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.
Rogue Machine Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Sophie Swithinbank’s ‘Bacon,’ a two-hander directed by Michael Matthews that explores masculinity, bullying, sexuality and trauma.
Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro directs a revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce at the Geffen Playhouse in a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
‘Fake It Until You Make It,’ a satiric farce by Larissa FastHorse (‘The Thanksgiving Play’), has its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, in a production directed by Michael John Garcés.
Rogue Machine presents the Southern California premiere of Will Arbery’s ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’ in a Rogue Machine Theatre production at the Matrix Theatre directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos.
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.