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The Hollywood Bowl has announced its 2021 season lineup after an unprecedented 18 months dark due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what’s on tap for summer fun seekers.
What ticket buyer wants to spend unnecessary time in a crowded lobby or cramped restroom? Even more important: the broken spell of storytelling onstage.
Vaccinated people will get 85% of the tickets for the Bowl’s 2021 season, which includes Christina Aguilera, Yo-Yo Ma and “Black Panther” live.
L.A. Opera moves its outdoor “Oedipus Rex” into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, making it the first major L.A. arts group to stage an indoor show.
Eli Broad envisioned Grand Avenue as DTLA’s Champs-Élysées. Instead it may be a memorial to an urbanism of big gestures that is passing into history.
Nonfungible tokens are a dressed-up species of bookkeeping. But what art needs is less auditing and more ecstasy.
Pop-up art for Mental Health Awareness Month, a star-studded reading of “The Normal Heart,” John Cleese, Sofia Coppola and so much more.
Streaming through Center Theatre Group and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, “Black Feminist Video Game” explores our relationship with digital media.
Haven’t made Mother’s Day plans? Don’t have reservations? We have ideas.
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The designer of Washington, D.C.'s Vietnam Veterans Memorial is shaping the way women learn at Smith College and with ‘Ghost Forest’ makes a climate change statement.
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Paul Pescador explores gender identity at Tyler Park Presents. Plus, live theater, stolen treasures and how our pandemic year shaped the work of Maya Lin
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Dan O’Brien, the playwright and poet behind “The Body of an American” and “The House in Scarsdale,” channels hurt and healing into new work.
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The Hammer Museum launches Hammer Channel, a streaming archive of every artist talk, panel discussion and live performance since 2005.
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Theater has returned to UCLA’s Royce Hall, pairing perfect strangers in a private encounter.
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Cornerstone in L.A. and Oregon Shakespeare Festival pair up with BIPOC artists to launch the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation program.
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In Geffen Playhouse’s “Someone Else’s House,” multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi opens the door to his family’s haunted 200-year-old New England house.
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LACMA and UCLA’s Fowler Museum ponder repatriation of so-called Benin bronzes stolen during an 1897 slaughter by British colonists.
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With the next chapter of the pandemic comes a fear of returning to the roles we all used to perform, even among friends.
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Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, the theater veteran who had memorable turns in films such as “Moonstruck” and “Steel Magnolias,” has died in New York City.
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The best Los Angeles County and Orange County museum exhibitions for May.
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Eli Broad attracted his share of critics. He plowed ahead — donating, demanding, building, and L.A. is the better for it.
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A visit to the Oscars’ security fence, plus Eli Broad’s legacy, Shakespeare’s birthday and IRL opera from POP in our weekly arts newsletter
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Jeff Koons says his first ‘Balloon Dog’ sculpture came into being only with the patience and pocketbook of Eli Broad, who died Friday at 87.
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Broad had a hand in a Renzo Piano building at LACMA, the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and his own museum, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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California could lift most COVID-19 mask requirements by June 15, Newsom says
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The recommendation means many middle schoolers and virtually all high school students have the chance to be vaccinated before the next school year.
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A Los Angeles Times analysis finds disparities in who’s getting vaccinated, also showing lower figures in more disadvantaged parts of California.
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Coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic and health news.
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Does it matter that Dakota Johnson’s tense Ellen DeGeneres interview didn’t bring about the end of the host’s talk show? Not to folks on social media.
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A month after coming out, former ‘Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood says his public revelation was fueled by a blackmail attempt.
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California could lift most COVID-19 mask requirements by June 15, Newsom says
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The fish, which typically lives thousands of feet underwater, was found in pristine condition at Crystal Cove State Beach.
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The world of White House diplomacy, like almost everything else, has been largely virtual for more than a year. That’s about to change.
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As the groundbreaking FX series’ final season crosses the halfway mark, its co-creator takes us back to the moment that set the tone for the rest.
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