Audra McDonald Gives Sly Response to Patti LuPone Diss
Audra McDonald “doesn’t know” why Patti LuPone said she “isn’t a friend” in her New Yorker profile, finally addressing the bad blood between Broadway royalty in a new interview.McDonald, 54, ...
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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit,’ with a new star every night, opens at the Fountain
“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour has opened at the Fountain Theatre, and the less I tell you about it, the better. Soleimanpour is known for his ...
‘Life of Pi’ at the Ahmanson: An enchanting journey on the high seas
The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel. This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, ...
L.A.’s ‘Lunar Light’ takes you to the moon — with VR, improv and escape room puzzles
1 p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> I’m at peace with the idea that I won’t be visiting space in my lifetime. The cost of space tourism is out of reach for me and ...
