Armenian pianist and composer Artur Zakiyan returns to Catalina Jazz Club for two intimate solo-piano performances shaped by his cultural roots and a richly cinematic musical sensibility. His style blends classical technique with atmospheric textures and the emotional character of Armenian musical traditions. The program features Zakiyan’s original compositions, masterpieces of Armenian music, and selected […]
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 […]
Speak Low Productions reimagines Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet as a gender-reversed story set inside a nostalgic 1980s American high school, while preserving Shakespeare’s original language. Against a world of family rivalry, ambition, expectation, and social pressure, Romeo and Juliet risk everything to pursue a connection that defies the roles others have chosen for them. The […]
Grammy-nominated and six-time Juno-winning singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez brings her raw, emotionally charged blend of R&B and pop to Blue Note Los Angeles for two intimate performances. Known for fearless songwriting and an unmistakably expressive voice, Reyez moves between vulnerability, confrontation, love, and self-discovery with a directness that has made her one of contemporary R&B’s most […]
The Mountain Digby is a hilariously gruesome new musical about brothers Robbie and Nyle Digby, who have spent their lives isolated atop their family mountain while generations of townspeople below have built a monstrous mythology around them. When a bureaucratic technicality suddenly threatens their claim to the land, the brothers are forced down into town […]
Madame Dee brings Hot, Live & Otherwise to Catalina Jazz Club for an evening of soulful vocals, bold energy, and charismatic live performance. Presented by Goddess Empire Entertainment, the show is built around Dee’s stage presence and expressive delivery, creating a lively night that moves through contemporary jazz and soul with plenty of personality. The […]
Author Matthew J. Prigge discusses Dog’s Day: The True Story of a Bank Robbery, Gay Liberation, and Toxic Love That Inspired a Hollywood Classic, the stranger-than-fiction account behind the 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery later dramatized in Dog Day Afternoon. The book revisits the story of John Wojtowicz, whose failed heist became a national spectacle and […]
Three-time Grammy-winning poet and artist J. Ivy brings his boundary-pushing blend of spoken word, hip-hop, rhythm, and storytelling to Blue Note Los Angeles, joined by a lineup of special guests. A pioneering figure in hip-hop poetry, Ivy has helped carry spoken word onto major stages and recordings while maintaining a performance style rooted in inspiration, […]
Bassist, singer-songwriter, composer, and music director Aneesa Strings takes the Blue Note Los Angeles stage with a sound shaped by jazz, R&B, pop, and contemporary soul. With degrees from USC and Michigan State University and a career spanning performance, composition, touring, and musical direction, Strings has built an artistic identity centered on storytelling through rhythm, […]
Award-winning author Laleh Khadivi joins Edan Lepucki to discuss Female Life on Planet Earth, a darkly funny and emotionally precise novel about a daughter whose grief is transformed when she discovers that the mother she thought she knew had a hidden and unsettling past. After Ana’s death, Heti receives mysterious photographs that force her to […]
Father John Misty brings a stripped-back solo performance to The Fonda Theatre, placing the spotlight directly on his distinctive songwriting, expressive vocal range, and dry, theatrical storytelling. Unfiltered by full-band arrangements, this intimate setting offers a close-up look at a catalog that effortlessly moves between folk, indie rock, satire, and romanticism. Singer-songwriter Omar Velasco opens […]
Journalist and author Sam Quinones presents Our Lady of the Angels, a photographic and cultural portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe across Los Angeles. The project traces how her image has moved beyond churches and religious spaces into streets, storefronts, murals, and neighborhood walls, where she has become a powerful symbol of protection, identity, migration, […]
