If history is written by the winners, the songs are sung by the people. This week, performance artist Taylor Mac embarks on a tremendous feat of physical, mental and artistic endurance in a marathon-length show of gargantuan scope. “A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music” is
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-mean-girls-broadway-20180502-story.html “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left, Regina (Tony nominee Taylor Louderman) and Karen (Kate Rockwell). (Joan Marcus) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 2, 2018 5
You know their songs; now learn their backstory. The Temptations get the Jersey Boys treatment this fall with the world premiere of Ain’t Too Proud, a mus Source: The Temptations get their own jukebox musical at Berkeley Rep this fall
San Jose novelist Khaled Hosseini talks about adapting his work for the stage and dealing with Trump’s America. Source: ‘I See Art As a Way for People to Not Think of Each Other in Broad Strokes’
Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller following two women from strikingly different classes will begin its run Feb. 1 at ACT in San Francisco. By ERIKA MILVY JAN. 19, 2017 6 AM PT In a much retweeted curtain-call speech from the Broadway stage in November, “Hamilton” actor Brandon Dixon conveyed
‘Hamilteens’ may not have seen the show, but they know everything about it. Who needs One Direction when you’ve got a musical about the founding fathers? Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton at Tony awards. Photograph: CBS photo archive/Getty Images Erika Milvy Wed 22 Jun
Miranda July won’t divulge details about live secret show Miranda July is a film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor, performance artist, digital innovator, app inventor and full-time hipster. Her newest project is “secret” interactive audience participation performance art project in which the element of surprise is crucial.
Any play with the word vibrator in the title and Victorian ladies dropping their knickers and leaping onto the orgasm table — is certain to stimulate audiences. Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) , an examination of women’s sexuality in the Victorian
Premiering in San Francisco before its January New York opening, Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, is yet another Juke box musical. But unlike other recent musical biographies about musical careers, the Carole King story is really about music making. Source: Beautiful, the Carole King Musical