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…
The Fountain Theatre's founding artistic director, Stephen Sachs, reflects on his new play, "Fatherland," and new adventures as he prepares to step down at the end of the year.
In "The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe," actor Nick Ullett, a cast member in William Friedkin's 2014 Harold Pinter revival, tells the tale of the madness that upended the productio…
Kristen Adele Calhoun's haunting "Black Cypress Bayou" wrestles with history and reparations in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
A new revival of "The Wiz," featuring Wayne Brady and the hits "Ease on Down the Road" and "Home," opens at the Hollywood Pantages before its Broadway run.
'Mercury,' by Steve Yockey, the creator/showrunner of HBO Max's 'The Flight Attendant,' and 'Middle of the World' by TV executive Juan José Alfonso spin yarns designed to hook restless audi…
Musicals have come to follow a Broadway run with a national tour. 'The Wiz,' starting Tuesday at the Pantages, is doing the opposite " and the strategy is paying off.
'English' by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego's Old Glob…
James Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.
A radical reworking of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne gets its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.
Retired Yale School of Drama professor Gordon Rogoff died at 92. Theater critic Charles McNulty, his former student, shares an appreciation of Rogoff's legacy.