The Thursday night opening of Early Morning Opera's Abacus at REDCAT felt like a joyful reunion for L.A.'s art scene. Abacus got its start at the REDCAT NOW Fest in 2009 and has since traveled to various residencies and performance venues, including the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. more ›

Fresh from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it was only one of two live performances selected to participate, Early Morning Opera’s Abacus opens tonight at REDCAT and runs through Saturday. more ›

Novelist Mark Z. Danielewski is frighteningly good at what he does. His books have imparted an international cult following for their courageous and mind-bending subjects, experimental typography, and innovative approaches to story-telling. more ›

Christine Marie's performance art has a way of eliciting wonder from children and adults alike. Though many of her tools are simple—lights, fabric and everyday objects—she's able to create entire worlds by blending ancient traditions with new ideas. This Halloween, she and her team will return to the REDCAT Theater for The Fifty Year Sword. more ›

Labeled by Dance Magazine in 2009 as one of the 25 to Watch, Pittsburgh native and now New York rising star, choreographer Kyle Abraham brings his company, Abraham.In.Motion to REDCAT this week for five performances. more ›

As part of the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series at Cal Arts' downtown theater, Congolese choreographer and director Faustin Linyekula returns to REDCAT this week to present his newest work, more more more... future. Performed by an all-male trio of dancers (including Linyekula), more more more... future addresses the decades of war, terror, fear and the collapse of the Congolese economy by celebrating hope for the unknown days ahead. more ›

The third and final weekend of the New Original Works Festival (NOW) at REDCAT unfolds tonight with uniquely different live theater and dance contributions created by three (really four) artists from our own backyard. more ›

The 8th annual New Original Works Festival at REDCAT continues this week, featuring work by L.A.-based interdisciplinary creators Robert Cucuzza and Rosanna Gamson. Both theater artists will pull from literary sources to produce dramatic combinations of movement, music, text and all sorts of bells and whistles to entice the audience and embolden the perception of live performance. more ›

Though beginning later in the year than in the past, the eighth annual New Original Works Festival starts up this weekend at REDCAT downtown. Referring to itself as a laboratory for boundary-expanding creativity in dance, theater, music and multimedia performance work, the three-week festival will uncover eight of the hidden artistic gems of our city. more ›

Sandra Bernhard strutted onto the Redcat stage Thursday night, garnering two standing ovations - one upon her entrance and another as she said goodnight to her fans and the L.A. premiere of her new show, "I Love Being Me, Don't You?" Clad in a black and silver distressed dress luring peeks at her midriff and thighs, Bernhard stills looks and sounds fierce. more ›

Backed by a four-piece band, Bernhard presents a "no-holds-barred evening of outrageous humor, cutting satire and fiercely energetic live performance." Her comedy album of the same title released in June. No virgin to the limelight, Bernhard first stepped on stage at The Comedy Store in L.A. in the 1970s and has since toured the U.S. and Europe, delighting audiences with her edgy stage shows. more ›

The RADAR LA International Festival of Contemporary Theatre is the fruit of the combined efforts of the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), the folks from Public Theatre's Under the Radar Festival, and the Roy & Edna Disney/ CalArts Theatre (REDCAT). This year's RADAR LA prominently showcases works that obscure the traditional parameters of theatre. Indulgences for both the eyes and ears include an illusionary multimedia work from Australian artist Fleur Elise Noble and a poetry-play hybrid from Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell. more ›

An ex-New Yorker and now almost an institution in today's local concert dance scene, the creative mover and shaker Meg Wolfe whirls into the Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater on Thursday for a weekend of performances of her newest work, trembler.SHIFTER. more ›

REDCAT is doin’ the deed! Bringing in what’s labeled as “visionary” Samoan movement artist Lemi Ponifasio and his company MAU to the historic Million Dollar Theater downtown this weekend, the adventurous presenter will host the U.S. premiere of the internationally acclaimed performance Tempest: Without a Body. more ›

Pioneering Japanese movement theater masters Eiko and Koma are celebrating their 40th anniversary of making art with a national retrospective tour that will touch down here at REDCAT tonight through Sunday. Presenting work that spans their career and which they, themselves, will perform, the legendary duo will revisit ideas, images and terrain that have marked them as groundbreaking creator/performers from their inception in the 70s. more ›

