Theater

All the week’s essential arts stories, including LACMA approaching the point of no return on its Peter Zumthor building even as the project’s critics call for rethinking the plan.

Four Larks, the inventive Los Angeles theater troupe, takes on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” in this multimedia deconstruction in Beverly Hills.

Four Larks, the “junkyard opera” company, stitches together its own take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” at the Wallis. The creative team explains how.

L.A. Opera opens “Roberto Devereux.” A jukebox musical celebrates Simon & Garfunkel. Dance fans have options at REDCAT, the Wallis and the Soraya.

The actress played the legendary Maria Callas at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. before moving on to Broadway and winning her final Tony for the role.

Ivo van Hove opens his video-enhanced, Jerome Robbins-less “West Side Story,” a bombardment of sight and sound. It’s bracing, vital and sublime.

Ding-dong. “Hello!” “The Book of Mormon” is back in Los Angeles. Is the cast good? And how are those Uganda jokes landing?

Pasadena theater group A Noise Within grapples with Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.” The show is admirable, but the Bard’s romance genre perplexes.

Lee Blessing’s surreal mystery unfolds with comic darkness in Actors Co-op’s production now running in Hollywood.

“A lot of us are still trying to break free from ... the colonial mentality of what a Filipina should be,” says an organizer of “Burlesque Las FilipinX.”

“The Lehman Trilogy” joins “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Hadestown” in the Ahmanson lineup, along with quick returns for “Evan Hansen,” “Come From Away” and “Ain’t Too Proud.”

Matthew Leavitt’s play at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood is part farce, part loving tribute to small theater.