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 […]
David Zwirner presents Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw, a major exhibition exploring the photographer’s enduring fascination with the relationship between image and sound. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, the presentation brings together more than 130 photographs created between the late 1940s and the 1960s, making it the largest showing of this body of work […]
Mae Martin, Alana Johnston, and Matt Folliott join forces for a fast-moving night of improv built entirely from audience suggestions. The trio brings together sharply different comic instincts, creating a performance where characters, relationships, and increasingly absurd situations can develop in real time. The spontaneous format keeps the evening loose and unpredictable, with the performers […]
Award-winning comedian, writer, actor, director, and producer Mo Amer takes over the Hollywood Improv Main Room for a two-night stand-up engagement. Best known as the creator and star of the Peabody-winning Netflix series Mo, Amer draws on his experiences as a Palestinian refugee, his upbringing in Houston, and questions of identity, displacement, family, and belonging […]
Max Frisch’s The Arsonists is a razor-sharp satire about respectability, self-deception, and the human tendency to ignore danger even when it is sitting directly in front of us. As arsonists begin setting fires in neighboring towns, the Biedermanns remain convinced that such a disaster could never reach their own home—until a stranger arrives at their […]
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, […]
