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Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical RENT on Sunday, March 19 from 6pm to 9pm and Monday, March 20 from 7pm to 10pm at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045. Callbacks are not planned at this time. If you are unable to attend auditions in person, video submissions to [email protected] will be accepted if provided no later than March 17. This is a non-equity, all-volunteer production directed...
The Hollywood Burlesque Festival aims to ensure the ongoing tradition of burlesque in the arts and to raise awareness and appreciation of an art form that both empowers and admires the human figure. We believe that modern burlesque is for every body regardless of the previous beauty standards performers were forced to adhere to. We welcome acts of all styles and performers of any shape, size, color, ability, background, age, identity, gender, or economic class to join our stage. The Hollywood Burlesque Festival was founded in 2013 by the...
Four years after Kodi Lee's America's Got Talent journey began with a Golden Buzzer Audition and ended with a Season 14 win, he is back. And this time, he could be on his way to taking home the AGT: All-Stars title. The 26-year-old musical prodigy-who's blind and has autism-first moved AGT fans everywhere with his audition in 2019. In the years since, Lee scored a gig at AGT's Las Vegas residency, debuted his very own original music, and has performed all around the world-including guest spots...
The 14th New Media Film Festival is proud to announce a shortlist of nominees for this year's event, featuring a diverse range of content from the USA, Switzerland, Faroe Islands, Germany, and Mexico. All of the works on the shortlist are premiering in categories such as 360, NFT, Web Series, Animation, VR, Animation, Script, Digital Comic, New media and "shot on Mobile" including: Director and Producer James Beissel, teamed up with writer and wife, Lana Beissel, to create “Polar Bear 360,” starring Nathan Nowak. James hopes to inspire passion...
Two big concerts are coming to the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Internationally-famous singer/songwriter Paul Anka will need no introduction when he takes the stage on February 4th to sing all of his greatest hits. In 1957, when Anka was a 16 year old teenager, his first number one hit, "Diana," made him a star. Soon after, he hopped on the "Cavalcade of Stars" bus with top names of the day in the era of segregation, performing at the Copa Cabana, the youngest entertainer ever to do so, and...
Three big concerts are coming to the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Internationally-famous singer/songwriter Paul Anka will need no introduction when he takes the stage on February 3rd to sing all of his greatest hits. In 1957, when Anka was a 16 year old teenager, his first number one hit, "Diana," made him a star. Soon after, he hopped on the "Cavalcade of Stars" bus with top names of the day in the era of segregation, performing at the Copa Cabana, the youngest entertainer ever to...
Keith Putney Productions presents two all-time classics, The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" and Wings' "Band On The Run" full albums as the next in the series of live concerts at the Grammy Museum celebrating the Beatles, performed by an all-star cast for two shows on February 11. Rolling Stone magazine recognized "Rubber Soul" as one of the Top 5 albums of all time and "Band On The Run" one of the 500 best albums. "Rubber Soul" was the album that introduced a new lyrical introspection and musical...
Music producer Mister Nash-T is making waves in the industry with his latest single "2022", performed by Young Grey and Amanda Rowland. The song, which is an energetic fusion between country and hip-hop, has quickly gained popularity and widespread appeal, cementing Mister Nash-T's position as a talented producer to watch. "2022" is a party anthem that perfectly captures the energy and vibe of the current music scene. With its catchy hooks, upbeat melody, and infectious rhythm, the song is the perfect anthem for anyone looking to turn up and...
In California, the seasons are subtle. So subtle, in fact, that some claim there are none at all. Just as subtle, and equally beautiful, are the exquisite designs of the seasons in Japanese art. Over centuries, a rich literary and visual vocabulary representing the seasons evolved from the aesthetic sensibilities of the Japanese people. SHIKI: The Four Seasons in Japanese Art, a new exhibition at the Sturt Haaga Gallery brings this beauty and harmony to Descanso Gardens. The aesthetic values of...
Our inaugural festival in 2021 united over 100 female food and beverage entrepreneurs across Los Angeles for a 10-day festival featuring unique chef collaborations, thematic menus, a series of virtual conversations among female industry leaders, and more. The 2022 festival featured more than 140 unique menu items and collaborations, as well as events including a panel conversation with leading women restaurateurs, a RE:Her Smorgasburg takeover, Mini Marts featuring member-made products, the Amazing Graze, and a benefit concert. Many of the 10...
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), one of the country's finest chamber orchestras, is making a special appearance at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on January 28 at 7:30pm and on January 29 at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens' Rothenberg Hall. Bram Goldsmith Theater will be the setting for LACO's performance titled Baroque Concerti. Audience members can expect an evening of virtuosic chamber performances, featuring soloists...
On December 5, the City Council of the City of Culver City awarded over $213,000 in 2023 Performing Arts Grants as recommended by the City’s Cultural Affairs Commission. Twenty-nine (29) non-profit arts organizations will receive grants to present music, dance, and theatre performances from January to December 2023. These performances will take place at various indoor and outdoor locations throughout Culver City and will be free or have low-cost ticket options. “During this year of pandemic recovery, we are proud to support more arts gro...
