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Kristina Wong's performance piece on a pandemic mask-making project opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
With the premiere of Diane Frolov and Susan Justin's 'Come Get Maggie,' Rogue Machine Theatre produces its first musical.
Guillermo Cienfuegos directs a vivid and vivacious production of Shakespeare's comedy at A Noise Within, accomplishing what some starrier productions have failed to do.
The Geffen Playhouse presents Lee Edward Colston II's epic family drama, about the secrets and unresolved traumas of a Black family in Philadelphia.
The Wooster Group's first foray into the work of Bertolt Brecht brings "The Mother," a "learning play," to postmodern life at REDCAT.
In his recently-published memoir "My Own Directions: A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre," Sheldon Epps reflects on his 20-year tenure as artistic director of the Pasadena Playhous…
Tony winner Mary Zimmerman's performance collage based on the notebooks of the Italian Renaissance polymath arrives at the Old Globe in San Diego.
Circle X Theatre Co. presents the West Coast premiere of Mara Nelson-Greenberg's comedy at the Atwater Village Theatre in a production directed by Halena Kays.
The most authentic performance of the year may not get an Oscar nomination. But if you care about acting, you should see Paul Mescal in 'Aftersun.'
18th Street Arts Center has been awarded a $3-million California Creative Corps grant from the California Arts Council to expand its Culture Mapping 90404 project statewide.
The West Coast premiere of Warren Leight's "Home Front" stars C. J. Lindsey as a World War II Black naval officer whose union with a white woman tests the tolerance of postwar America.
Tony winner John Rubinstein stars in Richard Hellesen's biographical drama "Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground," a Theatre West and New L.A. Repertory presentation at the Hudson MainStage Thea…
An encounter with Dr. Phil Stutz, the subject of 'Stutz,' the Netflix documentary Jonah Hill made about his beloved Hollywood therapist.
The Broadway debut of 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy is supercharged by Audra McDonald's seismic performance in 'Ohio State Murders,' which will close on Jan. 15.
The Broadway revival of 'Into the Woods' and the new off-Broadway revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along' bring new life to challenging Stephen Sondheim musicals.
Rogue Machine presents the world premiere of Justin Tanner's 'Little Theatre,' a snapshot of one L.A. writer's beginnings.
Tony Award-winning legend Chita Rivera brings her concert 'Chita: The Rhythm of My Life' to the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.
I worked for several years as a travel writer. Here's what Mike White's dramedy gets exactly right about tourism as immersive but shallow theater.
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo bring their musical version of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. But the production can't escape the jukeb…
The creative team behind the ambitious spectacle discuss its sudden end and potential future: 'We never got a fair chance.'
Edward Albee's 'Fam and Yam,' a 1960 one-act inspired by the author's encounter with Broadway playwright William Inge, remerges at Venice's Pacific Resident Theatre.
Theater critic Charles McNulty runs through his 2022 high points, including 'The Inheritance,' 'Slave Play' and, yes, a divisive 'Oklahoma!'
With an opera, a jukebox musical and a Broadway comedy running simultaneously this year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage has never been busier or more determined to move A…
Tony Award-winning musical "The Wiz" is being revived in a national tour that debuts in Maryland next year before returning to Broadway for a limited engagement.
Ex-leader of A.C.T. talks about "Leopoldstadt" and the remarkable admission Stoppard makes about his relationship (or lack thereof) to his Jewish past.
