With Glenn Yarbrough and Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev was in one of the most popular bands of the early '60s. 'Through Children's Eyes' made the Limeliters beloved.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-30/alex-hassilev-limeliters-dies
'Stereophonic,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' 'Illinoise,' Alicia Keys' 'Hell's Kitchen,' Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Rachel McAdams, Jeremy Strong: This year even known quantities had to stretch.
The nominees for Broadway's biggest prize were announced Tuesday, with "Stereophonic" and "Hell's Kitchen" receiving 13 nods each. Here's the full list of 2024 Tony nominations.
Helder Guimarães and Frank Marshall created the rare COVID-era theater hit with "The Present." They're back with "The Hope Theory," a magic show about the immigrant experience.
Robert O'Hara's new "Hamlet," as well as the Broadway tours of "Life of Pi" and "Parade," are among Center Theatre Group's 2024-25 season offerings.
Choreographer and director Justin Peck brings an athletic grace to a new, category-defying Broadway musical spun from a Sufjan Stevens album. The singing? It's gorgeous
World premiere 'Galilee, 34,' at South Coast Repertory through May 12, turns biblical figures into flawed humans — in a way that some believers may take issue with.
Architect Craig Ellwood's daughter told The Times, 'I don't feel bitter' toward Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger for tearing down her father's famed Zimmerman House.
Early this year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a partnership with the planned Las Vegas Museum of Art. LACMA's Michael Govan and LVMA director Heather Harmon discuss the details o...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/lacma-sharing-art-las-vegas-museum
LACMA's collection will be loaned to a new Las Vegas art museum. The deal isn't a jackpot for L.A., which has long been promised its own satellites.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/lacma-satellite-las-vegas-museum-of-art
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.
The Olivier Award-winning revival of "Cabaret," starring a physically precise and theatrically audacious Eddie Redmayne, comes to Broadway but misses his London co-star, Jesse Buckley.
Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for fre...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/la-times-book-prizes-winners-2024
With Verdi's 'La Traviata' and Huang Ruo's 'Book of Mountains and Seas' as well as other projects, L.A. Opera is attempting to cover all operatic bases. Can opera thrive here?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-19/la-opera-la-traviata-noahs-flood
Sculptor Camille Claudel was more than a tragic figure. Her art influenced her titanic mentor, Auguste Rodin. A smart L.A. exhibition explains how
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-17/camille-claudel-getty-museum-frida-kahlo
Filmmaker Jon M. Chu will find familiar material in his Broadway debut as he directs a musical adaptation of author Kevin Kwan's 'Crazy Rich Asians' trilogy.
Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn.
Klaus Makela, appointed music director of the Chicago Symphony at the age of 28, has been likened to Gustavo Dudamel. Why orchestras' chasing of youth could have downsides.
The newsboy who was part of the Harrison Gray Otis monument gone except for two bronze shoes, one intact and the other mangled.
Gregg T. Daniel directs a muscular revival of 'King Hedley II," a difficult play done well. Veralyn Jones' performance is extraordinary.
Terminal Island may be best known for the Japanese American village tragically uprooted by government order. A new book mines its history as that — but also as resort, artists colony and more.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-09/terminal-island-book
The Broadway production of 'Fat Ham,' James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on 'Hamlet,' has its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It's gripping, outrageous fun.
The LACMA show 'Ed Ruscha / Now Then' is the first comprehensive retrospective in more than 20 years of a quintessential American artist.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-07/ed-ruscha-now-then-chocolate-room-lacma
'Ride,' at San Diego's Old Globe through April 28, is part of a wave of small-cast musicals whose lower costs can spell high rewards for cash-strapped theater companies.
The Broadway touring production of Michael Mayer's 2022 revival of "Funny Girl" arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre with a star-making lead performance from Katerina McCrimmon.
Love him or hate him, Philip Glass is inescapable. His 20 piano etudes have become essential listening, his impact on three generations of artists indelible.
Sage Against the Machine is an L.A.-based band of punk-rock native plant nerds who might do for native plants what the Beach Boys did for surfing.
Michael Stuhlbarg previewed his Broadway show 'Patriots' on Monday, a day after a 27-year-old man allegedly threw a rock at the actor's head in New York.
Native plants don't just provide color and habitat in our yards, they also create beautiful, long-lasting, fragrant bouquets with the right preparation.
The Broad has announced a $100-million expansion due to be completed before the 2028 Summer Olympics. What will it mean for the museum and downtown?
Movies and TV shows have fetishized close friendship to the point that the real, often fraught rhythms of such relationships have been lost. Not so in 'Merrily We Roll Along.'
Famed American artist Richard Serra, who died Tuesday, was known for creating large-scale, site-specific sculptures made of steel. Here's where to see them in Southern California.
