Broadway performer Gavin Creel, who died Monday at age 48, won a Tony for "Hello, Dolly!" and was also nominated for roles in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Hair."
Ken Page, the Broadway veteran who starred in 'The Wiz' and 'Cats' and who famously voiced Oogie Boogie in 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' died Monday. He was 70.
Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut playing a writer who succumbs to AI in the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's "McNeal" at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont.
Maggie Smith, who won two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, was at her best on screen when she could bring the stage with her.
After 16 seasons, Rogue Machine Theatre co-founding producing artistic director John Perrin Flynn has announced his retirement at the conclusion of current season.
Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of "Clarkston" by Samuel D. Hunter, a gay drama about two lost souls set in the titular Washington state town on the Snake River.
James Ijames, whose 'Fat Ham' won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, confronts the grievous reality of lethal violence and racial injustice in 'Kill Move Paradise,' an earlier work now recei…
Sara Porkalob stars in "Dragon Lady" at Geffen Playhouse, a solo show about her grandmother, a lounge singer who escaped a gangster-controlled nightclub in Manila before coming to the United…
Mike Donahue directs Martin Crimp's free-hand adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic "Cyrano de Bergerac' in a production starring Chukwudi Iwuji in the title role.
The duo behind music for 'La La Land' and 'Dear Evan Hansen' reach EGOT status with an Emmy for co-writing Steve Martin's 'Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?'
Will Power's "Memnon," a co-production between the Getty Villa and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, has its world premiere.
The much-anticipated reopening of the Mark Taper Forum, 'Lightscape' at Disney Hall, a big debut in San Diego: Here's our shortlist to the most promising shows in the season ahead.
At Geffen Playhouse, Biljan Sheibani directs a crackling revival of 'The Brothers Size,' part of Tarell Alvin McCraney's acclaimed trilogy 'The Brother/Sister Plays.'
'Velour: A Drag Spectacular," created by Sasha Velour and Moisés Kaufman, is worthy of its title in world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.
Barry Edelstein adapts and directs 'Henry 6,' Shakespeare's early history play, condensed into two parts, as San Diego's Old Globe completes the playwright's canon with an entertaining adapt…
Director James Marsh's film on the life of Samuel Beckett, starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Neil Forsyth, infuses surrealism into a conventional format.
After making its world premiere last year in London's West End, the sci-fi/horror spectacle, based on the blockbuster Netflix series, is coming to New York in 2025.
Marianne Elliott's Tony-winning gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 'Company' dazzles at the Hollywood Pantages.
'Clue: Live on Stage!,' playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, earns its exclamation point through the breathless exuberance of its physical comedy.
Tom Jacobson's new plays 'The Bauhaus Project' and 'Crevasse' are thrilling in the scope of their ambition. They are also unsettling as America faces its own fascist peril.
Romance goes afoul in Abby Rosebrock's 'Dido of Idaho' at Echo Theater Company as offbeat comedy takes a brutal turn.
Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere's 'Tartuffe' with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga's beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
Rob Morrow and Marcia Cross star in an uneven revival of Jon Robin Baitz's 'The Substance of Fire' at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica.
Ian McKellen will put his theater career to the side in accordance with 'medical advice to protect my full recovery.' He fell off a London stage in June.
With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.