Los Angeles Events Calendar
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Winter's Bench
Can trees talk?In Olivier-Award-winning playwright Mike Kenny’s world premiere, Winter’s Bench, an old woman believes they can. She has returned, after many years, to a dilapidated, abandoned park where all the trees are logged but one. It’s ancient. And she is certain it…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
As part of our commitment to presenting August Wilson’s work, we bring you our seventh production of his American Century Cycle: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by Gregg T. Daniel. Set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927, August Wilson’s…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Pericles
Lost at sea, found by fate.When Prince Pericles uncovers a deadly royal secret, he flees for his life—only to be cast into a world of storms, shipwrecks, riddles, and loss. Told by people escaping a storm, this re-conceptualization of Shakespeare’s…
3:00–4:00pm
Music
Main Series 1: Hidden in Plain Sight
The Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes Estates
Before Tchaikovsky became the voice of sweeping ballets and symphonies, and before Bartók transformed folk music into a modern language, both composers explored paths less traveled. This program uncovers remarkable early and lesser-known works that reveal familiar musical personalities in…
3:00–5:30pm
Opera
II Fortunato Inganno
Lost masterpiece. Big laughs. Bel canto sparkle. A long-lost Donizetti comedy returns to the stage for its U.S. premiere.POP returns to the most Italian venue in town—the Garibaldina Society—for another U.S. premiere of a sparkling bel canto comedy. Written by one…
3:30–5:30pm
Theater
Waiting in the Wings
Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
“The Wings” is a charitable home for retired actresses, women who once lived at the very center of applause and public admiration, and who must now learn how to live together when the curtain has long since fallen. Coward’s signature…
4:00–5:30pm
Dance
DANCE | Sandhi ft. Rukhmani Mehta
Sandhi — in Sanskrit, a charged threshold, a meeting point between states — is Rukhmani Mehta's personal exploration of the traditional Kathak solo as an opening or gateway, performed with acclaimed musical artists Jayanta Banerjee on sitar and Salar Nader…
4:00–5:30pm
Theater
Green Corridors by Natalka Vorozhbyt
City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
The west coast premiere of the critically acclaimed play by one of Ukraine’s most esteemed playwrights and screenwriters. Green Corridors explores the human cost of war, examining the harrowing yet darkly humorous realities of four Ukrainian women who have fled…
5:00–7:00pm
Theater
A Case for the Existence of God
Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
Rogue Machine has a longstanding relationship with the work of Samuel D. Hunter, having previously produced the West Coast premieres of A Bright New Boise, A Permanent Image, and Pocatello, as well as the Southern California premiere of A Great…
6:00–8:30pm
Music | Theater | Storytelling
Broadway Gamble Ramble 2026
In this interactive experience, guests will journey through the house in small groups, encountering a curated series of live performances that weave together dance, theatre, and narrative. Along the way, you’ll be invited to reflect not only on the evolution…
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
The People of Pompeii
Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
Fires have come before. More will come again. And still, people stay, for love of place, for their children, for the idea of community. Bernardo Cubría’s dark and incisive new comedy, set in the aftermath of the 2025 fires in…
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…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination
Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination brings together seven artists who turn to craft to divine memory, enact ritual, and seek knowledge of the future. Working with earth, fiber, metal, cyanotype, terracotta, and film, they carry ways of understanding the world…
All Day
Visual Arts
Noah's Ark
About Noah's ArkVisit us aboard Noah’s Ark at the Skirball! This award-winning children's and family destination invites visitors of all generations to play, climb, build, make-believe, and make friends—all while exploring an eight-thousand-square-foot wooden ark filled to the rafters with…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Nurtured Flames: The Medicine of Fire
Nurtured Flames: The Medicine of Fire is an exhibition by Meztli Projects, presented at the Armory Center for the Arts, featuring new works created in 2026 by an intergenerational cohort of eleven Indigenous artists.Continuing Indigenous practices of collaborative art-making and…
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Visual Arts | Exhibit
The Autry Museum of the American West - Museum Admissions
The Autry Museum of the American West
Select exhibitions currently on display at the Autry:Miss Velma in the City of AngelsOngoingIrene Helen Jones Parks Gallery of ArtThis new installation—situated within the "Religion and Ritual" section of the ongoing Art of the West exhibition—features a custom-made dress worn…
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Visual Arts
Wende Museum - General Admission
Check out a list of these exhibitions below:Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, AgencyThe exhibition Counter/Surveillance traces the historical roots of such surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them. It explores the precursors of current biometric…
All Day
Visual Arts
all the ways to hold this tender land
This exhibition brings together four artists who explore nature, ancestral histories, memory, and healing. Engaging in lifestyles that forge connections to land, community, and the self, the artists in this exhibition use ceramics, steel, wood, film, and more-than-human life to…