Kentwood Players proudly presents Arthur Miller's Tony Award Winning Play ALL MY SONS opening Friday, January 20 through Saturday, February 11, 2023, on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. The non-equity, all-volunteer production is directed by Ben Lupejkis, and produced by Alison Boole and Colleen Okida for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service, Inc. The cast features (in alphabetical order) Allison Lynn Adams, Christopher Aruffo, Philip...
Kala Koa Entertainment is once again presenting its 16th Annual Southern California Slack Key Festival and Island Marketplace, the biggest Hawaiian music event of the year at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on January 15 at 2pm. One of the most acclaimed Hawaiian concerts to ever leave the islands, the 2023 festival takes fans on a Hawaiian musical journey showcasing GRAMMY-winning slack key guitarists, the best hula dancers in the world, special guest performers and a free to the...
Salute to Vienna new year’s concert is returning to Los Angeles to ring in 2023 in grand style on Monday, January 2 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. For more than two decades, this annual production has delighted audiences across the U.S. and Canada with glorious music, dance, and elegant costumes. After a pandemic hiatus, this festive concert returns to usher in the new year. Inspired by the annual Viennese new year’s concert tradition (Neujarhrskonzert), Salute to Vienna is a delightful celebratio...
The Culver City Arts Foundation (Culver Arts), which supports the arts in Culver City through its mission to preserve the past, enrich the present and create the future of arts and culture in the community, is thrilled to announce the recipients of $50,000 in grants in our effort to support local nonprofit art organizations. This year for #GivingTuesday, instead of asking for donations for our own nonprofit organization, Culver Arts gave back to the arts community…because art changes e...
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is making musical news with its first full season since the pandemic and a major talent search for a new conductor. Recovering from the loss of Frank Fetta, its iconic music director and conductor of 40 years, the symphony leaders have chosen three acclaimed maestros to vie for his position. Fetta died in 2021 after the orchestra was silenced for a time by the pandemic, a double blow. The orchestra has had only two music directors in the six decades since it...
Maxim Kuzin, who studied and started his conducting career in his native Ukraine, will lead the season opening concert of the Culver City Symphony Orchestra on December 10. The Junior winner of the 2019 Parness Concerto Competition, Yirou (Ronnie) Zhang, will perform Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto. Her appearance with the orchestra was delayed when covid-19 shut down concerts in early 2020. The concert will be presented free of charge to the public at 7:30 p.m. at The Robert Frost A...
Keith Putney Productions presents The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in Concert & The Best of 1967 as the next in the series of live concerts at the Grammy Museum celebrating the Beatles, performed by an all-star cast for two shows on December 3. This album is one of the most important rock & roll albums ever made, an unsurpassed adventure in concept, sound, songwriting, cover art and studio technology by arguably the greatest musical group of all time. When the album was...
See Disney’s iconic Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their best friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, and Owl (oh… and don’t forget Tigger too!) in a beautifully crafted musical stage adaptation. Featuring the Sherman Brother’s classic Grammy-award winning music with further songs by A.A. Milne, this beautiful fresh stage adaptation is told with stunning life-sized puppetry through the eyes of the characters we all know and love, in a new story from the Hundred Acre Wood. This pr...
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra announced that three acclaimed conductors will vie for the prestigious Music Director-Conductor position at the Culver City Symphony Orchestra/Marina del Rey Summer Symphony during this coming concert season. Steven Allen Fox, Maxim Kuzin and Clyde Mitchell – all highly talented and experienced – will be featured during this coming winter-spring season. Community members will have the opportunity to make their own judgments about the artistic talents that each conductor could bring to the professional orc...
Jacaranda's concert premiere of ARKHIPOV, a new opera by composer Peter Knell and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, winner of Opera America's 2022 Campbell Librettist Prize, will have two performances on October 21 and 22 at The Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. The opera is based on a true story of how Armageddon was barely averted during a tipping point in the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) due to the moral conviction of one man - Soviet naval officer Vasili Arkhipov - who succeeded in...
The season begins with a historic new works festival the L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival with an all-women cohort of 10 writers in September 2022 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord” Written by Kristina Wong Directed by Chay Yew A co-production with East West Players in March and April 2023 A fresh take on the play “Fetch Clay, Make Man” Written by Will Power Directed by Debbie Allen Produced in association with SpringHill in June and July 2023 The West Coas...
Go-Go's lead singer, Belinda Carlisle, will be making a solo appearance at the Saban Theatre on October 27. She is one of those rare talents who continues to remain relevant after nearly four decades in the music industry. Her music has stood the test of time. The gifted and glamorous singer-songwriter has indelibly touched the hearts of pop fans around the world with her unique blend of gutsy vocals, emotively charged melodies, picturesque lyrics, and classy style. With a multi-dimensional, int...
Before the Dead & Co farewell tour next summer, Bobby Weir and his Wolf Bros, featuring the Wolfpack are now treating their fans to a special 12-city fall tour that will land at The Greek Theatre on October 25. Bobby's Wolf Bros consist of Don Was, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti, and Wolfpack special guest Barry Sless on pedal steel. Chimenti is also the keyboardist for Dead & Co. This tour is also a celebration of Weir's 75th birthday. Fans at The Greek will get the chance to give Weir their best...
