Charles McNulty

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Arden could follow his Tony win for directing ‘Parade’ with another Tony this year for ‘Maybe Happy Ending.’ Coming next: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ with Kristin Chenoweth and ‘The Lost Boys.’

The tale of a Dublin bus conductor with a yen for Oscar Wilde drives this fantastic revival of ‘A Man of No Importance,’ from the ‘Ragtime’ team of Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.

Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Danya Taymor reveal how the Tony-nominated play ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ made it to Broadway, with help from ‘Stranger Things’ star Sadie Sink and pop star Lorde.