Healing Triptych: Jacob Jonas Debuts Keeping Score at BroadStage

SANTA MONICA Born Jacob Jonas makes his BroadStage debut with an autobiographical dance trilogy exploring the nature of healing. Presented over three days, Keeping Score marks Jonas’ first post-cancer work—a journey through illness before, during, and after treatment…
Marvelous MOZART

Now 270 years after he was born, the composer is in abundance with Amadeus, The Magic Flute, his Requiem and an array of symphonic and chamber concerts on the calendar. THE WORD “GENIUS” gets thrown around fairly freely these days—so freely that it gets on Darko Tresnjak’s…
LA Opera’s Akhnaten Returns: Philip Glass, Ancient Egypt, and a Stage-Filling Spectacle Downtown

On select nights between late February and March, Grand Avenue shifts time zones. Inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, LA Opera revives Akhnaten, Philip Glass’s hypnotic opera about power, belief, and rupture—performed with the kind of scale and precision…
The Program: Mark your calendar for these February 2026 SoCal Performances*

Plan your February 2026 cultural calendar with must-see performances across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, featuring the LA Phil, The Wallis, Segerstrom Center, San Diego Symphony, and more…
The Program: Mark your calendar for these February 2026 SoCal Performances

Plan your February 2026 cultural calendar with must-see performances across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, featuring the LA Phil, The Wallis, Segerstrom Center, San Diego Symphony, and more…
UnitedMasters Grammy Weekend Party 2026 Brings BigXthaPlug to the Hollywood Palladium

On Friday night, January 30, Grammy Weekend doesn’t wait for the awards to roll around. It starts early—inside the Hollywood Palladium—where UnitedMasters returns with its third annual Celebration of Independent Music, a free, ticketed event that has become a reliable pulse…
Natural History Museum First Fridays 2026 Marks 20 Years of Museum Nightlife

On a Friday night in Exposition Park, the museum stays open—and Los Angeles shows up. What began two decades ago as a modest experiment in after-hours access has grown into one of the city’s most reliable rituals of cultural nightlife…
An Auschwitz Album Story Screening in Los Angeles | Holocaust Museum LA

On February 1, the lights dim at AMC The Grove—not for escapism, but for memory. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Museum LA presents a screening of An Auschwitz Album Story, a documentary that centers on one…
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Where Stories Become a Civic Act in Los Angeles

In 2026, a new silhouette will rise from Exposition Park—smooth, futuristic, and deliberately out of step with the city’s brick-and-steel museums. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, is not positioning itself as another temple to fine art…
The Program: Mark your calendar for these January 2026 SoCal Performances

Plan your January 2026 cultural calendar with must-see performances across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, featuring the LA Phil, The Wallis, Segerstrom Center, San Diego Symphony, and more…