Review: A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
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Review: THE VISIT at Pasadena Playhouse
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse
Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with iden…
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS bears the imprint of its original director, the uber-talented Jessica Stone, and a team of collaborators who span a whole mess of creative genres. Along with their marvelous ensemble, they take us away.…
Review: ANTIGONE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF KINGS at Getty Villa & Latino Theater Company
Beneath the florid poetry, the stunningly-detailed costumes, and the imagistic staging, Sophocles would instantly recognize the overarching humanity that has carried his play through the centuries.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company
Rooted in Faustian legend, a horticultural horror musical takes over Tulare for the next three weeks. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors highlights the dangers of greed and talking plants as destitute protagonist Seymour Krelbourn discovers his mysterious fly-trap plant may sud…
Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court
In staging the west coast premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation, director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck and her cast are working their Helicanuses and Thaisas off to keep this lesser-staged romance punchy and relevant…
Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre
Swiss writer Max Frisch’s post–World War II absurdist satire THE ARSONISTS hit Los Feliz like a blow torch, scorching everything in its path.…
Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
Review: IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
Past Shows
107 total · showing 91–100
FeaturedReel Change: Kris Bowers
Emmy Award-winning composer and jazz pianist Kris Bowers has been celebrated for his score to films and shows like Green Book, King Richard, and Bridgerton. This Reel Change program explores Bowers musical voice with selections from his career performed with original short films...
FeaturedReel Change: Hildur Guðnadóttir
Hildur Gunadttir won an Emmy and Grammy in 2019 for her score to Chernobyl and followed it up in 2020 with an Oscar win for Joker and this year a highly celebrated soundtrack for the video game Battlefield 2042. The Icelandic composer and cellist curates an evening featuring...
FeaturedMozart and Ravel
Three Ravel works from different periods of his life showcase his extraordinary orchestral colors, from the tender and swirling tributes to his comrades-in-arms to the inexorable crescendo of Bolero. In addition, acclaimed Korean pianist Sunwook Kim performs one of the most...
FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang
Both Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos are must-see soloists, recognized for their rare technical prowess and musical interpretations. As a team Wang and Kavakos have been regular recital partners, produced a critically acclaimed recording of the Brahms violin sonatas and...
FeaturedRY X with the LA Phil
Lauded for his ethereal vocals and emotionally poignant lyrics, the Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer has notched up a string of sold-out shows across Europe, the U.S., and Australia following the breakout success of his minimalist track Berlin in 2013. He draws an...
FeaturedReich, Adams, and Rachmaninoff
Reichs riveting Runner uses a large ensemble and a constant pulse, drawing melodic threads from its shifting textures. Minimalist melody is also a theme of John Adams Grawemeyer-winning Violin Concerto, for which he crafted his hypermelody, calling on the soloist to spin one...
FeaturedHalloween Organ, Film & Music: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Film critic Leonard Maltin described Clark Wilson as a master of silent film and showman of the first order for his organ accompaniments of silent films. This Halloween, Wilson performs a haunting score for John S. Robertsons 1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore.
FeaturedTchaikovsky and Saariaho with Mälkki
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, who has ferocious technique but is distinguished by her musical intelligence (The New York Times), plays the quintessential Russian piano concerto. The LA Phils brilliant Principal Guest Conductor, Susanna Mlkki, is widely regarded for her skill at...
FeaturedDudamel Conducts Mahler
The title of Jessie Montgomerys Strum alludes to the guitar-like plucking of strings that starts in calm, fleeting nostalgia reminiscent of American folk music but grows into ecstatic celebration. LA Phil Principal Trumpet Thomas Hooten gives the premiere of Trumpet Fantasy by...
FeaturedCameron Carpenter
A smasher of cultural and classical music taboos (Los Angeles Times) and a young superstar who's flamboyant presentation goes hand in hand with unquestioned virtuosity (The New Yorker)
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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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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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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) |
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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
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Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
