Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

Theater to See This Week, Including John Henry Redwood's Trip Back to 1943 Harlem

 John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell Estell III, "The story of a May-December romance is an old one, but it receives a charming and inventive treatment." Also, Deborah Klugman ... More >>

L.A.'s Premiere LGBT Stage Celebrates 30th Anniversary, As Its New Artistic Directors Discuss the Future of Queer Theater

Only in Los Angeles could you expect to find a star-studded gala in a shopping center parking structure. But that's because only Burbank would think of squeezing its premiere legitimate stage in amid Macy's' and Ikea's otherwise disinterested parking-space trollers at Burbank Town Center mall. Yet ... More >>

Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes

Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

Lincoln Review: Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis Make the 16th President Relatable

Tony Kushner Explains How He Adapted Lincoln for the Age of Obama

Tony Kushner isn't shy about politics. He's opinionated, and he stirs up controversy. In his own words, he's a "man of the left." His 1992 Tony Award-winning play Angels in America tackled AIDS at the height of its epidemic. In 2005, he co-wrote Steven Spielberg's Munich, which took heat for its po ... More >>

The Illusion

Dustin Lance Black's Play 8, Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt

Clooney, Pitt, Kevin Bacon and Martin Sheen power a fundraiser reading

Movies This Weekend: Prom, Lin, Turner, Werner, Rosenthal and Ruffalo

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun at TCM Festival. ​ A busy weekend around Los Angeles with the TCM Classic Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA Film and Television Archive's Patricio Guzmán retrospective and a slew of new theatrical releases, includin ... More >>

Tom Jacobson's The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) and House of the Rising Son

Theater Reviews: Loveland, Blithe Spirit, The Butcher of Baraboo

Also, Hamlet, Prince of Puddles and more

Going to the Parade and Then Going Home

Bigotry lite and the real deal

Blood and Guts: Rampages in The Night Is a Child and Not to Be

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

Fear Itself: D.C. and Hollywood In and Out of the Closet

Outrage: Dick Outs, Gays Hide

Kirby Dick’s latest targets closeted pols and the media that protect them

Hearts of Darkness: The 2009 Pacific Playwrights Festival

John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves: Renewal at the Mark Taper Forum

Is it all skin deep?

Local Theater News: The Taper, Galatea and Paul Brennan

Theater News: The Mark Taper Forum's $30 Million Face Lift; Galatea aims for Fringe NYC festival; Company of Angeles former president Paul Brennan dies. TAPER FACELIFT On Tuesday morning, Center Theatre Group rolled out its $30 million re-design of the Mark Taper Forum, that has been dark for t ... More >>

1001: Jason Grote and his Arabian Nights

Ancient Persia collides with modern NYC at Pasadena's Theater @ Boston Court

Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

Also reviews of Bamako, The Devil Came on Horseback, Golden Door and more

Brigham Young at Heart

Steven Fales’ Mormon memoir

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Borat

Snap, Crackle, Punk

Farting in Church

How to make irreverence matter

Catch Them — and Kill Them — if You Can

Steven Spielberg’s Munich follows international terrorism from one September to another

Censor Alert

Congress considers controls for cable TV and the Internet

Beastly Men

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and Love Tapes

The End of Outrage

10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

Misery Loves Caroline

Tony Kushner, and the unbearable whiteness of being

The End of America, One More Time

Paradise lost in John Guare’s Lydie Breeze

New Plays on the Big Stage

The Kirk Douglas Theater prepares to open its doors

Time of Misery

AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

Brave Newsom World

Gay Marriage Mania

View From the Edge of a Cliff

The pertinence of theater and identity politics in perilous times

Love, Death and Confetti

Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème

New York Marquee

Now playing in the big town

Our Big Fat Gay Year

Millennium Reproaches

Tony Kushner, back on the Left Coast

Exit Stage Left, Slowly

Gordon Davidson and the changing of the guard

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

Dialogic Dialectic

Tony Kushner returns to the stage via Afghanistan

London Calling

A sampling from the city’s stages

Regional Accents

Louisville’s Humana Festival turns 25

As Time Goes Bye-Bye

Circle X Theater Company and Pacific Resident Theater get metaphysical

L. Ron Speaks!

Stanley Soble,1940 - 1999

Real Magic

Tony Kushner's comic deception, The Illusion