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Pasadena Playhouse producing artistic director Danny Feldman says next year's lineup will be 'bigger than our Sondheim season.'
Moments that stand out from the 2025-2026 Broadway season include performances by Laurie Metcalf, a radical reframing of "Cats" and John Lithgow's towering performance in "Giant," all of whi…
'The Lost Boys' and 'Schmigadoon!' led the 2026 Tony Awards nominations with 12 each, followed by 'Ragtime,' which earned 11 nods.
Two-time Tony-winner Joe Mantello, who directed 'Wicked' on Broadway, takes on one of his biggest challenges -- Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf
Bess Wohl won the 2026 Pulitzer for drama, awarded for her play "Liberation," which premiered on Broadway in 2025.
John Williams cut the ribbon on a new state-of-the-art performing arts center named for him at his alma mater, North Hollywood High School, where he honed his craft in the 1940s.
A selection of reviews of new Broadway musical productions: "Cats: The Jellicle Ball," "The Lost Boys" and Celine Dion to the rescue of "Titanique."
Broadway reviews of Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in "The Fear of 13," Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in "Death of a Salesman," Jon Bernthal and Ebon-Moss Bachrach in "Dog Day Afternoon" a…
'Eat Me,' a new play by Talene Monahon, author of 'Meet the Cartozians,' has its world premiere at South Coast Repertory.
Nicholas Christopher more than holds his own in the Broadway revival of 'Chess' that also stars Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit.
Trans playwright Olivia Dufault tackles the taboo of zoophilia in the Echo Theater Company world premiere of 'For Want of a Horse' at Atwater Village Theatre.
"'Master Harold' … and the Boys," Athol Fugard's classic drama set in apartheid South Africa, opens at the Geffen Playhouse in a production starring John Kani, a Tony-winning interpreter o…
'English,' Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in Iran, has its L.A. premiere at the Wallis.
Director Knud Adams, one of the most sought after directors of new plays, brings his acclaimed productions of 'English' to the Wallis and "Primary Trust' to the Mark Taper Forum. Both plays…
As Arthur Miller's plays surge in popularity, 'Death of a Salesman' dismally disappoints at A Noise Within while 'The Price' thrives in the intimacy of Pacific Resident Theatre.
Center Theatre Group in its 2026"27 season will wrap August Wilson's Century Cycle with 'Fences,' plus stage some family-favorite shows.
Ins Choi's 'Kim Convenience,' the Toronto hit play that inspired a TV show, opens at the Ahmanson Theatre, refreshes a familiar immigrant family drama with warmth and gentle humor.
Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Fairview" receives its L.A. premiere at the Matrix in a Rogue Machine production directed by Oz Scott.
Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine," an expressionist classic on automation and worker insecurity, speaks directly to an age in which livelihoods are threatened by AI innovation.
Writer-performer Sara Porkalob continues her Dragon Cycle trilogy with the Los Angeles premiere of "Dragon Mama," the second installment of the family epic centered on Filipina mothers takin…
Daniel Radcliffe stars in the Broadway premiere of 'Every Brilliant Thing,' an interactive performance piece written by Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe that meditates on what makes life w…
With her Electrical Box Theatre, about 6 feet tall and 3 feet deep, S.C. Mero set out to create an impromptu performance space for artists who no longer have an outlet in downtown L.A.
A Noise Within in Pasadena presents Shakespeare's 'Richard III' in a revival directed by Guillermo Cienguegos that stars Ann Noble as the tyrannical king.
In a new version of Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' by Erin Cressida Wilson, Katie Holmes stars in a taut, modern production at San Diego's Old Globe directed by Barry Edelstein.
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's 'Here Lies Love' about the rise and fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos has its Los Angeles premiere at the Mark Taper Forum under the direction of Snehal Desai.
