In his Los Angeles Opera program note for Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” which opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, music director James Conlon points out that the original Broadway show’s origins lie in a response to Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee...

Fox dominated the box office chart this weekend with three vastly different films placing among the top five: "Maze Runner: The Death Cure," "The Greatest Showman" and "The Post." "I think it’s a testament to the diverse types of films that Fox is known for and having the ability to appeal to so...

With hip-hop dominating nominations for the 60th Grammys, all eyes will be on how the ceremony will showcase a genre that has historically been underrepresented. This year Jay-Z leads with eight nominations, followed by seven for Kendrick Lamar, and both emcees are front-runners for album of the...

Joy Villa — she of the Make America Great Again dress at last year’s Grammys — has outdone herself on the red carpet this year with a hand-painted “Choose Life” purse and pure white bridal gown with a fetus surrounded by a rainbow in the shape of a womb. And a sparkling crown. Her message is once...

NEW ON BLU-RAY “Last Flag Flying” (Lionsgate DVD, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99) Director Richard Linklater has carved out a space for himself in American independent cinema as a poet of youth: both in full flower (in “Dazed and Confused” and “Boyhood”) and as it fades (in “Before Sunset” and “Before...

Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan won the Grammy for classical solo vocal album Sunday for “Crazy Girl Crazy.” Hannigan’s star has been rising with performances such as her role in the L.A. Phil New Music Group’s world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall of Gerald Barry's opera "Alice's ..

In one of the most emotional performances of the 60th Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, country artists Maren Morris, the Brothers Osborne and Eric Church delivered a mournful version of “Tears in Heaven” in honor of the victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest...

In another dramatic shake-up at the Los Angeles Times, Chicago journalist Jim Kirk will be named editor in chief of the newspaper, replacing Lewis D’Vorkin, who will move to a position within the parent company. The move — which is expected to be announced Monday— follows two weeks of turmoil at...