Comedian Maria Bamford brings her singularly inventive style to Largo at the Coronet for an evening of stand-up and special guests. Known for deeply personal comedy, expressive character work, and an ability to turn anxiety, family dynamics, and everyday awkwardness into sharply observed humor, Bamford creates performances that can shift from intimate storytelling to wonderfully […]
Based on the bestselling novel, Water for Elephants brings a sweeping story of love, reinvention, and adventure to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in a spectacle-filled Broadway musical. After losing everything that once defined his life, a young man impulsively jumps aboard a moving train and finds himself welcomed into the extraordinary world of a traveling […]
The critically acclaimed The Year We Disappeared returns for a limited engagement with a darkly comic look at one of the defining anxieties of the present: the climate crisis. Framed through the world of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the production intertwines stories of queer identity, bullying, shame, personal transformation, and even a journey back to the […]
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a rare revival of José Rivera’s Obie-winning Marisol, a dreamlike blend of magical realism, Theatre of the Absurd, dark humor, and poetic storytelling. After her guardian angel abandons her to join a celestial war, Bronx resident Marisol Pérez is left to navigate a terrifying world that seems to be coming […]
Based on the 1999 cult-classic film created by Darren Stein, who also writes the book for the stage adaptation, Jawbreaker The Musical reimagines the darkly comic story of popularity, status, and teenage power as a high-energy theatrical event. Set in the ruthless social world of Reagan High, the musical follows a clique of teenage girls […]
Moving Arts presents the world premiere of In the Tomb of Ten Thousand Calendars, an ambitious drama by Stephen Dierkes that unfolds across three moments in Chinese history—1620, 1966, and the present day—all within the tomb of a Ming emperor. Across four centuries, the play follows intimate stories of people confronting family, political upheaval, memory, […]
Project Hail Mary brings its sweeping science-fiction adventure to The Montalbán Rooftop for an open-air screening under the Hollywood sky. The story follows a science teacher who awakens alone aboard a spacecraft with little memory of how he got there, gradually discovering that he has been entrusted with a mission that could determine the fate […]
JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles explores the remarkable global rise of sushi with a special conversation and dining experience featuring Kiyoshi Kimura, the celebrated founder of Sushizanmai and one of Japan’s best-known figures in the seafood industry. Joined by Tsunetoshi Tanaka of Mitsubishi Corporation, the program looks at how Japanese cuisine has expanded in the United […]
Hollywood Heritage invites guests inside its Preservation Resource Center for a rare look at Hollywood in Miniature, a remarkable vintage model created by woodworker Joe Pellkofer in the 1930s. Once designed to travel around the country as a miniature representation of Hollywood, the model preserves a tiny vision of the famed movie capital from an […]
Los Angeles-based artist Vanessa Prager returns to Diane Rosenstein Gallery with Talk to Me, a new series of ten richly textured impasto oil paintings that expands her earlier interest in portraiture into exuberant still lifes. Domestic objects, food, flowers, screens, patterns, and glimpses of people accumulate across the canvases, turning the everyday environment into a […]
Emmanuel Louisnord Desir: Rough Ways of The Delicate Ones marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with Sebastian Gladstone and brings together eight new works exploring metamorphosis, endurance, faith, and reclamation. Desir’s sculptural figures combine bodies, creatures, machines, and symbolic forms, creating armored yet vulnerable beings shaped by the pressures of history, belief, and survival. Across […]
Vera Palme: Everything but Perspective brings the artist’s work to Hoffman Donahue’s Los Angeles space for a solo presentation centered on her distinctive approach to painting. The exhibition’s title points toward a deliberate resistance to conventional pictorial depth, inviting viewers instead to focus on surface, gesture, material, and the visual tension created within the picture […]
