Sunday, February 8, 2026
California-based dance company, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, makes its Soraya debut on February 21 with one of their most noteworthy creations set to the work of jazz prodigy Alice Coltrane.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:12PM[SHARE]Jazz at Naz 2026 Builds Momentum as Festival Heads Into Final Weeks Widely considered one of the best winter jazz festivals on the West Coast, the fifth annual Jazz at Naz festival is enteri…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2026
L.A.'s oldest non-profit professional theater company, Company of Angels, announces the world premiere of Red Harlem, a new play based on true events from the Great Depression, when the Sovi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2026
The internationally acclaimed Compagnie Hervé Koubi makes its long-awaited Los Angeles Premiere at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. For three nights only, February 19, 2…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:36PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA), with the support of Eastman Museum Los Angeles, presents Women Curators, the final event in its Year of the Woman series, on Monday, March 2, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
The Monkey's Paw story trope remains one of the most adaptable and enduring narrative devices in literature and film. Its core premise revolves around an object (originally an actual mummifi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2026
The Chromolume Theatre has announced its 2026 season of musicals at The Zephyr on Melrose in Los Angeles. Themed as a season of identify and expression, it will kick off in March with The Co…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:32PM[SHARE]The 30 Minutes or Less Festival returns this week with a high‑energy lineup of bold, compact performances designed to captivate both seasoned theatergoers and curious newcomers. Runni…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:32PM[SHARE]On February 10, 2026, LA Opera will present a recital showcasing Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez. One of the most celebrated singers of our time, Mr. Flórez is hailed for his fearless…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2026
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SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:24PM[SHARE]Making its West Coast premiere at the BroadStage, and created and performed by Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here is a 90-minute solo show that explores the twisted motivation and hidden …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:24PM[SHARE]Following a triple extended engagement in New York, a box office record-breaking two-week run in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and a six-week London run"which Dame Judi Dench called 'Spec…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:24PM[SHARE]In Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, the stage is set for a riveting rivalry between two composers: Antonio Salieri, the court's celebrated musician, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the vulgar prodigy w…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
Those clowns of The Troubadour Theater Company are back with their wacky antics, returning to the stage with one of their most explosive Holiday productions, Die Heart: The Director's Cut. T…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
 Wordless Music and Sister Midnight, in collaboration with KCRW, announce a year-long series of screenings with live film scores featuring four landmark A24 titles, presented as a singul…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:31PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
The Los Angeles and Off-Broadway New York sensation, described as a one-of-a-kind, cult hit stage show, Santasia is a hilarious sketch comedy and musical combo that embraces the iconic momen…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:42PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
Vive la France! Possibly one of the most romantic and beloved operas of all time, Giacomo Puccini's grand Parisian romance La Bohème is once again given the classic treatment in LA Opera's …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
Art and Ocean Conservation intersect! Two timely projects, both led by female artists, have been created to invite the public to engage directly with Southern California's ocean heritage, wh…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
AFI FEST 2025: The Big Moments, the Breakouts, and the Industry Buzz The 39th edition of AFI FEST, held October 22"26 in Hollywood, delivered one of its most star-packed and internationally …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:02PM[SHARE]The Soraya's resident dance company Ballet BC returned with a trio of modern ballets that defy description. How do you find the words to capture and convey the experience of these utterly th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:02PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
Get ready to tumble into a world where nothing is quite what it seems. Visionary choreographer Moses Pendleton, the mastermind behind MOMIX's internationally acclaimed physical-theater spect…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2025
 MOCA is staging a symposium with esteemed musicologists, historians, composers and musicians in November. Organized by artist Hague Yang and MOCA, Star-Crossed Rendezvous: The Musica…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
Ring in the holidays with the LA Phil and special guests at Walt Disney Concert Hall! It's practically the most wonderful time of the year! Gather at Walt Disney Concert Hall for family s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PM[SHARE]Making its highly anticipated world premiere this past weekend, Sarah Kirkland Snider's new opera Hildegard, about an important medieval composer and mystic, proved a dazzling experience. Mu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Benjamin Britten's chilling opera The Turn of the Screw (1954) is a haunting psychological thriller that transforms Henry James's ghost story into an intense chamber opera of ambiguity and d…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:12PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
 An ancient legend first popularized in sixteenth-century Germany, the Faustian bargain warns of trading one's soul or moral integrity for power, beauty, or success, only to pay a terrib…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
 Max Minghella's body horror The Shell emerges from the same vein as Coralie Fargeat's The Substance. They each explore the specter of aging, of impossible beauty standards, and the frag…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PM[SHARE]An ancient legend first popularized in sixteenth-century Germany, the Faustian bargain warns of trading one's soul or moral integrity for power, beauty, or success, only to pay a terrible pr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:24PM[SHARE]An ancient legend first popularized in sixteenth-century Germany, the Faustian bargain warns of trading one's soul or moral integrity for power, beauty, or success, only to pay a terrible pr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:24PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
With a splashy studio action picture starring Glen Powell, The Running Man, set for release in November, I thought it was a good time to reflect on the first film adaptation from 1987. Starr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2025
Last night at The Soraya the joint was jumping and the band was swinging in celebration of the great musical artist Quincy Jones. The Pacific Jazz Orchestra was led by arranger Chris Walden,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:48PM[SHARE] 
