1,306 stories by "Charles McNulty"
Olivier-winning British comedy "The Play That Goes Wrong" arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre as a comedy of blunders with a fringe-theater soul.
Betsy Brandt stars in a new Pasadena Playhouse version of "Riverdale" creator Aguirre-Sacasa's 2008 work, which centers on a prep-school sex scandal.
PBS' 'American Masters' explores the path-breaking gay writer Terrence McNally through interviews with Billy Porter, Nathan Lane, Rita Moreno and others.
Of the many cliffhangers the Tony Awards will resolve on Sunday, the story line that has me on the edge of my seat is whether "Hadestown" will be crowned best musical. Anaïs Mitchell is b…
At a time in America when lies are rampant in public life and alternative truth has been adopted as a winning political strategy, the 2018-19 Broadway season will be remembered for those gri…
It turned out not to be a horrendous year for new Broadway musicals, if you disqualify "King Kong," lower your IQ for "The Cher Show" and bring earplugs to "Be More Chill." "The Prom," a cam…
Rebecca Taichman won a Tony Award for directing a darkly enchanting production of the Paula Vogel play, now at the Ahmanson Theatre.
The Tony Awards sort out a Broadway year divided between the impulse to innovate and the desire to maintain the status quo.
Handicapping Sunday's Tony Awards: Can "Hadestown" beat "Tootsie"? Will Sorkin's "Mockingbird" be redeemed? And will the Tonys justly reward a female director?
The playwright gets personal in this documentary tale about his mother, a psych ward chaplain held captive by a suicidal convict. It's a sly, slippery tale.
Anaïs Mitchell's concept album-turned-folk opera is an exquisite marriage of story and song that advances the art of theater.
Heidi Schreck's "What the Constitution Means to Me" is more than a performance piece: It's the most moving play of the year.
Time passes, and even a contemporary classic can use a nip and tuck. David Henry Hwang, most famous for his Tony-winning 1988 play "M. Butterfly," performed some not insignificant cosmetic s…
The modern classic on gender roles and Orientalism gets an uneven revival at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa directed by Desdemona Chiang.
Helder Guimarães is either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician. But however you classify him, he's excellent company in his new show, "Invisible Tango…
Directed by Frank Marshall and featuring music by Moby, "Invisible Tango" has tricks that astonish and a storytelling charm that's more than mere magic show.
Playwright Lucas Hnath is back on Broadway with "Hillary and Clinton," a zesty drama on America's most picked-apart political couple that finds Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow in top form. I…
With an assist from actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, the new work is yet another way to hear the singular voice of this leading American playwright.
"I just want to do Beckett's 'Happy Days' over and over again," Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. "I don't want to do anything else, because nothing else comes near it.…
Wiest, in L.A. for Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." talks theater, "Law & Order" and why she would work with Woody Allen again "in a second."
"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd." These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a solid S…
How old is Dolly Gallagher Levi? The question arises whenever "Hello, Dolly!" is performed. The character is described in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," the basis of the musical's book,…
"Daniel's Husband," an absorbing drama by Michael McKeever that was a hit off-Broadway, explores the debate on same-sex marriage from a less obvious angle. Set in the "perfectly appointed" h…
Michael McKeever's poignant drama opens at Fountain Theatre with Bill Brochtrup, Tim Cummings and Jenny O'Hara in a moving, crowd-pleasing production.
Long story short: It was a strange Broadway season " one in which old formulas proved unreliable and a few long-shot experiments yielded unexpected rewards. Rendering an up or down verdict o…
