Sometimes a production can wrest a seemingly outdated play from certain retirement. Director Stephen Daldry did just that when he was a young gun storming the London theater scene in the ear…
"Do the right thing" is more easily said than put into practice, especially when there's no moral compass to guide our choices. Quandaries that resist tidy solutions figure in this week's pr…
"Magic Mike," Channing Tatum's dance-centric franchise about male strippers, will debut as a stage musical in Boston on Nov. 30, producers announced on Thursday. The world-premiere productio…
What to do this weekend? Our picks include the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of "Hello, Dolly!" and the immersive theater company Four Larks' mystical journey to the underworld. …
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical "Grey Gardens."
How quickly things change. In just four years, it's become unimaginable that anyone would write a musical about our nation's founders without giving them a hip-hop beat. But before "Hamilton…
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical "Grey Gardens." She had …
Aaaaand the arts season is back in full swing! I'm Carolina A. Miranda of the Los Angeles Times, with the week's essential arts news ... and disco cumbia: 'HAMILTON' IN PUERTO RICO It began …
The Black Cat Long Beach Opera and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra perform the U.S. premiere of this reimagining of the Edgar Allan Poe terror tale. The Beverly O'Neill Theater, 300 E. Oce…
Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Company Creation Festival This showcase featuring unconventional new works by various ensembles continues;…
The consequences of imperfect communication " say, a conversation among strangers at a roadside bar or the strained discussions between a husband and wife at a crossroads in their marriage "…
The sensationally acted Steppenwolf Theatre production at the Mark Taper Forum delivers compelling characters and funny dialogue, but at times the pacing sluggishly shifts into cable TV terr…
The plays of Tracy Letts can be broadly divided into two types: Those with men behaving appallingly and those with women behaving abominably. In "August: Osage County," his Pulitzer Prize wi…
Rafael West Valles, who plays Bobby Carney on Broadway in "The Ferryman," would not talk for this article. Neither would Sean Frank Coffey, who also plays Bobby Carney. Ditto for Annie Scarf…
We're all individuals, some more than others. And few quite like Carol Channing, who died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage. Those wigs, those eyes, that mouth, those teeth, the scarlet lips! As a fo…
It didn't take long for Donald Webber Jr. to hear about the hardships endured by residents of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, the monster storm that ravaged the island in late 2017. The t…
Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin: They all starred in "Hello, Dolly!" but no one had the same kind of giddy, goofy charm as the beloved Carol Channing.
The quadrangle in front of the historic Teatro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico is so quiet that you can hear a feral cat meowing as it lounges on the theater steps. The plaintive sound echo…
Count no man happy till he dies, the great Greek playwright Sophocles warned us in 429 BC " a perspective renewed often in the deliberately bleak, slow and dark movement-theater spectacle "T…
Lin-Manuel Miranda cried as he grasped the hands of his "Hamilton" costars during curtain call on opening night here, later raising a Puerto Rican flag and waving it high before wrapping it …
Be Seen This work from Acts of Matter artistic director Rebecca Lemme examines the lives of those on the margins of society; part of the third annual "Dance at the Odyssey" festival. Odyssey…
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 Driving Miss Daisy Michael Learn…
The holidays are over, and we've gotten the memo: For the next 11 months, SUVs may not wear reindeer horns and people must coexist without eggnog. L.A. theaters have packed away the Dickensi…
Capsule review by Charles McNulty (C.M.). Openings Solofest 2019 Seventh-annual showcase features solo writer-performers from around the world. Whitefire Theatre, 13500 Ventura Blvd., Sherma…
We welcome 2019 with a blockbuster musical, a legendary maestro's return and the opening moves of a six-weekend dance festival. A veteran comedy trio cracks wise, a musical ensemble sings ou…