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BODYTRAFFIC, a Los Angeles-based contemporary dance company, received a $1,020,000 multi-year General Operating Support Grant from Perenchio Foundation to enhance operations, performances, and community outreach.

The Verdi Chorus will kick off its 41st season with its Fall 2024 Concert We Are Verdi Bizet for two performances only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on November 16 and 17, 2024.

LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE will present two very special events coming this October! The writer/performer of their recent engagement of The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?, brings his latest Off-Broadway hit, the hilarious Robert Dubac’s THE BOOK OF MORON.

Would you keep talking to someone who is having a conversation with another group? Stop searching for approval in a room that doesn’t want to listen or watch.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2024/25 Orchestral Series will launch with TRAILBLAZERS: MARTÍN + BRAHMS + BAUER, featuring Music Director Jaime Martín conducting Brahms’ sunny yet wistful Symphony No.

 IAMA Theatre Company will offer two special performances of My Right Wing Uncle, written and performed by IAMA Theatre Company Ensemble Member Graham Sibley and directed by Jeff Perry, co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Write Act Repertory has announced its second annual Cringe Festival 2024.

Abstract painter Andrew Palermo has announced his participation in The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, the leading art fair for independent artists, for its upcoming 12th edition.

The Santa Fe International Film Festival will honor Bryan Cranston with its Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his contributions to film and television.

Tickets are on sale now to see National Geographic’s breathtaking new documentary, “Blink” in a limited engagement at the El Capitan Theatre.

Blessed with jawdroppingly gorgeous vocals, Tony Award winner Joaquina Kalukango—accompanied by music director Michael Orland—wows in her West Coast solo concert debut at OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa to kick off their 2024-2025 Cabaret Series.

Get a first look at The Los Angeles premiere of Dragon Lady, now playing at the Gil Cates Theater at Geffen Playhouse.

Next up at Boston Court, Keyanna Khatiblou’s A Going Away Party Play world premieres September 28, 2024 (with previews already started September 19th).

A new voice in comedy will soon take center stage! Transgender actress, writer, and producer Hera Anderson is thrilled to announce her upcoming solo comedy play, Empty, which promises to be both hilarious and heartwarming.

United Stages will present the World Premiere of DIVA The Play, written and performed by Vivienne Powell.

Anyone who has kids — or knows anyone with kids — will want to check out the upcoming workshop production of a new comedy, Parents In Chains, written by Emmy and Peabody award-winner Jay Martel and directed by Andy Fickman (Heathers The Musical, Reefer Madness) and starring Jason Alexander, Kri

Experience the riveting saga of California's founding through the eyes of a young archeology grad in a staged reading at Theatre West on October 6, 2024.

Actress Ali Fumiko Whitney will be the guest speaker at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's 2024 Orientation, sharing her journey from musical theater to Netflix stardom and advocating for mixed-ethnicity actors.

REEFER MADNESS THE MUSICAL, book by Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney, lyrics by Kevin Murphy, music by Dan Studney, musical direction by David Lamoureux, direction & choreography by Spencer Liff, will close at the historic Whitley Theatre.

A new popera, Carey Sharpe and Dru DeCaro's Blood/Love opens October 2, 2024 ( with previews beginning September 26th) at The Crimson.

The Skin of Our Teeth is an astonishing production of the classic play at A Noise Within through September 29th.

The Foundation for New American Musicals has announced the presentation of MUSI-CAL at the Whitley Theatre (aka Reefer Den) in Hollywood on Sunday, September 29th.

For all the device’s delicious successes, framing complicated shots of singers through the geometric slats of Ezio Frigerio’s behemoth set in ways that conversely evoke the opulence of a work by the Freed unit or the subtle asymmetry of a Mizoguchi movie, both the live performance and the filmed

The Great Beyond Company & The Hudson Theatre have announced the new musical, Adventures In The Great Beyond -- featuring  music by Joe Nedder, with book, lyrics & direction by Tom Chiodo, previewing at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre beginning November 1, 2024.

For the past couple of years, I have had friends tell me I should start an Instagram focused on Broadway.