Homer's "The Odyssey" looms large in Suzan-Lori Parks' "Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)," her entrancingly intimate, anachronistically frolicsome Civil War drama that opened…
The victory lap for "Hamilton" received an awards boost on Monday when the hit show won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, making it one of a handful musicals to have nabbed the honor. Lin…
Cirque du Soleil has joined Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams and others in boycotting North Carolina over the state's controversial "bathroom" law that would affect transgender pe…
Actors are required to kiss all the time in their line of work, but can a smooch really be faked? Passion simulated either becomes real or risks looking contrived and yucky. Sarah Ruhl, the …
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is far too independent an artist to feel comfortable in the role of African American spokesperson. But she didn't hold back when asked for her thoughts about the …
In the opening scene of Eliza Clark's "Future Thinking," commissioned by South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa and now in its world premiere there, a middle-aged man sits alone in a hotel room…
The timing was undeniably strange, given how closely the two organizations work. The speculation has already started flying. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Opera…
Watching "The Cause, My Soul," a world-premiere visiting production at the Odyssey, can be an exasperating experience " not because the play is bad or even middling, but because it so narrow…
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is known for taking on timely social issues via music and movement, and the New York company's upcoming three nights in Los Angeles are no exception, particul…
The Music Center of Los Angeles will announce its 2016-2017 dance season on Tuesday, and organizers say the boundary-pushing lineup features some of the art form's most exciting established …
Before Irish actress Lisa Dwan takes the stage for the "Beckett Trilogy" she has been performing internationally to much acclaim, theatergoers are warned that they are about to be plunged in…
Brotherhood. There's a word glaringly absent from public mood and discourse. But brotherhood is integral to the work of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the company has the idea front…
In its West Coast premiere at Atwater Playhouse, "Red Velvet," Lolita Chakrabarti's 2012 study of legendary actor Ira Aldridge, conveys the power of the stage and its lingering impact. In 18…
In the immortal words of Ursula the sea witch, "life's full of tough choices, innit?" Fans of Disney's animated feature "The Little Mermaid" now have another opportunity to catch the upco…
Don't look for ambiguously tortured protagonists or tedious plot developments in "Othello." Arguably one of Shakespeare's most simply structured tragedies, it offers as straightforward a por…
The phenomenon of screening popular movies with a live orchestra is heading under the sea with "The Little Mermaid" -- the 1989 Disney animated favorite -- which will come to the Ho…
In more than seven years since it opened to great fanfare, the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica has presented theatrical, dance and musical artists of the highest international cal…
Michael John LaChiusa, the richly talented author of such ambitious musicals as "Marie Christine" and "Hello Again," doesn't gravitate toward frivolity. His sensibility is unabashedly litera…
The Irish actress Lisa Dwan is visiting the Broad Stage in Santa Monica one bright morning when she asks theater staffers one key question: "How is the blackout coming along?" For five shows…
"The Revisionist," a play by actor-writer Jesse Eisenberg about a pompous, inconsiderate young American novelist who pays a visit to a Polish relative he barely knows, tests an audience's to…
Children of alcoholics are at significantly greater risk of exposing others to an unfortunate self-penned solo show about their life experiences " at least according to a 2011 faux research …
The stage is sparse but for seven plywood boxes, lined up like train cars and bathed in the golden light of dusk. One by one, the kids climb atop the boxes, which rumble and shake beneath th…
The producers of the hip-hop historical musical "Hamilton" have run into trouble over a recent open casting notice seeking "non-white" singers for Broadway and upcoming touring versions of t…
Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland think they're the funniest people in the room. Their creators, however, comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, know that most of the time Faizon and St. Ge…
"Blood" writer-director Robert Allan Ackerman applies a dazzling array of theatrical techniques to his ambitious account of the Japanese tainted-blood scandal of the 1980s. Designated "a pol…