LA Opera La Bohème LA Opera’s revival of filmmaker Herbert Ross’s production of Puccini’s heartbreaking romance La Bohème is an emotionally engaging enchantment. Lina González-Granados conducts the sublime romantic and melodic score that complements the singers’ voices to flourish individually and
Music Director James Conlon conducts the emotionally riveting production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the LA Opera (Music Center). Director Tomer Zvulun brings the classic 19th century opera into 1930’s fascist Italy. Jessica Hahn’s costumes populate the scene with masked men in
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize nominated play, Here There Are Blueberries, opened at the Wallis in Beverly Hills. Conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman and co-written by Amanda Gronich, the 90-minute play is a haunting meditation on memory and trauma. The narrative
The Geffen Playhouse staged a captivating production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett in association with Gare St Lazare Ireland. Geffen Playhouse Waiting for Godot The two-act tragicomedy, considered one of the most significant English-language plays
LA Opera at the Music Center opened its 2024/25 season with Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The production uses the original staging of Spanish-Uruguayan director Mario Gas that juxtaposes the Japanese setting onto a 1930’s Hollywood film soundstage.While we get seated, on stage,
The Joffrey Ballet presented a visually captivating cinematic production of its award-winning Anna Karenina at The Music Center. The Joffrey Ballet Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Victoria Jaiani Alberto Velazquez; Photo by Cheryl Mann Choreographed by Ukrainian-born Yuri Possokhov, the
LA Opera’s presentation of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is musically captivating and visually stunning. Set in ancient China, the tragic opera tells the story of a beautiful but cruel princess named Turandot. She refuses to marry to
Written and delightfully performed by Herbert Sigüenza, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso takes us into the creative and socially conscious mind of the great artist. It is 1957 in the south of France and Picasso is commissioned to create six paintings
The 21st season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center opened with a program of two exquisite and contrastingly energetic works - common ground[s] and Pina Bausch’s 1975 The Rite of Spring. The latter was choreographed to Stravinsky’s 1913
The Center Theater Group presented an energetic and emotionally engaging production of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet at the Ahmanson Theater. Bourne’s interpretation of this classic ballet cleverly communicates the tragic narrative with performances by his New Adventures company of impeccable
