Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Wit” offers a lucky — and brave — actress a complex, finely detailed role that’s as demanding as it is rewarding. When the play first opened off-Broadway, in 1998, Kathleen Chalfant more than took on Vivian Bearing, an English-lit professor dying of ovarian cancer. She... […]

Daniel Talbott’s new off-Broadway play, “Yosemite,” starts off great. We’re in the woods, among leafless trees coated with a dusting of snow. A young man — he could be in his late teens — is digging a hole. Moist soil piles up next to him. Wind howls in the background... […]

You can tell that George Bernard Shaw was still a young man when he wrote “The Philanderer.” This infrequently performed comedy has a breezy playfulness, unlike the playwright’s more heavy-going later efforts. Its silly fun is perfectly realized in the Pearl Theatre Company’s rollicking new revival. Written in... […]

Pacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is... […]

Johannes Vermeer's `Girl With a Pearl Earring' will be one of 35 Dutch paintings seen next year in an exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It's the first stop on a three-city American tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, the Hague, which will be closed for renovations during that time. […]

Nigel Lythgoe, the uber reality-TV producer who was instrumental in launching Fox's "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," is joining the board of directors of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, the organization announced Friday. […]

Golden Age, Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's new 1835-set backstage drama that swirls around the premiere of Bellini's opera I Puritani, will get its New York City debut at Manhattan Theatre Club, MTC artistic producer Mandy Greenfield confirmed. […]

Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 16-22, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League. […]

Meet the first-nighters at the opening night of the Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson's Wit starring Cynthia Nixon. […]