Charles McNulty is the theater critic of the Los Angeles Times. He received his doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama. McNulty has taught at Yale, the New School, New York University, the City University of New York Graduate Center, UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. McNulty, who got his theatrical start as a literary intern at the New York Public Theater in the days of Joseph Papp, is a former Village Voice theater critic and editor. He was the chairman of the Pulitzer drama jury in 2010. He received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the theater year 2009-10 and was awarded the top prize for feature writing from the Society for Features Journalism in 2011.
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Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi star in the Geffen Playhouse¡¯s new production of Samuel Beckett¡¯s absurdist classic ¡®Waiting for Godot.¡¯
¡®Pacific Overtures,¡¯ Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman¡¯s 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is dazzlingly revived by East West Players in one of the best production¡¯s of the year.
New Broadway revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber¡¯s ¡°Sunset Blvd,¡± Shakespeare¡¯s ¡°Romeo + Juliet¡± and Thornton Wilder¡¯s ¡°Our Town¡± test how far these works can be refashioned for modern sensibilities
¡®Joan,¡¯ a new play by Daniel Goldstein at South Coast Repertory about the life of comedian Joan Rivers, mixes biography with the comedian¡¯s old stand-up material.
¡°The Streetcar Project¡± brought Tennessee Williams¡¯ ¡°A Streetcar Named Desire¡± to Los Angeles for six performances, three in a Frogtown airplane hangar and three in a Venice Beach warehouse.
Appearing together in ¡®The Roommate,¡¯ Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow bring their star power to Broadway and discuss friendship and longevity in theater.
REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of the Wooster Group¡¯s production of Richard Foreman¡¯s ¡®Symphony of Rats.¡¯
¡®Kimberly Akimbo,¡¯ David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori¡¯s 2023 Tony-winning musical, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages in a production starring a divine Carolee Carmello