The three-cornered walkway across Lankershim and Universal Hollywood Drive will now cost more than $27 million, transit officials said Monday. The price was originally pegged at $19.5 million.

In Keith Huff’s offbeat, ever-intelligent “Pursued by Happiness,” now at the Lankershim Arts Center, the course of love is strewn with all manner of emotional road kill.

Marisa Wegrzyn's “Mud Blue Sky,” now at the Road on Lankershim, may arguably lack dramatic substance and may not stick to the psychic ribs long after viewing, but the character-driven play is ...