8,031 stories from Los Angeles Times
Ellen McLaughlin's modern verse translation of Shakespeare's 'Pericles' has its West Coast premiere at Boston Court Pasadena.
Gregg T. Daniel directs "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at A Noise Within, part of the theater's continuing exploration of the August Wilson Century Cycle.
New L.A. Phil conductor-in-residence Anna Handler follows Dudamel's epic farewell at the Hollywood Bowl with Beethoven's Fifth.
L.A. theater director Bart DeLorenzo adapts and directs a new version of Ibsen's savagely timely 'Enemy of the People' at the Odyssey Theatre.
For the last year, 'Gracias Gustavo' garlands have adorned Los Angeles. Over the weekend, a supremely happy-seeming Dudamel milked the thanks in a four-concert blowout.
Dolly Parton loved LGBTQ+ people, and we loved her — in part because she showed us that our country still loves us too.
In a Monday court filing, lawyers for the Justice Department argued that the Kennedy Center may need to be torn down if it doesn't receive the renovations proposed by President Trump.
The wait is over, and the Vision Theatre Performing Arts Center is preparing to reopen, ushering in a new era of performance, events and Black culture in Leimert Park.
As Lumiere in "Beauty & the Beast" at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, actor Danny Gardner must sing and dance with live flames on his hands. Here's how his 7-pound 'handlesticks' are cre…
The Kennedy Center's board of trustees on Thursday voted to move forward with President Trump's plan to close the building for renovations and to inscribe his name on the building to commemo…
Geno Segers has left Broadway's 'Hadestown' and issued an apology after past videos and social media comments about transgender rights triggered online calls for his replacement.
Jan Wikstrom, Susan Angelo and Ellen Geer lead a cast of older actress in an entertaining revival of Noël Coward's 'Waiting in the Wings,' presented outdoor at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicu…
Oskar Eustis, who's stepping down as the artistic director of New York's Public Theater in 2028, shook up the arts world with his comment that the American nonprofit theater movement was ove…
Eli Simon directs 'The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove,' a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy that's part of this summer's New Swan Shakespeare Festival.
Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of provocateur playwright Erik Patterson's "F— Strangers," directed by Chris Fields and starring Michael Sturgis, James Tupper, Sean Luc Ro…
The L.A. Phil began the first all-American week of the L.A. Phil Hollywood Bowl season with new works about soccer and Suffs led by Tito Munoz in his Bowl debut and Thomas Wilkins
Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson bring their award-winning musical 'Mexodus,' a live-looping, hip-hop musical about a fugitive slave who finds freedom south of the border, to Pasadena Pla…
8 new plays that deserve to be seen in L.A. include work by Joshua Harmon, Samuel D. Hunter, Nazareth Hassan, Talene Monahon and Ro Reddick.
Independent Shakespeare Co. presents a vivid outdoor rendering of William Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus,' directed by David Melville, as part of its Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival.
Twenty-five years after its Broadway debut, the veteran BTS creatives of "Mamma Mia!" helps turn the Ahmanson Theatre into an ABBA-fueled, multigenerational dance party.
As major dance institutions like Bodytraffic and L.A. Contemporary Dance Company close their doors, dancers still persevere. Here's how.
Helga Monson de Kansky was once predicted to become ballet's next star. Instead, she chose a life with her family and a career as a dance instructor.
Democracy is in crisis. But writers such as Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, are stepping up, dramatizing the complexities of what it means to be an American.
The Hollywood Bowl opens for the season with 'The Best of Broadway,' a lavish concert headlined by Halle Bailey, Darren Criss, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Lea Salonga.
LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs the L.A. premiere of Pearl Cleage's 'Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous' at the Geffen Playhouse
