Los Angeles Events Calendar
10:00am
Visual Arts
On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues
What does the study of languages teach us about our shared history?Experience B.A. Van Sise’s poetic, visual, and linguistic invitation to reflect on the complex cultural heritage and diversity of the country. These portraits and languages are presented together to…
10:00am
Visual Arts
Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain reimagine old and new ways of understanding trees at a time when technology further removes us from the natural world. In Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology, artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken…
10:00am
Visual Arts
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion
Ever wondered what artist inspires much of today’s fashion?Explore the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This exhibition includes a selection of over sixty garments drawn from the DVF archives along with artwork, ephemera, fabric swatches…
1:00pm
Theater | Storytelling
The Princess and The Frog
The Princess and the Frog is the classic musical story of a prince who cares only about himself. He learns a lesson when a fairy turns him into a frog. He’ll only become a prince again when a princess kisses…
1:00pm
Visual Arts
FROM THE GROUND UP: NURTURING DIVERSITY IN HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS
What can seeds tell us about the future? Seeds and the plants that grow from them have provided us with food, clothing, shelter, and medicine for millennia. For just as long, humans have used sciences, technologies, myths, and art to…
2:00pm
Theater
THEATRE | "MASTER CLASS" BY TERRENCE MCNALLY
From February 14 to March 9, 2025, Sierra Madre Playhouse presents Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning "Master Class", directed by Tim Dang. Inspired by the legendary masterclasses given by opera icon Maria Callas at Juilliard, this gripping drama takes audiences into…
2:30pm
Theater
Fake It Until You Make It
A bold world premiere comedy from Los Angeles-based playwright, Larissa FastHorse and director Michael John Garcés, about being whoever you want to be, even when it’s not who you are. In her uproarious new comedy, a collision of friends and…
3:00pm
Theater
Noises Off
Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce about a theater company desperately trying to get their act together. Both onstage and backstage, chaos reigns for a troupe of floundering actors whose forgotten lines, misplaced…
5:00pm
Dance
Truth or Consequences: Close to the Ground
Join premier Los Angeles-based company Heidi Duckler Dance for an engaging salon series featuring renowned choreographer and dancer Jasmine Albuquerque.As we enter the Year of the Wood Snake—a symbol of renewal and transformation—this salon invites us to reflect on our…
7:30pm
Theater
Macbeth
One of Shakespeare’s most compelling and enduring works, this play depicts a tragic spiral of violence, propelled by unbridled ambition and the consequences of unchecked power. Set in a world of political intrigue and supernatural forces, we land in a…
8:00pm
Music
Kurt Elling Celebrates Weather Report with Special Guest Peter Erskine Featuring Yellowjackets
A double-bill featuring two debuts! L.A.’s own Yellowjackets bring four decades and headline status to open the evening. “The standout male vocalist of our time” (The New York Times), Kurt Elling reimagines Weather Report tunes with original band member Peter…
8:00pm
Storytelling
Queer Documentaries: An Intimate Sharing
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Experience a night dedicated to community through sharing works that explore the inner workings of living in bodies that differ from Heteropatriarchal standards. Artists will present: Queeriosity A Documentary? and Moe's Vagina Talks. Prepare for an evening surrounded by community…
8:00pm
Storytelling
Queer Documentaries: An Intimate Sharing
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Experience a night dedicated to community through sharing works that explore the inner workings of living in bodies that differ from Heteropatriarchal standards. Artists will present: Queeriosity A Documentary? and Moe's Vagina Talks. Prepare for an evening surrounded by community…
8:00pm
Dance
Brother to Brother: The Unpacking
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
A powerful dance performance that centers the voices and experiences of Black Gay Men. Through a fusion of filmed interviews, live dance, and original music, we delve into themes of love, social injustice, religion, Black pride, and mental health. Join…
8:00pm
Music
Main Series No. 3: Dvořák’s Piano Quintet
Power, drama, tenderness, nostalgia, rusticity, patriotism… What is it about Dvořák that’s so compelling and familiar? What does it mean to be a “nationalist” composer? Brian explores all that and more as Salastina performs.
8:00pm
Theater
Fake It Until You Make It
A bold world premiere comedy from Los Angeles-based playwright, Larissa FastHorse and director Michael John Garcés, about being whoever you want to be, even when it’s not who you are. In her uproarious new comedy, a collision of friends and…
8:00pm
Theater
I Want a Country
City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
City Garage is proud to present the west coast premieres of two plays dealing with displaced people. Though "Bounds" is from Sicily, and "I Want A Country" is from Greece, both speak to not just the worldwide crisis of unwanted…
8:00pm
Theater
THEATRE | "MASTER CLASS" BY TERRENCE MCNALLY
From February 14 to March 9, 2025, Sierra Madre Playhouse presents Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning "Master Class", directed by Tim Dang. Inspired by the legendary masterclasses given by opera icon Maria Callas at Juilliard, this gripping drama takes audiences into…
8:00pm
Theater
Cambodian Rock Band
Part-play, part-rock concert, the Los Angeles Premiere of Lauren Yee's CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, directed by Chay Yew and featuring music by Dengue Fever, explores the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor as he returns to Cambodia after 30 long years.
8:00pm
Theater
Sleeping Giant
When a firework-filled marriage proposal goes awry, the explosions wake up something very old that has been sleeping in the nearby lake for thousands of years. What follows are intimate, darkly comic, and sometimes startling vignettes about the lengths people…
8:00pm
Theater
Alabaster
June lives alone in a small farmhouse in Alabaster, Alabama, three years after a tornado killed her family. June is covered with scars from the catastrophe, with only her two goats, Weezy and Bib, as companions. Alice, a noted photographer…
8:00pm
Theater
Don't Touch My Hair
Lifelong best friends Eemani and Jade decompress one afternoon over a good blunt. Unbeknownst to them, the blunt is laced with much more than weed — spiraling the duo into a hilarious hallucination that allows them to confront the oppressors…
8:00pm
Theater
Noises Off
Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce about a theater company desperately trying to get their act together. Both onstage and backstage, chaos reigns for a troupe of floundering actors whose forgotten lines, misplaced…
All Day
Visual Arts
Craft Contemporary Museum Admissions
Located on Los Angeles’ historic Miracle Mile since 1965, Craft Contemporary reveals the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower.CHECK OUT THEIR CURRENT EXHIBITIONS HERE:tierra (May 31 - October 25)It names what is beneath, what is held, what…