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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Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including ‘Blood Knot,’ ‘Boesman and Lena,’ ‘A Lesson From Aloes’ and ‘My Children! My Africa!’
Pasadena Playhouse revival of ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, stars Brandon Gill and Brandon Micheal Hall in a production directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
Written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, a former Obama campaign organizer, ‘44,’ about Barack Obama’s presidency, returns to L.A. at Kirk Douglas Theatre.
The Tony-winning play ‘Harry Potter and Cursed Child’ has its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a ‘Macbeth’ for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare’s tragedy isn’t easy to avoid.
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‘Old Friends’ pay tribute to Sondheim in a luxurious pre-Broadway celebration at the Ahmanson
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga star in ‘Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends’ in a pre-Broadway run at the Ahmanson Theatre.
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‘Bacon’ treads the line between love and abuse for teenage boys in a Rogue Machine powerhouse
Rogue Machine Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Sophie Swithinbank’s ‘Bacon,’ a two-hander directed by Michael Matthews that explores masculinity, bullying, sexuality and trauma.
Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro directs a revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce at the Geffen Playhouse in a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
‘Fake It Until You Make It,’ a satiric farce by Larissa FastHorse (‘The Thanksgiving Play’), has its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, in a production directed by Michael John Garcés.