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With Aubrey Plaza, John Turturro and Dianne Wiest on its stages, new musicals from Alicia Keys and Stephen Sondheim and critically hailed new plays by Annie Baker and David Adjmi, downtown u…
David Hyde Pierce is in the cast of "Here We Are," Stephen Sondheim's final musical, at the Shed in New York.
Matthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 satiric novel 'Babbitt' in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
Alex Edelman's 'Just for Us,' the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
The world premiere of 'Hell's Kitchen,' the semi-autobiographical musical by Alicia Keys, features a book by Kristoffer Diaz and sublime vocals by a cast that re-interprets some of Key's big…
Aubrey Plaza, fresh off her 'White Lotus' success, makes her stage debut off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' starring opposite Christopher Abbott.
Nikkole Salter's "Lines in the Dust" at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.
Comedian Alex Edelman brings his acclaimed Broadway show, in which he muses on Jewish identity, empathy and how he came to hang out with a group of white nationalists, to the Mark Taper Foru…
Robert Brustein was a kingly critic with sometimes controversial opinions; don't discount his influence on American theater.
Alfred Molina, John Douglas Thompson and Chris Perfetti star in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of 'Inherit the Wind,' the Scopes "monkey" trial drama, directed by Michael Michetti.
East West Players doesn't pull any punches in its revival of "Spring Awakening," the Tony-winning musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
In 'Life Sucks,' Aaron Posner takes his inspiration from Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a playful, contemporary reworking directed by Barry Heins at Los Angeles' Broadwater Main Stage.
Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench's 'Birds of North America' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in a production starring Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye.
Samuel Baum's 'The Engagement Party,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, opens at the Geffen Playhouse with a cast that includes Jonah Platt, Bella Heathcote and Wendie Malick.
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's stunning "Infinite Life" has its world premiere off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in a co-production with Britain's National Theatr…
Playwright Luis Alfaro's latest work 'The Travelers,' presented by Latino Theater Company, creates an imaginative world unto its own onstage.
"Henry Johnson," a new play by David Mamet, is in its world premiere run at the Electric Lodge in Venice.
Daniel K. Isaac stars in 'Every Brilliant Thing,' a play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
'The Bluest Eye,' Toni Morrison's first novel, is presented at A Noise Within in a stage adaptation by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Andi Chapman.
Amy Brenneman stars in the L.A. premiere of Adam Rapp's 'The Sound Inside' at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Cameron Watson.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, Geffen Playhouse's new artistic director, discusses the "calling" of theater and his vision for the future of the Westside theater.
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chic…
Alexis Scheer's critically hailed and adroitly constructed drama 'Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,' about the savage secret lives of teenage girls, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Harold Pinter's 1959 play 'A Slight Ache' is presented at the Odyssey Theatre in a production featuring Susan Priver, Henry Olek and Shelly Kurtz.
