Dolly Parton announced Tuesday that her autobiographical stage musical "Dolly: An Original Musical" will have its world premiere in Nashville this July, the first public stop on the way to a…
For most of the film and TV industry, the devastating L.A.-area fires of the last week have at least avoided scorching the studios where the work largely occurs. But there's no such consolat…
Although most of Greg Wells' professional life has involved producing or writing for big pop artists (including Adele, Katy Perry, OneRepublic & Timbaland, Twenty One Pilots and John Leg…
It's become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are…
Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of "Wicked" is the one who wrote one of Broadway's all-time top song scores and now, a little over two decades later, has overseen the …
When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway's "Shucked," he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been know…
When the sing-along screenings of "Wicked" go down beginning Christmas Day, I'll be there " but not because I have any intention of personally raising my voice in song. (Or maybe I'll join i…
The city of Ojai has a long-established reputation as one of California's most quintessentially laid-back small towns. But residents and frequent visitors who have a love for movies may actu…
The name Yola is not to be confused with YOLO, but if her moniker were to be an acronym, it might stand for You Only Live Awe-Inspiringly. The British-born singer has been expanding her hori…
The devil is making them do it… or maybe it's actually an exercise in divine justice. "Randy Newman's Faust," the only musical comedy ever written for the stage by the dean of barbed Ameri…
Singer-songwriter Allison Russell had a song called "Persephone" on her debut solo album, so there may be some destiny in the fact that she will soon step into a role with that name in the B…
Whatever counts as Sara Bareilles' day job right now, it's not regualrly releasing albums and touring. Her last studio album (2019's "Amidst the Chaos") and tour are both five years in the r…
If you were cataloging the signs of a stage musical that has had a robust life over a period of not just years but decades, here are two things that might be included on that list: A) The sh…
At some point, if you are enthusiastically trying to get everyone you know in Los Angeles out to see "A Strange Loop" " and anyone who hasn't should try to, as the production comes …
It's been just over one year since the Tonys gave the Pasadena Playhouse an award for regional theater, and that honor looks more justified than ever now that the venue is presenting a much-…
A lot of bong water has passed under the bridge since "Reefer Madness: The Musical" first premiered at the Hudson Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd. in 1998. Like, legalization of the demon weed …
For his new "Honeymind" album, singer and actor Ben Platt brought in an especially honeyed voice as a counterpart on one song, Brandy Clark. He had written "Treehouse" in a writing session w…
Not to be confused with "Hello Dolly," there's a musical earmarked for Broadway by the name of "Hello, I'm Dolly," with country-pop superstar Dolly Parton spearheading the effort to bring a …
The 30th anniversary of the original animated film version of "The Lion King" will be celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl next month with a live-to-film concert/screening that will include cast…
Does "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" count as a genre unto itself, given how many plotlines in the last half-century have relied on the suitor-out-of-water supper guest as a linchpin? That tr…
Steve Lawrence, a king among easy-listening crooners who rocketed to fame in the '50s and '60s as half of the duo Steve and Eydie, died Thursday at age 88. Lawrence died at home in Los Angel…
It's not exactly breaking news in the world of show-biz satire that actors can be vain, or insecure; it's been mined. But for as long as time and human consciousness still exist, there will …
There's no IP more innately suited for adaptation as a pure two-hander than the tale of Adam and Eve, a story in which, initially at least, there are no other characters, excepting the creat…
The musical-comedy "Shucked" had its closing performance on Broadway Sunday night, but the show went out with an even louder set of whoops than expected, as the curtain call included the new…
Hello, beautiful. That's what some Barbra Streisand fans have been murmuring to their physical editions of "My Name Is Barbra," her memoir, since it came out one month ago, and over that tim…