King Lear

Richard II, With Only Three Actors

Solemn Mockeries, a Solo Show About the Man Who Tried to Forge a Shakespeare Play

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...

Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>

UCLA's International Theater Program Is Back With a French Production of Rhinoceros

Antaeus Company Casts Two Actors in Each Role. Is That a Good Thing?

Macbeth Two Ways, in North Hollywood

French Stewart on Playing Buster Keaton in a New Bio-Play

By the end of his five-year run on the hit screwball sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, French Stewart found himself at a career crossroads. The problem was that his success as the series' hilariously harebrained extraterrestrial with the quizzical squint, Harry Solomon, had in the eyes of Hollywood typ ... More >>

Billy Elliot, In Paris and Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Moby Dick Rehearsed

Orson Welles' Moby Dick, a Beatles Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

Craig SchwartzThis​ The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Alfresco in Griffith Park and Topanga Canyon

Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

The Porters of Hellgate's Oedipus and Actors Co-op's King Lear

The eyes have it

Theater Reviews: The Hyacinth Macaw, Locked and Loaded, Gigi

Also The Sonneteer, Wrinkles and more

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Sonneteer

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER ​Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>

The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

Year of the inner child

One Foot Out the Door

Grandpa John Steppling comes home, for a while

Vin Scully: Not Everyone Is A Fan

​Word that the Dodgers' beloved, mellifluous broadcaster Vin Scully will return to the booth next season brought cheers from most. But at the risk of drawing the hate mail (bring it!), check out a scathing anti-Scully piece a friend wrote in 2007.

Stage Raw: James Gammon, Co-Founder of Hollywood's MET Theatre, Dead at 70

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore JAMES GAMMON DEAD AT 70James Gammon, actor and producer, died July 16 in Costa Mesa, died July 16 of complications from cancer of the adrenal glands and liver. Gammon co-founded the MET Theatre in Hollywoo ... More >>

King Lear: Free-Speech Blowback

A version for our times

Wuthering Heights

Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap-salsa-calypso musical sashays into the Pantages

Happy Birthday, Chekhov!

Anton's Uncles and the Cherry Orchard, 150 years on

Blowback: Shaheed and The Arsonists

Car bombs, arson and the history of empire

Ran Don't Walk

The Nuart unveils a new, 35mm print of Akira Kurosawa's Shakespeare-inspired classic

Poor, Poor Lear

The Joy Luck Club

deLEARious

Small Wonder: Mr. Magorium

A movie far less fantastical than its title

Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

Éminence grise of Hollywood lawyers provokes pain in parting