REDCAT presents the Los Angeles premiere of “Infinitely Yours” by animator, designer and performer Miwa Matreyek for three performances Thursday, Jan. 16, through Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. The award-winning interdisciplinary creator brings her nightmarish vision of climate grief to Los Angeles audiences before heading to Park City, Utah, for the work’s world premiere during Sundance Film Festival’s New […]

Long Beach Opera presents a new production of Purcell’s “King Arthur” — a collaboration with Chicano provocateurs Culture Clash and LA’s premiere Baroque orchestra Musica Angelica — for only three performances at Long Beach’s Beverly O’Neill Theatre.  Performances are Sunday, Jan.12, Saturday, Jan.18, and Sunday, Jan.19.    In this world premiere of LBO’s re-imagination of the […]

Jim Ganz, senior curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, called the latest exhibit a “curatorial mixtape.” He chose the phrase because the show is a uniquely collaborative venture with seven curators selecting never-before-exhibited treasures from the archives and displaying them to “create conversations” between the objects. “Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs” […]

“The Steed” opens with a breathtaking and heart-pounding scene. A young boy climbs down a steep rock face high above a raging river. He calls out directions to the rope handler as he navigates to a huge white flower, which he plucks and puts in his bag with a smile. Then he gives directions to […]

The test of a good kid’s play is whether kids like it. Of course. But the test of a great kid’s play is whether the adults that take them to see it like it too. On both of those tests, Imagine Project’s world-premiere ‘The Tale of Turandot’ deserves an A-plus. The company’s inaugural production was […]

The Philharmonic Society of Orange County is offering Culture Spot LA readers discount tickets to the Modigliani Quartet on Friday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m. at the Samueli Theater at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Known for the energy, passion and conviction of their interpretations, the Paris-based musicians behind the Modigliani Quartet bring a […]

Imagine Project presents its inaugural production, the world premiere of “The Tale of Turandot,” a modern theatrical puppetry experience for elementary school-aged children, Nov. 7 through Nov. 17 at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. Imagine Project is Los Angeles’s new Equity theatre for young audiences. The company is dedicated to telling stories that spotlight a diverse array […]

The Philharmonic Society of Orange County is offering 20 percent off tickets to Culture Spot LA readers for Salonen Conducts Die Walküre on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 3 p.m. at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Experience the drama and passion of Wagner’s Romantic masterpiece Die Walküre, as Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Colburn Orchestra in […]

Saudade Theatre, the first and only Portuguese theater company in the United States, presents the world premiere of My Favorite Suicide, written and directed by acclaimed Portuguese playwright Mickaël de Oliveira, in a coproduction with Lisbon-based theater company Colectivo 84. My Favorite Suicide is an apocalyptic play that pits society and nature against each other. One extreme situation is debated […]

Read our story on Siegfried Tieber’s Red Thread and watch this amazing magician fool Penn and Teller, and you will definitely want to go downtown for the show. Even better, you can go for free! It’s magic for Culture Spot LA readers: Send an email to editor@culturespotla.com, and if you win a pair of tickets, […]