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In 2023, the theater lost many notables with long careers, including Michael Gambon, Frances Sternhagen, Glenda Jackson, Barry Humphries and Michael Blakemore. Praising those we lost makes the remembrance dear.
With Aubrey Plaza, John Turturro and Dianne Wiest on its stages, new musicals from Alicia Keys and Stephen Sondheim and critically hailed new plays by Annie Baker and David Adjmi, downtown upstaged midtown.
David Hyde Pierce is in the cast of “Here We Are,” Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, at the Shed in New York.
Matthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ 1922 satiric novel ‘Babbitt’ in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
Alex Edelman’s ‘Just for Us,’ the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
The world premiere of ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ the semi-autobiographical musical by Alicia Keys, features a book by Kristoffer Diaz and sublime vocals by a cast that re-interprets some of Keys’ biggest hits.
Aubrey Plaza, fresh off her ‘White Lotus’ success, makes her stage debut off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,’ starring opposite Christopher Abbott.
Watching and loving Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway play “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” from the couch, and more in this week’s Essential Arts newsletter.
Nikkole Salter’s “Lines in the Dust” at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.
Comedian Alex Edelman brings his acclaimed Broadway show, in which he muses on Jewish identity, empathy and how he came to hang out with a group of white nationalists, to the Mark Taper Forum.
