1,219 stories by "David Ng"
"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" will be the latest Broadway hit to be turned into a movie.
Had it not been for a random encounter with a British Airways television commercial when she was 16, soprano Pretty Yende might be crunching numbers in an office today rather than performing…
"Mr. Wolf," the new drama from Rajiv Joseph, is a play about family, faith and loss. But beyond that, the writer wants to keep the audience in the dark as much as possible.
Max Richter has been composing inventive orchestral music for years, but naturally, American audiences really began noticing him en masse only when his compositions began appearing in movies…
Jamie McCourt is adding another board directorship to her expanding roster of cultural philanthropies.
San Diego Opera has gone with an unconventional choice for its new general director, the first it has named since the company reinvented itself last year following a period of internal tu…
Laura Linney paused for a moment before delivering a blunt assessment of her latest role, author Patricia Highsmith: "It's going to kick my butt."
The Tony Award-winning musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" and "The Bridges of Madison County" will be part of the Ahmanson Theatre's 2015-16 season, Center Theatre Group in Los A…
Helen Mirren is once again playing her signature role of Queen Elizabeth II, this time in the Broadway transfer of Peter Morgan's "The Audience," which was first seen in London in 2013. T…
"Fish in the Dark," Larry David's first Broadway play, is one of the hottest tickets in New York, playing to sold-out houses since previews began in February and generating high-profile p…
In the immortal words of Annie Wilkes, "Misery's alive! Misery's alive!"
Since his heyday as a music executive and entertainment mogul, David Geffen has given away hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations that now bear his name. In Los Angeles, there i…
Kenneth Novice has departed the Geffen Playhouse after serving as its managing director for more than five years, the company has announced.
The Juilliard School in New York will confer honorary doctorate degrees on directors Peter Sellars and Nicholas Hytner during its commencement ceremony in May.
Two legends will share the stage on Friday when Los Angeles Opera hosts a live conversation between Broadway diva Patti LuPone and operatic mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.
One of the most talked about new musicals of the New York theater season is officially heading to Broadway, though the opening date chosen by its backers means it won't compete this year for…
New works by Rajiv Joseph, Melissa Ross and Itamar Moses as well as a new Theatre Movement Bazaar piece inspired by "The Godfather" will be part of the 2015 Pacific Playwrights Festiva…
A new musical version of "A Bronx Tale" will premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey later this year in a staging co-directed by Robert De Niro, who helmed the 1993 movie version …
Oscar loves movies about show business, the conventional Hollywood wisdom goes, and the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday was no exception as "Birdman" took home four prizes, including th…
The announcement last year that Benedict Cumberbatch would be starring in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was a consummation devoutly to be wished for the actor's legions of female fans -- so much…
Having recently ended his long tenure on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, veteran politician Zev Yaroslavsky has now joined the board of another L.A. institution.Â
To say the word "coin" in American Sign Language, you join the tip of your index finger to your thumb to create a circle, like making the "OK" sign. But if you place the palm of your other h…
In a confluence of show business scheduling, the two stars of "American Sniper" are both appearing on Broadway this week, though in separate shows. Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, who play…
The planned stage adaptation of the hit movie "Frozen" will feature some of the same talents that made the Oscar-winning animated feature.
Before the hordes of music fans descend on the Coachella Valley in April for the annual festival, the desert community will play host to a different kind of gathering in March devoted to …
