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.
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.