Starting tonight and running all weekend, our very own home for new and exciting performance, REDCAT will host a four evening “contest” for audience-decided best (modern) dance in the area. Part of a national six-city event created in New York in 2005, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! presents the work of 12 local dancemakers chosen by a national panel of cognoscenti. more ›

This Halloween, Los Angeles will be the envy of many book lovers around the world as The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves, Only Revolutions) makes its US debut at REDCAT. more ›

As it continues to bring in artists with impact, REDCAT hosts a four performance run of multiple award-winning choreographer/company Tere O’Connor Dance this Thursday through Sunday. Presenting the West Coast premiere of Wrought Iron Fog, the five dancers move to an original score by longtime collaborator James Baker within a set designed by Walter Dundervill and O'Connor. more ›

Our local home for adventurous theater, dance, music and combinations thereof, REDCAT begins its eighth season of presenting new and daring performance work this weekend with the international dance and lighting spectacular, Rain Coloring Forest. A collaboration between Indonesian visionary dance artist Sardono W. Kusumo and renowned American lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, the evening length work runs for only four performances at the downtown venue. more ›

Rivera & Rivera unveils a new floor-to-ceiling installation piece by graffiti artist RETNA. For one-night-only, guests will be able to view the piece, which 25-foot high wall, carpets the floor and envelops viewers in a black and white web of text. It’s the gallery’s last evening in its present Hope Street location before moving to the heart of the Gallery District in the fall. 8-11 pm tonight. Free with RSVP. more ›

After the opening week of performances at REDCAT’s 7th annual New Original Works Festival, I get the picture more clearly. Articulately described by curators as “a vibrant performance laboratory,” I now see that as a “heads up.” Be prepared for just what that means. Though the artists selected from the throng of applicants come with good credentials and great ideas—on paper—not everything always works on the stage. In the tradition of true artistic progress, however, the performers, composers, writers, multi-media-ists and dancers/choreographers are diving into new waters. It’s the way all things move forward, push the envelope and aspire for bigger, newer and better. And, I think it’s part of the REDCAT mission. more ›

The seventh annual New Original Works Festival opens Thursday at REDCAT, our city’s center for cutting edge and experimental performing arts. Housed below the statuesque Disney Hall, the festival runs for three weekends and showcases the work of eight adventurous local artists in music, theater, dance and multimedia, with mixtures of all the arts abounding. more ›

The ninth annual Dance Media Film Festival produced by L.A.'s own Dance Camera West jumps out of the starting gate on Friday with three collections of choice short films. Entitled “ScreenDance: A New Visual Language,” the selected cinematic anthologies are presented over two nights at REDCAT, our homegrown source for... more ›

Who knew local choreographer/dancer Lionel Popkin has such an interesting background? I did know about his New York tenure with the iconic Trisha Brown Dance Company and his shorter stints with smaller downtown groups, but none of that revealed his unique heritage and its influence on his recent dance making. A few years ago, he presented a duet as part of the summer NOW Festival at REDCAT that, among other movement ideas, included dancing with his partner’s finger in his mouth. A strange relationship with little explanation offered, it now starts to make sense to me. more ›

Pizza and wine -- a great combination, better yet if you can get them at a steal, much like you can today at Pizza & Pinot Night at the Palm Terrace Restaurant and Lounge at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach. Running from 4 - 8:00 PM tonight, the even will feature $4 specialty pizzas with the purchase of a glass of Pinot Noir. Some of the pizza selections include: Taleggio Cheese and Crushed Truffles with Lobster and Chives; and Grapes and Humboldt Fog Goat Cheese. more ›

Rosanna Gamson/World Wide leaves no stone unturned when the company explores the creator's own personal history and ancestral connections in Tov, which continues its performance run at REDCAT through Saturday. Layered with the fatal story of the tarpan horse, the work is a collaboration with Polish theater company CHOREA Theatre Association and includes a cast of 17 dancers, singers, actors and other musicians. This hour-long event brings a Eurasian environment to the re-configured theater space downtown. more ›