Harvey Weinstein is considering developing a Broadway musical based on the new movie "My Week with Marilyn," with singer Katy Perry in the lead role as Marilyn Monroe. The National Gallery i…
A film version of the Jon Robin Baitz play "Other Desert Cities," currently on Broadway, is said to be in development. Questions surround the planned Michael Jackson museum in Gary, Ind., wh…
Bryan Cranston, the Emmy-winning star of AMC's "Breaking Bad," will costar with Annette Bening in "It's a Wonderful Life" at the Geffen Playhouse on Dec. 10.
L.A. Dance Project, founded and directed by Benjamin Millepied, will be a new program at the Music Center. Hugh Jackman continues to bring in big money at the box office for his latest Broad…
The beleaguered profession of criticism has received another stake through the heart courtesy of Stephen Sondheim. "It takes a long time to learn not to pay attention to critics, or at least…
On Thursday, police in downtown L.A. swooped in to arrest dozens of protesters from the Occupy L.A. movement. Among those seized and hauled off to jail was Nancy Linehan Charles, a veteran t…
Kim Cattrall has returned to the New York stage after many years in a new revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives." The production originated in London last year before traveling to Toronto …
Jim Parsons, who stars in TV's "The Big Bang Theory," is in talks for a Broadway revival of "Harvey." "Finding Neverland," the new musical that was canceled at the La Jolla Playhouse, will h…
Kirsten Dunst will join Mark Ruffalo and Billy Crudup in a screen adaptation of Adam Rapp's Pulitzer finalist play "Red Light Winter." The Intiman Theatre in Seattle is launching a $1 millio…
The Old Globe's 2012 summer season will feature the West coast debut of "Divine Rivalry," Michael Kramer's new historical drama about Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as the San …
L.A. Theatre Works will embark on a two-week tour of China, performing "Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers" by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons. The play dramatizes the Washington…
Street artists are suing AEG in a dispute over lost artwork in a penthouse in downtown L.A. The musical "Leap of Faith" appears headed to Broadway in the fall of 2012, with a substantially r…
Artist Ai Weiwei says thousands of supporters have donated more than $800,000 to help him pay off a tax bill and fine imposed by the Chinese government. An investor in Broadway's "Spider-Man…
Producers in New York have pulled the plug on the revival of "Funny Girl" that was to open at the Ahmanson Theatre in early 2012 before transferring to Broadway in April. The J. Paul Getty T…
The highly anticipated revival of "Funny Girl" that was set to open in early 2012 at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. before transferring to Broadway in April has been put on indefinite hold, or…
Julie Taymor, who was booted from the director's chair of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" before the show opened on Broadway in June, will be eligible for consideration in the best director …
Long Beach Opera will launch a new series of programs thanks to a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Alan Alda was at the Geffen Playhouse on Tuesday evening for the first preview performance of his new play "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie." After the performance, Alda gave a speech …
Gil Cates, the founder and producing director of the Geffen Playhouse, died on Monday at age 77. Protestors at Occupy LA have created art on two large wooden fences that the city has built t…
Gil Cates, who died Monday at the age of 77, wore many hats during his long career in Hollywood. Cates served as the head producer of the Academy Awards telecast for a record 14 times. He di…
Hugh Jackman is back on Broadway this fall in a new concert show that is instructively titled "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway." For his first week in preview performances, the star racked up…
It seems a bit behind the curve if you ask us, but "The Simpsons" on Fox finally got around to parodying Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Sunday's episode. The parody was part o…
Actress Jan Maxwell, currently in the Broadway revival of "Follies," was hit by a vehicle Saturday while crossing the street, but is expected to make a quick recovery. Stephen Sondheim cance…
Jessica Bendinger, the screenwriter of the 2000 cheerleading movie "Bring It On," has reached a settlement in her legal dispute with the musical stage version of the movie that will begin a …
Video of a live performance from "Bring It On: The Musical," which begins performances at the Ahmanson Theatre on Sunday, is posted on the Internet. The L.A. stop is the first on a national …