Charles McNulty

‘The Seagull: Mailbu,’ adapted from Anton Chekhov, and ‘Strife’ by John Galsworthy, big cast plays of weighty substance, lend heft to Theatricum Botanicum’s outdoor season.

‘The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise’ at Hollywood Pantages makes the most of a glorious catalog.

An appreciation of playwright Richard Greenberg, author of ‘Three Days of Rain’ and ‘Take Me Out,’ among other plays, who premiered many of his works at South Coast Repertory before taking them to New York.

Jake Brasch’s ‘The Reservoir,’ directed by Shelley Butler, features a cast that includes Marin Hinkle at the Geffen Playhouse.

Michael Arden’s Tony-winning revival of “Parade,” Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s musical about the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager accused and convicted of a heinous crime after an unfair trial, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Cole Escola, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Darren Criss are among the performers who took home Tony Awards in a season in which A-list Hollywood actors and veteran stage performers helped Broadway get its groove back.

Director Robert O’Hara’s noir version of ‘Hamlet,’ starring Patrick Ball and premiering at Mark Taper Forum, audaciously but incoherently toys with Shakespeare’s tragedy.

In a historic first, CNN will broadcast a live performance of a Broadway show on Saturday. ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ a stage adaptation of George Clooney’s 2005 film, stars the actor as CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow.

Cole Escola’s ‘Oh, Mary!’ is the front-runner in the Tony Award race for best play. But in one of the strongest playwriting categories in years, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose’ deserves to win.

For L.A. Theatre Works producing director Susan Albert Loewenberg and managing director Vicki Pearlson, the company’s legacy of audio drama holds new potential in the age of podcasting and audio books.