Sonia De Los Santos performs “La Golondrina: A Musical Journey” at the Wallis
Sonia De Los Santos, hailed by Billboard as “one of the Latin children’s music artists you should know,” makes her debut at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with La Golondrina: A...
View Article17th annual “La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin”
A Los Angeles holiday tradition starring Esperanza America (Latino Theatre Company’s The Mother of Henry, A Mexican Trilogy) as the Virgin and featuring over 100 actors, singers and indigenous Aztec...
View ArticleCandlelight and Carols – 75th annual holiday concert
Friends of Music at Pasadena Presbyterian Church presents the 75th annual Candlelight and Carols on Saturday, December 7 at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. As with all Friends of Music concerts, this program...
View ArticleBlock Party at the Kirk
Center Theatre Group has selected two local productions for the fourth annual Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre from March 18 through April 19, 2020. Block Party...
View ArticleThe Industry to present “Sweet Land”
The Industry and its Artistic Director Yuval Sharon have announced the world premiere of a new project, Sweet Land. Sweet Land brings together composers Raven Chacon and Du Yun, librettists Aja...
View ArticleFour-artist show at Corey Helford Gallery
Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is proud to announce a four-artist show with Iowa-based Vietnamese painter and illustrator Bao Pham, international award-winning Canada-based artist Josh...
View Article“White Christmas” sing along with the LA Phil
Perfect outing for the holiday season! Get dolled up in your snazzy best outfit and sing along to White Christmas with Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen. The LA Philharmonic’s...
View ArticleAntaeus Playwrights Lab – staged readings for ‘LAB RESULTS’ mini-fest
Six new plays by award-winning, mid-career writers get developmental readings over the course of two weekends as part of Antaeus Theatre Company’s second annual LAB RESULTS series. See dates and times...
View ArticleBallet at the Soraya in February
Calling all ballet and dance aficionadi!! Two magnificent, world-class ballets can be experienced at The Soraya in Northridge next month, during February. Once again, The Younes and Soraya Nazarian...
View ArticleCarlo Ponti
Poetry combined with exquisite classical music–what a delightful combination! I interviewed Maestro Carlo Ponti in 2015, not long after he formed his Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra. The Los Angeles...
View ArticleLong Beach Opera’s “Dream Variation” at the California African American Museum
Long Beach Opera (LBO)’s new “UnGala” series continues with Dream Variation–A celebration of Black Composers through history. Dream Variation will play for One Night Only on Saturday, February 15,...
View ArticleLes Ballets Jazz de Montréal: “Dance Me” at The Broad Stage
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM) performing its original work Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me, a dance performance about the famed...
View Article27th Annual LA Women’s Theatre Fest “2020 VISION!” in March
The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 27 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe. The longest-running...
View ArticleThe “Science of Horror” at National History Museum
Now on view at National History Museum, from OCTOBER 10, 2019 through APRIL 19, 2020 (free with paid museum admission and Free for Members) is the Science of Horror exhibition. We all share a strange...
View Article“After Parkland”– powerful doc to screen in over 100 cities
Kino Lorber announces a nationwide Day of Conversation screenings of documentary AFTER PARKLAND on February 12, 2020 to commemorate the second anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas...
View ArticleAFTERNOON OF PEACE at the Aratani Theatre, Little Tokyo
Announcing a One-Day-ONLY performance of AFTERNOON OF PEACE, a multi-media live event that tells the story of the atom bomb survivors — known as Hibakusha — of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is a tale of...
View ArticleReal Estate developers as a villains – tropes in storytelling
Regarding the depiction of real estate developers in film and on TV, it’s common to see the developer presented as the antagonist — the villain. Why is this common trope so enduring? Here’s why:In...
View ArticleIn Full Bloom: Transcending Gender
In Full Bloom: Transcending Gender is a documentary that follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue, dialogue...
View ArticleYoungArts—Scholars in the Arts nominees announced
National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) has announced the nominees for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who exemplify...
View ArticleWajatta launches new album at NHM First Fridays
Wajatta is the musical duo of beat-boxer/comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist/DJ/producer John Tejada. The guys’ second single of their second album is out, and for those of you...
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