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Head of the Class revolves around a group of overachieving high school students who meet their greatest challenge — a teacher, Alicia Gomez (Isabella Gomez – “One Day at a Time”), who wants them to focus less on grades and more on experiencing life. Watch the trailer for the new series now!

The reboot of the 1980s sitcom of the same name, Head of Class revolves around a group of overachieving high school students who meet their greatest challenge — a teacher, Alicia Gomez, who wants them to focus less on grades and more on experiencing life. Watch the new clip from the series now!

Desert in, created by Darrah and collaborators, is a groundbreaking, eight-part operatic mini-series full of colorful and mysterious characters who populate a supernatural story of love, loss and the price of memories we struggle to keep.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concludes its critically acclaimed CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series melding musical and visual arts with a joyous and optimistic episode featuring Tchaikovsky's enduring masterpiece Serenade for Strings laced with a poignant visual tone poem that reflects the diverse artistic family that LACO built through the series and chronicles Los Angeles' emergence from the global pandemic.

“Desert in” is a groundbreaking new television miniseries that combines the talents of eight extraordinary, award-winning composers and interlocking stories from rising and veteran screenwriters.

Long Beach Opera has announced a revised 2021 Season, which will include an exciting return to live opera performance in May with an immersive drive-in Phillip Glass opera, the company’s first venture into longform digital content with a world premiere operatic television series in June, and an outdoor live performance of two operas in August.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series melding musical and visual arts continues with Concertmaster Margaret Batjer leading a performance of Beethoven's “Serioso” String Quartet in F minor, arranged for string ensemble by Mahler.

The team behind the operatic miniseries 'desert in,” now in production for a June 2021 debut on Boston Lyric Opera’s streaming service, announced today an award-winning roster of composers and performers working on the project.

Gil Shaham makes a special guest appearance with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra performing Boulogne’s virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 9 in G major, on the Orchestra’s groundbreaking CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series that melds musical and visual arts.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's lauded digital CLOSE QUARTERS series continues with a musically and visually rich take on Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (“The Soldier's Tale”), interpreted by the musicians of LACO for 2021 and conducted by Music Director Jaime Martín.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will continue its all-digital 2020-21 Season, CLOSE QUARTERS, with two varied  visual episodes curated musically by Latin GRAMMY®-nominated composer Juan Pablo Contreras, premiering Fridays, January 1 and January 15, 2021, 6:30 pm (PT).

Opera Omaha announces its third annual ONE FESTIVAL. The ONE Festival is a place for wild dreams, wilder execution, and exploration of those ideas on a grand scale. Programming is driven by the artists, not the executives. With an emphasis on experimentation and new worka?'yet not tethered to premieresa?'ONE fosters an environment that encourages and celebrates bold risks and transformative storytelling. At a glance, one might assume this is happening in NYC or LA; but this opera hothouse sizzles in the dead center of our country, far from the coasts. 

The Catskill Sonata, directed by Paul Mazursky, garnering critical acclaim upon its March 9 debut, will now have its April 14 run extended through April 29, it was announced today by The Hayworth Theater

Acclaimed film director Paul Mazursky, whose career spans the last four decades, having directed such films as Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Harry and Tonto, and An Unmarried Woman, is the director of a new play, The Catskill Sonata, which debuted March 9th at The Hayworth Theatre.

Acclaimed film director Paul Mazursky, whose career spans the last four decades, having directed such films as Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Harry and Tonto, and An Unmarried Woman, is the director of a new play, The Catskill Sonata, which will debut March 9th at The Hayworth Theatre