Charles McNulty is the theater critic of the Los Angeles Times. He received his doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama. McNulty has taught at Yale, the New School, New York University, the City University of New York Graduate Center, UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. McNulty, who got his theatrical start as a literary intern at the New York Public Theater in the days of Joseph Papp, is a former Village Voice theater critic and editor. He was the chairman of the Pulitzer drama jury in 2010. He received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the theater year 2009-10 and was awarded the top prize for feature writing from the Society for Features Journalism in 2011.
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Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, Ali Wong, Ricky Gervais, Buddhist art, a queer photography retrospective, the Ojai and Seoul (in L.A.!) music festivals, “Life of Pi” and “Hamlet” highlight our staff’s spring preview picks.
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In Broadway’s latest ‘Gypsy,’ Audra McDonald takes our critic from doubt to spiritual epiphany
George C. Wolfe directs the new Broadway revival of “Gypsy” starring six-time Tony-winner Audra McDonald.
Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields directs the West Coast premiere of ‘One Jewish Boy,’ Stephen Laughton’s two-hander starring Sharae Foxie and Zeke Goodman
Hugh Bonneville stars in ‘Uncle Vanya,’ a co-production between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Simon Godwin.
Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham stars in ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ one of three short Samuel Beckett plays on offer in ‘Beckett Briefs,’ an Irish Rep production now available for streaming via the League of Live Stream Theater.
‘Here There Are Blueberries’ tells the story of an album of historical photos documenting the lives of ordinary Germans who were part of the bureaucracy of the Holocaust. Authors Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich discuss their play.
Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including ‘Blood Knot,’ ‘Boesman and Lena,’ ‘A Lesson From Aloes’ and ‘My Children! My Africa!’
Pasadena Playhouse revival of ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, stars Brandon Gill and Brandon Micheal Hall in a production directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
Written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, a former Obama campaign organizer, ‘44,’ about Barack Obama’s presidency, returns to L.A. at Kirk Douglas Theatre.