John Mulaney may have spoken best to the mostly wonderful randomness of the lineup for Friday night's live "SNL50: The Homecoming Concert" special when, late in the show, he invoked the memo…
Fountains of Wayne will be performing concert dates this year for the first time since 2013, and the shows are proceeding with the blessings of the family of the band's co-founder, the late …
Everything's coming up you-know-what if you're a Sondheim fan on either coast this season. "Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends," the third revue to be built around the great composer's songbook …
No one lauds the "Wicked" quite like Billie Eilish, at least when she is in full Ariana Grande fangirl mode, as she was in interviewing her longtime singing heroine after a screening of the …
Dolly Parton announced Tuesday that her autobiographical stage musical "Dolly: An Original Musical" will have its world premiere in Nashville this July, the first public stop on the way to a…
For most of the film and TV industry, the devastating L.A.-area fires of the last week have at least avoided scorching the studios where the work largely occurs. But there's no such consolat…
Although most of Greg Wells' professional life has involved producing or writing for big pop artists (including Adele, Katy Perry, OneRepublic & Timbaland, Twenty One Pilots and John Leg…
It's become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are…
Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of "Wicked" is the one who wrote one of Broadway's all-time top song scores and now, a little over two decades later, has overseen the …
When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway's "Shucked," he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been know…
When the sing-along screenings of "Wicked" go down beginning Christmas Day, I'll be there " but not because I have any intention of personally raising my voice in song. (Or maybe I'll join i…
The city of Ojai has a long-established reputation as one of California's most quintessentially laid-back small towns. But residents and frequent visitors who have a love for movies may actu…
The name Yola is not to be confused with YOLO, but if her moniker were to be an acronym, it might stand for You Only Live Awe-Inspiringly. The British-born singer has been expanding her hori…
The devil is making them do it… or maybe it's actually an exercise in divine justice. "Randy Newman's Faust," the only musical comedy ever written for the stage by the dean of barbed Ameri…
Singer-songwriter Allison Russell had a song called "Persephone" on her debut solo album, so there may be some destiny in the fact that she will soon step into a role with that name in the B…
Whatever counts as Sara Bareilles' day job right now, it's not regualrly releasing albums and touring. Her last studio album (2019's "Amidst the Chaos") and tour are both five years in the r…
If you were cataloging the signs of a stage musical that has had a robust life over a period of not just years but decades, here are two things that might be included on that list: A) The sh…
At some point, if you are enthusiastically trying to get everyone you know in Los Angeles out to see "A Strange Loop" " and anyone who hasn't should try to, as the production comes …
It's been just over one year since the Tonys gave the Pasadena Playhouse an award for regional theater, and that honor looks more justified than ever now that the venue is presenting a much-…
A lot of bong water has passed under the bridge since "Reefer Madness: The Musical" first premiered at the Hudson Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd. in 1998. Like, legalization of the demon weed …
For his new "Honeymind" album, singer and actor Ben Platt brought in an especially honeyed voice as a counterpart on one song, Brandy Clark. He had written "Treehouse" in a writing session w…
Not to be confused with "Hello Dolly," there's a musical earmarked for Broadway by the name of "Hello, I'm Dolly," with country-pop superstar Dolly Parton spearheading the effort to bring a …
The 30th anniversary of the original animated film version of "The Lion King" will be celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl next month with a live-to-film concert/screening that will include cast…
Does "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" count as a genre unto itself, given how many plotlines in the last half-century have relied on the suitor-out-of-water supper guest as a linchpin? That tr…
Steve Lawrence, a king among easy-listening crooners who rocketed to fame in the '50s and '60s as half of the duo Steve and Eydie, died Thursday at age 88. Lawrence died at home in Los Angel…