Michael Ritchie News

The Center Theatre Group's production of Come Back, Little Sheba opened June 24 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in downtown Culver City, which is staring S. Epatha Merkerson and Alan Rosenberg in the William Inge classic...

Los Angeles got a taste of the Garden State Sunday as the Tony Award winning Jersey Boys opened at the Ahmanson Theatre June 3, drawing out plenty of entertainment heavy weights...

Sunday's world premiere of David Henry Hwang's latest play, Yellow Face, attracted prominent members of the Asian artistic community at the Mark Taper Forum...

The Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum will usher in its 41st season with British favorites The History Boys and The School of Night beginning in November...

Three world premieres are among the six new plays presented in the 2007-8 season of the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Distracted, a world premiere play by Lisa Loomer, opened Sunday afternoon at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. With Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks, starring in the show, many Hollywood friends and turned out on the sunny afternoon for the play and after party, at the adjacent Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...

The 2007-2008 season at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, which was announced today by CTG's Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, will be a yearlong celebration of the best in musical theatre.

After the Mark Taper Forum's current '06-'07 season, the Los Angeles theatre will close for summer renovations and will open next year.

Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands opened at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles December 13...

The Light in the Piazza Opening night photos from backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles...

A year-long search has led to the appointment of Roger Rees as the new Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF). Ira Lapidus, President of the Festival's Board of Trustees made the announcement. Rees, who will assume his post January 1, 2005, replaces Michael Ritchie, who is leaving the Festival to become Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.