For muralist Eloy Torrez, it was the face that really got to him. His beloved downtown Los Angeles mural, the "Pope of Broadway," featuring actor Anthony Quinn, had been chipping and fading …
It was nasty in Long Beach on Sunday. Record rainfall turned parts of the 710 into an underwater expedition for many on their way to that afternoon's Long Beach Opera season-opening performa…
Oh, the brave new world that has such people in it! The big day, Donald Trump's inauguration, has come and gone. We're looking at a variety of stories that are related and not " from t…
With ominous stories of right-wing extremism in parts of the world, there's a solid case to be made for a revival of the Holocaust drama "Bent" so soon after the high-profile Mark Taper Foru…
Last week an artistic leader greeted an opening-night audience with a spiel about why supporting theater is more important now than ever. She was referring to the new political reality, and …
This week: A lively adaptation of "Moby Dick" sails into South Coast Rep. Plus, a new drama about the inner workings of the brain, and the conclusion of Arlene Hutton's "Nibroc Tril…
In a much retweeted curtain-call speech from the Broadway stage in November, "Hamilton" actor Brandon Dixon conveyed to then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence that theater can be a dramatic re…
Few actors have so eclectic a resumé as Alan Cumming. Perhaps best known as political operative Eli Gold on CBS'Â "The Good Wife," the 51-year-old actor won a Tony Award for his portrayal…
The leading man in Damien Chazelle's acclaimed movie "La La Land" is a Serious Musician, churning out pop music covers at Hollywood parties to pay the rent. The leading lady endures humiliat…
Penny Fuller plays a well-coiffed widow in "13 Things About Ed Carpolotti," a charming cabaret-scale one-act musical in which her character finds out that the husband she's mourning had been…
When Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's hit 1949 Broadway production of "Lost in the Stars" went on a nationwide tour, black audience members in many Southern cities were required to watch th…
Aladdin speaks only English. Princess Jasmine speaks only Spanish. The divide is the work of the evil Jafar, though the antagonist accidentally enables Rajah the tiger and Abu the monkey …
The crowd swelled inside the ornate Million Dollar Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night for a screening of "Moonlight" with live musical accompaniment, fresh off the film's Go…
This week: Indonesian shadow theater at REDCAT, five short plays by Samuel Beckett at the Odyssey, and Segerstrom's Off-Center Festival continues. Chapatti Two animal lovers in Dublin con…
I spent much of "The Lion," singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer's one-man musical at the Geffen Playhouse, inwardly commiserating with my twentysomething self. She hung out in so many coffee …
Happy New Year, Los Angelistas! I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with reports on everything from composer Terry Riley at MOCA to the drama of George Lucas'…
If you missed George Takei's Broadway musical, "Allegiance" " or the subsequent one-night-only screening of the live production in movie theaters nationwide " then fear not.  It's com…
Walt Disney Concert Hall looked almost full Thursday night, suggesting that some of Bramwell Tovey's loyal Hollywood Bowl following may have followed him to downtown L.A. for his gig ther…
The national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical "Hamilton" revealed its cast Thursday:Â Two-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry will play Aaron Burr, Michael Luwoye will be Alexande…
This week: A new mob comedy, a drama about cultural appropriation, and a salute to a female silent-era filmmaker. End Up Here Composer-lyricist Christopher Reiner ("Urban Death") presents an…
A pained frown raced along Matthew Morrison's brow. This wasn't the terrorized expression of horror we recall from the hit TV show "Glee" when his Mr. Schuester was under attack by his arche…
The 1973 revival of the musical comedy "Irene" barely registers as a blip in the history of Broadway theater, but the death Wednesday of star Debbie Reynolds means the production does gainÂ…
Years before "Wishful Drinking" debuted on HBO, Carrie Fisher first  breathed life into her revealing, riotous one-woman show in an office at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. Rand…
If there was an arts buzzword for 2016, it was "immersive." The word landed in our email boxes with invites to immersive theater events. It topped press releases announcing immersiv…
In a converted hanger at the former Valkenburg Naval Air Base in Katwijk, about 40 minutes southwest of Amsterdam, 1,100 theatergoers sit on a circular platform about 100 feet in diameter. A…