Kerry Washington, First Lady Jill Biden, Halle Berry, Kesha and Cord Jefferson make for an unlikely gathering of voices in 'A Day of Unreasonable Conversation.'
The Broad museum in downtown L.A. has been a huge hit. Will a bigger building be worth the $100-million budget?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-27/broad-museum-expansion-commentary
The $100-million Broad museum expansion will rise directly behind the existing structure and is expected to be complete ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-27/broad-expansion-more-galleries
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego appears to be in default on its agreement with the city, which can take back the downtown property.
The famed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini died Saturday. Listen to his music, and you'll still hear life in every note.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-27/maurizio-pollini-pianist-death
From cult magazine to Sawtelle storefronts to a biannual art event with a massive following, Giant Robot has defined generations of Asian pop culture fandom.
Albert Frey's Aluminaire House built in 1931 finds its way to the Palm Springs Art Museum following uncertainty about its future.
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-03-26/aluminaire-house-palm-springs-how-to-visit
Alex Edelman has spent six years revising and performing "Just for Us," but now he's ending it with an encore run in L.A. that coincides with its HBO special on April 6.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-03-26/alex-edelman-just-for-us-ending
Bill Bushnell, who guided the Los Angeles Theatre Center, a beacon for diversity and multicultural storytelling, into existence in the 1980s, has died.
The fate of site-specific artworks by Maya Lin, Robert Irwin and Richard Serra remains in question, as does the public's ability to see them.
Kensington Palace confirmed that Catherine, Princess of Wales, has resumed charity work amid speculation of her whereabouts, according to the Telegraph.
In the last year, membership has spiked at the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry. Inside the new generation of artists continuing its mission.
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-03-21/puppetry-los-angeles-new-generation
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen's statement about the San Francisco Symphony board has crucial ramifications for arts organizations including the L.A. Phil.
Another photo shot by Catherine, the Princess of Wales, was manipulated, prompting Getty Images to undertake 'a review of handout images.'
'One of the Good Ones,' by Gloria Calderón Kellett, co-creator of the rebooted 'One Day at a Time,' has its world premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Kimberly Senior and starring Lana Pa...
The Geffen Playhouse's 2024-25 season lineup includes premieres by Sara Porkalob, a.k. payne and Jake Brasch, plus a 20th anniversary staging of artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'The Bro...
The recent rains have made 2024 a fabulous year for flowers — just in time for spring garden tours around Southern California. Here's a list of intriguing tours.
An exchange with Tricia Romano, author of 'The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture,' with one of her former coll...
What the success of John Cage's 'Europeras 3 & 4' in Detroit and Christian Wolff's 90th-birthday celebration in New York reveal about this moment in music.
Los Angeles glassblower Cedric Mitchell relishes his role as a rulebreaker. "I wanted to break all the design rules similar to Ettore Sottsass," he says, "and develop my own style."
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-03-18/los-angeles-glassblower-cedric-mitchell
Cynthia Carr's new book chronicles the struggles of Warhol superstar and trans actress Candy Darling.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-18/candy-darling-trans-rights-book
TV veteran Gloria Calderón Kellett explains how Hollywood treating her with 'zoo animal fascination' inspired her history-making play 'One of the Good Ones,' opening Sunday.
Upheaval wrestles with tradition in the first American survey of the emergence of experimental art in South Korea.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-15/korean-art-60s-70s-hammer-review
Biographer Brad Gooch's "Radiant" reveals how much life and creativity artist Keith Haring packed into 31 years before he died of AIDS.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-15/keith-haring-radiant-brad-gooch-art-book-review
Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and generate discussion about monuments — and it's changing the nature of monuments.
James Conlon will step down as music director of L.A. Opera in 2026, the year Gustavo Dudamel leaves L.A. Phil, in a sea change for the city's classical scene.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-13/james-conlon-leaving-la-opera
The statue outside Crypto.com Arena that immortalizes Lakers legend Kobe Bryant after his 81-point game in 2006 misspelled the names of two players and one word.
Los Angeles graffiti — in the form of a tagged-up, unfinished skyscraper downtown — has recently made national news. But we're also the mural capital of the world and constantly asking oursel...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-12/is-that-graffiti-or-art-how-la-draws-the-lines
A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People," written by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, is on Broadway this season in a production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperiol...
Ricky Sencion found self-acceptance and liberation through pink sheep. He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing 'little expressions of joy' to Angelenos.
https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-03-08/ricky-sencion-little-ricky-pink-sheep-street-art
The Athletics unveil renderings of their future $1.5-billion stadium in Las Vegas. Some say it resembles the Sydney Opera House. A designer compares it to 'a spherical armadillo.'
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony add color and, courtesy of a perfumer at Cartier, scent to Scriabin's 'Prometheus.' Does the novelty prove effective?
