Wallis on Wednesday for a brief run through Sunday, is itself the ultimate brief run. It is the last word in concentrated compression by thea…
This week: The world's greatest detective is on the case in a new mash-up. Plus, tales of a Japanese American civil-rights activist and a famous composer's talented sister. Escape to Margari…
You could barely move backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday night. Turn right and you'd bang into Matthew Broderick, turn left and you'd slam into Edward James Olmos, and Louis Gosse…
Center Theatre Group's "50th Celebration," which gathered celebrities, devoted patrons, philanthropists and swells in their spiffiest attire for a Saturday night shindig at the Ahmanson, was…
We've got Björk. We've got the legendary theater director Peter Brook. We have a 24-hour party for Lou Harrison and the architect behind the Marciano Art Foundation. I'm Carolina A. Miranda…
"Jersey Boys," that perennial jukebox moneymaker, is back at the Ahmanson Theatre for reasons that are easily surmised. The coffers at Center Theatre Group are clearly crying out for repleni…
Peter Brook talks about his production of "Battlefield" and the process of stripping away to get to theater's essence.
A note in the press packet for the West Coast premiere of Guillermo Calderón's "Kiss" at the Odyssey Theatre requests that critics "not give away details of the plot" in their reviews. Th…
Comedy of the crowd-pleasing variety is making a comeback on our stages this season. The Geffen Playhouse notched a hit with Matthew Lopez's "The Legend of Georgia McBride," a giggly romp ab…