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New York City Center Encores! production of ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ starring Sutton Foster, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre direct from Broadway.
‘Wicked,’ soaring onscreen, has returned to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. This production reveals what the movie gets right, as well as weaknesses neither version can overcome.
The Times’ theater critic selects his top SoCal stage productions for 2024, including ‘Funny Girl,’ ‘Fat Ham,’ ‘Primary Trust,’ ‘Pacific Overtures,’ ‘The Brothers Size’ and ‘Company.’
A theater critic reflects on his profession at a time when its very survival seems on the line and champions a return of critical thinking.
Sam Pinkleton directs a festive revival of ‘La Cage aux Folles” at Pasadena Playhouse, starring Cheyenne Jackson and Kevin Cahoon.
Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi star in the Geffen Playhouse’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic ‘Waiting for Godot.’
‘Pacific Overtures,’ Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is dazzlingly revived by East West Players in one of the best production’s of the year.
New Broadway revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Blvd,” Shakespeare’s “Romeo + Juliet” and Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” test how far these works can be refashioned for modern sensibilities
‘Joan,’ a new play by Daniel Goldstein at South Coast Repertory about the life of comedian Joan Rivers, mixes biography with the comedian’s old stand-up material.
“The Streetcar Project” brought Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” to Los Angeles for six performances, three in a Frogtown airplane hangar and three in a Venice Beach warehouse.
