FAT HAM
This hilarious, transgressive détournement of “Hamlet”—written by James Ijames and the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize—shifts the play’s setting to North Carolina and replaces European angst with Black American joy. There is no theatrical experience in Los Angeles more
BERTRAND BONELLO — THE BEAST
In Bertrand Bonello’s THE BEAST—an endlessly fascinating three-part puzzle—we first encounter Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and Louis (George MacKay) near the end of the Belle Époque, strolling through a Paris vernissage, playing a parlor game of “do you remember?”
DANIEL SCHMID — LA PALOMA
Los Angeles cinephiles are in for the rarest of treats as the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presents the North American 4K restoration premiere of Daniel Schmid’s LA PALOMA (1974), the opera director’s “intoxicating, maddening revelation” starring Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern,
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER — CENTURY
Back in town for its semi-regular spring visit, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings a mixed repertoire of old and new works to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. A highlight for its legion of local fans will be the Los
L.A. ART WEEK 2024
Posting up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood and the Santa Monica Airport, the Felix Art Fair and Frieze Los Angeles return this week with their peerless combination of art world heft and West Coast vibes. And already L.A. Art Week events
PINA BAUSCH, GERMAINE ACOGNY, MALOU AIRAUDO — THE RITE OF SPRING and COMMON GROUND[S]
Necessarily extending a hand to keep his mother’s work alive, Salomon Bausch—chair of the Pina Bausch Foundation—reached out to the École des Sables in Dakar and Sadler’s Wells in London with the idea of restaging Bausch’s 1975 interpretation of Stravinsky’s
MALIK GAINES AND ALEXANDRO SEGADE — STAR CHOIR
Last year’s premiere performances of STAR CHOIR—Gaines and Segade’s long-evolving opera project, at an elevation of 5,000 feet inside Mt. Wilson’s largest observatory—was an unforgettable experience for the lucky few who gained admission. On January 24, back in town in
STEVE LEHMAN — EX MACHINA
I became a fan of alto saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman the very moment I listened to his music for the first time. His album with the Senegalese hip-hop band Sélébéyone, his opus with his trio and Craig Taborn, The
ALL OF US STRANGERS
“I’ve always said that writers know less about the real world than just about anyone else.” That’s writer-director Andrew Haigh, speaking through one of the characters in his latest feature ALL OF US STRANGERS, a mood and memory piece of breathtaking
MAESTRO
“The world—this world—is obsessed with everything about you.” So says an interviewer to Leonard Bernstein in his prime and so it was in mid-to-late-twentieth-century American culture, when novelists and essayists and Broadway composers and even great conductors could hold the center
