All Performing Arts events
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- UCLA Live's International Theatre Festival
- Wednesday Dec 3 @ Freud Playhouse More times »
- This year's UCLA Live International Theatre Festival has seen its ups and downs, but the final three installments promise visions of sublime theatrical grace. An... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- David Gordon
- Wednesday Dec 3 (8:30–10:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
- A founding artist in the Judson Dance Theater, David Gordon has left his fingerprints all over the canon of contemporary dance, creating theater works rife... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Calendar Girl Competition
- Thursday Dec 4 (8–10pm) @ Bootleg Theater More times »
- Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble
- Friday Dec 5 (8:30pm) @ Highways Performance Space More times »
- Pioneering movement and dance artist Rudy Perez and his loose company of independent performers present two evenings featuring collaborative works linked by Dorothy Parker's caustic,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Grand Guignol
- Friday Dec 5 (8:30pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
- For the first half of the 20th Century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of make-believe savagery, peeling away... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Puppetry
- Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
- Tuesday Dec 2 (10:30am) @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater More times »
- In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's company in Los Angeles.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The School of Night
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ Mark Taper Forum More times »
- Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As much a history lesson... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Spring Awakening
- Tuesday Dec 2 @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
- It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new direction of musical theatre.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Little Dog Laughed
- Tuesday Dec 2 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
- Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies shrouding "on-the-down-low" leading men.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Carmen
- Wednesday Dec 3 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
- Bizet's Carmen isn't just known for its ferociously popular femme fatale but also for its transformation of opera comique into a contemporary dramatic art form.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Song of Extinction
- Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ The Ford Theater More times »
- [Inside] the Ford's New Plays Series makes use of the intimate theatre under the venue's more familiar outdoor setting during the off-season, presenting a winter... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- FOTW 08
- Friday Dec 5 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center More times »
- For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings together new work and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Point Break LIVE!
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ Dragonfly More times »
- Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill the not-so-massive shoes of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Mulholland Christmas Carol
- Saturday Dec 6 (8pm) @ Sacred Fools Theater More times »
- A holiday must-see for the whole dysfunctional family, theatre of NOTE and Sacred Fools' A Mulholland Christmas Carol is an inspired, way-way-way off-Broadway musical gamut... View details »
