Center Theatre Group's "50th Celebration," which gathered celebrities, devoted patrons, philanthropists and swells in their spiffiest attire for a Saturday night shindig at the Ahmanson, was…
"Jersey Boys," that perennial jukebox moneymaker, is back at the Ahmanson Theatre for reasons that are easily surmised. The coffers at Center Theatre Group are clearly crying out for repleni…
Peter Brook talks about his production of "Battlefield" and the process of stripping away to get to theater's essence.
A note in the press packet for the West Coast premiere of Guillermo Calderón's "Kiss" at the Odyssey Theatre requests that critics "not give away details of the plot" in their reviews. Th…
Comedy of the crowd-pleasing variety is making a comeback on our stages this season. The Geffen Playhouse notched a hit with Matthew Lopez's "The Legend of Georgia McBride," a giggly romp ab…
"Archduke," the title of Rajiv Joseph's new play, sounds like the answer to a high school social studies quiz on 20th century European history. As I hope all of you remember, the assassinati…
What a difference a year makes. When the 2016 Tony nominations were announced, the suspense was over how many "Hamilton" would get. The show was a lock in most of the major categories, shift…
Andy Karl, the star of the new Broadway musical "Groundhog Day," reported for duty on Monday night at the August Wilson Theatre for the production's official New York opening. It was uncerta…
A door dominates the backdrop of Lucas Hnath's "A Doll's House, Part 2," which picks up the story 15 years after Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama ends. This is the door that Nora slammed (famou…
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
Draft Hillary Clinton to make a pro-NEA statement at the Tony Awards
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
The trees are ropes resembling piano strings. The birds are folded sheets of stationery. The princes ride on stick horses. And the wolf stalking Little Red Ridinghood is mounted like a hunti…
The moment I turned on my phone after landing in San Francisco for the opening of "Hamilton," I was greeted with momentous local news: Carey Perloff, the artistic director of the American Co…
A conversation with British actor, writer and director Simon McBurney is a meditative adventure not unlike one of his genre-blurring theatrical collages created with his London-based interna…
The characters in "Rules of Seconds," a new play by John Pollono at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, are a lively anachronistic mix. Their boots and pistols suggest the drama's 1855 Boston se…
It has been 44 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision decriminalized abortion, but the debate has hardly been settled. The rhetoric has only grown more inflammatory, a…
The Wooster Group, venerable purveyor of postmodern performance collages, has come upon a gender-politics gold mine in the company's latest adventure in cockeyed cultural excavation. "The To…
Deaf West Theatre is back at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts after the company's heralded revival of "Spring Awakening," which catapulted itself to Broadway after its Bev…
And the winner actually is … The final-act confusion over the best picture award that had movie moguls staggering out of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood after Sunday's Academy Awards was…
A musical with all the dramatic richness of a memorable play opened at the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday " a rare sighting that could induce a theater critic to genuflect if not erupt in a c…
On the surface, Lee Chandler, the protagonist of "Manchester by the Sea," and Troy Maxson, the central character of "Fences," wouldn't seem to have much in common. Sprung from different play…
"New musicals are never finished, only abandoned," director Christopher Ashley quipped by phone a few days before flying to New York for the start of rehearsals for "Come From Away," the mus…
"Zoot Suit," the landmark 1978 play by Luis Valdez that put the struggles of Mexican Americans front and center, is back where it originated at the Mark Taper Forum in an exhilarating reviva…
Kneehigh, the seriously playful British theater company that turned the classic film "Brief Encounter" into a charmingly inventive multimedia stage play, is back at the Wallis Annenberg Cent…