Theater

Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff.” “Bad Girls.” “She Works Hard for the Money.” A nostalgia-stoking catalog never gets the support it deserves in the Pantages musical.

Theater openings, Critics’ Choices, etc., for Nov. 10-17 include the return of “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” at the Old Globe Theatre and Andy Garcia in “Key Largo” at the Geffen Playhouse

Broadway is buzzing over a 6 1/2-hour tale of gay men connecting across generations. Playwright Matthew Lopez talks about trailblazers, starting with E.M. Forster.

Our weekly look at SoCal stages includes “Hard Way Home” by Cal Rep, “Curious Incident” by Greenway Arts, “Waiting for Waiting for Godot” by Sacred Fools and “Wrong Kind of People” by Robey.

The world premiere of Judith Leora’s trenchant comedy “Showpony” last year was a big hit for the Victory Theatre in Burbank.

In “The Thanksgiving Play” at the Geffen Playhouse, a woke theater director and her “vegan ally” try to make a kids holiday show that does not offend.

The Tony-winning actor has starred in Lauren Yee’s basketball play in New York and San Francisco. At Pasadena Playhouse, he’s got a new role: director.

“The Thanksgiving Play,” pianist Yuja Wang with the LA Phil and more things to see, hear and do this weekend

Inside the opening number of ABC’s ‘The Little Mermaid Live!”

If there’s no business like show business, and there is no playwright like Shakespeare, then it stands to reason — and is, in fact, a fact — that there’s no series like “Slings & Arrows,” a gorgeous Canadian import from the first decade of this century.

Using sewing machines as musical instruments, the performance-art band delivers commentary on fashion and accumulation in the smallest of spaces.

Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” at the Geffen Playhouse finds comedy in adults struggling to stage a culturally sensitive kids pageant.