AKHNATEN transports us into an ancient, nearly forgotten civilization, where time, space, color, and form operate differently—still mysterious, still elusive. A world we can only imagine, and dream—exactly what art, at its best, allows us to do.

FALSTAFF is a operatic marvel of comic invention where nearly every line of the libretto is some form of false flattery.

Some L.A. ART WEEK highlights for 2026

The fall dance season gets off to a rousing start with the West Coast premiere of I AM, the acclaimed new work by Camille A. Brown & Dancers—a 60-minute blast from the future that celebrates exuberant self-ownership as a means

Danced by Agami and a new iteration of ate9 made up of three male Batsheva veterans, “Soon After” unfolds with a magnetic camp extravagance that decentralizes our focus as it grows into a spectacle of “happening.”

Josh—a queer, alcoholic, and very erudite NYU college student—has passed out on the beach again. Upon coming to, he thinks he’s on the Atlantic, but soon realizes he’s back home in Colorado. Except he has no memory of how he

When the curtain rises on “Rigoletto” at LA Opera, the audience is confronted by a surreal and unsettling tableau: around thirty masked men in suits, standing in tight formation, their faces obscured by animal visages and commedia dell’arte grotesques, stare back at

Usually set in a castle in Denmark during the Middle Ages, Robert O’Hara’s reinvention of Hamlet brings our current century to the play, yet it remains a period piece. Or rather, a piece of many periods, depending on who’s doing

As a corrective to a corrective, [siccer] utilizes choreographed movement, video installation, green screen, and stop-motion photography to plot paths by which Black performance can reject Western forms of classification without resolution—a state of continuous evolution and becoming.

In addition to the art fairs—Felix, The Other Art Fair, Frieze Los Angeles, and newcomer Post-Fair—local institutions, galleries, and alternative art spaces are presenting a wealth of special events, programs, and exhibitions.