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Broadway star and three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera achieved her diva-dom through sheer hard work, humility and humanity.
'POTUS,' Selina Fillinger's farce about the women charged with keeping a misbehaving president in line, has its L.A. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in a production directed by Jennifer Cha…
Kate Berlant plays an actor unable to cry on cue in her solo show 'Kate,' directed by Bo Burnham, at the Pasadena Playhouse.
The talented political parodist Randy Rainbow skewers Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis at the Orpheum Theatre, while announcing a new book.
When my theater company presented 'Ulysses on Bottles' in translation, it shook up audiences and benefactors. It was prophetic.
Broadway actor Zuri Washington hopes her racial discrimination suit reignites conversations about the industry's inequitable treatment of Black hair and the harmful perpetuation of the 'angr…
In 2023, the theater lost many notables with long careers, including Michael Gambon, Frances Sternhagen, Glenda Jackson, Barry Humphries and Michael Blakemore. Praising those we lost makes t…
With Aubrey Plaza, John Turturro and Dianne Wiest on its stages, new musicals from Alicia Keys and Stephen Sondheim and critically hailed new plays by Annie Baker and David Adjmi, downtown u…
David Hyde Pierce is in the cast of "Here We Are," Stephen Sondheim's final musical, at the Shed in New York.
Matthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 satiric novel 'Babbitt' in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
Alex Edelman's 'Just for Us,' the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
The world premiere of 'Hell's Kitchen,' the semi-autobiographical musical by Alicia Keys, features a book by Kristoffer Diaz and sublime vocals by a cast that re-interprets some of Key's big…
A filmed performance of 'Waitress,' starring Sara Bareilles, captures how the musical won over Broadway's most underappreciated audience: women.
Aubrey Plaza, fresh off her 'White Lotus' success, makes her stage debut off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' starring opposite Christopher Abbott.
The bestselling children's book series 'Dog Man' gets the musical treatment in a touring show playing at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Nikkole Salter's "Lines in the Dust" at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.
Comedian Alex Edelman brings his acclaimed Broadway show, in which he muses on Jewish identity, empathy and how he came to hang out with a group of white nationalists, to the Mark Taper Foru…
In 'Castle in the Sky,' an immersive theater show about the high-society life of James Oviatt, guests follow actors from room to room, witnessing the loneliness and tension that arises from …
Robert Brustein was a kingly critic with sometimes controversial opinions; don't discount his influence on American theater.
Alfred Molina, John Douglas Thompson and Chris Perfetti star in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of 'Inherit the Wind,' the Scopes "monkey" trial drama, directed by Michael Michetti.
The settlement comes after Equity attempted to organize a nonunion tour of the Sara Bareilles musical, the first effort of its kind in more than 20 years.
'Van Helsing's Dracula,' a dinner theater experience in Van Nuys, has aerialists, ballerinas and plate-spinners in the tale of vampire versus vampire hunter.
WordTheatre is celebrating 20 years of bringing literature to the stage, with the help of celebrities like Ron Perlman and Sharon Stone sharing their love of words.
East West Players doesn't pull any punches in its revival of "Spring Awakening," the Tony-winning musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
In 'Life Sucks,' Aaron Posner takes his inspiration from Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a playful, contemporary reworking directed by Barry Heins at Los Angeles' Broadwater Main Stage.
