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Metropolitan Museum of Art awakens from the pandemic to questions about its cash crunch and a racial reckoning. "Inside the Met" provides few answers.
What's wrong with using incentives to increase the vaccination rate? The opportunity to see that new musical should be a reward, not a right.
Melanie Andrews is the artistic director of Inner City Shakespeare, a growing network for Black and Latino performers to make it in entertainment.
With a wrenching tribute to "all the beautiful souls" killed by COVID-19, the L.A. Phil performs a stirring free concert for frontline workers.
Tears of joy and plenty of masked smiles could be found at the Hollywood Bowl as it gave its first concert after 18 months of pandemic closures.
The Hollywood Bowl buzzed back to life Saturday with joy, optimism and a tinge of nervousness at a reopening concert celebrating frontline workers.
A news article that pointed out actors' pandemic weight gain spurred a conversation about sizeism throughout the musical theater scene.
Timeline of a comeback: historic cancellation of an entire season, painful layoffs, transformation into a recording studio, a whirlwind race to reopen.
Casting a straight actor in landmark gay role isn't a misstep. It's a recognition of shared struggle.
What ticket buyer wants to spend unnecessary time in a crowded lobby or cramped restroom? Even more important: the broken spell of storytelling onstage.
The Hollywood Bowl has announced its 2021 season lineup after an unprecedented 18 months dark due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here's what's on tap for summer fun seekers.
L.A. Opera moves its outdoor "Oedipus Rex" into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, making it the first major L.A. arts group to stage an indoor show.
In Geffen Playhouse's "Someone Else's House," multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi opens the door to his family's haunted 200-year-old New England house.
Theater has returned to UCLA's Royce Hall, pairing perfect strangers in a private encounter.
Cornerstone in L.A. and Oregon Shakespeare Festival pair up with BIPOC artists to launch the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation program.
With the next chapter of the pandemic comes a fear of returning to the roles we all used to perform, even among friends.
Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, the theater veteran who had memorable turns in films such as "Moonstruck" and "Steel Magnolias," has died in New York City.
It's where pros train for music videos, and where amateurs go for a creative outlet. The pandemic knocked them down, but dance studios aren't giving up.
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, which recently entered public domain, is planned for Broadway with music from Florence Welch.
The writer-actor behind "Wiesenthal" is back with the solo show "The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln," channeling the stories and spirit of Abe's widow.
Pacific Opera Project's production of Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti" is the city's first major live opera show that's not a drive-in event.
The Cinerama Dome, the Munch Box hamburger stand, the church where Aretha sang "Amazing Grace." These are among hundreds of official L.A. landmarks. You can do your part to add to the list.
Following allegations of abusive behavior, Rudin won't be a producer on the national tour of Aaron Sorkin's Broadway hit.
Celebrating Shakespeare's birthday may seem retrograde, but his plays reveal what drama can do. Here's how I advise students to read the work.
A James Baldwin-William F. Buckley Jr. debate is fodder for a REDCAT presentation, and CAP UCLA's "Plastic Bag Store: The Film" mixes gravity with whimsy.
