Theater

Marta Carrasco says her Spain-based team had visas to perform in L.A. Instead, she says, Customs and Border Protection treated them ‘like criminals.’

Maria Dizzia will star in “What the Constitution Means to Me” when it launches its national tour in Los Angeles and later Chicago.

The tradition that began in the Ahwahnee Hotel in 1927 lives on — with some updates. And you can still be part of it.

In L.A. Opera’s staging of “The Light in the Piazza,” Adam Guettell’s Broadway musical centered on a poignant mother-child relationship, characters feel at an emotional remove.

Michael Ritchie, the artistic director of Center Theatre Group, has brought exciting theater programming, but why hasn’t he made Los Angeles a greater player in the national conversation?

‘217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous’ confronts the little-known gay psychiatrist whose early 1970s activism profoundly advanced LGBTQ civil rights.

Dance performances in L.A. for Oct. 13-20 include Mariinsky Ballet’s “La Bayadère” and Louise Reichlin & Dancers / Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers’ 40th anniversary celebration

L.A. theater highlights for Oct. 13-20 include Betty Buckley, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” and “Little Shop of Horrors”

The most mysterious thing about the feisty, strawberry-blond protagonist of the musical “Anastasia,” whose national tour has landed at the Hollywood Pantages, is not her affliction by what doctors today might diagnose as retrograde amnesia or dissociative fugue.

An ex-Disney Imagineer lends his talent to the Shakespeare Center of L.A. Also opening: “In Trousers,” “Girlfriend” and “Neil Simon’s Musical Fools.”

A modern dress production by Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre is chillingly effective in carrying Shakespeare’s abuse of power tale across the centuries.

In Venice, Rogue Machine’s production of the Bekah Brunstetter play proves to be frustratingly confusing.