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'Wicked' is back at the Pantages Theatre. But is it good?

Britney Coleman is radiant as Bobbie in the North American tour of “Company” at the Hollywood Pantages. Robert or Bobby — as he’s known to his friends — the protagonist of “Company,” Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 musical, has always been an enigma. LuPone isn’t in the North American tour production of “Company” playing at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre …

Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ blows into the Pantages on a Bob Dylan wind

‘Back to the Future,’ ‘Some Like It Hot’ lead Pantages 2024-25 season

Roger Bart and Casey Likes in the Broadway production of “Back to the Future: The Musical.” “Back to the Future” and “Some Like It Hot” are the upcoming offerings from Broadway in Hollywood, which announced on Friday the eight national tours that will play the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in its 2024-25 season. After the previously announced return engagement of “Hamilton”, …

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Starting Tuesday, “The Wiz” wraps its 13-city tour with three weeks of performances at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. And it’s really sweet for people in Des Moines to be like, ‘I saw it first.’” Kyle Ramar Freeman, Nichelle Lewis, Phillip Johnson Richardson and Avery Wilson in “The Wiz.” Another reason: this staging of “The Wiz,” also the first Broadway production …

Naomi Rodgers as Tina Turner in “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” playing at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre a month after the Queen of Rock died. Reverence for Tina Turner electrified the Hollywood Pantages Theatre during Wednesday night’s opening of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” which landed in L.A. a month after the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll died at home …

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Michael Jackson musical, ‘The Wiz,’ ‘Company’ lead Pantages’ 2023-24 season

“MJ,” the Tony Award-winning musical featuring the hits of Michael Jackson, is among the upcoming offerings from Broadway in Hollywood, which announced on Wednesday the seven national tours that will play the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in its 2023-24 season. The Pantages then will welcome a new production of the classic adventure “Peter Pan”, with an updated book by L.A. playwright …

Review: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ arrives at the Hollywood Pantages with troubling timeliness

Live theater is an obstacle course, but ‘Hamilton’ at the Pantages is worth it

Jamael Westman and company in a scene from “Hamilton,” which is back at the Hollywood Pantages. Nicholas Christopher’s Aaron Burr delivers the stomping heat in “The Room Where It Happens,” the song in which this careful political operator gives us a glimpse of his murderous ambition. Carvens Lissaint finds the gospel glory in “One Last Time,” George Washington’s principled political …

Hours before “Hamilton” was set to open last year at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, performances of the Broadway hit were canceled as edicts to prevent the spread of a highly contagious new coronavirus set off a cascade of woes. “I told staff to take everything they could,” he said, “or throw it away.” Falzone remembers the date well: “March …

Soon audiences can be in the room where it happens: ‘Hamilton’ back early at Pantages

The pandemic forced the Hollywood Pantages to shut its doors on what would have been opening night of the return of “Hamilton.” Now that Los Angeles is reopening, the world is wide enough for “Hamilton” to return to the Pantages in August. In emailed responses to questions from The Times, the team at Broadway in Hollywood and Hollywood Pantages Theatre …

As a kid, Taylor Iman Jones saw “The Lion King” at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre three times. “I actually love watching different casts of ‘Hamilton’ because every single person in every single role puts a spin on the story, every time,” she says over the phone from Fairfield. Representation matters, and it’s cool that so many little girls are gonna …