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Guillermo Cienfuegos directs George Bernard Shaw's cunning sociopolitical drama "Misalliance" at Pasadena's A Noise Within.
The Tony nominee explains why this 'Purlie Victorious,' premiering Friday on PBS' Great Performances series, isn't a musical " and why it's all the better for it.
'Girl From the North Country,' now having its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages, stitches together Bob Dylan classics in a play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
A year after winning the Regional Theatre Tony Award, Pasadena Playhouse unveils its 2024-25 season and readies to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its historic building.
Steve Carell in Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' and Jeremy Strong in Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' lend excitement to new Broadway revivals that struggle to update these plays for a contemporary …
A cinematic presentation of a London production of "Macbeth" starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma has a limited engagement in movie theaters.
'Stereophonic,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' 'Illinoise,' Alicia Keys' 'Hell's Kitchen,' Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Rachel McAdams, Jeremy Strong: This year even known quantities had to stret…
The nominees for Broadway's biggest prize were announced Tuesday, with "Stereophonic" and "Hell's Kitchen" receiving 13 nods each. Here's the full list of 2024 Tony nominations.
Helder Guimarães and Frank Marshall created the rare COVID-era theater hit with "The Present." They're back with "The Hope Theory," a magic show about the immigrant experience.
Robert O'Hara's new "Hamlet," as well as the Broadway tours of "Life of Pi" and "Parade," are among Center Theatre Group's 2024-25 season offerings.
Choreographer and director Justin Peck brings an athletic grace to a new, category-defying Broadway musical spun from a Sufjan Stevens' album. The singing? It's gorgeous
The Olivier Award-winning revival of "Cabaret," starring a physically precise and theatrically audacious Eddie Redmayne, comes to Broadway but misses his London co-star, Jesse Buckley
Filmmaker Jon M. Chu will find familiar material in his Broadway debut as he directs a musical adaptation of author Kevin Kwan's 'Crazy Rich Asians' trilogy.
Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn.
Gregg T. Daniel directs a muscular revival of 'King Hedley II," a difficult play done well. Veralyn Jones' performance is extraordinary.
The Broadway production of 'Fat Ham,' James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on 'Hamlet,' has its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It's gripping, outrageous fun.
The Broadway touring production of Michael Mayer's 2022 revival of "Funny Girl" arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre with a star-making lead performance from Katerina McCrimmon.
Michael Stuhlbarg previewed his Broadway show 'Patriots' on Monday, a day after a 27-year-old man allegedly threw a rock at the actor's head in New York.
Movies and TV shows have fetishized close friendship to the point that the real, often fraught rhythms of such relationships have been lost. Not so in 'Merrily We Roll Along.'
Bill Bushnell, who guided the Los Angeles Theatre Center, a beacon for diversity and multicultural storytelling, into existence in the 1980s, has died.
'One of the Good Ones,' by Gloria Calderón Kellett, co-creator of the rebooted 'One Day at a Time,' has its world premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Kimberly Senior and starring …
The Geffen Playhouse's 2024-25 season lineup includes premieres by Sara Porkalob, a.k. payne and Jake Brasch, plus a 20th anniversary staging of artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Th…
An exchange with Tricia Romano, author of 'The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture,' with one of her former…
TV veteran Gloria Calderón Kellett explains how Hollywood treating her with 'zoo animal fascination' inspired her history-making play 'One of the Good Ones,' opening Sunday.
A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People," written by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, is on Broadway this season in a production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imp…
