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The String Quartets of Philip Glass - Brooklyn Rider


Brooklyn Rider celebrates the string quartets of Philip Glass for their 20th anniversary with Temples of Resonance, a single concert program featuring a representative selection ...

The Hollywood Modernists


For its premiere season, Scott Dunn Orchestra will present two concerts celebrating Los Angeles’ amazing heritage of film music at The Wallis. Scott Dunn Orchestra’s ...

Memoryhouse
Memoryhouse
1/30 - 2/1/2025


A full-evening work by Artistic Director Melissa Barak, Los Angeles Ballet's Memoryhouse is an abstract work composed of vignettes commemorating World War II and in ...

The Great Yes, The Great No


Marseille, 1941: A liner sails for Martinique with artists and intellectuals on board fleeing from Vichy France, including surrealist André Breton, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cuban ...

At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You


At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You features a text by National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney inspired by her 2013 poem “The ...

iLe
iLe
2/21


From her roots as the powerhouse vocalist of Calle 13 to her GRAMMY-winning solo career, iLe brings a mesmerizing blend of traditional Latin rhythms and ...

Here There Are Blueberries
Here There Are Blueberries
3/13 - 3/30/2025


A mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrives at the desk of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding. As Rebecca and her team of ...

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
4/11 - 4/12/2025


The celebrated contemporary dance company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, renowned for their captivating performances, and consistent boundary-pushing, is thrilled to present Andrea Miller’s latest work ...

Pepperland
Pepperland
5/16 - 5/18/2025


Mark Morris, hailed as “the most successful and influential choreographer alive, and indisputably the most musical” (New York Times) returns to Los Angeles with Pepperland, ...

Henry Mancini at 100


Scott Dunn Orchestra returns for its second performance of the 2024/2025 Season for Henry Mancini at 100 - a Celebration of the Man and his ...

Put Your Guns Down


Making their Wallis debut, GRAMMY-award winning vocal choir Tonality combines melodic harmonies to present concerts on themes of social justice in hopes to catalyze empathy ...

Pacific Jazz Orchestra
Pacific Jazz Orchestra
5/29 - 5/30/2025


The Wallis is proud to welcome back the Pacific Jazz Orchestra, fresh from their inaugural season, this 40-piece orchestra is not one to be missed. ...


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Review: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at Ahmanson Theatre


by Jonas Schwartz-Owen - December 17, 2024

Lear deBessonet’s rollicking production of Once Upon A Mattress brings festive glee to the Southland....

Review: TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND at Colony Theater


by Evan Henerson - December 15, 2024

The mixture this time around is entertaining if not the company’s A-game. HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB, while providing plenty of laughs, feels thin…thin on merriment, thin on satirical edge and certainly thin on script....

Review: LITTLE WOMEN BALLET at Wilshire Ebell Theatre


by Amanda Callas - December 13, 2024

Little Women Ballet is the world premiere of a charming new ballet at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Mid-Wilshire.  This is a lavish, romantic, nostalgic, family-friendly night of dance that is not to be missed....

Review: LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K at Cape Town's Baxter Theatre And Handspring Puppet Company


by Andrew Child - November 22, 2024

If you have yet to see the work of Handspring Puppet Company, hurry to get tickets for Life & Times of Michael K in its limited run. No one to my knowledge is maneuvering puppets quite like these masters....

Review: THE GIRL WHO MADE THE MILKY WAY at The Colony Theatre


by Amanda Callas - November 20, 2024

Written by acclaimed actress and playwright June Carryl and produced by Imagine Theatre, this light-hearted, fantastical voyage through the savanna is inspired by folktales and origin stories from South Africa.  There is a charming Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland feeling of whimsy and adventure af...

Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Geffen Playhouse


by Evan Henerson - November 19, 2024

As embodied by Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi in the revival of GODOT at the Geffen Playhouse, Vladimir and Estragon are a formidable pair. Beckett’s play about the unknowable darkness of the human condition has - go figure! - long been catnip for comedians, and you get why Wilson and Mandvi would wa...

Review: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at Pasadena Playhouse


by Andrew Child - November 18, 2024

Pinkleton has thrown every prop gimmick and novel idea in the book at the show, and in the process has disrupted the stuff that simply works about the piece....

Review: Jason Alexander Leads Outstanding FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at La Mirada Theatre


by Michael Quintos - November 15, 2024

Led by a brilliant performance by Jason Alexander, this lively, emotionally-grounded, classic-leaning staging still somehow manages to feel fresh, reinvigorated, and much more searing than prior iterations.This latest SoCal-area revival of the landmark 1964 musical—here directed by Lonny Price—is, a...

