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Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster spark dating rumours during Santa Monica Outing

Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster dined together in Santa Monica, California, on Monday, January 6, 2025. Support for Foster’s Theatre Run Jackman recently attended one of Foster’s final Once Upon a Mattress performances at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre on January 4. Upcoming Plans for Jackman On the professional front, Jackman will return to the stage later this month …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Review: Sutton Foster delights in Carol Burnett’s role in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ at the Ahmanson

LA Times

To call Sutton Foster’s performance in “Once Upon a Mattress” physical would be a gross understatement. The musical can be seen as preparing the way for “The Carol Burnett Show,” the legendary variety program that made musical comedy revue a staple of Saturday night television in the 1970s. There’s a touching, lonely quality to her cockeyed clown portrayal of Winnifred, …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Tony-winner Gavin Creel, a Broadway performer’s Broadway performer, made magic whenever he appeared on stage

LA Times

Gavin Creel was always so alive on stage that it’s hard to accept the news of his tragic death at age 48. In an interview I did with Ben Platt, when he was starring in the 2023 Broadway revival of “Parade,” he held Creel up as the “coolest” example of what he aspired to do as a musical theater performer …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

LACMA opening pushed to 2026; staff memo reveals plans for sneak peek inside empty new building

LA Times

Construction of the David Geffen Galleries, seen here in mid-August, is scheduled for December completion Sometime next year, we might have an opportunity for a sneak peek inside the David Geffen Galleries, the new permanent collection building under construction on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Wilshire Boulevard campus. LACMA’s Ragheb wrote in her email to colleagues, “Once the …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Review: ‘Clue: Live on Stage’ reinvigorates the 1985 movie with mindless fun

LA Times

Whether you agree with the choice of punctuation in “Clue: Live on Stage!” depends to a large extent on what you think of Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 movie. I’m happy to report that the North American tour production of “Clue: Live on Stage!,” which opened on Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre, earns its exclamation point through the breathless exuberance of its …

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7 months ago

Why the Tony-winning author of ‘A Strange Loop’ wants to upend the American musical

LA Times

Before dedicating himself to musical theater, playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson had a different dream: to be a soap opera writer. “I thought I was going to work my way up and become the head writer for ‘One Life to Live’,” he said, speaking at a swanky new hotel’s rooftop cafe in downtown L.A. “That was my ambition when …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Mark Taper Forum to reopen with ‘American Idiot,’ Larissa FastHorse’s ‘Fake It Until You Make It’

LA Times

Larissa FastHorse will see her play “Fake It ‘Til You Make It” have its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in 2025. “Despite the disappointment of last summer,” FastHorse said, the workshop was a way for CTG Artistic Director Snehal Desai, Managing Director and Chief Executive Meghan Pressman and the rest of the group to say, “We’re still behind …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Jerry Moss, the ‘M’ of A&M Records, dies at 88

LA Times

Jerry Moss, the record executive who was the “M” in the seminal West Coast label A&M Records, has died. Cultivating connections with British record labels and expanding his A&R staff, Moss set A&M on a path that led to such era-defining albums as 1976’s mega-selling double LP “Frampton Comes Alive!” Herb Alpert, left, and Jerry Moss circa 1970. Alpert said, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Review: ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ is spectacularly clumsy. That’s meant as a compliment

LA Times

Mischief, the popular British theater company that specializes in farcical fiasco, is back at the Ahmanson Theatre with “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” an even more spectacularly clumsy presentation than “The Play Goes Wrong,” the troupe’s earlier hit that came to Los Angeles in 2019. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” provides the outline for a whole slew of costume catastrophes and aerial disasters …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘A Strange Loop,’ ‘Funny Girl’ lead Center Theatre Group’s 2023-24 season

LA Times

“A Strange Loop,” the critically acclaimed musical about a Black gay man writing a musical about a Black gay man writing a musical about a Black gay man, is coming to Los Angeles. ‘A Strange Loop’ derives its power from its fearless specificity.” “A Strange Loop” is one of Center Theatre Group’s offerings for the 2023-24 Ahmanson season, which the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Review: The Tony-nominated ‘Into the Woods’ revival — maybe the best in my lifetime — lands in L.A.

