Everything to Know About the Tony Awards 2025
Dust off your tap shoes and limber up those jazz hands: The Tony Awards 2025 are almost here. The Tonys, which honor the best of American theater and Broadway, are...
Theater
Mia Farrow Absolutely Adores Patti LuPone: “She Cannot Tell a Lie”
At the age of 80, Mia Farrow is preparing for her very first Tony Awards ceremony. “I’ll be Alice in Wonderland,” she says. “Oh my gosh, I followed the white...
L.A. Theatre Works, citadel of audio drama, keeps adapting to changing times
The golden age of radio drama is a memory shared by a dwindling few. But the flame has been kept alive in Britain by BBC Radio, in Ireland on RTÉ...
Audra McDonald Is Our Greatest Living Stage Actor
If you happen to take your eyes off the stage during the first few minutes of Gypsy on Broadway, and turn instead to the aisle, you’ll see a woman standing...
Director Michael Arden is no longer Broadway’s best kept secret
For too long, director Michael Arden was the best kept secret in the American theater. Insiders knew he was good. But it took a while to appreciate just how good....
Argentine Movie Theater Ceiling Collapses During ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Screening
In an unfortunate example of life imitating art, Argentine moviegoers were treated to an unwitting immersive experience as they screened Final Destination Bloodlines, with their theater’s ceiling collapsing mid-movie. The...
Simply impeccable: This musical at A Noise Within in Pasadena shines with understated excellence
“A Man of No Importance,” an off-Broadway musical based on the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney as a Dublin bus conductor with an obsession for Oscar Wilde and a...
The playwright who cracked open ‘The Crucible’ with ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’
New York — “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the title of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated play, has a strong polemical ring. Before seeing the work, I assumed that the author was picking a...
‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at Pasadena Playhouse: A woman walks out on her husband and child, and then …
Mom walks out on husband and child, and then … Actors Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner have known each other since a chance meeting at the edge of a...
A queer rent boy and a Filipina immigrant keep their California dreams alive in ‘Califas Trilogy’
Dreams erode. Whether challenging the American Dream of stability, the Californian vision of expanse or the glittery illusions of L.A., Roger Q. Mason’s “Califas Trilogy” dives into the meltdown of...
