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Handicapping Sunday's Tony Awards: Can "Hadestown" beat "Tootsie"? Will Sorkin's "Mockingbird" be redeemed? And will the Tonys justly reward a female director?
The playwright gets personal in this documentary tale about his mother, a psych ward chaplain held captive by a suicidal convict. It's a sly, slippery tale.
Anaïs Mitchell's concept album-turned-folk opera is an exquisite marriage of story and song that advances the art of theater.
Heidi Schreck's "What the Constitution Means to Me" is more than a performance piece: It's the most moving play of the year.
The Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that it will make admission free " a switch made possible by $10-million gift from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Powers. Powers made t…
Nilo Cruz's 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Anna in the Tropics," is set in 1929 at a cigar factory in Florida, but the Anna of the title is Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's adulteress never actu…
Time passes, and even a contemporary classic can use a nip and tuck. David Henry Hwang, most famous for his Tony-winning 1988 play "M. Butterfly," performed some not insignificant cosmetic s…
The modern classic on gender roles and Orientalism gets an uneven revival at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa directed by Desdemona Chiang.
If it's not one thing, it's your mother " a bit of bumper sticker wisdom, perhaps, but on the heels of Mother's Day it's an apropos adage for three of this week's selections from Southern Ca…
Helder Guimarães is either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician. But however you classify him, he's excellent company in his new show, "Invisible Tango…
Kim Rosenstock, a writer for the Fox sitcom "New Girl," launched her career with the play "Tigers Be Still," first produced in New York in 2010. As Chance Theater's regional premiere of this…
John Bunzel may be a veteran film and television writer, but he has never wandered far from his roots in the theater, where he has been plying his trade for more than 30 years. Anyone who ha…
In the opening vignette of Sean Dorsey's latest work, "Boys in Trouble," the choreographer performs a gentle solo within the confines of a single spotlight. As he dances, his recorded voice …
This isn't "High School Musical." No, the members of this young company " from 7-year-old moppets all the way up to assured 18-year-olds " say things like: "I think a lot of people can agree…
Directed by Frank Marshall and featuring music by Moby, "Invisible Tango" has tricks that astonish and a storytelling charm that's more than mere magic show.
On Friday the 33 students who make up the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance's inaugural class will graduate. More than 60% of them will leave USC employed, said Jodie Gates, the school's vi…
It's 44 BC, a bit before the ides of March, and Roman citizens are in the streets singing a cheeky ode to life in the Seven Hills " to the tune of Weezer's "Beverly Hills." This can mean jus…
A playwright exploring the Asian American experience and a film and video artist who addresses the representation of Puerto Ricans in culture are among the five people who will receive $75,0…
Playwright Lucas Hnath is back on Broadway with "Hillary and Clinton," a zesty drama on America's most picked-apart political couple that finds Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow in top form. I…
With an assist from actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, the new work is yet another way to hear the singular voice of this leading American playwright.
The scales are balanced between the straightforward and the offbeat in the 99-Seat Beat, our weekly recommendations for Southern California's small stages. Arthur Miller's "The Price" at Int…
Sniffles in the darkness. They're a sign of success, right? Yes, but at productions of the 1991 Broadway musical "The Secret Garden," they're a backhanded indicator. They come only when the …
Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk were set to grapple with Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 on Wednesday night at the Soraya in Northridge. The great 1944…
It was the summer of 1963 when photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured a protest over Wigs Parisian, a white-owned wig shop that opened on Harlem's 125th Street near the Apollo Theater. One m…
"I just want to do Beckett's 'Happy Days' over and over again," Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. "I don't want to do anything else, because nothing else comes near it.…
