Two major productions of "King Lear" are taking place on opposite sides of the River Thames, but for London audiences this embarrassment of Shakespearean riches is as normal as autumn's gunm…
"Merrily We Roll Along," the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical with a checkered record in the theater, is like a safe stuffed with jewels waiting for a director who can finally crack the…
The sorcery behind "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" - the eighth story in the J.K. Rowling series, this one written as a stage play - is of vintage pedigree. The epic tale of two boys mak…
Faith Prince has forged a four-decade Broadway career of drama and, especially, musical comedy, stitching quirk, nuance and an eye to mining laughs. To best understand what makes her marv…
For those looking for a little family-friendly holiday entertainment this season, here's a sampling of performances across Southern California, including a few "Christmas Carols,"Â a whole…
A face-off between Broadway and a president-elect. A tribute to the seminal Vaslav Nijinsky. And a look at the masterful architecture of Louis Kahn. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer of …
Donald Trump demanded an apology from the "Hamilton" cast, but he's going to have to wait for it " indefinitely. Â On Monday, "Hamilton" actor Brandon Victor Dixon took to "CBS This Morni…
Forgive me if I don't take this moment to congratulate the theater community on its self-congratulatory outcry against our new tweeter-in-chief Donald Trump, who used his megaphone this week…
A new show of photography merges black and white identity. Redoing the postmodern Crystal Cathedral in Orange County. And a Finnish conductor brings a fresh perspective to established works …
Lena Hall stares into the mirror in her dressing room backstage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, where she is  making musical history in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."  To her righ…
Martin McDonagh, the British-born playwright of Irish heritage and humor, made a sensational debut in 1996 with "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," his bruising comic melodrama that announced the…
During Alena Smith's play "Icebergs," in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, thirtysomething screenwriter Calder (Nate Corddry) sets up an air mattress in his Silver Lake living room…
The portrait is tall and stately, its subject a distinguished gentleman who stands with chest puffed out, proudly. But here's the thing: He wears no pants. The man, it turns out, stands atop…
In a Broadway season heavy on revivals, shows from another era have been given starry makeovers. But everything old isn't new again. Classics aren't created by crowded marquees. Pla…
On Sunday evening, pianist Garrick Ohlsson performed an all-Beethoven recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring four of his popular "name" sonatas: the "Pathétique," "Appassionata," "Wa…
California may still be counting votes, but already there's a musical responding to the new Trump era. "Miss You Like Hell," which is having its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, was …
Not everything is a surprise with Santtu-Matias Rouvali, a 31-year-old former Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Fellow who returned Friday night to Walt Disney Concert Hall for his first subs…
Japanese Noh theater, according to Penguin Classics' volume of the plays, "is one of the great achievements of civilization." Few would dispute that claim, if only because there are so few w…
This week: Baryshnikov channels Nijinsky, a new drama recalls Nazi efforts to derail a Charlie Chaplin classic, and a new musical makes a mockery of a certain HBO fantasy-drama. The Boys fro…
Leslie Odom Jr. sings through innumerable earbuds these days as the magisterial, supremely self-assured Aaron Burr, the Founding Father who butts heads with the excitable, even more supremel…
French composer Jean-Jacques Perrey, whose music has contributed to the pop-culture landscape in places ranging from Disneyland to television shows including "The Simpsons" and "South …
When he was 11, Anthony Roth Costanzo already was a working Broadway actor. He sang in his first opera when he was 13. Since graduating from Princeton and the Manhattan School of Music, he h…
James Cameron's "Avatar" is a movie that everyone saw, but no one can remember. Go ahead: Try and call to mind any character's name. Maybe you summoned Jake Sully, the disabled human played …
When I was a kid watching cartoon on TV in New Jersey, I saw ads for Broadway shows: "Annie," "Peter Pan," "Barnum," "Evita" " fascinating, frustrating teasers that left plot lines mysteriou…
Can a sci-fi-themed, classic rock musical stand measure to measure with Shakespeare? "Return to the Forbidden Planet" at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura seeks to boldly go where no outer spac…