Manuel Oliver lost his son, Joaquin 'Guac' Oliver, in the Parkland school shooting. He's now bringing his gun-reform activism to the stage in a one-man show that's playing at Kirk Douglas Th…
A look at how Terry Riley, on the occasion of his 90th birthday celebration at the Ford, changed music with 'In C,' and what he's up to now in Japan.
The Troubadour Theater Company returns to the Getty Villa for 'Oedipus the King, Mama!,' a mashup of Elvis and Sophocles that's all shook up.
Tyrone Huntley played Simon alongside Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Hollywood Bowl. Days later he was back to his regular gig: seating people at the venue.
With songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally and book by Robert Horn, 'Shucked' is a Broadway musical about corn that's too funny to be considered corny.
Quests take place throughout the top deck of the American Pride, a 130-foot schooner docked at Long Beach's Pine Avenue Pier.
A sensation on Broadway and London's West End, '& Juliet' updates Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with a dose of female empowerment and a slew of hits from juggernaut producer Max Marti…
Echo Theater Company's West Coast premiere of 'Berta, Berta,' a romantic drama by Angelica Chéri that was inspired by a chain gang song from the notorious Mississippi prison Parchman Farm, …
Gustavo Dudamel begins his only week at the Hollywood Bowl this summer with a classical/jazz dialogue between Ellington and Ravel.
Robert Wilson, who changed everything he touched, was the most influential theater artist of our time. And for him all theater was opera.
In 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' the conflict between Cynthia Erivo's all-seeing, all-feeling Jesus and Adam Lambert's competitive yet remorseful Judas was thrillingly brought to life in their d…
Robert Wilson, a leader in avant-garde theater who collaborated with Philip Glass, David Byrne and Lady Gaga over his six-decade career, has died. He was 83.
Wallis Annenberg, philanthropist who made massive donations to arts, education and animal welfare causes and whose name is on venues around Los Angeles County, has died.
At the Bregenz Festival, the big attraction is opera spectacularly produced directly on Lake Constance, but there is more to surprise an Angeleno.
'The Seagull: Mailbu,' adapted from Anton Chekhov, and 'Strife' by John Galsworthy, big cast plays of weighty substance, lend heft to Theatricum Botanicum's outdoor season.
'The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise' at Hollywood Pantages makes the most of a glorious catalog.
An appreciation of playwright Richard Greenberg, author of 'Three Days of Rain' and 'Take Me Out,' among other plays, who premiered many of his works at South Coast Repertory before taking t…
Jake Brasch's 'The Reservoir,' directed by Shelley Butler, features a cast that includes Marin Hinkle at the Geffen Playhouse.
"Swan Lake" in Costa Mesa, an Indian-Bach mix with Vijay Gupta in Sierra Madre and ballet on a makeshift Television City stage are all parts of June's dance explosion in and around L.A.
Michael Arden's Tony-winning revival of "Parade," Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's musical about the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager accused and convicted of a heinous …
Nonprofit dance company Pointeworks creates opportunities on and offstage for women, including choreographers and composers, during ballet's off-season.
Salonen ends his troubled relationship with the San Francisco Symphony with Mahler's ferocious Second Symphony, leaving the audience roaring and musicians pounding their feet in praise.
Los Angeles will allow ticket holders for Center Theatre Group's 'Hamlet,' L.A. Opera's 'Rigoletto' and others to stay out past Mayor Bass' curfew; the Broad museum plans to close this weeke…
Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Danny Feldman announces a lineup that includes the comedy 'Eureka Day,' a fresh take on 'Brigadoon,' Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' and the hip-hop musical 'M…
L.A. Opera lets patrons exchange tickets, MOCA and the Broad curtail hours, Center Theatre Groups tabulates revenue losses from cancellations. How L.A. arts groups have been affected by the …