Los Angeles Events Calendar
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
at the very bottom of a body of water
In the wake of profound change, Marina’s quiet, cyclical life implodes when her usual fishmonger suddenly vanishes. Poignant, surprising, and darkly unconventional, this poetic new play explores how we navigate life after tragedy—is the unraveling of Marina’s comfort a curse…
2:00–3:30pm
Theater
Ghost Songs
The Independent Shakespeare Company Studio
In 1648, as England is banning theater performances and tearing down playhouses, a confiscated trunk of playhouse “scrap” arrives at a Puritan household. Inside are banned play manuscripts—Shakespeare, Marlowe, and lost works—destined to be used as toilet paper. A sheltered…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Kaiju
Two 250-foot-tall monsters debate the morality of the destruction they just caused. A group of human theatergoers argues after a play they just watched. Destruction becomes a means of conversation and conversation becomes a means of destruction in this satire…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Saint Megan
Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
What happens when honest conversation threatens everything you know?Inspired by the story of Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hyper-Calvinist sect notorious for its outrageous picketing of military funerals.When Megan defends her faith online…
2:00–4:00pm
Musical
Come From Away
Hit musical Come From Away tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 airline passengers stranded in a small Newfoundland town on 9/11. As fear and uncertainty give way to compassion and connection, a community opens its doors to the world…
2:00–4:30pm
Theater
Heartbreak House
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.” Will 20-year old Ellie Dunn fall out of love with her friend’s husband, into love with the 88-year-old Captain Shotover, or marry the mercenary Mr. Mangan…
3:00–4:30pm
Circus
Duck Pond by Circa
Feathers will fly when Swan Lake is reimagined as a contemporary circus spectacular and collides with the story of The Ugly Duckling. Two tales of identity and discovery are brought to life with exuberant energy by the Australian performance troupe…
3:00–6:00pm
Opera
Sweeney Todd
Sondheim’s bloody masterpiece.Just in time for Halloween.It’s been 14 years since Pacific Opera Project first presented Stephen Sondheim’s legendary masterpiece, and this Halloween, Sweeney Todd returns. Experience one of the greatest musicals ever written up close in the intimate El…
5:00–10:00pm
Theater
WIVES
Fresh, funny, and sharply relevant, Jaclyn Backhaus’s WIVES reimagines history through the eyes of the women beside “great men.” With a South Asian cast and direction by Hypokrit Live Arts NYC co-founder Arpita Mukherjee, this whirlwind comedy travels from 16th-century France…
6:00–7:30pm
Music
Mariachi Tierra Mia
Come celebrate Día de los Muertos with the amazing mariachi music of Mariachi Tierra Mia! Back by popular demand, Mariachi Tierra Mia returns to Boston Court for a special concert that celebrates the music and Día de los Muertos in…
7:00–8:00pm
Music
Main Series 2: Thick as Thieves
The Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes Estates
Some ensembles are assembled for a performance. Others are forged over decades of concerts, recordings, rehearsals, road trips, and shared adventures. Resident Artists Ben Smolen, Meredith Crawford, and Cristina Montes Mateo bring their extraordinary musicianship—and unmistakable chemistry—to an evening celebrating…
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…
All Day
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…