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Chance Theater presents 'Colonialism Is Terrible, But Phở Is Delicious,' a comedy about food through a post-colonial lens.
Manuel Puig's dramatic adaptation of his novel "Kiss of the Spider Woman" is directed by Michael Michetti at A Noise Within in Pasadena.
Randy Rainbow talks about his latest music video, 'Grumpy Trumpy Felon From Jamaica in Queens!',' prompted by Donald Trump's recent indictment.
Pasadena Playhouse's producing artistic director, Danny Feldman, has proved that growth is still possible in a time of spiraling crisis for American theater.
Shakespeare Center L.A. and After Hours Theatre Co. present a partly immersive staging of 'The Tempest,' William Shakespeare's magical late romance.
In 'The Thin Place,' an exploration of the line between the living and the dead, playwright Lucas Hnath turns theater into a seance.
Jeremy B. Cohen will replace Robert Egan as the producing artistic director of Ojai Playwrights Conference. Egan was at the helm for more than 20 years.
'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,' Anna Deavere Smith's documentary play about the Rodney King uprising, is reconceived for a new era with many of the same problems.
The world premiere of 'The Lonely Few' at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse stars Tony winner Lauren Patten and an astonishing Ciara Renée.
The Actors' Gang Prison Project is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its first-ever production, 'Ubu the King,' with a revival directed by Tim Robbins in repertory with new play '(Im)migra…
In 'The Critic's Daughter,' Priscilla Gilman writes about her complex relationship with her father, theater critic and Yale professor Richard Gilman.
S.E. Hinton's classic young-adult novel 'The Outsiders' is transformed into a new musical, with a book by playwright Adam Rapp and a score by Jamestown Revival and Justin Levine.
"The Lifespan of a Fact," which starred Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway, opens at L.A.'s Fountain Theatre with new actors sparring in an epic journalistic battle.
Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's musical, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's novel, gets a new production at at the Ahmanson Theatre with Broadway in the show's sights.
Pasadena Playhouse's Sondheim Celebration kicks into gear with a revival of "Sunday in the Park With George," directed by Sarna Lapine.
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.
