1,306 stories by "Charles McNulty"
a.k. payne's 'Furlough's Paradise,' winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, opens at the Geffen Playhouse under the direction of Tinashe Kajese-Bolden.
"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit," opens on Broadway.
'Stranger Things: The First Shadow,' a prequel to the hit streaming series, opens at the Marquis Theatre, bringing Netflix branding to Broadway.
Keiko Green's 'You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World,' a comedy about family, loss and environmental destruction, has its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in a production …
"Regency Girls," a musical comedy about young women on a wild road trip in the Jane Austen-era, has its world premiere at the Old Globe in a production directed by Josh Rhodes.
Elevator Repair Service's stage adaptation of 'Ulysses,' presented by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, inspires a rereading of the James Joyce classic. Years later, the takeaways ar…
George C. Wolfe directs the new Broadway revival of "Gypsy" starring six-time Tony-winner Audra McDonald.
Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields directs the West Coast premiere of 'One Jewish Boy,' Stephen Laughton's two-hander starring Sharae Foxie and Zeke Goodman
Hugh Bonneville stars in 'Uncle Vanya,' a co-production between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Simon Godwin.
Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham stars in 'Krapp's Last Tape,' one of three short Samuel Beckett plays on offer in 'Beckett Briefs,' an Irish Rep production now available for streaming via the…
'Here There Are Blueberries' tells the story of an album of historical photos documenting the lives of ordinary Germans who were part of the bureaucracy of the Holocaust. Authors Moisés Kau…
Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall's production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My…
Pasadena Playhouse revival of 'Topdog/Underdog,' Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, stars Brandon Gill and Brandon Micheal Hall in a production directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
Written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, a former Obama campaign organizer, '44,' about Barack Obama's presidency, returns to L.A. at Kirk Douglas Theatre.
The Tony-winning play 'Harry Potter and Cursed Child' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga star in 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends' in a pre-Broadway run at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Rogue Machine Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Sophie Swithinbank's 'Bacon,' a two-hander directed by Michael Matthews that explores masculinity, bullying, sexuality and trauma.
Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro directs a revival of Michael Frayn's backstage farce at the Geffen Playhouse in a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
'Fake It Until You Make It,' a satiric farce by Larissa FastHorse ('The Thanksgiving Play'), has its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, in a production directed by Michael John Garcés.
Rogue Machine presents the Southern California premiere of Will Arbery's 'Evanston Salt Costs Climbing' in a Rogue Machine Theatre production at the Matrix Theatre directed by Guillermo Cien…
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of "Wish You Were Here" at South Coast Repertory.
Theater critic Charles McNulty writes on how Shakespeare, and 'The Tempest' in particular, is helping him bear witness to the scale of loss caused by the Los Angeles wildfires.
Playwright and director Richard Foreman, one of the pillars of New York's downtown theater scene, dies at 87.