Review: NIGHTINGALE at Atwater Village Theatre


by Harker Jones - November 13, 2024

NIGHTINGALE is by turns stark, humorous, shocking, and devastating, revealing truths and realities obliquely but with the power of blunt force....

Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL at Hollywood Pantages


by Evan Henerson - November 12, 2024

Is there some sort of formula for roping in both fans of a hit movie and stage hounds, to catch lightning in a new medium? Judging by what the musical's book writer Bob Gale, director John Rando and the musical team must have been thinking, the answer is you slavishly remake the movie on stage....

Past Shows

Samora Pinderhughes


Step into a world of transformative artistry with Samora Pinderhughes, this December at The Wallis. Renowned for his dynamic blend of music, film, and activism, ...

Meow Meow
Meow Meow
12/14


Enter the glorious world of International Chanteuse and Comedienne Extraordinaire Meow Meow these holidaze with her unique brand of holiday hilarity and musical mayhem. Let ...

Dulcé Sloan
Dulcé Sloan
12/13


Join us for a side-splitting evening with the incomparable Dulcé Sloan, delivering her signature blend of commentary and charm in an unmatched comedic showcase! Known ...

BODYTRAFFIC
BODYTRAFFIC
12/6 - 12/7/2024


Continuing our four-year partnership, the L.A.-based dance company, BODYTRAFFIC, led by Tina Finkelman Berkett, returns to The Wallis. This December, a spellbinding program awaits, delivering ...

Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K
11/21 - 11/24/2024


Life & Times of Michael K brings dignity to a humble man who finds solace in nature on an epic journey through a mythical, war-torn ...

RUFUS-RETRO-WAINWRIGHT-SPECTIVE: ACT 3


**Each evening will feature a different program, all combining to create the full Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective experience. ACT 3: Songs of Contempt and Resistance - Any highly ...

RUFUS-RETRO-WAINWRIGHT-SPECTIVE: ACT 2


**Each evening will feature a different program, all combining to create the full Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective experience. ACT 2: Songs of Love and Desire - When obsessions ...

RUFUS-RETRO-WAINWRIGHT-SPECTIVE: ACT 1


**Each evening will feature a different program, all combining to create the full Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective experience. ACT 1: Songs of Youth and Addiction - Wainwright debuted ...

Alphabet Rockers


GRAMMY-winning artist Alphabet Rockers make music that makes change. Founded by Kaitlin McGaw (she/her) and Tommy Shepherd (he/him/they), this intergenerational group creates brave spaces to ...

Circa: Humans 2.0
Circa: Humans 2.0
10/18 - 10/19/2024


A symphony of acrobatics, sound and light, this is next level circus by Circa. Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in ...

Romeo and Juliet Suite
Romeo and Juliet Suite
10/10 - 10/12/2024


In a stunning Los Angeles debut, choreographer Benjamin Millepied offers an innovative and contemporary vision of Prokofiev’s masterpiece Romeo & Juliet. Navigating between film, dance ...

Sugar Daddy
Sugar Daddy
9/20 - 10/4/2024


A theatrical sugar rush—with none of the carbs. Hot off acclaimed runs in Edinburgh, London, New York, and across North America, comedian Sam Morrison brings ...

Harawi
Harawi
10/1


HARAWI realizes Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting, hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in a newly physicalized and dramatized dimension featuring AMOC* Company members soprano ...

Mama I'm A Big Girl Now


From Broadway Babies to Broadway Mamas! Three original stars unite to celebrate 20 years of Hairspray, along with their other Broadway hits, motherhood, and lifelong ...

Camille A. Brown & Dancers: ink


Join Camille A. Brown & Dancers in an exploration of self-empowerment, Black love, brotherhood, and resilience that examines aspects of Black life that are too ...

Love Actually Live
Love Actually Live
11/22 - 11/28/2023


LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE, the multimedia concert experience, makes a triumphant return to commemorate the cult classic holiday film’s 20th Anniversary. Set within a picturesque London ...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Lineage - Coleridge-Taylor & Chausson


Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra opens its Chamber Series with an intimate program curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer. Celebrated pianist Anne-Marie ...

Tim Meadows


For one night only @ The Wallis, the legendary comic and actor Tim Meadows, one of the longest running cast members on "Saturday Night Live," ...

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