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Ex-cons trying to find meaning in life. A boss who just might be the devil. Lynn Nottage's comedy brings amusing ingredients to the Mark Taper Forum.
D.T. Max's "Finale," about Sondheim, and "Shy," by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, bring the singular Broadway personalities back to life.
Created and performed by theater artist and mentalist Vinny DePonto, 'Mindplay' probes the unreliable narrators of our minds in a Geffen Playhouse world premiere.
The Ahmanson Theatre has a hit with the supernatural thriller "2:22 " A Ghost Story," starring Constance Wu and Finn Wittrock.
Producer Michael Butler brought the counterculture musical 'Hair" to Broadway, where it ran for years.
The play's U.S. premiere brings the horror, but wastes the talents of Constance Wu, Finn Wittrock, Anna Camp and Adam Rothenberg on creaky characters.
Luis Alfaro announced in a Facebook post that he left his position as associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group on November 1.
Aaron Sorkin's hit Broadway stage adaptation of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' shapes the classic 1960 novel for a new era.
'Omar,' the new opera by singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens and film composer Michael Abels, gets its West Coast premiere by L.A. Opera.
The Geffen Playhouse production of 'The Inheritance' superbly realizes playwright Matthew López's vision. At 6½ hours long, it's worth every minute.
Daniel Fish and members of the cast reflect on the bold revival of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical " and the more extreme reactions it's elicited from audiences.
The first Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Piano Lesson' stars Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington.
I wasn't particularly excited by sitting through another 'Funny Girl' revival. But I left understanding why tickets to see Lea Michele star as Fanny Brice in the musical are going for a king…
Angela Lansbury, the star of stage and screen who died on Tuesday, put her talents at the service of story.
Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actor who captured television viewers as the star of the hit series 'Murder, She Wrote,' has died. She was 96.
Later in life, Sullivan served as director of the Eugene O'Neill National Critics Institute.
Charles Fuller, whose plays, including 'A Soldier's Play,' tore into social conventions, especially those entrenched in racism, dies at 83.
Cecily Strong reprises her performance in an updated version of Jane Wagner's 'The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.'
A conversation with four older cast members starring in Antaeus Theatre Company's production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Everybody.' 'You learn simplicity, you learn economy.'
Martyna Majok's 'Sanctuary City' movingly tracks the plight of those living in the shadows of citizenship.
Having largely been discouraged from the arts throughout their lives, Latinos find a safe haven in the Spanish theater organization.
Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma!' reveals the underside of the American story.
Broadway's "The Phantom of the Opera" will close after a record-breaking 35-year run. With the pandemic keeping audiences away, the iconic show is among many unable to stage a lasting comeba…
What does Matt Shakman's decision to step down as as artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse say about the theater's future?
Bart DeLorenzo directs a revival of 'Ghosts,' Henrik Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece about family secrets that refuse to stay buried.
