This week, romance is in the air in "The Mystery of Love & Sex," "Sex, Faith and Jason Wexler" and the classic farce "The Importance of Being Earnest." Backstory Spoken-word series features …
Faith and reason, spirit and matter, head and heart " all are aspects of a division so constant throughout history that it seems to be genetically hard-wired. Exploring this inherently confl…
Barely two years after Los Angeles Opera first mounted Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade's popular silent-movie take on Mozart's "The Magic Flute," the company brought it back to the Dorothy …
"Hamilton" fever took hold at the Grammy Awards on Monday when cast members of the hip-hop Broadway phenomenon performed live on the CBS broadcast and took home the award for musical theater…
God is headlining at the Ahmanson Theatre in the Broadway comedy "An Act of God," but please don't think of this as the Second Coming. This appearance is really more of a tease, an occasion …
The last time anyone checked, Atticus Finch wasn't a hyper-verbal, precociously talented tech-head with a massive emotional chip on his shoulder. Nonetheless, the upright, plain-spoken he…
Fans of "Frozen" will have to wait two more years before the highly anticipated musical stage adaptation opens on Broadway. Disney announced Tuesday that the new version of the hit animated …
This is not a review. Samuel French Inc., the licensing agent representing the Harold Pinter estate in the U.S., has decreed that the Wooster Group's production at REDCAT of Pinter's first p…
With so many dramas these days built around bad behavior " the worse the better, it seems " it's a downright anomaly to come across a genuinely compelling story about ordinary people trying …
The set for La Mirada Theatre's new musical "Empire" is so different that director and choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge has given it a name: Helga. The old-fashioned musical is all about w…
Producers of the Grammy Awards telecast typically leave Broadway production numbers to their brethren who stage the annual Tony Awards, but this year they are making an exception. The openin…
An Israeli artist blacklist. Boston gets a Frida. And Microsoft founder Paul Allen's possibly short-lived Seattle art space. Also: the passing of an iconic American Indian dancer, a gallery …
History is given a warm theatrical salute in "Fly," a tap-dance-infused drama that tells the story of a group of Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American Army Air Corps fighters who helpe…
CBS has tapped one of its own comedic talents to host one of its most prestigious awards-show telecasts " but will it be enough to bring back viewers? James Corden will follow in th…
"I am not your rabbi, I am not your father, I am not your shrink, I am not your friend, I am not your teacher," the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko warns his new assistant in the …
Tony Abatemarco's "Forever House," now in its world premiere at the Skylight Theatre in L.A., offers plenty of charm, vividly comic characters and gut-busting one-liners. That said, a few of…
The party may already have been over when "New Faithful Disco" started, or perhaps it just had begun. The new dance piece by Los Angeles choreographer Meg Wolfe made its world premiere at RE…
The Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Baldwin Hills is hot. Hot with sweat, hot with frenetic movement and hot with excitement. On a brisk January morning, the unassuming, cheerful space around …
The writer C.Y. Lee, dapper at 99 with a leopard-skin printed handkerchief wrapped snugly around his neck, sits in his home office near Los Angeles' Little Ethiopia happily holding court. Su…
In the Book of Genesis, God proclaimed, "Let there be light," and there was light. In the theater, there are stage hands to do that job, and on a recent morning, a crew had lighted the Ahman…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced its annual awards nominations Friday, and the L.A. LGBT Center's "Hit the Wall" led all contenders with seven citations, followed by "Mojada: A…
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art may be almost a century and a half old, but that doesn't mean that one of the oldest art institutions in the United States isn't intent on evolving. In …
The announcement that Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct members of Youth Orchestra Los Angeles in the Super Bowl halftime show is big news for the world of…
This week: New takes on plays by Shakespeare and Harold Pinter, plus the L.A. premiere of an award-winning drama about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?…
"Hamilton" is coming to the Hollywood Pantages Every Hollywood mover-and-shaker ought to see it.