Catherine Womack

Charlyne Yi isn’t interested in choosing just one career path and sticking to it. The actor, comedian, artist, musician and writer says she’d prefer to keep growing and changing, and that she envisions multiple chapters to her creative story. “The end of growing sounds like death,” she wrote in an......

During one of her courses at UCLA, South Korean artist Eunhae Grace Yoo was challenged to step outside her comfort zone and create a work of performance art. She used the assignment as an opportunity to explore the psychological pressures she lives under as an undocumented immigrant. For DREAM act,......

Even as he sifted through the damage, Medansky viewed the destruction with an artist’s eye. “I’m not going to lie, that piece on the wall looks so amazing now,” he said at the time, pointing to a sculpture that was covered in a thick black soot. “It smells awful, but there’s a certain sort of smokey thing I could’ve never gotten. They’re beautiful. They’re the beginning of what’s next.”...

Making opera cool, affordable, accessible and enticing to young audiences is easier said than done....

Like a lot of people, I’ve been suffering from a post-election hangover. I tried to make myself feel better. I had lunch with my sister. I walked my dog. I drank a beer. But I couldn’t shake the sick feeling that sat in my gut. That is, until I walked into......

It’s a rainy Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles and the staff at L.A. Opera is busy preparing for the next mainstage production. Inside a large, fluorescent-lit rehearsal space at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Matthew Aucoin, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Phelim McDermott are gathered around an iPad. They are watching......

From October 30 through November 8, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy will, quite literally, inhabit the museum....

When it opened in 1971, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center was the city’s first black-owned hospital. In the 1970s and '80s it was a thriving, vital part of the West Adams community. But as the neighborhood around it fell into disrepair, the hospital did too. In 2012, L.A. Metro’s parent......