The Los Angeles Philharmonic has become so commission-friendly that the orchestra is starting to get the occasional snide quip from traditionalists. All those new pieces are supposedly just a way of detracting attention away from not being able to play the classics with a European authority. That...

In 2002, the BBC held a poll to determine whom the people of England considered the “Greatest Briton” of all time. Winston Churchill was named No. 1, earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes and besting figures like William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Charles Darwin. The former prime minis..

Fox Searchlight, Guillermo del Toro and others associated with the Oscar contender “The Shape of Water” are facing a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Zindel. The Academy Awards-adjacent timing of the lawsuit — filed last week by David...

When a special kind of musical telepathy is required, never underestimate the power of the student-mentor relationship. On Sunday night, virtuoso pianists Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan emphatically displayed a mysterious kind of thought transference in their recital at Walt Disney Concert...

Two Americana music veterans whose paths have crossed for nearly half a century — even before they knew one another — are teaming up for their first recording as a duo, a project that brings Southern California native Dave Alvin together with esteemed West Texas singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore..

CBS Corp. is launching a new ad-supported streaming video channel Monday offering round-the-clock sports highlights and analysis to anyone with an internet connection — for free. The new channel, called CBS Sports HQ, is being touted as the first streaming sports video service with live 24-hour...

Classic Warner Bros. films including “Casablanca,” “Citizen Kane,” “The Thin Man,” and “Rebel Without A Cause” are joining Turner’s nascent FilmStruck movie streaming service. The move, announced Monday, marks the first time that consumers have access to dozens of Warner Bros. classics as part...

When we last checked in on Elliot at the end of “Water by the Spoonful,” the middle work in Quiara Alegría Hudes’ three-play Elliot cycle, he was in Puerto Rico with his cousin Yaz scattering the ashes of his beloved surrogate mother, Ginny, and deciding on his future. Rather than return to Philade..