Events on Sunday, April 18
Sunday 4/18 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
This is a tour not to be missed in the exclusive Brentwood neighborhood. Learn about the Modernist architecture of the sixties...
An Academy Salute to Noël Coward: Special Screening and Feature
Sunday 4/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Sunday 4/18 @ El Cid
Kim Talon of darling femme duo Eagle and Talon recently interviewed Radio Free Silver Lake founder Joe Fielder on the occasion...
Part Time Punks presents Love is All / Love Grenades / Weave
Sunday 4/18 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The jittery, hooky Swedish postpunk crew Love Is All are back. The band has moved from longtime home What’s Your Rupture?...
Highlights from the REDCAT International Children's Film Festival
Sunday 4/18 @ The Broad Stage
Finally, a film festival rated “G” for the whole family. Don’t miss this fresh collection of inspiring stories, exhilarating adventures and...
Femme Fatale Double Feature: STRANGE FASCINATION & THE COME ON
Sunday 4/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
Sunday, April 18 – 7:30 PM Femme Fatale Double Feature: STRANGE FASCINATION,1952, Sony Repertory, 80 min. The first of seven...
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town & Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Sunday 4/18 @ The Cinefamily
While we're excited to be presenting a collection of Frank Capra's early works (his "b-sides", as it were), it didn't seem...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 4/18 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Sunday 4/18 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the...
Sunday 4/18 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Sunday 4/18 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Sunday 4/18 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Sunday 4/18 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Sunday 4/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Sunday 4/18 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Sunday 4/18 @ Mark Taper Forum
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright...
Sunday 4/18 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo...
Sunday 4/18 @ Various LA locations
"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event...
Sunday 4/18 @ REDCAT
Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat-Out Lies cuts through the mind-dulling cacophony of competing messages and media-generated "reality" to get...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Almost immediately after William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley was first published in 1946, quintessential Hollywood hunk, Tyrone Power, bought the movie...
Sunday 4/18 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Those who summon spirituality from live music and Southern-style cuisine will enjoy the House of Blues' Gospel Brunch, a longtime local...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Sunday 4/18 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Sunday 4/18 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Sunday 4/18 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Sunday 4/18 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Sunday 4/18 @ bang. comedy theater
Fake Radio, LA's self-declared "Premier Old Time Radio Comedy Troupe," faithfully recreates the experience of those old-timey broadcasts that held everyone...
Sunday 4/18 @ CB1 Gallery
The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in...
Sunday 4/18 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Ford Theater
Lascivious Something is a marked departure from Sheila Callaghan's work as a writer on Showtime's The United States of Tara. Presented...
Sunday 4/18 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Sunday 4/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Sunday 4/18 @ Eclectic Company Theatre
Written by Jeff Folschinsky, Eclectic's original Turkey Day has the pitch-perfect couple, Bruce and Buffy, being forced to survive their imperfect...
Sunday 4/18 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Sunday 4/18 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
Sunday 4/18 @ Electric Lodge
In Cold Dream Color the dance explores the work of the Irish painter Louis le Brocquy who has practiced...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Brewery Art Complex
The Brewery Arts Complex's sprawling art-filled acreage will be in full bloom for its spring edition of its semi-annual art walk...
Sunday 4/18 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
LA Opera's presentation of The Stigmatized, considered one of opera's most obscure acts, makes a worthy return to the spotlight. As...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Last Bookstore
While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A...
Sunday 4/18 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...
Sunday 4/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell
Sunday 4/18 @ The Renberg Theatre
Acclaimed, award-winning performance artist John Kelly has a voice that's eerie in its elasticity, able to bend between genders and spirits...
Sunday 4/18 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
Sunday 4/18 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Laemmle's says: In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when...
Sunday 4/18 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Sunday 4/18 @ Orange County Performing Arts Center
Through his interdisciplinary and multicultural approach of utilizing and blending techniques drawn from Chinese opera, Eastern philosophy, contemporary visual, theatre, and...
Sunday 4/18 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Sunday 4/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Sunday 4/18 @ The Cravens Estate
The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Sunday 4/18 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Sunday 4/18 @ Various Hollywood locations
Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs...
Sunday 4/18 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Biltmore Hotel tour explores the architecture and rich history of this magnificent hotel, known in its early days as “The...
Sunday 4/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Sunday 4/18 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Sunday 4/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful...
Sunday 4/18 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...
Sunday 4/18 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
The prize-winning Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski (terp-CHESS-key), now barely 30, has a strong affinity for Russian music....
