Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
Sabrina, the single mother at the center of Inda Craig-Galván's new play, "Black Super Hero Magic Mama," is acutely aware of the various ways her son's life can be upended. Gangs, drugs, …
Spring has arrived, and so have a slew of cultural happenings. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with your weekly roundup of all things culture " and Norwegian …
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 ABBA Mania Tribute show celebrat…
Well, that was a surprise! "(M)iyamoto Is Black Enough" " the first in what will be an ongoing collaboration between the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and …
Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls Nanny, the woman who guided him through boyhood, in a music-infused performance that proves theater, not TV, is the best way to experience this vivi…
"Lackawanna Blues," Ruben Santiago-Hudson's theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York cit…
When it comes to communication, humans can have dangerously selective hearing, as demonstrated this week in the 99-Seat Beat, our look at L.A.'s small-theater scene. Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer…
Kelli O'Hara stars in a Broadway revival at Studio 54 that's long on impressive theatrics but short on human connection.
The new Roundabout Theatre Company production of "Kiss Me, Kate" at Studio 54 has nearly everything that's needed for a top-drawer revival of this Cole Porter classic. First and foremost, th…
Leslie Odom Jr. is belting out show tunes with Pacific Symphony, Ohad Naharin's Batsheva Dance Company comes to UCLA, and Los Angeles Master Chorale performs two distinctly different requiem…
Get those "Seventy-Six Trombones" ready, because Hugh Jackman is starring in a Broadway revival of "The Music Man," producer Scott Rudin announced on Wednesday. Though the two-time Tony Awar…
For whatever reason " a worry about looming dystopia, perhaps " Germany is having its Babylonian moment. Major new opera productions here in Hamburg and in Berlin last weekend proved media s…
Fairy-tale nuts will get a huge kick out of "The Old Man and the Old Moon," a Pigpen Theatre Co. production now in a limited run at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Bev…
The hits of Britney Spears are featured in a new Broadway-bound musical, producers announced Tuesday. "Once Upon a One More Time," whose title references Spears' debut single, "...Baby One M…
A new Broadway musical by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convo…
A new Broadway musical by Jo Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convol…
It wasn't that long ago that a topic of concern was the graying of theater audiences. Today, we must address the high school takeover of Broadway stages. The success of "Dear Evan Hansen" ha…
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 Fan-Favorite One Act Plays Selec…
An intellectual's intellectual, playwright David Hare specializes in a kind of theatrical exegesis, exploring the philosophical motivations behind immensely complicated characters. No except…
There are only so many seats in a theater, only so many performances in a run, and once the set is struck, a production won't exist in exactly the same form again. How can we cope with the e…
On a rainy night, about 250 people gathered in Malibu for the final California performance of the noted New York contemporary-ballet company Jessica Lang Dance. But the company's founder and…
For a movie genre with huge box office appeal, the term "Chick Flick" gets little or no love from critics. Depending on their point of view, it's either a disdainful reference to frothy rom-…
He directed Annette Bening in her first role and wrote Robin Williams' reference letter for Juilliard, but Dakin Matthews says his own acting career didn't really take off until he was in hi…