Sara Porkalob stars in "Dragon Lady" at Geffen Playhouse, a solo show about her grandmother, a lounge singer who escaped a gangster-controlled nightclub in Manila before coming to the United…
Mike Donahue directs Martin Crimp's free-hand adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic "Cyrano de Bergerac' in a production starring Chukwudi Iwuji in the title role.
Will Power's "Memnon," a co-production between the Getty Villa and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, has its world premiere.
At Geffen Playhouse, Biljan Sheibani directs a crackling revival of 'The Brothers Size,' part of Tarell Alvin McCraney's acclaimed trilogy 'The Brother/Sister Plays.'
'Velour: A Drag Spectacular," created by Sasha Velour and Moisés Kaufman, is worthy of its title in world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.
Barry Edelstein adapts and directs 'Henry 6,' Shakespeare's early history play, condensed into two parts, as San Diego's Old Globe completes the playwright's canon with an entertaining adapt…
Director James Marsh's film on the life of Samuel Beckett, starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Neil Forsyth, infuses surrealism into a conventional format.
Marianne Elliott's Tony-winning gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 'Company' dazzles at the Hollywood Pantages.
'Clue: Live on Stage!,' playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, earns its exclamation point through the breathless exuberance of its physical comedy.
Tom Jacobson's new plays 'The Bauhaus Project' and 'Crevasse' are thrilling in the scope of their ambition. They are also unsettling as America faces its own fascist peril.
Romance goes afoul in Abby Rosebrock's 'Dido of Idaho' at Echo Theater Company as offbeat comedy takes a brutal turn.
Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere's 'Tartuffe' with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga's beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
Rob Morrow and Marcia Cross star in an uneven revival of Jon Robin Baitz's 'The Substance of Fire' at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica.
With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.
Julianne Nicholson stars as a mother with boundary problems raising a precocious, strong-minded 11-year old daughter in playwright Annie Baker's A24 release.
The West Coast premiere of a play by Mike Lew, 'tiny father' tells the story of an accidental father thrust into a neonatal ICU in this Geffen Playhouse production directed by Moritz von Stu…
Wins for "Stereophonic," "The Outsiders" and others prove that nonprofit and regional theaters can succeed by prioritizing ambitious work and giving it time to develop.
A conversation with Michael R. Jackson, whose Tony-winning musical "A Strange Loop" is having its Los Angeles premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Directed by Kent Gash, a new revival of 'Jelly's Last Jam' at Pasadena Playhouse makes the almost classic musical worth another look.
At a time of widespread retrenchment in American theater, Danny Feldman is boldly experimenting in real time at Pasadena Playhouse.
An interview with Jessica Lange, who received a Tony nomination for her performance in Paula Vogel's "Mother Play" and stars in the new HBO film "The Great Lillian Hall."
Jonathan Groff, star of the Broadway revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and director Maria Friedman explain how they cracked Stephen Sondheim's problematic musical.
Guillermo Cienfuegos directs George Bernard Shaw's cunning sociopolitical drama "Misalliance" at Pasadena's A Noise Within.
'Girl From the North Country,' now having its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages, stitches together Bob Dylan classics in a play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
Steve Carell in Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' and Jeremy Strong in Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' lend excitement to new Broadway revivals that struggle to update these plays for a contemporary …