Theater

Our love of Stephen Sondheim is approaching the “Beatlemania” phase. One wonders what the Broadway maestro would have made of “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” which opened Thursday at the Ahmanson...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ newly appointed board consisting of President Trump allies voted Wednesday to make him chairman and fired the center’s longtime president, Deborah...

1 Douglas Lyons stays booked and busy. The seasoned stage actor, also a musical composer-lyricist and a writer on Apple TV+’s “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” is currently in...

In May 2022, theater writers Bob Martin and Rick Elice organized an informal reading of their stage adaptation of the television series Smash. More than a decade before, Smash had...

As modern farces go, Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” is not only one of the funniest but may also be the most elegantly conceived. The play, in revival at the Geffen...

After going dark in the early days of the pandemic, a former ArcLight theater in El Segundo will reopen with a new owner and name Monday as a luxury cinema...

Idina Menzel is sitting in the same dressing room she did almost 30 years ago, when she made her Broadway debut as Maureen Johnson in Rent. This time around, though,...

Betty O’Meara’s signature was a resolute brand of hospitality. It blossomed with her friends and umpteen pen pals and reached full flower at the Malibu Cinema, the movie theater that...

Reprising the role of Roxie Hart in Broadway’s “Chicago” is a “dream come true” for Erika Jayne — especially after surviving a public scandal that mirrored elements of the famed...

“Do you think it’s funnier if I do the spin to my left or my right?” asked Julie Bowen. The cast of “Fake It Until You Make It” is rehearsing...