Kick off the holiday season Studio 54-style! Get down, get funky, and deck your disco balls with a glittering night of holiday cheer, retro fabulousness and R-rated game show insanity! Host Dennis Hensley and his panel of comic geniuses are serving up a sequin-studded yuletide fever dream–and baby, the door policy is VERY loose.
Back by popular demand following last year’s sold-out revelry, Arts A La Carte and Los Angeles LGBT Center are tickled to offer up a new version of wildly inappropriate holiday humor. Conceived by Arts A La Carte alumni, we will once again enliven the holiday spirit with a full serving of salacious songs, terrible puns, […]
Joy, community, laughter, and love are all things we need today! These are also all things that you’ll experience by joining Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles at the The Village at Ed Gould Plaza for the 4th annual “A Rainbow Navidad” Christmas spectacular! This marks the fourth year of blending the sounds of a traditional […]
John Snow leads an all-star ensemble in a cabaret of music, songs, stories, and poems that honor and celebrate the genius of the great Noël Coward.
Paradise is one’s own place, One’s own people, One’s own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. – Octavia E. Butler Quentos – a portmanteau of “Queer” and “Cuentos” (stories) – create culture, rituals, and traditions. Experience a curated series of new stories written by a cohort of community members and rooted in our nostalgic JOI. Celebramos the prism […]
You know when you have a really unpopular opinion, and it feels like you’re the guy in a noir film with the Secret Knowledge You Never Asked For, and everyone around you gets hostile when you try to say something about it? That’s what it’s like to realize that Christopher Nolan hates women. He likes […]
The Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles LGBT Center present Remembrance: A Trans Day of Remembrance Concert. The show is in three acts: Act I acknowledges those that we have lost and allows us to process the grief of violence against the Trans community. Act II is about resilience, providing joy and […]
In THE (UN)OFFICIAL WITCH OF LOS ANGELES, an aspiring TikTok witch moves into a fairytale cottage in Los Angeles, where she encounters a hidden history and quirky clients that unearth not only the deep magic of the land, but the spiritual powers she never knew she had. The new play – presented here as a […]
In Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois – a queer, contemporary Western – all the women in a remote Old West town have been abandoned for over a year as their husbands search for gold. The women are isolated, their rations are running out, and the local sheriff meant to protect them is drunk as a skunk. Enter: […]
A hilarious and heartbreaking rollercoaster ride through true crime, sit-coms, sobriety, grief, and life as a gay working actor in Hollywood. Inspired by a shocking real-life encounter that ended in tragedy, Self-Absorbed Man weaves together personal stories, dark comedy, and astonishing coincidences into a personal portrait of survival, self-discovery, and finding meaning in chaos.
A regional theater near collapse sells its soul to a corporate tech company in exchange for a Digital Innovation & Equity grant. To secure the loot – and buy instant “authenticity” – a theatre admin hires a self-important male director to stage a live-streamed, AI-integrated adaptation of Lysistrata that centers Queer and Trans sex workers. […]
A staged reading of Matthew Scott Montgomery’s new Halloween play, GHOST PLAY. Hilarious, heartbreaking and full of shocking twists, GHOST PLAY takes place on a fateful Halloween night, when a group of friends – some alive and some not – get a second chance to say all the things they wish they never had. Join […]
‘Tis the Halloween Season – join us for a thrilling evening of hot experimental LGBTQ+ performances, including music, dance, drag, burlesque, and more. It’s a fright night of bewitching All Hallows Eve-inspired pieces by local Los Angeles underground artists. Witness the debauchery, behold the queerness, and enjoy the fun!
The first two weeks of October mark the intersection of Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month; the first celebrates ethnic and cultural heritage, while the latter brings orientation and identity to the forefront. Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles (The Los Angeles Rainbow Mariachi) was created as a haven for mariachi musicians who identify as […]
A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a “witch” and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince […]
Join the Opening Plenary – an evening of celebrating queer histories as we kick off the fourth annual Circa: Queer Histories Festival! Don’t miss opening remarks from One Institute and a distinguished guest lecturer as a part of The Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Lectures on LGBTQ+ History. About Circa: Established in 2023, Circa: […]
Liza (not) at the Palace is a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience, in which Victoria Libertore channels the iconic energy of Liza Minnelli while also bringing in her own two-decade history as an intuitive medium to channel messages from “the great beyond” for the audience. It’s a cabaret-meets-healing circle that will leave you titillated, transfixed, and transformed. Written and performed by NYC […]
This isn’t a play about September 11th — it’s about the strange, tender weeks after, when a gay photographer in Lower Manhattan places a roommate ad the night before the towers fall. Queer survival, chosen family, and the strangers who become lifelines when the world cracks open – Experience this anniversary evening of remembrance and reflection. Written by Brian Sloan and first staged at the […]
Peer into the paradox of finding freedom in digital spaces while simultaneously feeling more trapped by their algorithmic expectations. Humor, heart, and a touch of horror course through the veins of this solo performance piece blending spoken and recorded text, stylized movement, musical interludes, and audience engagement to answer the question, ¿Do u know Y […]
This year, Pride Poets wrote poems for over 1,000 community members at WeHo Pride, Trans Pride, Beverly Hills Pride, Huntington Gardens, and more. This event brings together a tapestry of poems as members of Pride Poets look back to share and reflect on their experiences, creating a snapshot of what Pride means in this difficult season for queer folks. Through the performance, a […]
