The Skirball’s three new spring exhibitions arrive not as a neatly unified curatorial statement, but as something far more compelling: a meditation on the many ways culture is made, inherited, challenged, and...
Newly installed Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Brian Sonia-Wallace today announced an art installation If These Stalls Could Talk, which will be available on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center in Downtown Los...
One performance only! This coming Saturday, May 16, at 7:30pm, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents Bang on a Can All-Stars in a powerful live tribute, Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1996. Tickets...
“Why was I born if it wasn’t forever?” In case anyone is ever in need of a reminder of their mortality, Eugène Ionesco’s 1962 play, Exit the King, has helpfully been provided to the world as a reminder...
The atomic age, the space race, the prospective colonization of the moon—the post-war years of the mid-Twentieth Century ushered in a thrilling era, shimmering with the promise of interstellar exploration. All...
A new stage production exploring the personal side of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is preparing for a special live audience recording later this month in Los Angeles County. Experiencing the...
Coming to the Getty Center museum in May/June are three upcoming – free – film screenings that will focus on a variety of artists and their work. The Getty Center has announced the exciting lineup as part...
Shared reality is a concept I was just introduced to last week, when I was one of the lucky few to be invited to a preview of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at Cosm LA. The experience was so dazzling, I...
You are invited to relive the magic of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in an entirely new way – via Shared Reality. The first of the beloved original Harry Potter movies is coming to Cosm Los Angeles...
The phrase “for want of a horse” is most commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack from 1758, describing the cascading effect of how the absence of one small, necessary thing can affect many...
Thousands of hands built this place. Opening to the public on May 4th the LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries were designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and twenty years in the making. This grand new wing is both...
:: STOP PRESS:: Hell Mouth has been extended through June 6, 2026 I am a longtime fan of Tom Jacobson’s theatrical work. I think he’s one of Los Angeles’ best playwrights, and he has been for decades. He’s...
These days, when I read that a particular play has won the Pulitzer Prize, I unfairly become a bit more dubious of that work’s quality. The same applies to the Tony awards – I’ve just seen so many bad or mediocre plays...
Some parts of the world seem to provide more fertile soil in which plays can grow. Ireland and New York have been especially fruitful, providing O’Neill, Miller, McPherson and McDonagh with plentiful inspiration. The...
Pauline Adamek
Terry Morgan
Kurt Gardner
