Broadway last year yielded one show everyone talked about, "Hamilton," and a lot of other shows people saw when they were sold out of "Hamilton." This year has no Lin-Manuel Miranda musical …
A few eccentric hors d'oeuvres are served before the main surrealist dish in John Sinner's "An Invasion of Decency!" " a wild theatrical spree that makes a direct appeal to the unconsc…
Friends, readers, theatergoers, lend me your eyes; I come to praise "The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm Shakespeare)" at the Skylight Theatre, not to bury it. Daniel Henning's adaptation of "…
A play about Donald Trump set to open a little more than a week before the presidential election seemed like perfect timing " this summer. Oh, but how these last weeks of the campaign have a…
Sometimes it takes time for a concert to settle in and become interesting. Such was the case at the joint recital of violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Robert Levin on Wednesday night in …
Here in New York, Carmen de Lavallade is a legend. At 85, with a remarkably varied résumé spanning the worlds of dance and theater, she's a regal presence of refined elegance who turns …
Independent Shakespeare Co., the group behind the popular Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival, has taken "A Midsummer Night's Dream" indoors, which might seem strange given that…
Playwright Karen ZacarÃas was tired of the way so many dramas written by Latino authors were dismissively compared to telenovelas. Her response was to write a play that celebrates, sends …
Tom Stoppard reflect on a his long playwriting career
The word trauma originally referred to a physical wound or defeat. Later usage, influenced by Freud, stressed an injury of the mind " invisible but no less real for being unseen. Unseen but …
"I don't think I've ever spent half an hour in my life doing research," said playwright Tom Stoppard when asked about the impressive erudition behind his intellectually dazzling comedies. "I…
Far from contemplating retirement, Renée Fleming is busy pursuing esoteric ideas away from the opera stage. Audiences can only hope there will be more to come like the unusual program that …
The chief reason to see A Noise Within's production of Molière's "The Imaginary Invalid" is Apollo Dukakis' delightfully cranky portrayal of the play's tyrannical hypochondriac, a patriarch…
When playwrights have experienced firsthand the dog-eat-dog Hollywood system, it must be satisfying to return to the theater, where they have the kind of power and respect that can be hard t…
This week: A Shakespearean frolic and a Strindbergian hell-scape, plus a brand-new magical-realist fable set in Highland Park. Shine Storytellers share true-life tales of the inexplicable. P…
Three years ago, theater artist Aaron Posner had a postmodern field day updating Chekhov in his frisky comedy with the unprintable title that we've taken to politely calling "Stupid … Bird…
A week of loss. A conductor's return to the Southern California. And a museum exhibition that crosses an ethical boundary. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. Her…
To his everlasting credit, Gordon Davidson brought the civil rights movement into the American theater by inviting artists of color to work with his company, thus professionally integrating …
The Music Center is lowering its county flag to half-mast for Gordon Davidson, who died Sunday at age 83. As founder of Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum, he made Los Angeles a th…
If you missed seeing the Broadway hit "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" when it was at the Pantages this summer, take note. The show is coming to Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Tues…
Monologist Mike Daisey has made his name channeling outrage on a range of contemporary issues while seated calmly behind a desk before an audience. His manner may be that of a homeroom teach…
The art of a San Francisco group. Works inspired by a prominent L.A. sci-fi writer. And the powerful prints of a Cuban artist. Plus: photography that touches on the ambiguities of gender, su…
Jay Rasulo is going from the executive offices of the Walt Disney Co. to the top board position at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rasulo will become chairman of the board of the Los Angeles…
This week: "The Merchant of Venice" takes a detour, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" expands, and "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" returns for an encore. Th…
A lot can happen in six years. That's how long it took L.A.-based For the Record to grow up from a renegade little troupe in an 80-seat East Hollywood dive bar, where it performed concerts i…