King Kong had no chance against the Beast. Disney's "Beauty and The Beast," the new live-action adaptation of the studio's 1991 animated classic, is on its way to shattering box office recor…
It took almost 100 years, but composer Richard Strauss' ballet "Whipped Cream" is finally a bewitching success, thanks to the pairing of artist Mark Ryden with choreographer Alexei Ratmansky…
On its way to Broadway, "Hamilton" benefited from support by the National Endowment for the Arts. So did "August: Osage County" and "Fun Home," currently in production at Los Angeles' Ahmans…
After Thursday's announcement of President Trump's budget blueprint, many are left worried about the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities…
Yet another fight is shaping up over elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which on Friday the Trump administration announced as part of its first federal budget proposal. The …
Yet another fight is shaping up over elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which on Thursday the Trump administration announced as part of its first federal budget proposal. Th…
This week: A risqué cirque-style show in a tent at L.A. Live, the Wooster Group returns to REDCAT, and Antaeus Theatre Company chooses a Tennessee Williams classic for the first show in its…
Los Angeles "Hamilton" fans, take note: 10 a.m. April 30. That's when individual tickets for the musical's run at the Hollywood Pantages will go on sale, the theater announced Tuesday. Ameri…
"The Perfect American" is the operatic portrait of an idealist American artist as a less-than-perfect old man, which is to say a blend of sunshine, supremacy and insecurity. In Philip Glass'…
Deaf West Theatre is back at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts after the company's heralded revival of "Spring Awakening," which catapulted itself to Broadway after its Bev…
Did someone say "Hamilton"? You'll have to wait till summer's end for Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical to arrive. But in the meantime, several other nationally touring productions come to local …
Every good fairy tale has a dark side. Perhaps nobody knew that better than Walt Disney. The creator of "Bambi" and "Snow White" never shied from exploiting the grimmer nature of humanity as…
Endurance, survival, getting through troubled times: The program that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presented at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Wednesday focused on crucial life l…
This week: A new comedy about colonialism and Caribbean-cruise industry, and a new drama about the possible consequences of building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Kevin Carr One-man show…
Kate Shindle was performing concerts on a cruise ship in the Bahamas when the musical "Fun Home" opened on Broadway in 2015. The show won five Tony Awards that year, including best musical, …
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gives the first of six performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Wednesday, and woven through the run will be one prominent thread: social justice. …
Very few works can claim to have launched a trend, but John Adams' "Nixon in China" certainly can. A wag called it "CNN Headline Opera," a somewhat pejorative tag that didn't stick. But the …
The beginning of "Thrones! The Musical Parody" comes with a warning, a cheerfully dramatic song promising "lots and lots of spoilers" as cast members reveal not one secret but a litany of pl…
And the winner actually is … The final-act confusion over the best picture award that had movie moguls staggering out of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood after Sunday's Academy Awards was…
A musical with all the dramatic richness of a memorable play opened at the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday " a rare sighting that could induce a theater critic to genuflect if not erupt in a c…
On the surface, Lee Chandler, the protagonist of "Manchester by the Sea," and Troy Maxson, the central character of "Fences," wouldn't seem to have much in common. Sprung from different play…
"The Humans," the Stephen Karam one-act that won four Tony Awards last year including best play, and "Soft Power," a world premiere David Henry Hwang that work takes the form of a Chinese mu…
The Geffen Playhouse on Wednesday announced one world and three West Coast premieres as part of its 2017-18 season. Kicking off the season are the West Coast premieres of Halley Feiffer's of…
Conductor Christopher Rountree stands illuminated by a spotlight on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage. He takes a soothing breath and encourages the 2,100 middle school students seated befo…
The boundaries between human civilization and the animal kingdom become very blurry indeed in "Grimly Handsome," an appropriately titled grim fairy tale from Santa Monica's longtime purveyor…