LA Times

Block and Sebastian Arcelus as the Baker and Baker’s Wife in the Broadway revival of “Into the Woods,” now at the Ahmanson Theatre. Block as the Baker’s Wife, Katy Geraghty as Little Red Ridinghood and Gavin Creel as Cinderella’s Prince and the Wolf — who delighted me in New York. The last three songs of the show — “No More,” …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Center Theatre Group in crisis: Inside the Mark Taper Forum’s closure and the upheaval in L.A. arts

LA Times

Amid a financial crisis, Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group has announced layoffs and is halting some already-announced productions on its three stages. But the Mark Taper Forum, where CTG takes its biggest risks and enjoys its greatest rewards, will experience a long dramatic pause. After playwright Jeremy O. Harris threatened to pull his Tony-winning “Slave Play” from the Taper stage …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Shocking closure at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum reflects a crisis at regional theaters nationwide

LA Times

It was the pause heard ’round the theater world. The Taper canceled, rather than postponed, a touring production of Lauren Yee’s musical “Cambodian Rock Band.” Both FastHorse and people close to Yee expressed profound disappointment on social media, and some theater leaders said confidentially that Center Theatre Group should have called on the financial heft of its well-connected board to …

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1 year, 8 months ago

13 unmissable arts events we’re looking forward to this summer

LA Times

Scorching temperatures are expected this summer. See pop artist Keith Haring’s first-ever museum survey in L.A. at the Broad museum, catch indie theater across Los Angeles at the 13th Hollywood Fringe festival, take in painting, photography, sculpture and more by a multigenerational group of Chicanx artists at the Cheech and enjoy a “Ghost Opera” at the Ojai Music Festival. — …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Review: Although more like C-SPAN than ‘Hamilton,’ ‘1776’ at Ahmanson is still a solid ride

LA Times

The white men of history have left the building. Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus’ nontraditional, ethnically diverse revival of the Tony-winning musical “1776” — now at the Ahmanson — offers one last glimpse of the pale, powdered Founding Fathers of U.S. textbooks before banishing them completely from the proceedings. The national tour cast of the nontraditional, ethnically diverse revival …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Review: A reimagined ‘Secret Garden’ fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre

LA Times

“The Secret Garden” could be counted a success when it first emerged on Broadway in 1991. Frank Rich ended his New York Times review with a comment on how the creative team adapted Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children‘s novel: “Is it too churlish to wish that they turned the pages a little faster?” The new production of “The Secret Garden,” …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A new 'Secret Garden' rethinks the musical's Indian representation

LA Times

Welcome to yet another edition of the Essential Arts newsletter — although, it’s actually my first time taking over this esteemed mailing. Vishal Vaidya in Center Theatre Group’s production of “The Secret Garden” at Ahmanson Theatre. It’s really about what can be done so that when people do this show, they’re doing a version that represents India better and that …

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1 year, 10 months ago

AI-generated paintings that move. Don’t believe me? Take a look for yourself this weekend

LA Times

Last weekend was quite the whirlwind: Frieze Los Angeles, the British Academy Film Awards and rumors of Kendall Jenner on a secret date with Bad Bunny. Kristina Wong in “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord” at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. ‘Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord’ The COVID-19-induced quarantine brought whipped coffee, sourdough bread recipes and the origins of Kristina Wong’s latest …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Review: In the Ahmanson’s ‘2:22 - A Ghost Story,’ poltergeists are more believable than people

LA Times

Constance Wu, from left, Finn Wittrock, Anna Camp and Adam Rothenberg in the U.S. premiere of “2:22 - A Ghost Story” at the Ahmanson Theatre. And the story is hardly dead and buried: Conor McPherson, a modern master of ghost dramas, has found poetic truth in inexplicable phenomena in plays such as “The Weir,” “Shining City” and “The Seafarer.” “2:22 …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Angela Lansbury dead: 'Murder, She Wrote' actor was 96

