The old factory building on the corner of E. 4th Place and S. Hewitt Street in the Arts District is covered in a dynamic angular mural by Danish artist Mikael B. that resembles neon-colored …
In their newest production which opens this weekend, the Cornerstone family takes a look at the Watts neighborhood's Jordan Downs Housing Project. Dating from the 1940s, the site is currentl…
It may have come out during in the very different early '90s, but the themes and family dynamics in Falsettos still resonate today, especially for the LGBTQ community. With a book written…
Despite its provocative name, the focus of The Pussy Grabber Plays is not about graphic accounts of sexual assault by our current president as claimed by nearly two dozen women. Though it de…
Menopause and mid-life struggles aren't exactly exciting concepts, but Hot Flashin', the new play written, produced and starring Gina Jourard, aims to make it a memorable theatrical explorat…
Based on Jacqueline Susann's novel, 1967's Valley of the Dolls was a campy and trashy flop. But it's a beloved flop, filled with glamorous costumes, bat shit-crazy acting and such quotable l…
When it comes to comedy, two heads are quite often better than one. Same can go for music. Sirius XM Radio host Seth Rudetsky ("On Broadway" and "Seth Speaks")Â is bringing in an extra hot…
In the new play Wild Son: The Testimony of Christian Brando, the troubled Hollywood figure's friend Champ Clark shares his intimate perspective and a first-hand portrait, based mostly …
Presented in Spanish with English supertitles, the Latino Theatre Company's Revolutions/Revoluciones promises a colorful "theatrical fever dream," as it chronicles the story of a mother tryi…
From a bountiful Easter brunch and a 4/20 "high" tea to the return of Esa-Pekka Salonen and Dr. Ruth herself, here are the 14 best things to do in Los Angeles this week!
The art of puppetry is often dismissed as light entertainment only for children, but the presentation of Mementos Mori at the Broad Stage promises to be something entirely different. The apt…
Source Material, the company Samantha Shay founded in Iceland and New York after attending CalArts in Los Angeles, is a revolving extended family of interdisciplinary music, visual and theat…
In her essay "The White Album," Joan Didion conflated her impressions of such 1960s touchstones as the Black Panthers, The Doors and The Manson Family into a wide-ranging look at the era in …
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it in dew, cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two? The touring cast of Broadway's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would want you to believe that they d…
Zipper Concert Hall is part of the Colburn School. Named after the late composer-educator Herbert Zipper, who survived experiences in Nazi concentration camps and incarceration by Japanese f…
Not to be confused with The Broad art museum downtown, the Broad Stage is a multidimensional performing arts space that's like a miniature version of the Music Center, updated and relocated …
In some ways, the Vista Theater in Los Feliz is more of an Egyptian-style theater than the Egyptian Theatre a couple miles to the west in Hollywood. While both theaters have beautiful exteri…
The Artadia Awards were founded to fill the chasm in individual artist grants left by the dissolution of the National Endowment for the Arts program in the late 1990s. Argote and Athey will …
From a selection of events to mark International Women's Day to a pow wow at Cal State Long Beach, a celebration of the humanities and a discussion of truth, here are the 14 best things t…
Musical parodies of pop culture movie faves have been so done. But that doesn't mean they still can't slay, especially when they gather four of the drag world's most talented and treacherous…
Since its debut in the early 1980s, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has become a classic, but a divisive one, with people either loving it or hating it with equal passion. With the musical playin…
Commissioned for the L.A. Phil's centennial, Thought Experiments in F# Minor is, roughly, a narrated walking tour featuring surround-sound headphones and a 40-minute video guiding you throug…
In both his life and his art, fashion designer Alexander McQueen was thoroughly outrageous, so it's more than fitting that his final hour before his suicide in 2011 has inspired not a book o…
In Amy Raasch's theatrical piece The Animal Monologues, which she performed solo at Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica on Saturday, Feb. 23, the actor artfully embodied the unexpected …
Actor/performance artist Amy Raasch looks at human behavior from the perspective of various wild and captive creatures " and vice versa " through a series of surreal vignettes that initially…