Entertainment & Arts
Theater critic Charles McNulty writes on how Shakespeare, and ‘The Tempest’ in particular, is helping him bear witness to the scale of loss caused by the Los Angeles wildfires.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of “Wish You Were Here” at South Coast Repertory.
Playwright and director Richard Foreman, one of the pillars of New York’s downtown theater scene, dies at 87.
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.
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.
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.’
‘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.
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.