House of Misfortune is a new play by Keiko Green, presented as part of Center Theatre Group's LA Writers' Workshop Reading Series. A couple invites a group of friends over for a dinner party, when they discover a creepy, taped-off crawl space hidden in their new home. Green is a...
Lauren Sanchez is a new play by Bernardo Cubría, presented as part of Center Theatre Group's LA Writers' Workshop Reading Series. As billionaire bride-to-be Lauren Sánchez prepares for her lavish wedding in Venice, Italy, a very different Lauren Sánchez in Venice, California...
A play that transforms the Senate testimony of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford into a gripping evening of theater. Created by Lee Sunday Evans, Elizabeth Marvel, and Waterwell, with an ensemble of LA actors speaking from verbatim transcripts of the hearings. The play...
A documentary by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens that imagines the Earth as a lover. Born from the ashes of California's devastating wildfires, the film is a creative and urgent call to action illustrating how climate catastrophe intersects with social justice.
In This House is a new play by Erika Sheffer, presented as part of Center Theatre Group's LA Writers' Workshop Reading Series celebrating its 20th anniversary. The reading is part of a series designed to foster important voices, inspire playwrights to create their best work, and...
Reagan Ranch is a new play by Christina Pumariega, presented as part of Center Theatre Group's LA Writers' Workshop Reading Series celebrating its 20th anniversary. The reading is part of a series designed to foster important voices, inspire playwrights to create their best...
A new film by Sharon Lockhart that brings to life Fogo Island's striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty. Filmed on the windswept northern face of the remote island, the film is organized by an unseen, persistent force, the breezes that descend...
The debut feature film by Leonardo Pirondi, shot on 16mm, depicts environmental collapse and a vision of the post-apocalyptic world.
Developed by Wild Up in partnership with MOCA and CalArts, this expanded festival of music and performance takes place across Los Angeles. Over two days at REDCAT, the program includes the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Shelley Washington as part of The Room...
REDCAT's collaboration with Angel City Arts continues with this annual festival featuring two dynamic double bills. The lineup includes Fred Frith's Fremakajo and DoYeon Kim's Quartet, plus Mekala Session and Qur'an Shaheed in dialogue with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.
A new work by choreographer and dancer Dimitri Chamblas delving into the life stories of two remarkable dancers, Marion Barbeau and Ulysse Zangs. In this intimate piece, Chamblas uses choreography to rediscover buried memories, transforming REDCAT into a vast, empty space to...
The Chapter House, The Broad, and REDCAT co-present an interactive, queen-centric comedy and drag show hosted by Indigenous comedians and queens Jana Schmieding, Brian Bahe, Landa Lakes, Lady Shug, Big Mama Tama, Bohenne Arreaux, and special guests. The night features a...
The 23rd annual celebration of innovative new work by Los Angeles artists features nine new works in dance, theater, music, and performance. This edition features new works from Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Chica Barbosa, Brenda Barrios, Friidom, Scottie...
A series of performances by Mindy Seu considering how technologies have shaped and been shaped by sexuality. The program presents an augmented reality reading of her book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX on online activism and net art as radical technological environments, and the...
A landmark contemporary art exhibition examining global histories and ongoing conditions of militarism across Asia and the Pacific. Conceived by Amy Kahng and GYOPO, the exhibition includes artworks spanning from the 1970s to newly created work focusing on the Korean Peninsula...
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Puppet Up!'s motley crew of Jim Henson puppets are as raw and funny as you can get...if you're willing.…
Here are my interviews with director Melissa Chalsma, composer David Melville, and actor Carene Rose Mekertichyan on COMEDY OF ERRORS presented by Independent Shakespeare Company outdoors in Griffith Park this summer.…
All in all, Lakefront offers a very enjoyable two-hour romantic journey guaranteed to keep you laughing and rooting for these lost and lonely souls looking for their soulmate.…
Focusing on four lonely people in Southern California, it dramatizes the ever-shifting facets of our relationships as we struggle to be vulnerable and honest with others and ourselves.…
Beautifully and tenderly directed by Matthew McCray, this ferociously performed and often visually hypnotic intimate production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is such a pleasant surprise, instantly becoming one of Chance Theater's most piercingly emotional new musicals it has ever produc…
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
CalArts Dance: Emergent Forms is presented by REDCAT at Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater on May 13-14, 2026, showcasing the choreographic and performance achievements of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance's 2026 undergraduate class. Choreographers James Gregg, T. Akuchu...
Abigail Raphael Collins presents BLACKOUT, an experimental documentary exploring the intersections of the film and television industry with the US military. Drawing from a queer, feminist perspective, the work delves into generational legacies of trauma, silence, and the...
Hande Sever presents Take off your eyes, a solo exhibition that explores cultural and political archives through the lens of personal and collective memory. Featuring two significant bodies of work, the exhibition highlights Sever's research on historical narratives influenced...
The Wooster Group presents the West Coast premiere of Symphony of Rats, a reimagining of Richard Foreman's 1988 play, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk. Set in a spaceship-museum gallery, the production follows a president receiving mysterious messages as he...
REDCAT presents the world premiere of Reorient the Orient, renowned choreographer Lionel Popkin’s career retrospective on Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10, 2024. Popkin draws from his nearly 30-year archive of dance-making in this durational (8 hours) performance event and...
A powerful double bill by Irish composer Emma O'Halloran.LA Opera's multi-season collaboration with the groundbreaking Beth Morrison Projects continues with a double bill of extraordinary West Coast premieres by Irish composer Emma O'Halloran.In the compelling monodrama Mary...
CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) will present the World premier of Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side by legendary playwright Adrienne Kennedy . Etta & Ella Harrison are talented academics on the Upper West Side – as well as sisters and rivals, on the verge of...
CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) kicks off its 20th anniversary season on Thursday, September 29, 2022, with the World Premiere of Scene with Cranes, written by acclaimed playwright Octavio Solis, directed by Chi-wang Yang. It will run from September 29 through October...
From modern to postmodern, hip hop to contemporary ballet, the program includes repertory from iconic choreographers, including Trisha Brown, Rennie Harris, Merce Cunningham, and others staged by CalArts faculty and guest artists who have deep first-hand knowledge of the work...
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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They're Playing our song The General Gomez Art and Event Center (9/18-10/04) |
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Duck Pond by Circa The Soraya (11/01-11/01) |
