About a week ago Robert Fairchild was packing his bags following three weeks as an American in Paris. New York City Ballet, where he is a principal dancer, was winding up a three-week season…
The time is always right for a production of "Cabaret." Its slinky songs will seduce an audience in nothing flat, and its story, about the world slipping into brutality while people aren'…
The musical "Cabaret" will turn 50 this year, and its latest incarnation opens Wednesday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. It comes with a slightly complicated provenance: This "Cabaret" is…
Independent theater companies may come and go, but L.A.'s Latino Theater Company has stayed alive since its founding in 1985 by Artistic Director José Luis Valenzuela. It's one of a just a …
SAN DIEGO " Feeling overwhelmed by this summer of tumult, when the news seems to go only from bad to worse? I have just the remedy:Â an English novelist who wrote delectable comedies of ma…
To mark its 50th season at the Mark Taper Forum, Center Theatre Group and its artistic director Michael Ritchie announced on Tuesday a 2017-18 season that includes one Pulitzer-winning drama…
"The Last Tiger in Haiti," a new play by Jeff Augustin that's receiving its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, begins in a tent shack in Port-au-Prince that is the home for a group of…
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles has launched its first one-act play festival, and the 14 works divided into three programs run the gamut from traditional to experimental. I saw Program A…
Memo to choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: Play Misty for me. Yes, everyone in the ballet world is aware that you're one of the artists defining the art, someone renowned or notorious " dependi…
Memo to choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: Play Misty for me. Yes, everyone in the ballet world is aware that you're one of the artists defining the art, someone renowned or notorious - dependi…
Los Angeles Opera said unaudited figures for its recently ended 30th anniversary season show a 19.9% increase in the number of tickets sold and a 27.6% rise in ticket revenue compared wit…
"Toruk," the traveling Cirque du Soleil show inspired by the 2009 James Cameron movie "Avatar," will land in Los Angeles this fall for a brief stay. Cirque said that "Toruk " the First F…
Proudly propagandistic, "Church & State," a new play at the Skylight that runs in tandem with "Obama-ology," another premiere, offers a didactic political message in the theatrical tradition…
Solea Pfeiffer's last stage role was in a student production of "Guys and Dolls" at the University of Michigan. Her next is at the Hollywood Bowl. Pfeiffer, 21, has been plucked from relativ…
This week: A dark comedy about a man released from a mental institution, the L.A. premiere of a musical inspired by a famous documentary, and the West Coast premiere of a musical adaptation …
Christopher Verdugo, executive director of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, is engaged in something of an alphabet scramble: The leader of GMCLA is headed to the SFGMC - the San Francisc…
For American Ballet Theatre dancer and South Pasadena native Stella Abrera, it has been quite a year " one that started with her unexpected and emotional promotion to principal, the company'…
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, the married songwriting team behind "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "On Broadway" and some of the most enduring hits in the history of pop music, have been fi…
"Cats" " and cats " seem to follow Betty Buckley wherever she goes. As Grizabella, the raggedly forlorn Jellicle from the blockbuster Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, the actress delivered a ren…
Negotiations to resolve a minimum wage dispute between Actors' Equity Assn. and a group led by actor Ed Asner have failed and the parties are headed to court, according to a statements relea…
East West Players has found its new artistic director from within its own ranks and will announce on Wednesday that Snehal Desai will succeed outgoing producing artistic director Tim D…
With "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale," Tennessee Williams' 1951 revision of his earlier play "Summer and Smoke," Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice ends its 30th anniversary season on a…
If you think improvisational theater is a freewheeling genre that's strictly for laughs, you haven't experienced an Impro Theatre show. The seasoned team at Impro raises the stakes of improv…
"Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" is that rare Broadway offering " a jukebox musical with a soul. The touring production, which opened Friday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, reveals t…
To star in a national tour of the Broadway hit "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical," which opens this weekend at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, is to brave comparisons not only to King her…