So is "West Side Story" an opera, or what? For a semi-staged performance last month at the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel found an ideal balance between the Broadway roots and operatic pote…
SAN DIEGO " The Old Globe's staging of "Love's Labor's Lost" proves that it is possible to fall in love with a production at first sight. John Lee Beatty's scenic design transforms the outdo…
From Civil War telegrams to a historic Los Angeles house to the shaky place of art in Brazil, there has been terrific culture writing going on. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for t…
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced Friday that it has named Gerun Riley as its new president. Riley has spent 13 years with the Broad Foundation, which provides grants in educatio…
From the title of Jerry Lieblich's play "D Deb Debbie Deborah," I was ready for an exploration of the fluidity of identity, perhaps at different stages of a woman's life. But in this West…
Summer Shakespeare. These words can strike fear in the heart of a reluctant theatergoer. Yes, the plays are supposed to be good for you. But semiprofessional productions in which the artisti…
Hip Hop International's (HHI) week-long dance competition that crowns U.S. and world champions in multiple categories concluded Saturday night with two defending champion crews winning gold …
Parris Goebel, dancer-choreographer-director, transitioned to the next phase in her career Friday night in Las Vegas, adding recording artist to the multi-hyphenate's list of credits. …
Olympics pomp and design. A play about greed and our financial system. And an opera inspired by Luis Buñuel. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and here are t…
Having married its far-out avant-garde aesthetic to numerous classic dramas over the decades, the Wooster Group will attempt to adapt a documentary film for the stage when it debuts its n…
North America's major summer theater festivals invariably conjure up cozy descriptives: "timeless" (all five have been around for decades), "bucolic" (a small town environment amid pleasant …
LA JOLLA " Forget about all the TV pundits and op-ed columnists droning on about America's problems. Playwright Ayad Akhtar is the diagnostician the nation needs to interpret its faltering h…
SAN DIEGO " Steve Martin, the beloved comic whose career has branched out in unforeseen directions (bluegrass composer, art collector and curator, playwright) is often described as a modern …
Emily Parker stood still on pointe. Arms spread like wings, she fixed her gaze somewhere in the distance. Dancers spun around her like ribbons in a breeze. A bend, a twist, a slide of foo…
No point in mincing words: Tennessee Williams is the greatest playwright America has ever produced. Yet more and more his reputation seems preserved in amber rather than renewed through reve…
Barbra Streisand didn't give us a foretaste of her Rose in "Gypsy," the classic musical about a formidable stage mother and her showbiz-bound daughters that she has been trying like Sisyphus…
Guillermo del Toro is anxious. It's not the blue-faced vampire head baring a mouthful of mangled teeth that's making the filmmaker nervous. And he's hardly intimidated by the Frankenst…
"A Chorus Line" is an ideal musical for the Hollywood Bowl, and this weekend's presentation faithfully staged by Baayork Lee didn't disappoint. The show's presentational style works well …
Steve Martin isn't just a "comedian." His restless mind has led him into becoming a stand-up giant, a movie star, a screenwriter, a producer, a novelist, a songwriter, a banjoist, an art cur…
There's little doubt that the hip-hop musical "Hamilton" has been a game changer on Broadway.  Last month it won 11 Tony Awards, including best musical. It's a box-office phenomenon an…
To some, drag belongs under the strobe lights of the tiniest gay clubs. Such halls, they say, are the arbiters of a necessary queer counterculture, spaces that keep phenomena like drag authe…
Reenvisioning "Twelfth Night" through millennial-tinted glasses, Coeurage Theatre Company's revival in Burbank transposes Shakespeare's plot and theme of cultural alienation into a contempor…
"You are all amazing. You all have vast untapped potential. You all have a future." With that mantra, so begins "Space" at Hollywood's Stella Adler Theatre. Stefan Marks' promising look a…
Veteran theater provocateur Erik Patterson stings once again in "One of the Nice Ones," his new play presented by Echo Theater Company at the Atwater Village Theatre. The title is a pointed …
"Tosca" is Puccini extreme, the composer's most political opera. At its center is his most fiery heroine, Tosca, the diva who attempts to live for art under tyranny in Rome during Napoleonic…