71 stories by "Maureen Lee Lenker"
Bruce Springsteen is no longer sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this .
On Sunday night at a Netflix FYSEE event on behalf of his special Springsteen on Broadway, the Boss revealed…
This news is so good it's likely to make your chest burst.
The viral sensation Alien: The Play, an unofficial adaptation of the 1979 film Alien, can now be viewed in-full thanks …
It might take sugar, butter, and flour to make a perfect pie, but it took a lot more, including Sara Bareilles' songwriting chops, to get to three years on Broadway.
Waitress is celebrating …
Since its Broadway debut in 1992, Falsettos has been hailed as a moving love story and a profound exploration of masculinity and sexuality. The 2016 Broadway revival continued to garner grea…
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge are headed to Broadway.
Producers announced on Thursday that the duo will take the critically-acclaimed production of Sea Wall/A Life, which played to…
What if going viral could get you to Broadway? Based on a novel by Ned Vizzini, with music and lyrics from Joe Iconis and a book by Joe Tracz, Be More Chill, which opened on Broadway March 1…
"I like hiking " I realize that's such an L.A. cliché," he says of reprising his Broadway role at the Pantages Theatre, opening Wednesday (which "is actually the worst time to go.")read more
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Williams could arguably be dubbed an American Shakespeare " a playwright who, in capturing a singular vision of the mid-twentieth century American South, also conve…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Johnny and June Carter Cash in Walk the Line to The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys, the musical biography is familiar fodder for storytelling. As neither screenplay no…
interview by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Disrupted, currently making its world premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, is the first play from writer and memoirist Mary Anna King. King is the auth…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
"Come on along and listen to, the lullaby of Broadway…"
man who wrote these words, lyricist Al Dubin, was himself tempted by the lullaby of Broadway " cutting cl…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
"What is the identity of an actor? Is an actor a charlatan and a fraud? Is an actor an important member of our cultural society? Is an actor, in fact, a truth-teller a…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Connor Kelly-Eiding volunteers with an organization called L.A. For Choice, where she serves as an escort at women's health clinics, acting as a buffer between fema…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
are Forever, now playing at the NoHo Arts Center, takes James Bond and the world of espionage as ingredients for a molotov cocktail of parody and hilarity. The musica…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
, now making its West Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse, tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen " the first African-American Army Air Corps fighters " whose m…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning…
holiday season, Peter Pan's directions to Neverland will lead families to the Pasadena Playhouse. Followin…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Harry Belafonte to Jennifer Lawrence, artists are frequently agitators for social change. The arts allow audiences to encounter complex problems in a narrative sett…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
. Vengeance. Lunacy. Clowns? Hamlet is a hotter property than ever (thank you, Benedict Cumberbatch!), and Los Angeles is privy to a new take on the text as the mela…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
. Insane. Ridiculous." That's how Cody Lassen, producer of Deaf West's Spring Awakening, describes the past year " a journey which has included a production transfer…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
"Indians invented the concept of non-linear time…."
notion sits at the heart of Shiv, by Aditi Brennan Kapil, now at The Theatre @ Boston Court. The play flits b…
On Saturday, June 27, the Dance Resource Center will honor LA dance artists and advocates at the Horton Awards.