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The Los Angeles premiere engagement of Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has been extended by one week at the Mark Taper Forum. The productio…
The scene in which Billy Budd (Liam Bonner) is hanged has meant careful planning to avoid injury. The production is the high point of L.A. Opera's year-long tribute to composer Benjamin Brit…
The future head of the National Endowment for the Arts will likely face many of the same funding challenges that have beset the organization for years, according to two former chairs of the …
Cicely Tyson will bring her recent Tony Award-winning performance in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" to Los Angeles as part of the Ahmanson Theatre's 2014-15 season, the Center Theatr…
If you missed Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in their Broadway outing last year in "Romeo and Juliet," and you won't be able to catch the upcoming, timed-for-Valentine's-Day broadcasts of …
Assailed as anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian when it premiered in 1991, John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" has long been an artistic hot potato that many major opera companies have found…
Hugh Jackman will host the 2014 Tony Awards ceremony on June 8, marking the actor's fourth time hosting Broadway's biggest awards night, organizers announced Tuesday.
Maggie Gyllenhaal will play the role originated by Glenn Close on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," which is set to open Oct. 30 in a production by the Roundabout Theatre in Ne…
Plácido Domingo, whose early international singing career took off after appearing with the New York City Opera, will appear at a concert this month to commemorate that company, which dec…
"Matilda the Musical," the hit family-friendly show based on the Roald Dahl book, will launch a national tour at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 2015, organizers announced Thursday. T…
One of the defining collaborations of Philip Seymour Hoffman's career was his long association with New York's Labyrinth Theater Company, which he helped to found and where he served as an a…
In 1989, actor Chazz Palminteri debuted his one-man show "A Bronx Tale" at a small theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. The modest play would later catch the attention of Robert De…
Timing is everything in showbiz. And so it is with public controversies too.
The Seattle Seahawks took home the Super Bowl championship on Sunday, roundly beating the Denver Broncos, 43-8. Another big winner for the evening was operatic soprano Renée Fleming, whose …
Unlike many A-list Hollywood stars, Philip Seymour Hoffman never left theater behind. Stage acting and directing remained a cornerstone of Hoffman's career, which encompassed the lofty heigh…
Actor Steven Berkoff's exit amid apparent friction with director William Friedkin postpones the revival. Hold your RSVPs to the Geffen Playhouse's revival of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Pa…
Steven Berkoff, the British stage and screen actor who was to have appeared in a revival of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Geffen Playhouse, said that he left the play after cla…
The upcoming revival of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" at the Geffen Playhouse has been abruptly called off only two weeks before its official opening. Leaders at the Geffen said that …
When soprano Renée Fleming takes to MetLife  Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl, she will sing to music performed by the New Jersey Symph…
The Canadian director is a force behind 'Totem,' a show about the evolution of the animal kingdom that features Cirque acrobatics and has settled in at Santa Monica. Cirque du Soleil is famo…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its award nominations for 2013, and leading the pack are the recent revivals of the musicals "Dreamgirls" by the DOMA Theatre Co. and "The …
"Flesh and Bone," a new drama series set in the world of professional ballet, has landed at the cable network Starz, which has hired a real-life ballet dancer for the lead role. Sarah Hay, a…
The Broadway cast recording of "Kinky Boots" won the Grammy Award for musical theater album on Sunday. Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the songs for the musical, accepted the award, given out as par…
"Bakersfield Mist," the play by Stephen Sachs that was a recent sleeper hit at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, will be making the transatlantic journey to London's West End when it open…
It has become something of a theater tradition to cast a good-looking young man in the role of John Merrick, the horribly deformed protagonist of "The Elephant Man." The role, which requires…
