Stephen Sondheim

Huraclown

Ol' Blue Eyes is Back

Assassins

Top Ten Musicals for People Who Don't Know Shit About Showtunes

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Los Otros at the Mark Taper Forum

French Stewart as Buster Keaton, Back in L.A. in Vanessa Claire Stewart's Stoneface, Plus All Latest New Theater Reviews

Tony Abatemarco's family drama Beautified, at Hollywood's Skylight Theatre, is our Pick of the Week. Recommendations include Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at Hollywood's Underground Theatre; and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper at North Hollywood's Theatre T ... More >>

Steven Sondheim's Look, I Made a Hat

Composer's book battles theater critics

Stephen Sondheim's New Book Look, I Made a Hat Unloads on Theater Critics With Both Barrels. Here's Where He's Wrong

​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

Gypsy

UnScripted Rep

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

West Side Story

Theater Reviews: Chico's Angels: Chicas in Chains, Hello, Merrily We Roll Along

Also, Valentino Valentina, Sultan's Battery and more

Stage Raw: Hello

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Polish punk and Glendale's classicistsNEW REVIEW GO HELLO ​ Photo by Mark Bennington You may not find logic in this quirky tale about love, marriage and the enigma of sexual attraction but you'll recognize a lot of human truth. ... More >>

Wuthering Heights

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

Cumbia de Mi Corazon, Dementia, An Evening With Sutton Foster

Also, Jawbone of an Ass, Starmites: An Intergalactic Musical and more

Stage Raw: An Evening With Sutton Foster

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON BENGAL TIGER AND HOLY GHOSTNEW REVIEW GO AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER (Plays tonight only!)​Photo by Craig SchwartzIn the years since musical comedy diva Sutton Foster was plucked from the chorus of Thoroughly Modern Millie ... More >>

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Theater Reviews: Hot Pants, Cold Feet, Liberty Inn, Side by Side by Sondheim

Also, Rock 'n Ridicule, The Story of My Life, Tales of an Urban Indian and more

Side by Side by Sondheim

Stage Raw: Extropia

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO EXTROPIA ​ Photo by Keith Roenke Imagine how sonically colorless a world without traditional music would be. Actually, not very, accor ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

Sweeney Todd

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Shakespeare Unscripted

Theater Reviews: Almost, Maine, Twenty-Two, Ordinary Days

Also, 11, September, Shakespeare Unscripted and more

Stage Raw: An Oak Tree

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the FrogNEW REVIEW GO AN OAK TREE ​Photo by William AdashekOn the simplest story-telling level, actor-performer Tim Crouch's play is the tale of a hypnotist, falling apart at th ... More >>

Going to the Parade and Then Going Home

Bigotry lite and the real deal

Stage Raw: Marry Me A Little

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManMARRY ME A LITTLE/THE LAST FIVE YEARS Marry Me a Little Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW MARRY ME A LITTLE & THE LAST FIVE YEARS For M ... More >>

West Side Story

Shots in the Dark

Stephen Sondheim’s brooding Assassins

Assassins

Theater Reviews: Assassins, The Comedy of Errors

Also, Looped, Of Equal Measure, and more

John Doyle's Sweeney Todd

Who's your barber?

Edie Sings! Sheryl Crows!

What to do in L.A., March 7-13

Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim with Host Frank Rich

Burton and Depp Give New Blood to Movie Musicals

Meat is murder

Debbie Allen Does Alice

...Alex in Wonderland

Theater Listings

For the week of August 31-September 6

Theater Reviews: Zorro in Hell, The Idiot Box, Bad Seed and More

Also this week's pick, Alice in One-Hit Wonderland

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Into the Woods, Darwin's Pâté and Everything in the Garden

He’s Still Here

Friday at the Bowl with Steve

Cue the Fat Lady

Cultural barriers go tumbling down the aisle

Phantoms and Crooners

Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera and Kevin Spacey’s Beyond the Sea

A Little Night Music

Summer Enchanted Evenings

Opera’s Crude Cousin Grown Up

Stephen Sondheim, and the winding road of the American musical

Sets Appeal and Pulpit Fiction

Into the Woods and God’s Man in Texas

The Good Doctor Sang

Chekhov, Sondheim and their bittersweet melodies