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Theater has suffered from placelessness in the digital era. Mark O’Rowe’s “The Approach” roots us somewhere theatrically real.
Bob Avian, Tony Award-winning choreographer whose credits included the hits “Dreamgirls,” “A Chorus Line,” “Follies” and “Miss Saigon,” has died.
Randy Rainbow, Wynton Marsalis and Elvis Costello support a storied jazz club. Musical fans are invited to a “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” watch party.
Shine On Collective pivoted from immersive theater to puzzle-box experiences during the pandemic. It’s one example of how gaming is a growing aspect of new theater works.
Same stage, different script: For a theater critic watching President Biden’s inauguration, the most notable part of the performance is its humility.
Le Petit Cirque is like a mini Cirque du Soleil for kids. How the Inglewood circus studio has adapted to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Writer Kemp Powers and star Leslie Odom Jr. explain the decision to turn a lost Sam Cooke performance into one of the film’s most resonant, hopeful moments.
The Mellon Foundation grants nearly $1 million to Lula Washington Dance Theatre, part of an effort to correct systemic inequality in arts funding.
The nation’s overlapping crises have sparked the notion that audiences want to be uplifted, more than anything else. I disagree.
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L.A.'s California African American Museum holds a remembrance with music and a study group, and a Santa Monica concert centers on Black composers.
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We watched a president and a history-making vice president get sworn in, then returned to our regularly scheduled pandemic program. Thank God for Bernie memes.
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What the acquisition of Williams’ archive could reveal about the little-studied architect. Plus, “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” and Kennedy Center Honors in our weekly arts newsletter.
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She’s making TV, teaching dance and now getting a lifetime of achievement award. But Debbie Allen says she has no plans to slow down. “There’s so much to do.”
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The 2013 multimedia stage version of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” which has been adapted many times, is being developed as a five-part limited series.
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The 2021 Kennedy Center honorees Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Dick Van Dyke and Midori will be honored with a scaled-down gala in May.
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The Fountain in East Hollywood gets city permission to turn its parking lot into an outdoor theater with distanced seating for up to 84 people.
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The TikTok musical based on Pixar’s “Ratatouille” film generated millions for relief efforts launched by the Actors Fund amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pasadena Playhouse streams “You I Like: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Herman,” in which paying tribute to the Broadway composer proves harder than it might seem.
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The Neoclassical Capitol serves as stage to a riot. Plus, a doc about Rembrandt and a George Floyd billboard revived, in our weekly arts newsletter.
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Offerings also include Bernadette Peters and David Hyde Pierce in a Jerry Herman tribute, Philip Glass, a “Waltons” reunion and an L.A. dance festival.
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“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” proves an amazing experiment — a case study in how young talent can bypass industry gatekeepers and get heard.
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We look ahead to 2021 with musings on music, theater and art — and a poignant poem from L.A.-based artist Kade L. Twist — in our weekly arts newsletter.
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The actor and ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ host calls it ‘the ultimate improv exercise’ and says the social media platform helped him secure his next TV show.
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Happy new year from the creatives of TikTok, who are serving up a “Ratatouille” musical based on the hit Pixar film, available to stream starting Friday.
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Hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. economy shrank in 2020 by the largest amount in 74 years but grew 4% in the final three months.
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Business groups are suing to reverse the 2-month-old workplace safety rule. Cal/OSHA, which staffers say has just four people performing criminal investigations of 650 worker deaths, hasn’t yet used the rule to issue any citations.
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Technology and social media skills, reliable transportation and even physical stamina have become near prerequisites for obtaining the coveted shots.
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L.A. avoided a New York-level COVID-19 hospital meltdown as conditions improve
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President Biden announced new actions to combat climate change and take the first step toward a ban on oil leasing on federal land.
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California officials have struck a far-reaching agreement with Blue Shield to distribute vaccine to counties, pharmacies and private healthcare providers.
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