Nia Vardalos is returning to "Tiny Beautiful Things." The writer and actress, who penned the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best-selling book, will reprise her starring role in a Pasad…
La Jolla Playhouse premieres new work from Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, the duo behind Tony winner "Memphis," but the distinctly American sound is a disconnect to the tale of the "people's …
The story of Princess Diana's life was bound to be turned into a big, boisterous, Broadway-style musical. But who would have guessed that the music would come from David Bryan, a founding me…
"Othello" is an extended free-fall " a national hero's plunge from widespread acclamation and joyful new marriage to legendary despair. In a gripping new staging for A Noise Within, director…
In fall 1981, the most anticipated new musical of the Broadway season was an adaptation of the 1934 Kaufman and Hart play "Merrily We Roll Along," with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, …
What a difference a hashtag makes. When Los Angeles Ballet presented August Bournonville's two-act story ballet "La Sylphide" five years ago, the performance seemed an elegy to lost love and…
Los Angeles Opera is a Mozart house, as any world-class house would be, and over three decades, the company has staged all of the genius' seven major operas except one. James Conlon, the com…
Matthew Bourne's Cinderella The choreographer re-imagines the Prokofiev ballet based on the classic fairy tale as a romantic fable set in London during WWII. Ahmanson Theater, 135 N. Grand A…
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 Cemetery of Tortured Souls Decea…
"Once on This Island," the underdog Tony Award winner last year for best musical revival, will lend some Caribbean sunshine to the 2019-20 Ahmanson Theatre season to be announced Friday by C…
Call it navel-gazing or, if you're feeling poetic, peering into the soul's very depths. At L.A.'s small theaters this weekend, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina does it. So too, in her way, does inqui…
Lakers star LeBron James and his impact on the city of Cleveland during his run with the Cavaliers will be the subject of the new play "King James," written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv …
At the Old Globe in San Diego, Nia Vardalos' lovely adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, "Tiny Beautiful Things," finds resilience in broken places.
Advice columns and theaters have more in common than you might think. Forums of instruction and delight, they appeal to anyone who could use some help negotiating the often trivial, ultimate…
The Oscars may be over, but the Dolby Theatre is just getting started. For the first time, the 3,400-seat home of the Academy Awards will host a full slate of touring Broadway productions, i…
Bachanalia Pianist Orli Shaham and members of Pacific Symphony offer a program that includes the world premiere of David Robertson's arrangement for piano and string quartet of Bach's Goldbe…
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 Blues in the Night Musical revue…
The U.S. premiere of "What If They Went to Moscow?" at REDCAT merges live performance and filmmaking, reworking of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, "Three Sisters," into an astonishing multimedi…
In the face of moral ambiguity, what does integrity look like? This week, promising shows from the intimate theater scene include a hip-hop-infused drama with a Black Lives Matter story line…
Weekend picks for the final weekend of February include Christiane Jatahy's theater-meets-film work titles "What if They Went to Moscow?" and David Lang's one-man opera, "The Loser," both in…
The black cat with the rhinestone collar. The hand-walking clown. The petunia that dances and sings. These beloved characters and 2,000 other puppets handcrafted by marionette mastermind Bob…
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 The Obsession of Calvin Klein Ry…
"Born to Win," a riotous farce set in the dog-eat-dog world of child beauty pageants, and "The Joy Wheel" a broadly humorous take on a marriage in crisis, lead offerings from L.A.'s small-th…
The new stage musical inspired by the life of Michael Jackson has hit a snag on its way to Broadway amid renewed scrutiny of the pop star's legacy. Three weeks ago, the Michael Jackson estat…
In the darkly comic play "Linda Vista" at the Mark Taper Forum, three lead actors get naked. Not semi-naked, but totally naked. And not to take a bath or get dressed, but in service of some …