Ashley Lee is a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes about theater, movies, television and the bustling intersection of the stage and the screen. An alum of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, she leads workshops on arts journalism at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She was previously a New York-based editor at the Hollywood Reporter and has written for the Washington Post, Backstage and American Theatre, among others. She is currently working remotely alongside her dog, Oliver.
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April 25, 2024
The L.A. Times’ Festival of Books takes over USC, Andrew Scott does “Vanya,” TCM fest shines across L.A. Here’s your ultimate culture guide to this weekend and beyond.
April 20, 2024
A sweet new LACMA show, USC Opera, ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ and Maurice Sendak’s ‘Wild Things’ at Skirball Cultural Center top our list of SoCal’s best culture to experience.
April 13, 2024
What to see and do in L.A. this week? We’ve got a must-see at the Geffen Playhouse, pioneering photography at the Getty and a Judy Garland musical.
April 6, 2024
‘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.
April 5, 2024
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.
March 26, 2024
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 Brothers Size.’
March 19, 2024
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.
March 16, 2024
The Oscar-nominated actor led an ensemble of 65 dancers in the live rendition of the ‘Barbie’ musical number, with Mark Ronson and Simu Liu in tow.
March 10, 2024
“For so long, I’ve always wanted to be different, and now I realize I just need to be myself,” the “Holdovers” star said from the Oscars stage.
March 10, 2024