Review: La Mirada Theatre’s ‘Anastasia’ Delivers a Grand Journey Worth Taking
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment have punctuated their record-breaking 2025-26 season with an enchanting sign-off, delivering an Anastasia...
Preview: Opening Night at the Bowl Brings Broadway’s Best to Hollywood
The Hollywood Bowl has never needed much persuasion to embrace Broadway. For decades, the 17,500-seat amphitheater has welcomed musical-theater devotees eager to hear showstoppers...
Review: ‘Primary Trust’ at the Mark Taper Forum Is an Unassumingly Gut-Wrenching Triumph
Some plays ask audiences to expectantly lean forward rather than idly sit back. Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust, now at the Mark Taper...
Preview: ‘The Magic Flute’ Returns as James Conlon Conducts His Final LA Opera Production
Certain works transcend opera and become part of the broader cultural bloodstream, recognizable even to people who have never stepped inside an opera house....
‘Brigadoon’ Transformed at Pasadena Playhouse — Donna Vivino Discusses the Bold New Adaptation
Only a select group of musicals carry the enduring legacy of Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon, which premiered on Broadway in 1947, but Pasadena Playhouse’s...
