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...
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 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...
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...
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...
To celebrate the musical's 40th anniversary, South Coast Reportory recreates INTO THE WOODS with a decisively different approach, one that both entices and, at times, triggers an uneasy vibe (at first) that seems to have permeated out from the show's darker second half. Admittedly, something felt of…
There are no easy answers here, but playwright Janine Nabers raises many questions. What happens when something outside your control forever taints your legacy? How to separate art from artist? How to hold someone accountable even when you love them?…
When the US airspace shut down after the attacks of 9/11, what happened to the planes already on their way? Hit Broadway musical Come From Away, penned by Canadian composer-lyricist couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, recounts the story.…
Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.…
The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…
Following a successful world premiere earlier this year, the theatre-hockey romance play Melt stages its encore at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre. Melt agonizes over missed opportunities and the question “What if?”…
Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.…
The show is a swing for the fences like every show at the underrated and underseen Nocturne is.…
To kick-off the 2026-2027 run of their often Broadway-centric Cabaret Series, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa tapped not only a proven Broadway star, but an OC native, too for a triumphant homecoming concert: Krysta Rodriguez. Marking her Center cabaret debut, Rodriguez performed to rap…
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
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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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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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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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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
