The Kennedy Center's board of trustees on Thursday voted to move forward with President Trump's plan to close the building for renovations and to inscribe his name on the building to commemo…
Oskar Eustis, who's stepping down as the artistic director of New York's Public Theater in 2028, shook up the arts world with his comment that the American nonprofit theater movement was ove…
Ali Louis Bourzgui scored an upset win for performance by an actor in a featured role and went on to make a passionate speech in support of Palestine and immigrants — using vampires as a m…
John Lithgow won his third Tony Award for "Giant," while Laurie Metcalf took home her third statue for "Death of a Salesman" at the 2026 Tony Awards.
A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations.
Jean Davidson, the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is stepping down to take the top position at the Wallis Annenberg Center f…
With its intricate set design, period costumes and array of delicate powdered wigs, 'Amadeus' might be Pasadena Playhouse's most lavish production yet.
President Trump says he will move to close the Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.
Former Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler appeared at Amoeba Music with the cast of the Broadway tour of 'Stereophonic.' Butler composed the music for the play, which follows the …
Broadway superstar Ben Platt discusses returning to L.A. for a 10-day residency at the Ahmanson Theatre, sharing his marriage online but still maintaining boundaries, and the sources of his …
Palm Springs' historic Plaza Theatre, which first opened in late 1936 with the world premiere of a Greta Garbo film, returns to the spotlight with help from Cynthia Erivo.
Shaina Taub is a triple threat, having written the music, lyrics and book for 'Suffs,' a musical about the women's suffrage movement that's staging its L.A. premiere at the Pantages.
At the glitzy LACMA Art + Film gala, guests including Cynthia Erivo, Hannah Einbinder, George Lucas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Cindy Crawford and Dustin Hoffman erupted …
We went backstage before curtain of the touring production of 'Les Misérables' at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Here's a look a the well-orchestrated chaos.
The actors who play the sisterhood of stylists in 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' sit down for a candid beauty-shop conversation in light of the show's L.A. premiere at Center Theatre Group's…
You'd be hard-pressed to find any greater pop-culture rebuke of the anti-immigrant, anti-DEI messages promulgated by the Trump administration than in the big-screen spectacle of Lin-Manuel M…
Manuel Oliver lost his son, Joaquin 'Guac' Oliver, in the Parkland school shooting. He's now bringing his gun-reform activism to the stage in a one-man show that's playing at Kirk Douglas Th…
Los Angeles will allow ticket holders for Center Theatre Group's 'Hamlet,' L.A. Opera's 'Rigoletto' and others to stay out past Mayor Bass' curfew; the Broad museum plans to close this weeke…
Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Danny Feldman announces a lineup that includes the comedy 'Eureka Day,' a fresh take on 'Brigadoon,' Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' and the hip-hop musical 'M…
L.A. Opera lets patrons exchange tickets, MOCA and the Broad curtail hours, Center Theatre Groups tabulates revenue losses from cancellations. How L.A. arts groups have been affected by the …
'Twilight' actor Elizabeth Reaser and 'Ozark' actor Jason Butler Harner star as Nora and Torvald, picking up where Ibsen left off in Lucas Hnath's Tony-nominated play 'A Doll's House, Part 2…
National Endowment for the Arts, facing an existential threat from President Trump, cancels grants for L.A. Theatre Works, L.A. Chamber Orchestra and other groups " some of which already spe…
Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that a…
The L.A. County Museum of Art announces three commissions for large-scale outdoor art around its new David Geffen Galleries, including one work that could end up being a civic landmark like …
A golden era at the Los Angeles Philharmonic approaches its end as the organization announces its final season under Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel before he departs for the New…