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While the venues at the Music Center each house a season of shows, Abernethy’s on the Jerry Moss Plaza hosts a season of chefs as a part of the Emerging Chef Series. The first chef of 2023 is chef Lenora Marouani of Barsha, a restaurant in Hermosa Beach, and Barsha Wines & Spirits in Manhattan Beach.

Making a new home at Abernethy’s

Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord is the first show of the 22-23 Season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. While you may have spent some time this fall with us in Downtown L.A., it might be your first time back in Culver City since our last productions at the venue last summer. If you’re looking for a bite before or after the show (and m...

Culinary Choices in Culver City

Where did the time go? We’ve been having so much fun with The Secret Garden, Twilight…, and Kristina Wong…, it’s hard to believe that it’s already March. With Spring Break right around the corner for many students (and perhaps tired adults alike), it’s the perfect time to start thinking about how to spend some sweet time off. So, we’v...

Spring Break Realness

If the Ahmanson Theatre’s current production of The Secret Garden has you yearning for more lush adventures, there are plenty of gardens to explore in and around Los Angeles. Be there a “House Upon a Hill” nearby or flowers that only bloom when “Winter’s on the Wing,” these gardens each have their own stories and magic hidden within the...

“A Bit of Earth” in and around Los Angeles

The time has come to close the curtain on 2022. During this time of celebration and cheer, why not have theatre be a part of the gift you give to those you hold so dear? From The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at the Mark Taper Forum to Everybody’sTalking About Jamie at the Ahmanson Theatre, here are some fun, theatre-inspi...

HOLIDAY CHEER

The Mullin Wine Bar on the Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center offers an array of libations and small bites before shows.

Three Cheers

Clyde’s, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, takes place in a truck-stop diner, where the staff pursues the perfect sandwich. If the show has you hungry for more, we have some of the best sandwiches around Los Angeles—which are all perfect in their own ways.

Order Up!

After a year and a half of our theatres being dark, we’re slowly transitioning back to live performances. For Marike Splint and Center Theatre Group, that transition involves a pair of your best headphones, a specially designed mobile app, and a trip to Los Angeles State Historic Park. 32 ACRES–a soundwalk for the Los Angeles State Historic Par...

Rediscovering Los Angeles with '32 ACRES–a soundwalk'

A Tuesday afternoon in September found playwright and MacArthur Genius Luis Alfaro rewriting his newest work in an at once unlikely and completely appropriate setting: a Los Angeles public library parking lot in Boyle Heights.

A New Play Debuts in Boyle Heights

In Spring of 2017, the bar Eastside Luv was transformed into a theatre. Inside the tiny Boyle Heights venue young crowds danced to 1980s pop, drank sangria, and gossiped in English and Spanish. It was quintessentially Los Angeles. It was Chisme y Queso.

Chisme y Queso

From 2012–2016, three of Southern California’s leading regional theatres programmed ambitious initiatives to engage local communities—primarily Latinx—they felt were underrepresented as patrons at their theatres. With funding from the James Irvine Foundation’s Exploring Engagement fund, all three companies experimented with partnerships...

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