Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench's 'Birds of North America' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in a production starring Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye.
Samuel Baum's 'The Engagement Party,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, opens at the Geffen Playhouse with a cast that includes Jonah Platt, Bella Heathcote and Wendie Malick.
Shirley Jo Finney, an actress and award-winning director who explored themes of race, died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's stunning "Infinite Life" has its world premiere off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in a co-production with Britain's National Theatr…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phylicia Rashad and others will unveil a new bill Thursday as the industry struggles: 'If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.'
Playwright Luis Alfaro's latest work 'The Travelers,' presented by Latino Theater Company, creates an imaginative world unto its own onstage.
Boston Court Pasadena's "Measure Still for Measure" remixes the Bard, and finds much is relevant in this tale of corrupt power and sexual harassment.
"Henry Johnson," a new play by David Mamet, is in its world premiere run at the Electric Lodge in Venice.
Daniel K. Isaac stars in 'Every Brilliant Thing,' a play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
'The Bluest Eye,' Toni Morrison's first novel, is presented at A Noise Within in a stage adaptation by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Andi Chapman.
Amy Brenneman stars in the L.A. premiere of Adam Rapp's 'The Sound Inside' at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Cameron Watson.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, Geffen Playhouse's new artistic director, discusses the "calling" of theater and his vision for the future of the Westside theater.
Tarell Alvin McCraney's appointment as the Geffen Playhouse's new artistic director places one of the most accomplished dramatists of his generation at the helm of the city's most prominent …
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chic…
Named after late actor Leonard Nimoy, CAP UCLA's renovated, multi-use 300-seat venue at Westwood's historic Crest Theatre will be L.A.'s newest performing arts space.
Whether visiting a gallery or attending a theater, dance or music performance, the fall is packed with arts events that brim with community and camaraderie.
Hollywood's oldest movie theater was the beginning of everything we associate with glitzy premieres. Now it's reopening, thanks to an unlikely partner: Netflix.
Alexis Scheer's critically hailed and adroitly constructed drama 'Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,' about the savage secret lives of teenage girls, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Harold Pinter's 1959 play 'A Slight Ache' is presented at the Odyssey Theatre in a production featuring Susan Priver, Henry Olek and Shelly Kurtz.
The first 2024 Republican primary debate unwittingly made the case for why the humanities are fundamental to our nation's future.
'Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical' is about to close its U.S. tour in Southern California, at Long Beach's Terrace Theater on Aug. 26 and 27.
The gonzo journalism pioneer could be 'pretty despicable.' And unlike its bio-musical counterparts, a new SoCal show about the author doesn't shy away from it.
Playwright and 'Succession' screenwriter Will Arbery's 'Heroes of the Fourth Turning' has its Southern California premiere in a Rogue Machine production at the Matrix Theatre.
Chris Peluso, an actor who starred in shows on Broadway and in London's West End, has died at age 40. He had stopped working to treat his schizoaffective disorder.