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The 2003Â movie "Elf" starring Will Ferrell as Buddy, the North Pole helper who learns he's human and heads off for New York City to find his biological father while spreading the joy of C…
Twentieth-century French literary maven François Mauriac once observed, "If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads." That epigram could be ex…
For better or worse, 2016 has been a truly Shakespearean year. It has also been the year of Donald Trump, a figure who could no doubt hold his own in one of Shakespeare's ruthless history pl…
"Amélie, A New Musical," which began at Berkeley Repertory Theatre last year, has brought its whimsical magic to the Ahmanson Theatre, where a retooled production starring Phillipa Soo (lat…
Twenty years old and counting, the Troubadour Theater Company has been celebrated for its blend of rock music, commedia-based clowning and improvisational flair, building an audience comp…
Al Pacino will star in a production of Dotson Rader's "God Looked Away" at the Pasadena Playhouse in February, the theater said Friday. The Oscar winner is no stranger to theater, having …
It's December and SoCal is bursting with everything arts and culture. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and here are some of the week's most intriguing arts st…
When you can burn this article like a bra, women will cheer. That is the sentiment among Los Angeles theater professionals at the close of a year in which so many strong productions by women…
This week: Another handful of holiday shows, including Megan Hilty singing seasonal favorites at the Wallis and the musical adaptation of the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy "Elf" at Segerstrom.…
Panto, short for pantomime, is a family entertainment popular at Christmastime in Britain since the 1700s " and more recently here at the Pasadena Playhouse, where Lythgoe Family Produ…
I'm not sure how you spent your Saturday night but I spent part of mine in a hotel room with a bunch of strangers looking at a naked man sprawled out on his bed like T.S. Eliot's "patient et…
Never underestimate the importance of symbolism. Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre's first black principal dancer, was the lead ballerina in the opening night of Segerstrom Hall's p…
Never underestimate the importance of symbolism. Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre's first black principal dancer, was the lead ballerina in the opening night of Segerstrom Hall's p…
"Is this the promised end?" Kent mournfully asks as King Lear carries Cordelia's corpse on stage at the close of Shakespeare's most harrowing tragedy. "Or image of that horror?" Edgar, more …
Amélie Poulain sees the world as no one else does. Her imagination is a fun-house mirror that magnifies the oddities, intensifies the colors and warps every random detail of her environs in…
When Phillipa Soo was growing up in suburban Chicago, she would climb onto her parents' coffee table in her pink tutu to perform. There, before a rapt audience of her brother and stuffed ani…
Alberto Arvelo is used to hiring composers to set music to his films. The Venezuelan director's most recent feature, "Libertador," employed none other than Gustavo Dudamel " in his debut fil…
This week: A celebration of an African American author and activist, a new musical based on a fantastical French comedy, and a holiday show improvised right before your very eyes. The Cherry…
Standing ovations at performances get handed out like Halloween candy, a reflexive exercise  that shows how the over-liking of anything has long since become the norm. On the rural outski…
You must have heard about a president-elect last week talking on the telephone with the president of Taiwan, and thus, by evading protocol, possibly upending U.S. China policy. Now what? …
The centennial of Leonard Bernstein's birth is not until the summer after next, but the West Coast has already gotten a jump-start over Broadway with the musicals. Michael Tilson Thomas last…
A "King Lear" double-header. Art after Fidel. And a quiet Los Angeles abstractionist passes away. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles, with all that's blazing in the wor…
In a "Hamilton"-less year, the Grammy nominees announced Tuesday for musical theater album consist of five eclectic shows: "Bright Star," "The Color Purple," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Kinky…
This week: Shakespeare in miniature at UCLA, the Troubies do Bowie, and the return of the divine Sandra Bernhard. The Ballad of Bimini Baths Readings from Tom Jacobson's trilogy exploring…
In this age of instant communication, he can't manage to say anything. The title high-schooler in "Dear Evan Hansen" is an endearing misfit so afraid of social interaction that he can't face…
