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"Glee" star Lea Michele debuted as "Funny Girl's" Fanny Brice last Tuesday. Her Broadway gig is now on hold due to a bout with COVID-19.
Sophocles' masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English.
Ahead of her debut in Broadway's 'Funny Girl,' 'Glee' star Lea Michele discussed the allegations about her microaggressions and prima donna behavior.
Matt Shakman, who has served as the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse since 2017, has announced his intention to step down in February 2023. Shakman plans to join the company's board…
Twenty-one art shows, theatrical productions, classical concerts and operatic works our arts critics are looking ahead to in the coming months.
The premier theater centered on deaf culture has plans for a 'CODA' musical and 'Encanto' videos. But first: 'Oedipus' at the Getty Villa, coming this fall.
Roger Q. Mason's play "Lavender Men," which is having its world premiere at Skylight Theatre, brings Abraham Lincoln back from the dead to relive his relationship with a law clerk to whom he…
'The Prom,' the 2018 Broadway musical that gave rise to the 2020 film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden, has its L.A. premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.
"Here There Are Blueberries," based on the story of a photo album from Auschwitz sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse.
The organization's employees see unionization as 'a new way to rebalance power structures in the American theater.'
Mike Birbiglia returns to Center Theatre Group with an existential stand-up show centered on a YMCA pool.
As Robert Egan retires as the leader of the Ojai Playwrights Conference after 20 years, he reflects on the organization's past, present, and future.
Shaun Landry and the Ledge look to give performers of color a bigger voice in the world of improvisational theater.
'Freestyle Love Supreme,' the show created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, opens at Pasadena Playhouse after enjoying a successful run on Broadway.
Following Michael Ritchie's departure last year, Center Theatre Group is still in the early stages of its search for its next artistic leader. What does this deliberate, albeit sluggish, app…
Despite reports to the contrary, producers for Broadway's 'Funny Girl' and a rep for star Beanie Feldstein agree on why she's leaving the show early.
'Glee' star Lea Michele will star in 'Funny Girl' on Broadway. The 'different direction' pushed Beanie Feldstein to exit two months earlier than expected.
Jerry Mitchell's Hollywood Bowl production of "Kinky Boots," Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning musical, showcased a brilliant Wayne Brady.
The Tony-winning stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' opens at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
'Dear Evan Hansen' producer Steve Fickinger's friends reflect on the moments that encapsulated the joy and laughter he brought to theater after his death at 62.
The Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. Barak Ballet in Santa Monica. "Kinky Boots" at the Hollywood Bowl. "Moulin Rouge!" at the Pantages.
Mike Donahue directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of this new true-crime musical set in a tightknit Jewish community in New Jersey.
A tribute to Peter Brook, the pathbreaking British theater director who died at age 97.
A solo play by the queer and transgender Tamil Sri Lankan American actor D'Lo opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
'The Beautiful People,' a new play by Tim Venable produced by Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre, is about two high school boys who have a sleepover on the eve of a school shooting that for…
