Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces SLEEP SQUAD, a family-friendly, interactive, virtual theater experience from The Story Pirates and Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price (Jagged Little Pill, Peter and the Starcatcher), available for purchase over a two-week period beginning March 29 through April 11, 2021.
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces Hershey Felder, PUCCINI, a world premiere live streamed musical event produced by HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS – LIVE FROM FLORENCE and benefiting The Wallis, on Sunday, March 14, 2021, 5 pm Pacific, and available for on-demand streaming through Sunday, March 21.
Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts announces three live streamed World Premiere musical events produced by HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS – LIVE FROM FLORENCE benefiting The Wallis, including Hershey Felder as Sholem Aleichem in BEFORE FIDDLER – Live from Florence, Hershey Felder: PUCCINI – Live from Florence, and Hershey Felder as Sergei Rachmaninoff in ANNA & SERGEI – Live from Florence.
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance has teamed up with two of Los Angeles’ foremost cultural organizations—the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts—to launch Films.Dance, a groundbreaking new global free film series.
Just in time for the holidays, Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts brings audiences a magical musical, created with new cutting-edge technology, that is sure to become new a holiday tradition – the World Premiere of Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist.
The magical world of artist Marc Chagall and his wife Bella is tenderly brought to life in Daniel Jamieson's THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK presented by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on demand December 11-18, 2020.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces two live streamed musical events produced by HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS – LIVE FROM FLORENCE, featuring Hershey Felder.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents a four-part digital series featuring violinist Vijay Gupta, cellist Peter Myers and pianist Suzana Bartal performing composer Reena Esmaila??s Piano Trio, which blurs the boundaries between Indian and Western classical music.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents a digital engagement of WIESENTHAL, the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production based on the life of Simon Wiesenthal written by and starring Tom Dugan, available digitally from October 20 through 27, 2020.
Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic and Plush Theatricals, in conjunction with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, announces the cast for Emma Rice's critically acclaimed musical Romantics Anonymous, which will be performed live in the U.K. as part of a 'digital tour' that will livestream in the U.S. as a benefit for a collective of theaters across the country, including The Wallis in Beverly Hills, CA, on Saturday, September 26, 2020, 1 pm (PDT).
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces a one-time-only live-streamed broadcast of the Wise Children production of ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, a new musical experience presented live from the UK's Bristol Old Vic, to benefit The Wallis, on Saturday, September 26, 2020, 1 pm (PDT).
With the spirit of hope driving forward plans for the future, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has established Hope @ The Wallis, which includesthe announcement by Artistic Director Paul Crewes of the appointment of virtuoso violinist and consummate musician Daniel Hope as The Wallis' next Artist-In-Residence in collaboration with the New Century Chamber Orchestra. In addition, a major resiliency campaign and community match/challenge to support The Wallis' performing arts offerings was announced by Rachel Fine, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts received a $20,000 grant from the California Arts Council that will help support The Wallis School Partners Program, which provides the opportunity for students from K-12 schools within Los Angeles County to attend student matinee performances featuring some of the world class artists presented on The Wallis' stages. The program, which serves thousands of young people annually, provides opportunities for students to experience the best in the performing arts at the state-of-the-art venue, fostering growth through the arts. The Wallis School Partners Program is part of GRoW @ The Wallis, the umbrella for a robust mix of education and outreach programs at The Wallis.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces HERSHEY FELDER as IRVING BERLIN, a one-time-only live streamed broadcast musical event presented live from Florence, Italy, to benefit The Wallis, on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10, 2020, at 5 pm (PST).
Los Angeles-based dance company, Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) presents Illuminating the Chandelier through Zoom video streaming on April 30th at 5PM PST.
Heidi Duckler Dance, noted for presenting site-specific work in extraordinary locations, continues that trajectory while addressing the current health crisis with the premiere of Illuminating The Chandelier, livestreaming on Thursday, April 30, 2020, at 5 pm (PST), and subsequently available on demand.
Acclaimed dancer/choreographer Debbie Allen leads a free livestreaming salsa class on Sunday, April 26, 2020
Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman presents his latest solo project, Bach's Complete Cello Suites on the violin, in a free Facebook Live event from his East Coast home on Thursday, March 31, 2020, 3:00 pm (PST).
The Wallis has announced the cancellation or postponement of all April and May events. The letter the company sent to its patrons is below.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in association with BODYTRAFFIC will present the world premiere of The Minghella Project, a heartfelt tribute to the late Oscar-winning writer/director Anthony Minghella (1954-2008), who wrote the texts for the four dance works that comprise the piece. The Wallis' first original dance production, The Minghella Project features its 2019/2020 Company-In-Residence, BODYTRAFFIC, on April 18, 19, 29 and 30, and May 1 and 2, 2020, in The Wallis' Bram Goldsmith Theater.
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