Monday, August 5, 2024
As of early August 2024, there are 12 performances remaining in the Santa Fe Opera season for this year.
Attending the Santa Fe Opera can be a wonderful experience! Here’s what you need…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:02PMFriday, August 2, 2024
Arts Bridging the Gap presents a Community Paint Day – happening on SATURDAY, August 10. Join the crew and do your part to help paint their mural designed by the sixth graders at Grant E…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, July 22, 2024
Did you ever see a show that left your cheeks aching from too much laughter? The smash-hit, home-grown comedy musical Reefer Madness just got extended for another month, so now’s the time …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:12PMSunday, July 14, 2024
Currently on view at The Hammer Museum in Westwood are four summer modern art exhibitions. My review will focus on two of those.
“Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga” on view fr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PMMonday, July 8, 2024
Old California is known for its retro-style lighting fixtures and fine home goods. The company look to the past for inspiration, and so their product design is informed by giants in the anna…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:18PMSunday, July 7, 2024
The illegitimate daughter of a farmer, Eva (Evita) Perón concealed her shameful past as she rose to be Argentina’s First Lady. Her work as an activist for Argentina’s women and working-…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PMBeautifully written by Philip W. Chung, Unbroken Blossoms is a new play that drops us into Hollywood during the late teens. Still wounded from the criticism and accusations of racism for his…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PMSaturday, July 6, 2024
Hollywood Chamber Orchestra presents Grammy-award winning conductor Lucas Richman and 13-year-old piano prodigy Yuze Lee who will both make their Walt Disney Concert Hall debut on Sa…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:48PMSunday, June 30, 2024
Last night in L.A., the place to be was the Hollywood Bowl. Legendary hip hop outfit The Roots hosted a concert celebrating decades of hip hop music and the resulting collab was an event tha…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:32PMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Tiny Father, written by Mike Lew, feels like one of those plays based on real events that the playwright feels compelled to illuminate. The story begins in a low-lit but sterile-looking hosp…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:06PMMonday, June 24, 2024
The Santa Fe Opera presents its 19th World Premiere opening on July 13: The Righteous from collaborators composer Gregory Spears and librettist Tracy K. Smith.
The piece explores the int…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:42PMSaturday, June 22, 2024
A high point of every Summer, the Santa Fe Opera season is hugely anticipated each year. This year’s season reflects the Santa Fe Opera’s commitment to a diverse repertoire and promises …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:54PMOn Saturday July 6th, Beck teams up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Steven Reineke, conducting) to deliver a one-of-a-kind live performance at the Hollywood Bowl.
Beck Hansen, known m…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:54PMFriday, June 21, 2024
An inspired mash-up between two works, The Comet / Poppea is a new opera from The Industry, conceived by company founder and co-artistic director, Yuval Sharon, and composed by George Lewis…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:42PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
In D.W. Griffith’s 1919 feature film Broken Blossoms, a young girl, Lucy Burrows, is abused by her alcoholic prizefighting father, Battling Burrows. She meets Cheng Huan, a kind-hearted Ch…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:06PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Suave, sensual and elegant, The Batette Follies of 1939 is the newest show from Australian film, TV, theatre, and publishing maverick, Russall S. Beattie—the visionary who brought us The…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24AMFriday, June 7, 2024
Giacomo Puccini’s lush and exotic Turandot is widely considered to be one of the grandest of grand operas. An opera in three acts, it was composed by Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Gi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:54PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
This WeHo Pride, be on the lookout for typewriters. LGBTQ+ poetry group Pride Poets will be standing by waiting to listen to your story and turn it into poetry, on the spot, for you to take …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:18PMIt was a stunning ‘upset’ when Bob Dylan went electric. The folk singer was already a legend, thanks to his scathing commentary in support of the Civil Rights movement. But when Dylan de…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMComing to the Hollywood Bowl in June is the Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life. The legendary Roots crew invites their musical heroes and peers to celebrate the first five decades …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMThe Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival is enjoying its fourth decade devoted to staging the finest Jazz acts from all over the world. An eclectic array of artists will grace the Hollywood Bowl‘s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMSingle tickets are now on sale for the Hollywood Bowl‘s spectacular summer season, to all LA Phil summer concerts and events. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced new updates about t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:54PMMonday, May 27, 2024
Based on the spicy memoir Glow, written by Rick James in collaboration with David Ritz, and Memoirs of a Super Freak, also written by Rick James, Super Freak: The Rick James Story the stage …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:03PMSaturday, May 25, 2024
The Industry is thrilled to announce an exciting lineup of conversations with the artists and creators of The Comet / Poppea, presented in partnership with MOCA and made possible by the Jo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:12PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
On June 15, 2024, LA Opera will present soprano Renée Fleming, one of the greatest artists of our time, in recital with pianist Inon Barnatan.
American Soprano Renée Fleming is an ico…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:32PMSynchromy presents Voices From The Hill—A Celebration of Elephant Hill.
This Sunday is the second event of a two-day environmental justice festival featuring music, interactive installa…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:06PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Both funny and poignant, American Mariachi is a beautiful one-act play full of vibrant music and heartfelt emotionality. Presented by The Latino Theater Company and now playing at The Los …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:48AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
A thrilling interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tragic novel is interpreted as an acclaimed ballet.
Considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written, Tolstoy’…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:36PMCreating a groundswell of support, a few years ago comedians from all over – DC, LA, and NYC – came together to fundraise for comedian Jason Sáenz after he fell through a skylight while…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:32PMMonday, April 29, 2024
One night only!! Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s Thresholds of Invention series of first looks at pieces-in-progress by prominent L.A. visionaries presents In Some Dark Valley: The Testimony …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:42PMMonday, April 15, 2024
Could there be anything more thrillingly romantic than an on-stage marriage proposal?
Life and romance intersects with art. Local operatic lovebirds – Jamie and Nathan Granner – are s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:18PM 
