📣 Announcing the Winter-Spring 2026 lineup at REDCAT! 📣
Join us for a new season of performance, art, music, theater, film, and dance starting in January.
*Contemporary dance and AI in a new work by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener
*The latest play from Obie winning writer and director Misha Shayok Chowdhury
*Genre-defying performances from Alex Tatarsky, Jibz Cameron, and Jodie Landau
*A newly commissioned exhibition by Harmony Holiday
*Wild Up presents music of visionary women Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou and St. Teresa of Ávila, and experimental music across centuries, with new works by Eliza Bagg and M.A. Tiesenga
*New opera with The Industry LAB featuring Guillermo E. Brown, Carmina Escobar, and Matana Roberts
*Chantal Akerman’s collaboration with celebrated cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and award-winning pianist Sarah Rothenberg
*Collaborations with Monday Evening Concerts, The Industry, the LA Philharmonic and Liquid Music, Beth Morrison Projects, and the PARTCH Ensemble
*plus screenings, talks, and more!
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This May, join us to celebrate a new memoir by a queer performance icon; cheer on CalArts graduates and their cutting-edge work in dance, film, and writing; and experience a new operatic look at love and self in a rock-concert-meets-cabaret.
👜 5/1–5/2: Jibz Cameron/Dynasty Handbag: HELL IN A HANDBAG
🎥 5/7–5/9: CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
✍️ 5/11: CALARTS WRITERS SHOWCASE
💃 5/13–5/14: T. Akuchu, Dimitri Chamblas, James Gregg, Caitlin Javech: CALARTS DANCE: EMERGENT FORMS
🎹 5/29–5/30: Jodie Landau: PERFORMANCE OF SELF
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⛪🎶 For one night, REDCAT becomes a chapel of sound.
Join Wild Up and @calartsredcat on June 6 for The Interior Castle, an evening spanning centuries of artistic and spiritual inquiry inspired by visionary women, most of them cloistered.
The program brings together music by medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen, Baroque Italian nun Isabella Leonarda, and Ethiopian composer-pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, alongside world premieres by LA-based composers @lisel.jpeg and @tiesenga .
Built as a kind of musical return-and-refrain, the evening circles back to four luminous piano works by Emahoy, performed by guest artist Vicki Ray, plus Eliza Bagg’s True City, a response to Hildegard’s O presul vere civitas, and Wild Up member M.A. Tiesenga’s The Interior Castle, a foray into St. Teresa of Ávila’s mystical architecture of the soul.
📅 Saturday, June 6 | 8pm 📍 REDCAT
Tickets at the link in bio!
Join us for PERFORMANCE OF SELF—Jodie Landau's one-person show at REDCAT 5/29 & 5/30.
Blending concert, cabaret, and storytelling, Jodie Landau’s debut show, directed by @dianawyenn , moves through music, memory, love, and family in a reflection on identity. From dating apps to boy bands, PERFORMANCE OF SELF is funny, poignant, and full of powerful music.
PERFORMANCE OF SELF is commissioned, developed, produced, and co-presented by @bethmorrisonprojects , partnering in our West Coast premiere as part of @operafestla .
Grammy Award-winning PARTCH Ensemble returns to REDCAT 6/26–6/27!
Specializing in the music of iconoclastic composer Harry Partch, the ensemble will debut newly constructed, custom-built replicas of instruments designed by Partch in their annual survey of his music.
The evening begins with excerpts from the rarely heard Partch piece, "On the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma”—a kaleidoscope of swirling timbres that amazes with the composer’s multiple exposure technique—and concludes with the “Prologue” & “Epilogue” from Partch’s midcentury piece, "The Bewitched." New compositions include a solo setting of one of Partch's favorite Chinese poets (Li Po, 701-762 C.E.) and the world premiere of Daniel Corral's "Parable of the Bitter."
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Photos by @angeloriggi
“I think so much of RHEOLOGY is about recognizing that my time with my mom is finite. I’m literally trying to invent time. I’m using theater—holding onto my mom and forcing her to spend time with me the way that a kid would by making their mom play with them,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury told @brooklynrail during a discussion about his play.
At REDCAT June 11–13, RHEOLOGY stars Chowdhury and his real-life mother, Bulbul Chakraborty. A celebrated physicist, Chakraborty won an Obie award for her deeply personal performance in RHEOLOGY.
See the link in our bio to learn more and to purchase tickets.
Photos by Maria Baranova.
Meet the next generation of dance artists May 13–14 at REDCAT.
The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance’s undergraduate class of 2026 takes the stage in EMERGENT FORMS.
Choreographers James Gregg, Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu, Dimitri Chamblas, Caitlin Javech (MFA Choreography 22), along with collaborators, Fernando Hernandez Magadon, Annalee Traylor (MFA Choreography 23), Madison Moser (BFA 25), and Joe Davis, craft new works that highlight the unique artistic voices of students as they embark on professional careers.
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Photos by @cherylmannphoto
Celebrate the class of 2026 at CalArts showcases for film, writing, and dance.
🎥 5/7–5/9: CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
✍️ 5/11: CALARTS WRITERS SHOWCASE
👯 5/13–5/14: CALARTS DANCE SHOWCASE: EMERGENT FORMS
Visit REDCAT.org to learn more and to get tickets.
Image 1: 6. Still from D:\fileDmilltown%20michelin%20materials, by Autumn Hartley.
Image 2: Photo by @angeloriggi .
Image 3: Photo by @cherylmannphoto
Tickets are running out for HELL IN A HANDBAG with Jibz Cameron / Dynasty Handbag this Friday and Saturday at REDCAT!
Cameron and her legendary alter ego return to REDCAT for an evening of performance, film, and readings celebrating her new memoir. Both frank and funny, HELL IN A HANDBAG follows a childhood spent with hippie clowns in Northern California, as a teenager in the East Bay punk scene, to the birth of a queer performance icon.
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Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein.
CalArts Students and Alumni: special show announcement at REDCAT on 4/28 at 8 pm. Join international touring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka (MFA Film/Video-Critical Studies 15) as she revisits her art school days at her alma mater and pontificates on where she fits in the art world as a standup comedian. Is stand-up comedy “art”?
Following the performance, Okatsuka will join Critical Studies faculty member Chris Santiago for a discussion and Q&A.
See the link in our bio to learn more and get tickets—CalArts students and alumni can access tickets via a code entered into the ticketing section.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Born in India, writer, director, and performer Shayok Misha Chowdhury creates innovative theater that often explores family, language, and inheritance across generations. For RHEOLOGY, at REDCAT June 11–13, he collaborates with his physicist mother on a genre-defying new play.
“Shayok Misha Chowdhury is always a theater artist to keep an eye on, whether he’s directing or writing,” notes New York Magazine, which named RHEOLOGY one of its “16 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See in 2026.” Chowdhury is the recipient of an Obie Award and a Whiting Award; his play PUBLIC OBSCENITIES was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Chowdhury describes himself as “many-tentacled.” In addition to his work in the theater, he is also an award-winning music-maker and poet. Those aspects all animate RHEOLOGY, and we’re thrilled to present the West Coast premiere of this ambitious new play racing against time and mortality.
See the link in our bio to learn more and to purchase tickets.
Photos by Beowulf Sheehan.
