April 3, 2023 Dear Friends, Spring is here – and I am thrilled to have arrived in Los Angeles to work with the wonderful team here at The Wallis and to make my home in […]
Author: Chandra Jackson
Ulysses Owens, Jr. and J’Nai Bridges: CONCERT NOTES for NOTES ON HOPE
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, […]
Pauline García Viardot’s The Last Sorcerer: A Feminist Eco-Fable in Operatic Form
Program Notes by Camille Zamora A recently rediscovered treasure by one of the most compelling artists of the nineteenth century resonates with themes that speak to us in the twenty-first. See The Last Sorcerer (Le […]
From Page to Stage: The Journey of Invincible – The Musical
By Book Writer Bradley Bredeweg I’m a child of the 80’s, so Pat and Neil’s music was always around me — in my house, car rides to school, and in every mall I stepped foot […]
The Wallis Commissions WORLD PREMIERE of Aeryn Santillan’s “withdraw”
JOHNNY GANDELSMAN: THIS IS AMERICAThursday, May 19 at 8:00 PMLovelace Studio Theater @ The Wallis This is America features 22 new works for solo violin, all created in 2020 by composers that reflect our nation’s […]
RACHAEL WORBY TALKS MUSE/IQUE’S SUNRISE ON SUNSET
Leading up to MUSE/IQUE’s debut concert at The Wallis, we spoke with the ensemble’s Artistic Director and Conductor Rachael Worby. Get Rachael’s inside take on music curation, the lore of Sunset Boulevard, and L.A. as the […]
In Loving Memory of Paul Selwyn
To Our Beloved Wallis Friends, It is with a deep well of gratitude that we at The Wallis remember the life of esteemed philanthropist, husband, father, community leader, and Founding President of the Wallis Annenberg […]
In Loving Remembrance of Jacqueline Avant
December 3, 2021 Dearest Friends, We at the Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts are stunned and devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of beloved Wallis Board of Directors and Education Committee member, […]
A Farewell from Paul Crewes
A letter to our Wallis Family from Artistic Director Paul Crewes, who will be ending his six-year tenure at The Wallis at the end of December 2021: Dear Friends, We are so happy to welcome […]
Your Story, Your Voice
The Wallis Community Partners program distributes free performance tickets to a network of over 20 nonprofit agencies in the greater Los Angeles area. The primary goal is to share the arts and help people feel […]