(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A real life look at the crazy odds and tortured dreams of making it in La La Land By Jeffrey Fleishman Feb. 17, 2017 Beyond a stretch of thrift stores and …
"New musicals are never finished, only abandoned," director Christopher Ashley quipped by phone a few days before flying to New York for the start of rehearsals for "Come From Away," the mus…
Randall Arney is stepping down as artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, the company said Tuesday. After 17 years with the company, Arney will leave when his contract ends…
When the Hollywood Bowl announces its 2017 summer season on Tuesday, the lineup will swing from the ABBA musical "Mamma Mia!" to a Gustavo Dudamel-conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony,…
"Zoot Suit," the landmark 1978 play by Luis Valdez that put the struggles of Mexican Americans front and center, is back where it originated at the Mark Taper Forum in an exhilarating reviva…
"The Color Purple" took home the Grammy Award for musical theater album Sunday during the pre-telecast ceremony held just before the main event in Los Angeles. The cast album features Daniel…
Kneehigh, the seriously playful British theater company that turned the classic film "Brief Encounter" into a charmingly inventive multimedia stage play, is back at the Wallis Annenberg Cent…
A bleak creative vision infused with scenic dazzle gave a distinctive edge to three works by young, New York-based choreographer Jonah Bokaer on Friday in Royce Hall at UCLA. Cold and dark, …
This week: A feel-good musical about a 1950s vocal quartet, a new play about an Indian family tripped up by the Internet age, and the return of a classic drama about Chicano life in 1940s L.…
America's widespread opioid crisis has sadly made a crucial part of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" more relatable. Mary, the strung-out mother in the play's alcoholic …
"There's a beautiful line by T.S. Eliot," says the actress Jane Kaczmarek: "'Something about how we wander through life, '… and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star…
Denzel Washington strolls in dressed all baggy: ingratiating, sly, a man of eloquence and scat, quiet and crescendo. The bulk of him rises. So many things writ into him, saint, connive…
The crowd-pleasing adaptation of "Waitress" and the national tour of Tony winner "The Color Purple" highlight the Hollywood Pantages season for 2017-18, the theater announced Tuesday. Rou…
Al Pacino stumbles onstage during rehearsals at the Pasadena Playhouse, his rumpled suit too loose, his hair disheveled, his eyes buggy. The set of playwright Dotson Rader's "God Looked Away…
Chita Rivera originated some of the most indelible roles of Broadway's Golden Age: Anita in "West Side Story," Velma in "Chicago," Rosie in "Bye Bye Birdie." She also starred in the film ver…
Something miraculous happens in "Every Brilliant Thing." Something you might want to include on your own list of life-enhancing pleasures should you follow the lead of the protagonist, who i…
Movie theaters might be expecting a slow Super Bowl weekend, but Paramount was seeing ring bling at the box Saturday morning. The studio's horror reboot "Rings" took the top spot at the b…
Art, theater, music and performance that resonate with this tumultuous moment in world history. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and your friendly neighb…
The musical path of Lang Lang continues to zigzag all over the place. The 34-year-old Chinese pianist released a concept album last September called "New York Rhapsody" in which he mostl…
Just as the short stories in collections by Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley and Alice Munro are meant to be savored one small masterpiece at a time and not gobbled up indiscrim…
The arts and entertainment communities " anticipating government cutbacks, harmed by a presidential travel ban, alarmed by an atmosphere of divisiveness and invigorated by mass protests " ha…
There's no avoiding politics these days. Not even a thrilling stage adaptation of the great American novel set on the high seas can offer complete escape. At Saturday's matinee of "Moby Dick…
The soap in the bathroom of the Huntington Beach High School auditorium is strawberry scented, but inside the main theater it smells of raw ambition. This is the regional semifinals of what'…
Of all the accolades bestowed upon Mary Tyler Moore before her death Wednesday -Â six-time Emmy winner, comic genius, Oscar-nominated dramatic actress, feminist inspiration - there was one…
This week: Tony winners and other Broadway veterans bring music and merriment to local stages. Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs The "Cabaret" star performs classics by Stephen Sondheim, Noel C…