Off-Broadway Theater

L.A. Times Hero Complex film fest invades the TCL Chinese 6

2013-05-09 06:00:00

The Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival kicks off Friday evening at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres at Hollywood & Highland with a double bill of John Carpenter's 1988 "They Live" and his classic 1978 horror film, "Halloween. Carpenter will appear...

Review: 'Freud's Last Session' doesn't lend itself to deep analysis

2013-01-18 00:00:00

Sigmund Freud considered religion a mass delusion, a sort of group neurosis ideally suited to obsessive types. C.S. Lewis was a literary intellectual who found ways of channeling his devout Christianity into even his nontheological writings, "The...

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis meet. Discuss

2013-01-05 06:00:00

"If the whole universe had no meaning," C.S. Lewis once wrote, "we should never have found out that it had no meaning." Pithy observations like that — rooted in logical argument — have made the writer one Christian whom many agnostics and...

The New Yorker's John Lahr quits regular theater reviewing

2012-11-14 16:26:00

One of the most recognizable names in the world of theater criticism is stepping down. John Lahr, the senior theater critic for the New Yorker for close to 20 years, is quitting regular reviewing for the magazine to concentrate on profile writing and book...

Q+LA Heidi Murkoff

2012-05-03 16:39:16

'Once,' 'Sons of the Prophet' win Lucille Lortel Awards

2012-05-07 07:15:00

The musical "Once" and Stephen Karam's play "Sons of the Prophet" took the top honors at the Lucille Lortel Awards in New York on Sunday. The awards recognize excellence in off-Broadway productions and are presented by the League of Off-Broadway...

Maurice Sendak dies at 83, author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'

2012-05-09 00:00:00

He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....

Jake Gyllenhaal to star in off-Broadway play

2012-04-19 08:46:00

Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in an off-Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The Oscar-nominated actor will appear in the ensemble comedy-drama "If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet" by British playwright Nick Payne. Gyllenhaal has...

Music review: New Zealand festival at REDCAT

2012-04-19 12:58:00

The first of the two-day New Zealand in L.A. festival at REDCAT on Wednesday night featured eight chamber and solo works by Kiwi composers, none with much of an international reputation, and a renowned performer on Maori instruments, Richard Nunns. The...

Music review: On-stage, all is well for Cleveland Orchestra

2012-04-18 15:05:00

The bulletin from the Cleveland Orchestra, which performed for the first time at the Ren�e and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Tuesday night, is that it is still the Cleveland Orchestra, still magnificent. This was the orchestra's first return to...

Erland Josephson dies at 88; Swedish actor, Bergman collaborator

2012-02-27 00:00:00

Swedish actor Erland Josephson, one of fabled director Ingmar Bergman's closest friends and collaborators, known for his portrayals of aloof intellectuals and often Bergman's alter ego in such celebrated films as "Scenes From a Marriage" and "Cries and...

La La Anthony launches makeup line

2012-01-05 16:32:14

Nussbaum, 89 years old this month, did not originate the role of Sigmund Freud in this commercial transfer of an off-Broadway play about the psychologist's relationship with C. S. Lewis.

2012-12-20 13:13:00

The hit off-Broadway play now at the Mercury Theater, replete with the New York cast, imagines that a dying Sigmund Freud invites the young C.S. Lewis to his study in London on the eve of World War II. "Freud's Last Session," written by Mark St.

2012-05-10 13:31:00

The hit off-Broadway play at the Mercury Theater imagines that a dying Sigmund Freud (played by Mike Nussbaum) invites the young C.S. Lewis (Coburn Goss) to his study in London on the eve of World War II. "Freud's Last Session," written by Mark St.

2012-04-13 00:00:00