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New York City Center Encores! production of 'Once Upon a Mattress,' starring Sutton Foster, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre direct from Broadway.
'Wicked,' soaring onscreen, has returned to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. This production reveals what the movie gets right, as well as weaknesses neither version can overcome.
The Times' theater critic selects his top SoCal stage productions for 2024, including 'Funny Girl,' 'Fat Ham,' 'Primary Trust,' 'Pacific Overtures,' 'The Brothers Size' and 'Company.'
A theater critic reflects on his profession at a time when its very survival seems on the line and champions a return of critical thinking.
Sam Pinkleton directs a festive revival of 'La Cage aux Folles" at Pasadena Playhouse, starring Cheyenne Jackson and Kevin Cahoon.
Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi star in the Geffen Playhouse's new production of Samuel Becektt's absurdist classic 'Waiting for Godot.'
'Pacific Overtures,' Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is dazzlingly revived by East West Players in one of the best prod…
New Broadway revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd," Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" test how far these works can be refashioned for modern sensibili…
'Joan,' a new play by Daniel Goldstein at South Coast Repertory about the life of comedian Joan Rivers, mixes biography with the comedian's old stand-up material.
"The Streetcar Project" brought Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" to Los Angeles for six performances, three in a Frogtown airplane hangar and three in a Venice Beach warehouse.
Appearing together in 'The Roommate,' Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow bring their star power to Broadway and discuss friendship and longevity in theater.
REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of the Wooster Group's production of Richard Foreman's 'Symphony of Rats.'
'Kimberly Akimbo,' David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori's 2023 Tony-winning musical, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages in a production starring a divine Carolee Carmello
A stage version of Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake,' adapted by the film's star, Dave Jones, has its U.S. premiere at the Fountain Theatre.
CTG artistic director Snehal Desai makes his directorial debut at the company in a reimagined revival of the Green Day musical featured deaf and hearing actors in a collaboration with Deaf W…
A strong New York season of playwriting features David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face,' Max Wolf Friedlich's sleeper hit 'Job' and, off-Broadway at the Public Theater, James IJames' 'Good Bones'
Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California," directed by Sam Mendes, rises above a strong New York season of playwriting.
Caleb Eberhardt stars in the West Coast premiere of Eboni Booth's 'Primary Trust,' winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for drama, at La Jolla Playhouse.
After losing the 'daddy' of his dreams to COVID, comedian Sam Morrison tells the tale of his love and grief in "Sugar Daddy" at the Wallis in Beverly Hills.
Broadway performer Gavin Creel, who died Monday at age 48, won a Tony for "Hello, Dolly!" and was also nominated for roles in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Hair."
Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut playing a writer who succumbs to AI in the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's "McNeal" at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont.
Maggie Smith, who won two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, was at her best on screen when she could bring the stage with her.
After 16 seasons, Rogue Machine Theatre co-founding producing artistic director John Perrin Flynn has announced his retirement at the conclusion of current season.
Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of "Clarkston" by Samuel D. Hunter, a gay drama about two lost souls set in the titular Washington state town on the Snake River.
James Ijames, whose 'Fat Ham' won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, confronts the grievous reality of lethal violence and racial injustice in 'Kill Move Paradise,' an earlier work now recei…
