Even the grandest stories, full of epic adventures, are built of everyday experiences. Mary Zimmerman creates theater magic in much the same way, bringing the world's foundational tales aliv…
Community is at the heart of several plays on the 99-Seat Beat, our weekly look at Los Angeles' stages. Folks support one another through daily challenges in 1968 Boyle Heights, work shoulde…
Rita Moreno is going from EGOT to "PEGOT." The 87-year-old actress, singer and dancer is adding a Peabody Award to her long list of accolades. She's this year's recipient of the storytelling…
Get ready to meet the new Marian the Librarian. Sutton Foster is joining the Broadway revival of "The Music Man," producer Scott Rudin announced on Monday. After a six-year absence from the …
It's a Shakespeare production with an occasional interlude, a jingle performed to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." The nursery rhyme is what the Los Angeles Drama Club's young theater s…
The bottled-up fury of female caregivers grows to seismic proportions in "Marys Seacole," Jackie Sibblies Drury's new play that combines strands of theatrical DNA from Adrienne Kennedy and C…
At a time when the politics of identity has become a central subject of theatrical inquiry, it's only fitting that African American dramatists have been leading the charge. With their diverg…
In 2007, Los Angeles Opera launched an outreach project that has turned into an annual tradition: The company took over the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and staged Britten's "Noah's F…
Some day, female choreographers will get their due. And eventually a program of dances made exclusively by women will cease to be an anomaly. Until then, here's a warm nod to Ballet Hispá…
The Sleeping Beauty Festival Ballet Theatre offers a full-length, family-friendly staging of the Tchaikovsky classic. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. Sun., 2 p.m. $42-$55.…
Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Carney Magic Magic and comedy wi…
If you've ever had the dizzying feeling you're watching the world through the twisted reflection of a fun-house mirror, you're already familiar with the central metaphor of "Fuddy Meers," no…
"Hype Man," the third in Idris Goodwin's series of hip-hop "break beat" plays, is an audacious choice for the Fountain Theatre. Let's face it, most stage audiences do not appear to be of the…
Perseverance in the face of adversity is a common theme this week on "The 99-Seat Beat," our selections from L.A.'s theater scene. The human spirit endures, whether in the mythic quests of a…
Times critic Charles McNulty lays out the most promising theater for spring, including Wiest in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," Hnath's "Dana H.," Vardalos in "Tiny Beautiful Things" and the …
Ballet, street dance theater, Mexican folk " there are enough offerings this spring to satisfy any dance lover's taste. Ford Theatres has a particularly strong lineup, kicking off spring wit…
A bevy of Broadway musicals will be back on local boards in the coming months, including old favorites like "Fiddler," "Phantom," "Les Miz," "Miss Saigon" and the 20th anniversary revival of…
Ready for your catharsis? The forecast for the spring season calls for a hurricane of tears, shot through with just enough laughter to keep theatergoers from going off the deep end. Based on…
Micaela Taylor thought the accolades might come by the time she was 30. But at 25, the choreographer and dancer is already watching the recognition grow " fast " for her unique style of move…
Veteran stage director Nataki Garrett has been named the sixth artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the company announced Tuesday, making her the first person of color to ho…
"The Late Late Show's" James Corden will hit the stage again for the 73rd Tony Awards show this summer. On Tuesday, CBS announced that Corden will host this year's ceremony from Radio City M…
Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize finalist, "The Wolves," a drama about high school girl soccer players processing life's difficulties, large and small, gets a superb Echo Theater production di…
"The Wolves," Sarah DeLappe's stunning debut drama that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, presents the world through the prism of girls soccer. The play, which is receiving a superb Echo Theate…
As political pawns in a long-running congressional chess game, Dreamers, those children of immigrants with aspirations for a promising life in the United States, make dispassion very difficu…
Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin uses a body language stripped of inhibitions. His dancers incarnate fear, despair, hysteria, joy and every feeling in between. He won't explain what's caus…