Emily Johnson

S T A R R Busby Builds Revolutionary Communal Healing Space At JACK In August

Award-winning composer S T A R R busby builds a revolutionary communal healing space at JACK with Working Up A Surrender: Collective Healing Experiments, running August 15 - August 18, 2024.

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born Reveal New Creative Projects for 2024-25

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born revealed new projects and the Artists Supporting Artists initiatives under Sweat Variant, promoting collaboration and innovation in the arts community. Learn more!

Breaking the Binary Theatre to Launch New Musicals Program with SOLDIERGIRLS

Breaking the Binary Theatre is launching the organization’s New Musicals Program, beginning with a workshop presentation of SOLDIERGIRLS. Learn more about the program!

Upcoming Charlotte Street Exhibition Invites Viewers To READ THE ROOM

Explore the new Charlotte Street exhibition, 'Read The Room,' featuring interactive installations and thought-provoking art pieces.

Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at TheatreSquared

What did our critic think of CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at TheatreSquared?

OPERA America Announces the Recipients of 2024 Repertoire Development Grants

OPERA America has announced the recipients of its 2024 Repertoire Development Grants.

Review: Green Room 42 Boasts a Rainbow of Musical Colors from BMI's NEW WRITERS

The next generation of songwriters is busy working and took a night off to play and sing at The Green Room 42 on February 3rd. A full room of supportive music appreciators heard some new musical theatre-style material based on assignments like 'Imagine Blanche DuBois singing' or 'write a love song without the word 'love.''

Up Until Now Collective Brings Their Fully Accessible, Multi-Sensory Immersive Installation To JACK This March

Up Until Now Collective brings a multi-sensory installation to JACK! Experience a unique immersive art experience from March 8th - March 24th.

JACK Launches 2024 Season With Cristina Pitter Installation & Ceremony As Part Of The Exponential Festival

JACK launches 2024 season with Cristina Pitter installation & ceremony as part of the Exponential Festival. Performances January 10th - 13th.

Deepali Gupta's Musical Tragedy Premieres This Weekend At JACK!

Deepali Gupta's Musical Tragedy, Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta premieres this weekend at JACK, running November 10 - November 28, 2023.

Han Chen to Perform György Ligeti's 18 Etudes and New Commissions at National Sawdust

Join pianist Han Chen at National Sawdust on September 24, 2023, for a captivating solo recital featuring György Ligeti's remarkable 18 Etudes and new commissions from talented composers. Celebrating Ligeti's centenary birthday, this concert promises an unforgettable evening of piano music.

CLYMOVE Dance Honors ELISA MONTE

Dancer/choreographer Clymene Aldinger announces her company CLYMOVE's spring season May 26 & 27, presenting Time Signatures, an evening of nine contemporary dance pieces, all choreographed by Aldinger, and consisting of a series of solos, trios, and quartets, performed by four outstanding dancers whose divergent and contrasting life experiences celebrate the Company's individual uniqueness and shared humanity. 

Allison Griffith and Friends Get Honest in New Show at the Green Room 42

Allison Griffith (Burning Man: the musical) is back at The Green Room 42 and is feeling recklessly honest.  It's been 5 years since her last solo show, and when compared to the basic musical theatre bitch she was last time, things are looking wildly different and the messy weirdo has crafted some chaos this go around. 

Eisa Davis Transforms JACK Into A Contemporary Art Museum Next Month

Award-winning creator and performer Eisa Davis transforms JACK into a contemporary art museum hosting The Essentialisn't—a transatlantic undrowning—in a pasture of hair.

JACK Kicks Off Their Spring/Summer Season With Black And Asian Solidarity With BĀS: THE HARMONY BETWEEN ME AND YOU

JACK kicks off their Spring/Summer season with Black and Asian solidarity presenting Janelle Lawrence and Sugar Vendil,

Alexandra Billings & Jane Kaczmarek to be Featured in INTO THE WOODS Presented by Pasadena Playhouse & P.U.S.D.

In a landmark partnership, Pasadena Playhouse has been collaborating with all of the high schools of Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) over the past 6 months to realize the students’ vision of Into the Woods.

Emily Johnson / Catalyst Brings BEING FUTURE BEING to BroadStage Next Month

 Emily Johnson/Catalyst's new evening-length performance, Being Future Being, integrates movement, images, story, and sound in a kinetically rich social architecture that centers Indigenous thrivance.   

Emily Johnson to Premiere BEING FUTURE BEING at BroadStage in September

Being Future Being will have its world premiere at BroadStage at Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, September 8–10, 2022, followed by performances at New York Live Arts, October 20–22.

BroadStage Announces 2022/23 Season and New Look

Artistic and Executive Director Rob Bailis and BroadStage Board of Directors Chair Jennifer Diener announce the 2022/23 BroadStage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center season with thirty-three offerings that include three world premieres.

Dance/NYC Announces Dance Advancement Fund 2022�"2023 Grantees

The service organization Dance/NYC has announced the 37 recipients and 8 runner ups of the 2022–2023 Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the generous support of the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The purpose of the funding initiative is to address the inequitable distribution of resources in the dance field and advance its resilience and thriving by supporting dance making organizations and groups with budgets between $10,000 and $500,000.