The Kennedy Center Honors on Thursday announced its honorees for 2016with recognition going to Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, musical group the Eagles, actor Al Pacino, singer Mavis Stap…
The year is 1886, the Civil War is over, slaves are free and everything is all right. That's wishful thinking, alas, which only incites crusading abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to bristl…
Audrey Tautou charmed movie audiences in the title role of "Amélie," the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie about a Parisian waitress who embarks on a series of whimsical adventures. For the mus…
The idiomatic voice of Sam Shepard provides the electrical currents that ignite "Fool for Love," staged at the Los Angeles LGBT Center as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Shepard's cla…
Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2013, but for anyone encountering the work for the first time at the Mark Taper Forum, where the play opened Sunday in a sensati…
Michael Feinstein opened his fourth season as principal conductor of the Pasadena Pops on Saturday night pretty much the way he opened his first season in 2013. The specific theme may have b…
I'm Laurie Ochoa, Arts & Entertainment editor of the Los Angeles Times and your guide this week to the essential arts stories from Southern California and beyond on this hot summer wee…
The Antaeus company's "Hedda Gabler" is just what you want from a production of a classic play:Â It cracks open the text to reveal details that you hadn't fully noticed before. Through the…
Danny Feldman will succeed Sheldon Epps at the helm of the Pasadena Playhouse, the company announced on Thursday. Feldman will take on the dual roles of artistic and executive director at th…
The setting for "Big Sky," a new comedy by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros that opened Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse, is a Ritz-Carlton condo in a deluxe vacation community in Aspen, Colo.,…
Radioactive laughter courses through Good People Theater Company's "The Toxic Avenger," wreaking sublimely silly havoc at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In its Los Angeles premiere, Joe DiPi…
Less than a week after closing its main stage season with a familiar production of Puccini's "La Bohème," Los Angeles Opera is shifting to the smaller REDCAT for the world premiere Thursday…
Imagine the fantastical possibilities and imagery " not to mention confusion " if figures in classical sculpture could suddenly move, breaking free of their frozen poses. This was one way to…
How will Benjamin Millepied spend his time after he leaves the Paris Opera Ballet in July? The popular dancer-choreographer, who abruptly announced his resignation from the storied compan…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" has made history in numerous ways, injecting energy into the musical, populating the stage with people of color and bringing young audiences to a middle-aged …
"The Perfect American," the controversial Philip Glass opera that recounts the final months in the life of Walt Disney, will get its U.S. premiere next year " not by a major institution like…
Best and worst moments at the 2016 Tony Awards? On an emotion-filled history-making night, there were plenty. Best: Let's start with host James Corden's hilarious opening number, which blitz…
"What is it that makes this year's Tony Awards different from other years'?" is the opening line I'd prepared for this review. The answers were going to be "Hamilton" and host James Corden, …
"Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's landmark musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, had its coronation Sunday at the 70th Tony Awards. As expected, the show won for best musical, cap…
An air of both celebration and sobriety hung over the Tony Awards on Sunday, as one of the biggest hits in Broadway history was honored hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history…
Tony Awards live coverage: The curtain is up and the cast of "Hamilton" is opening the show. June 12, 2016, 5:08 p.m. It's Broadway's biggest night and the curtain is up! Join us for play-by…
It was one short walk for a music director and one surprising leap for an opera company. The week after finishing his seventh season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Walt Disney Concert …
Hours before Sunday night's live Tony Awards ceremony, news of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history spread via social media and press outlets. Taking place at a gay night…
Just hours before Sunday night's live Tony Awards ceremony, news of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, which took place at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., overnight, ha…
I'm Laurie Ochoa, arts and entertainment editor at the Los Angeles Times, filling in for the vacationing Carolina A. Miranda, and this is your weekly update on everything arts an…