The L.A. Phil announced its 2024-25 season lineup, which includes Mahler Grooves, a Seoul Festival, John Williams, Gabriela Ortiz, Zubin Mehta and more.
The Fountain Theatre's founding artistic director, Stephen Sachs, reflects on his new play, "Fatherland," and new adventures as he prepares to step down at the end of the year.
In "The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe," actor Nick Ullett, a cast member in William Friedkin's 2014 Harold Pinter revival, tells the tale of the madness that upended the production.
Inglewood wants to believe that SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park represent Black uplift, not just gentrification. But history is against it.
The nonprofit, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, said it plans to keep the 93,000-square-foot campus as an art institute.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-02/san-francisco-art-institute-sale-nonprofit
The Huntington Art Museum's Sargent Claude Johnson survey is the first in more than a quarter century.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-01/sargent-claude-johnson-huntington-review
It's Los Angeles' biggest art weekend of the year. Here's a preview to the two biggies, Frieze L.A. and Felix Art Fair.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-29/frieze-los-angeles-2024-felix-art-fair
The most exciting exhibit spaces in L.A. have gone in-house, popping up in unlikely homes, empty pools, laundry rooms and beyond.
A curious L.A. Opera double bill pairs Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky's 'The Dwarf' with the Black American composer William Grant Still's 'Highway 1, USA.'
The actor-comedian's first feature film, 'Problemista,' draws inspiration from his own byzantine immigration experience as well as surrealist paintings.
Vince Skelly, a Claremont designer, transforms raw timber into decorative and functional works of art. He starts with a chainsaw and transitions to other tools to add nuance.
Architect John K. Chan designs a modern addition for a family of four that connects them to the Ivanhoe Reservoir in Silver Lake and saves a massive olive tree.
After 20 years, Walt Disney Concert Hall has changed Los Angeles and its philharmonic orchestra, but we now have to live up to Frank Gehry's full, original vision.
The L.A. theater venue will also house "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," "Kimberly Akimbo" and the Neil Diamond bio-musical "A Beautiful Noise."
Maria Teresa Griffin, a founding member of the Mothers of East Los Angeles protest group, dies after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She was 74.
The L.A. Times Book Prizes honor 66 works in 13 categories celebrating exceptional writing from authors at all stages of their careers.
Kristen Adele Calhoun's haunting "Black Cypress Bayou" wrestles with history and reparations in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
The legendary Sunset Sound studios in Hollywood is in trouble. If we care about music — its history and its future — we must take notice.
Tyne Daly is expected to make a 'full recovery' after an unexpected hospitalization on Feb. 2 forced her to drop out of the Broadway revival of 'Doubt.'
Drawing is the core of Judithe Hernández's 50-year survey at Riverside Art Museum's Cheech Marin Center.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-16/judithe-hernandez-the-cheech
A new revival of "The Wiz," featuring Wayne Brady and the hits "Ease on Down the Road" and "Home," opens at the Hollywood Pantages before its Broadway run.
'Mercury,' by Steve Yockey, the creator/showrunner of HBO Max's 'The Flight Attendant,' and 'Middle of the World' by TV executive Juan José Alfonso spin yarns designed to hook restless audiences...
L.A. artist Joey Terrill's vibrant canvases, on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, chronicle intimate moments of queer Chicano life: heartbreak and love and life with HIV.
Musicals have come to follow a Broadway run with a national tour. 'The Wiz,' starting Tuesday at the Pantages, is doing the opposite — and the strategy is paying off.
'Barbie' the movie will get the concert treatment at the Hollywood Bowl this summer.
'English' by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego's Old Globe.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic announces the 2024 Hollywood Bowl summer season featuring loads of Hollywood movie magic, the West Coast's first-ever Roots Picnic and plenty of Gustavo Dudamel.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-06/hollywood-bowl-2024-summer-lineup
When art museums return looted objects to source countries, usually it's in response to demands. Not this time.
The Shag House in Palm Springs is a joy-filled testament to midcentury optimism. It will be open to the public during Modernism Week, which runs Feb. 15-25.
James Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.
A radical reworking of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne gets its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.
A 35-year intimate survey of Catherine Opie's never-before-shown photographs at Regen Projects in Hollywood foregrounds human connection.
Retired Yale School of Drama professor Gordon Rogoff died at 92. Theater critic Charles McNulty, his former student, shares an appreciation of Rogoff's legacy.
Tour more than 10 ADUs and meet the designers and homeowners behind them in a self-guided tour of garage conversions, new builds and prefab ADUs throughout Los Angeles.
Broadway star and three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera achieved her diva-dom through sheer hard work, humility and humanity.
A shrink-wrapped Endeavour was hoisted and then carefully placed in its final location Tuesday at the still-under-construction Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-30/endeavour-lifted-into-position