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Feb. 12, 2012
Entertainment & Arts
UC Irvine’s theater department--which long has touted its performance program as one of the nation’s best--is quietly dropping its music theater curriculum at the graduate level.
July 21, 1993
It’s a small miracle that musical didn’t become a dirty word around the Alex Theatre in Glendale.
Sept. 18, 1995
The Broadway cast recording of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” on Sunday won the Grammy Award for musical theater album.
Feb. 8, 2015
Sept. 20, 2010
Jan. 6, 2012
Developer Leo Freedman, whose 2,300-seat Freedman Forum theater-in-the-round is now being built next to Anaheim City Hall, is thinking big.
July 8, 1986
Oct. 25, 2010
The San Fernando Valley’s first cultural center--a 2,865-seat theater-in-the-round built 25 years ago in Woodland Hills to showcase Broadway musicals--will soon be torn down to make way for an apartment project, officials said.
April 22, 1989
Andrew Lloyd Webber is hot there. Stephen Sondheim too. An impresario pair fans the craze with some Buarque here, some Bacharach there.
July 31, 2005