News: All News

10 Shows with Divine Inspiration

An Act of God, which plays the Ahmanson Theatre through March 13, 2016, isn’t the only divinely inspired show to grace stages on Broadway and around the country. Many theatre productions with religious aspects, both satirical and serious, have become major hits. To prepare yourself for the awe-inspiring majesty of witnessing God inhabit...

10 Shows with Divine Inspiration

Artist James Turrell Shines Through the Set for 'An Act of God'

Immersive art installations have become all the rage in Los Angeles, and God—and the Ahmanson Theatre—have both taken notice. Whether it’s the throngs of people lined up outside the Broad Museum to snag a spot in its Infinity Mirrored Room or the disappointment of so many Angelenos in not securing a reservation to Los Angeles County Muse...

Artist James Turrell Shines Through the Set for 'An Act of God'

When God Creates Comedy Gold

Nowadays, comedians regularly mine God and religion for comic gold.

When God Creates Comedy Gold

On the Phone with God and His Head Writer

It’s not every day that you get on a conference call with God. But He’s easier to get hold of when He has a show coming to the Ahmanson Theatre from January 30 through March 13, 2016. In advance of An Act of God, Center Theatre Group got on the phone with Him on a Friday afternoon, along with playwright and former The Daily Show with Jon Stewa...

On the Phone with God and His Head Writer

Musicals that Leaped from Page to Screen to Stage

Before The Bridges of Madison County became a Tony Award ®-winning musical, it was one of the highest grossing movies of 1995, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Meryl Streep and showcasing director and co-star Clint Eastwood’s astonishing range. A few years before that, it was a literary phenomenon: a few months after its April 1992 publ...

Musicals that Leaped from Page to Screen to Stage

'The Bridges of Madison County' Gets the Broadway Treatment

Before theater veteran Bartlett Sher directed The Bridges of Madison County on Broadway in 2014, and before its 1995 run as a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, the love story was a slim book penned in two weeks by an unlikely first-time Iowa novelist, college business professor Robert James Waller....

'The Bridges of Madison County' Gets the Broadway Treatment