LA Times

It was the classic but lighthearted whodunit “Murder, She Wrote” that rocketed Angela Lansbury to lasting television stardom, a literate and easy-to-track mystery show that made her and her impeccable manners welcome guests in living rooms across America. Nominated for a dozen Emmys for playing the warm and spunky literary sleuth Jessica Fletcher, Lansbury never won but repeatedly said fans …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Appreciation: The genius of Angela Lansbury: She could play anyone

LA Times

Angela Lansbury, who achieved widespread fame as the star of the long-running CBS series “Murder, She Wrote” and was the recipient of six Tony Awards, was never to be confused with any other performer. She was Elizabeth Taylor’s older sister in “National Velvet,” a saloon singer rival of Judy Garland’s in “The Harvey Girls” and part of a love triangle …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Review: Daniel Fish’s brooding, deconstructed ‘Oklahoma!’ electrifies the Ahmanson

LA Times

Of all the impressive feats director Daniel Fish pulls off in his thrilling deconstruction of “Oklahoma!,” the most impressive might be that in deromanticizing the musical he somehow manages not to kill off the romance at the heart of the show. The source of this anxiety comes into focus later in the email: “What was once seen as a nostalgic …

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2 years, 8 months ago

A mesmerizing ‘Hadestown’ at the Ahmanson makes an old tale feel startlingly new

LA Times

The Tony-winning Broadway musical “Hadestown” at the Ahmanson Theatre with, foreground, Morgan Siobhan Green, Levi Kreis and Nicholas Barasch. “Hadestown,” the 2019 Tony-winning musical reimagining the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a New Orleans-style folk opera, has arrived at the Ahmanson Theatre in smoldering fashion. Developed by Rachel Chavkin, the resourceful director who won a Tony for her staging, …

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2 years, 11 months ago

How Center Theatre Group is pushing forward with live shows — even amid the Omicron surge

LA Times

Roy Haylock as Hugo/Loco Chanelle and Layton Williams as Jamie New with the cast of the West End production of “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.” “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” will make its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre Jan. 16. Less than a month after canceling the remaining 22 performances of “A Christmas Carol” due to breakthrough COVID-19 infections in …

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Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster spark dating rumours during Santa Monica Outing

Review: Sutton Foster delights in Carol Burnett’s role in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ at the Ahmanson

Tony-winner Gavin Creel, a Broadway performer’s Broadway performer, made magic whenever he appeared on stage

LACMA opening pushed to 2026; staff memo reveals plans for sneak peek inside empty new building

Review: ‘Clue: Live on Stage’ reinvigorates the 1985 movie with mindless fun

Why the Tony-winning author of ‘A Strange Loop’ wants to upend the American musical

Mark Taper Forum to reopen with ‘American Idiot,’ Larissa FastHorse’s ‘Fake It Until You Make It’

Jerry Moss, the ‘M’ of A&M Records, dies at 88

Review: ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ is spectacularly clumsy. That’s meant as a compliment

‘A Strange Loop,’ ‘Funny Girl’ lead Center Theatre Group’s 2023-24 season

Review: The Tony-nominated ‘Into the Woods’ revival — maybe the best in my lifetime — lands in L.A.

Center Theatre Group in crisis: Inside the Mark Taper Forum’s closure and the upheaval in L.A. arts

Shocking closure at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum reflects a crisis at regional theaters nationwide

13 unmissable arts events we’re looking forward to this summer

Review: Although more like C-SPAN than ‘Hamilton,’ ‘1776’ at Ahmanson is still a solid ride

Review: A reimagined ‘Secret Garden’ fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre

A new 'Secret Garden' rethinks the musical's Indian representation

AI-generated paintings that move. Don’t believe me? Take a look for yourself this weekend

Review: In the Ahmanson’s ‘2:22 - A Ghost Story,’ poltergeists are more believable than people

Angela Lansbury dead: 'Murder, She Wrote' actor was 96

Appreciation: The genius of Angela Lansbury: She could play anyone

Review: Daniel Fish’s brooding, deconstructed ‘Oklahoma!’ electrifies the Ahmanson

A mesmerizing ‘Hadestown’ at the Ahmanson makes an old tale feel startlingly new

How Center Theatre Group is pushing forward with live shows — even amid the Omicron surge