For several months, Los Angeles has been bidding goodbye to the 6th Street Bridge. There have been street parties, art exhibitions and cruising flotillas of custom cars, all in advance…
A tremor of excitement ran through the Los Angeles theater scene on Tuesday with the announcement that "Hamilton," Broadway's biggest phenomenon since "Rent," will play the Hollywood Pantage…
The highly anticipated new production of Harold Pinter's "The Room" by The Wooster Group has run into difficulties after the licensing company for the play said that critics may not revie…
Scoring tickets for the national tour of "Hamilton," which kicks off next year in San Francisco before heading to Los Angeles, may not be as simple as walking up to the box office and asking…
Before Janet McTeer began performances as the coldly calculating Marquise de Merteuil in the current London revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," she received a brief word of advice from "A…
New evidence suggests it's easier to build the world's tallest skyscraper than to create an original American musical. "Empire: The Musical" has just opened at La Mirada Theatre for t…
'Hamilton" is coming to Los Angeles, but local audiences eager to catch the Broadway musical that has become a critical and audience sensation in New York will have to wait until next …
A new production of Verdi's "Macbeth" starring Plácido Domingo and the company premiere of Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" will kick off the 2016-17 season at Los Angeles Opera, leaders ar…
A flop with a glittering score. That was the consensus verdict after Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," a musical adapted from Voltaire's slim, satiric 1759 novel, closed on Broadway shortly aft…
Deaf West's revival of the musical "Spring Awakening" is closing Sunday at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after more than 130 performances on Broadway. "Spring Awakening" is based on the 1891 G…
There's nothing quite as gratifying as spending 90 minutes in the company of a gifted storyteller. James Lecesne holds his audience rapt at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where his solo show "The…
They weren't household names, and only one of their faces might be widely recognizable, but the deaths in rapid succession of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman represent an incalcu…
"I am a professional salesman. I am a professional salesman." So runs, with drolly insecure variations, the mantra of the woebegone hero of "Timeshare," which has been extended at the Eclect…
When literary classics are adapted for the stage with kid gloves, Masterpiece Tedium is usually the result. The reason is fairly straightforward. Art that makes a lasting impression must pos…
Having directed Madonna in her MDNA tour and logged significant time behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil, Michel Laprise is someone who knows how to make a strong visual impact working in …
Sandra Tsing Loh's midlife crisis may turn out to be the best thing that has ever happened to her career. Adultery, divorce and menopause have given this multidisciplinary humorist a banquet…
When David Bowie died Sunday, the new stage musical that he co-wrote, "Lazarus," was nearing the end of its world-premiere run at the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop. The production i…
Sometimes the word "unforgettable" can be taken literally. I can still feel that electric charge when I first encountered Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" in 2009. The world …
Vintage nightclub artistry ignites palpable frissons around the Geffen Playhouse, where "Louis & Keely: 'Live' at the Sahara" has sailed back in triumph. From its hugely acclaimed premiere i…
Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Sheldon Epps, a leading voice for more diversity onstage and in theater audiences, will step down from his post at the end of the 2016-17 season, officia…
If you were one of more than 500 million recent YouTube views for Justin Bieber's song "Sorry" and were dazzled by the dancing, know that the moves originated from the mind of choreographer …
"Rio Hondo," which returns to Theatre of Note this week for a limited engagement, suggests what might happen if your VHS collection of Sergio Leone films were spliced with several seasons of…
How seriously do you take your art? Would you kill for it? Literally? Those are the questions that animate "Bullets Over Broadway," Woody Allen's delicious cinematic parable about the strugg…
Frank Ferrante describes himself as a new vaudevillian: Just like the performers of the past, he's on the road every year, performing his one-man show, "An Evening With Groucho," in which he…
When they first burst onto the scene in the 1960s, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield, a.k.a. the Righteous Brothers, faced an unusual problem: White radio stations boycotted their brand of blue…