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What Escobedo’s imagined monuments teach us about how to build real ones. Plus, Henry Taylor and too many jukebox musicals in our weekly arts newsletter.

With an opera, a jukebox musical and a Broadway comedy running simultaneously this year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage has never been busier or more determined to move American theater forward.

Grilled cheese or lobster roll? And how sandwiches are the perfect symbol for discussing life and loss on stage.

In the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini, and amid ongoing protests in Iran, new 'Women, Life, Freedom' murals and artworks are popping up around L.A.

The big tree lighting in DTLA, a music meditation on the holidays, a must-see Chinatown art show and more ways to spend the long holiday weekend.

Ex-cons trying to find meaning in life. A boss who just might be the devil. Lynn Nottage's comedy brings amusing ingredients to the Mark Taper Forum.

Check out the latest in toys and collectibles at DesignerCon. View the future of the auto industry at the L.A. Auto Show. Visit the Enchanted Forest of Light. Attend Bob Baker Marionette Theater's telethon.

Luis Alfaro announced in a Facebook post that he left his position as associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group on November 1.

In her work, Colombia-born playwright Diana Burbano creates rich, three-dimensional characters for Latinx actors, the likes of which are sorely lacking in canonical theatrical material.

Theatre for a New Audience will present Denis Johnson’s Des Moines, the final play from the late author, and the first play by Johnson TFANA has staged, November 29, 2022–January 1, 2023, at Polonsky Shakespeare Center.