146 stories by "Deborah Vankin"
After watching AI threaten her livelihood and creative future, 'Younger' author Pamela Redmond turned to the most human medium she could find: her body. Her one-woman show 'Old Woman Naked' …
Wallis Annenberg, philanthropist who made massive donations to arts, education and animal welfare causes and whose name is on venues around Los Angeles County, has died.
18th Street Arts Center has been awarded a $3-million California Creative Corps grant from the California Arts Council to expand its Culture Mapping 90404 project statewide.
The art and science behind the design of the Academy Museum's new theater seats " and tips for the best seat in the house.
Artist Catherine Opie, incoming chair of UCLA's art department, steps back from her role at MOCA and will fundraise for student scholarships instead.
Walt Disney Concert Hall welcomes audiences at long last with a June 26 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert. Here's how it will work.
BIPOC and LGBTQ actors including Jeremy Pope and Guillermo Diaz will read the Larry Kramer play in an event organized by USC's ONE Archives.
L.A. County supervisors support continuation of community arts grants for nonprofits serving youth and other underserved communities.
Los Angeles County of Museum of Art will reopen its galleries April 1. As of now, it's set to be the first major L.A. museum to welcome back guests.
The new L.A. Arts Recovery Fund initiated by the J. Paul Getty Trust will support small and medium-sized arts nonprofits.
Mike Kelley Foundation is giving $400,000 in grants to help small, pandemic-hit groups paying salaries, making rent and 'just keeping the lights on.'
The Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that it will make admission free " a switch made possible by $10-million gift from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Powers. Powers made t…
Ellen Reid, the Los Angeles composer whose debut opera centered on a young woman's agonizing struggle with the psychological effects of sexual assault, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music. …
With Brad Pitt and Diane Keaton as its cheering section, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art won unanimous approval Tuesday from the county Board of Supervisors for a $650-million new home …
Ai Weiwei is weary from travel. The Chinese artist and human rights activist shuffles into the Marciano Art Foundation's cavernous Theater Gallery " he arrived in L.A. from Berlin just last …
"The Band's Visit" may have claimed 10 trophies at the Tony Awards last week, but it also scored a big win offstage as well: a bump in music streaming. Since the June 10 ceremony, streaming …
Bruce Springsteen may have been born to run, but Sunday evening, after an introduction by his buddy Billy Joel, the Boss casually made his way up to the Radio City Music Hall stage to accept…
There's a thing or two to kvetch about at Eclectic Company Theatre in Valley Village. For one, parking is limited. And the building is old and idiosyncratic: Company members have to reach be…
The national tour that left Hollywood at the end of last year has circled back and landed in Orange County, where tickets are still available for $200 to $300 for many dates. The $10 ticket …
"Hamilton" ticket-buying frenzies may be legendary: the swiftly sold-out shows, the unwieldy lines, the digital ticket lotteries, the third-party ticket prices that soar into the thousands o…
Paula Vogel's "Indecent" and Matthew Bourne's "Cinderella" have been added to the Center Theatre Group's 2018-19 season at the Ahmanson Theatre.
The letter was more than 1,000 years old. In 1900, a Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu unearthed an ancient Buddhist cave library near the town of Dunhuang in western China. When he pried open t…
With a 24/7 news cycle delivering one stress-inducing headline after another, it may feel like a hard-knock life. But when the Hollywood Bowl announces its 2018 lineup Wednesday, the summer …
Here's an exclusive early look at the Hollywood Bowl's summer lineup, which features more dance (including Savion Glover and Lil Buck), some big classical names (Thomas Adès) and throwback …
The 2017 MacArthur fellows have been revealed, and among the honorees are an experimental opera director, a freewheeling novelist exploring the moral complexities of the Vietnam War, a Niger…