The new Broadway revival of "Spring Awakening" from Los Angeles' Deaf West Theatre has received nearly unanimous praise from critics, but the raves have so far failed to ignite ticket …
In "ICU," playwright Fielding Edlow diagnoses dark humor in the most dysfunctional family this side of Eugene O'Neill's Tyrone clan. Here, they're upper-middle-class New York Jews, snarling …
What a difference a second look makes. When "Carrie: The Musical" hit La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in the spring, I found its immersive execution spectacular, its performances i…
About 20 years ago director Elina de Santos helmed a landmark production of "Awake &Â Sing!" that ran for nine months to sellout houses at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A. Now De Santos r…
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements. The biggest statement by far was "Fun Home" winning five Tonys, including the best musical award, t…
Although Jeanine Tesori's grandfather was a composer, she didn't realize writing music could be a career for women until she saw Linda Twine conduct "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" in 1…
Courtney Love was singing her guts out in a Culver City rehearsal studio when her smartphone pinged with a text message. Emotion draining from her face, she glanced at the phone's screen, wh…
The feud between Los Angeles' Echo Theater Company and the writer who encouraged the public to boycott his new play took a series of bizarre twists this week, ending with the writer pu…
Some of us try to jury-rig meaningful lives using the disheartening fragments at our disposal; others dream of wiping the slate clean and starting anew. Both approaches prove painfully unsat…
In a move that goes against the well established laws of theatrical publicity, a playwright has urged audiences and the media to boycott his new play being produced by a small theater compan…
The anguished warrior cried out from across the ages. "Train your eyes on those evil men, snatch them with your talons and, just as I die at my own hands, may they also be murdered by their …
Deaf West Theatre's new staging of "Spring Awakening," which is set to open on Broadway on Sunday, was a standout among this year's Ovation Award nominations, scoring 15, while the Ebony …
The Elephant Theatre Co. in Hollywood has ceased operations and its members are considering their options following the recent sale of the company's longtime home on Santa Monica Boulevar…
The 2016 season of the Mark Taper Forum won't premiere any new work, but it will venture persistently into minefields where divisions between religious and racial allegiances detonate …
The Los Angeles Philharmonic turned to New York of the 1940s and '50s Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, for which Bramwell Tovey drolly apologized to his Angeleno audience. I certainly no…
In the highly stratified world of opera-going, the seating area known as the founders circle is the modern-day equivalent to Valhalla, an exclusive domain located on high and populated by go…
Like many European composers before him who have made the pilgrimage across the Atlantic to offer their talents on the altar of Hollywood, Max Richter has learned to become proficient in the…
First produced off-Broadway in 1990, Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins," book by John Weidman, didn't receive a Broadway production for well over a decade. And although that Broadway run resulte…
One unintended consequence of the communications age is the increased difficulty of putting together a believable plot.
The Segerstrom Center for the Arts has launched a $68-million campaign to reach a broader, more diverse public, centered on reconfiguring its outdoor plaza to make it busier and more attract…
Benedict Cumberbatch is the Kevin Bacon of the "Hamlet" universe.
A group of Duke University students made headlines after announcing they wouldn't read Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic novel memoir, "Fun Home," because of its "graphic visua…
Prepare ye, Los Angeles: The second coming of "An Act of God" is at hand.
The Sydney Theatre Company has named Jonathan Church, who heads the prestigious Chichester Festival Theater in Britain, as its new artistic director, the company announced Tuesday.Â
The Fountain Theatre, established 25 years ago, began, as many things used to do, with a fateful phone call.