Monday, March 2, 2020
Four Larks’ riveting one-act opera Frankenstein is a visual and aural treat that engages you from beginning to end with its marvelous staging, haunting music and mesmerizing performances. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:06PMCritically acclaimed Family Theatre Musical Matinee Series continues its 50th anniversary celebration at Santa Monica Playhouse with the return of the swingin’, toe-tapping musical comedy�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:06PMSunday, February 23, 2020
The Soraya’s intimate onstage Jazz Club continues with the extraordinary Camila Meza who will take to the stage and perform with LA’s own wild Up, sitting in with The Nectar Orchestr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:12PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Clutching a cocktail as she emerges onto the dimly lit
nightclub stage, resplendent in a white satin gown with long white gloves, Karole
Foreman channels tragic Blues legend Billie Holliday …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:06AMSunday, February 16, 2020
National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) has announced the nominees for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMWajatta is the musical duo of beat-boxer/comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist/DJ/producer John Tejada.
The guys’ second single of their second album is out, and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMIn Full Bloom: Transcending Gender is a documentary that follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Regarding the depiction of real estate developers in film and on TV, it’s common to see the developer presented as the antagonist — the villain. Why is this common trope so enduring?
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SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:36PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Announcing a One-Day-ONLY performance of AFTERNOON OF PEACE, a multi-media live event that tells the story of the atom bomb survivors — known as Hibakusha — of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PMThursday, January 30, 2020
Cirque du Soleil’s “Volta.” Courtesy Cirque du Soleil, Photo by Matt Beard.
Dazzling spectacle, breathtaking artistry, effortless grace and elegance – you can experience all the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:42PMKino Lorber announces a nationwide Day of Conversation screenings of documentary AFTER PARKLAND on February 12, 2020 to commemorate the second anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 27 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe.
The …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMThe Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM) performing its original work Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me, a dance performance about the famed p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMNow on view at National History Museum, from OCTOBER 10, 2019 through APRIL 19, 2020 (free with paid museum admission and Free for Members) is the Science of Horror exhibition.
We all s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMThe Industry–the company that created the groundbreaking operatic events Invisible Cities and Hopscotch–now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrat…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:24PMLong Beach Opera (LBO)’s new “UnGala” series continues with Dream Variation–A celebration of Black Composers through history.
Dream Variation will play for One Night Only on Satur…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:06AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Poetry combined with exquisite classical music–what a delightful combination! I interviewed Maestro Carlo Ponti in 2015, not long after he formed his Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra.
T…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:42PMSunday, January 19, 2020
Six new plays by award-winning, mid-career writers get developmental readings over the course of two weekends as part of Antaeus Theatre Company’s second annual LAB RESULTS series.
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SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:48PMCalling all ballet and dance aficionadi!! Two magnificent, world-class ballets can be experienced at The Soraya in Northridge next month, during February. Once again, The Younes and Soraya …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:18AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
The Industry and its Artistic Director Yuval Sharon have announced the world premiere of a new project, Sweet Land. Sweet Land brings together composers Raven Chacon and Du Yun, librettis…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:12PMDowntown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is proud to announce a four-artist show with Iowa-based Vietnamese painter and illustrator Bao Pham, international award-winning Canada-ba…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMThe Los Angeles program for Night of Ideas (La Nuit des Idées), an annual, worldwide event that celebrates the stream of ideas between countries, cultures, and generations. The Natural Hist…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMPerfect outing for the holiday season! Get dolled up in your snazzy best outfit and sing along to White Christmas with Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen. The LA Philharmo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMFeaturing direction and choreography by Matthew Bourne and set to music by Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake is an audacious reimagining of the classical ballet. The New Adventures production of Matthe…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Center Theatre Group has selected two local productions for the fourth annual Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre from March 18 through April 19, 2020.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:24PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
A flash of lightning and a loud crash of thunder makes the entrance of Andy Garcia extra dramatic part way through Act One.
L-R Joely Fisher, Andy Garcia, Danny Pino, Louis Mustillo, and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:48PMFriends of Music at Pasadena Presbyterian Church presents the 75th annual Candlelight and Carols on Saturday, December 7 at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. As with all Friends of Music concerts, th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:48PMThursday, November 21, 2019
The stage is set
with a pile of sand, some rocks, a wooden box with hinges, all flooded by a
deep cobalt blue pool of light. What follows is an intimate monologue that
conveys the grief of A…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:33PMMonday, November 18, 2019
THE TALE OF TURANDOT, Imagine Project Family Theatre (Photo Credit Ed Krieger)
A
sparkling star descends and sprays fairy dust (thanks to the magic of Lily Bartenstein’s effective video…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:03PMA Los Angeles holiday tradition starring Esperanza America (Latino Theatre Company’s The Mother of Henry, A Mexican Trilogy) as the Virgin and featuring over 100 actors, singers and ind…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:03PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Photo by Will Haraldson.
Ecuadorian-born, Los Angeles-based illusionist Siegfried Tieber is currently performing his new magic show in Downtown LA.
Best known for his close-up card wor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:54PM 
