Anna Deveare Smith, Moises Kaufman, David Henry Hwang and other luminaries recall the mishaps and the glory to unfold onstage as the L.A. theater company marks its golden anniversary.
Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has only one thing to say about the fact that "Spamilton," a popular "Hamilton" spoof, will launch its national tour at the Kirk Dougla…
Draft Hillary Clinton to make a pro-NEA statement at the Tony Awards
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
Tim Robbins' first time getting paid as an actor was through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a gangly 15-year-old performing street theater in New York with Theater …
The trees are ropes resembling piano strings. The birds are folded sheets of stationery. The princes ride on stick horses. And the wolf stalking Little Red Ridinghood is mounted like a hunti…
The moment I turned on my phone after landing in San Francisco for the opening of "Hamilton," I was greeted with momentous local news: Carey Perloff, the artistic director of the American Co…
The headline on the concert tickets and on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's website read "Mirga Conducts Mozart and Haydn." The usual safe practices of marketing are responsible for that, but …
A painter's light-filled turn. A reflective desert house. And "Hamilton" arrives in San Francisco. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with all the best cultural…
A conversation with British actor, writer and director Simon McBurney is a meditative adventure not unlike one of his genre-blurring theatrical collages created with his London-based interna…
Ask what it takes to create new theater at South Coast Repertory, and you will get an interesting answer. It takes seven playwrights, six directors and five dramaturgs. Forty-four actors. Se…
The characters in "Rules of Seconds," a new play by John Pollono at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, are a lively anachronistic mix. Their boots and pistols suggest the drama's 1855 Boston se…
"Hamilton" may celebrate inclusion, but the frenzied quest for tickets to the musical's Los Angeles run has left some ticket hopefuls confused or worried they will be left out. Performances …
It has been 44 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision decriminalized abortion, but the debate has hardly been settled. The rhetoric has only grown more inflammatory, a…
To borrow a line from Sonnet 18, summer's lease hath all too short a date when the Independent Shakespeare Co. wraps up its annual free performances in Griffith Park each September. The nonp…
If you enjoy Cirque du Soleil acrobats but believe they'd be even better with dirty jokes, then "Absinthe" is the spinoff you've been waiting for. Playing downtown in a tent at L.A. Live, "A…
Bring art to the people. That's the credo of Grand Performances, which has staged free summer shows at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles since 1987. The organization has received a to…
The story of the American West would be incomplete without the indigenous people who occupied this territory long before the arrival of European immigrants. Giving the descendants of indigen…
"Hamilton" has finally planted its flag in California. The unofficial Broadway musical of Barack Obama's presidency has arrived in San Francisco, America's bastion of liberalism, at the dawn…
An awful lot of Brahms has been performed around town lately for no particular reason, and Christoph Eschenbach " fresh off a local appearance last month with the touring Bamberg Symphony " …
Call it a joyous homecoming. The national tour of Broadway's "An American in Paris" has opened at the Hollywood Pantages, returning the story, characters and George Gershwin music to the the…
Playwright Michael Mitnick is on a conference call with actress Mamie Gummer, and they're talking about his play "The Siegel," a twist on modern love and marriage that's making its world pre…
The Wooster Group, venerable purveyor of postmodern performance collages, has come upon a gender-politics gold mine in the company's latest adventure in cockeyed cultural excavation. "The To…
We live in an era in which image memes are lobbed as political salvos. In which security is "theater" and defining who controls the "narrative" in a world of facts and alternative facts is t…
This week: A play about an African American actor playing Othello is the thing at the Old Globe. Plus, Don Quixote tilts at windmills at A Noise Within, and a sci-fi tale by Kurt Vonnegut la…