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$20! The Wallis 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd | Beverly Hills CA 90210 Hills CA | Beverly Blvd Monica 9390 N. Santa 310.746.4000 TheWallis.org/Subscribe SUBSCRIBE TODAY! SEPTEMBER 18 SEASON BEGINS PACKAGES WITH WITH PACKAGES TICKETS LOW AS AS WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 19/20 SEASON I look forward to seeing you at The Wallis during our 2019/20 Season. This season has many things to celebrate.
We are celebrating the wonderful dance scene that has exploded here in Los Angeles in the last few years. It is a very powerful statement of intent by The Wallis to program exclusively L.A. dance companies. We are proud to recognize and support the remarkable, world-class work these companies are making, which reflects and promotes the cultural mosaic that is Los Angeles.
It is also a first for The Wallis to be producing a piece of dance, The Minghella Project, based on four pieces of work written by Anthony Minghella, performed together for the first time, in collaboration with our 2019/20 Company-In- Residence, BODYTRAFFIC.
Our theater program celebrates Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, with our very own production, in collaboration with Four Larks, a company that “makes original performance at the intersection of theatre, music, visual art, and dance.” We are also very proud to be producing Sisters in Law with L.A. producing partners Elizabeth Weber, Don Franzen and Dale Franzen (Dale just won the Best Musical Tony Award for Hadestown, so it will bring a real sense of Broadway to Beverly Hills).
Our music program continues to celebrate the range and diversity of music, whether traditional or modern, classical or contemporary, local, national, or international. It is also the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. A birthday we can’t miss celebrating.
We look forward to launching the season this September in the Bram Goldsmith Theater with Herb Alpert and Lani Hall.
We welcome you ALL to The Wallis. “If you love the arts, The Wallis welcomes you.” –Entertainment Weekly
Paul Crewes, Artistic Director
19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org As the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts launches its seventh season (and I launch my fifth!), I want to thank you all for your noteworthy loyalty and unwavering support.
Every time I enter the former Beverly Hills Post Office, our distinctive and beautiful cultural campus, or experience one of our performances or GRoW @ The Wallis education programs, I feel a sense of wonder and awe.
Our journey in the performing arts and arts education over the last few years has been both exciting and tremendously fulfilling: positioning collectively our amazing performing arts center to achieve its full potential and serving our community richly as a vital and critical cultural resource.
It has not always been easy, but no meaningful journey worth pursuing ever is.
You, our passionate audiences, students, donors and community, have fortified us as we’ve moved from our infancy to being a more established, confident and recognized arts center. Our outstanding Board of Directors, our new Wallis Ambassadors and our partner, the City of Beverly Hills, have also added immeasurably in strengthening and boosting our organization. The success of a multifaceted performing arts center can never be attributed to one person or one thing. It’s the efforts, expertise, and energy of many that have contributed to our promising trajectory.
We pride ourselves on being a warm and welcoming gathering place for the open exchange of arts, ideas, and interests. We design our programs with inclusivity, accessibility, and diversity in mind. We invite everyone to join us in experiencing The Wallis and in contributing actively to the incomparable arts ecosystem that is Southern California.
We look forward very much to seeing you in the season ahead. Thank you for being with us!
Rachel Fine, Executive Director & CEO
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19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org#thewallisbh A Wallis Production in Association with Elizabeth Weber, Dale Franzen, and Don Franzen
How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World WRITTEN BY Jonathan Shapiro DIRECTED BY Patricia McGregor BASED ON THE BOOK BY Linda Hirshman
SEPT 18 – OCT 13 WEST COAST PREMIERE LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day TICKETS START AT $60 O’Connor—one a Democrat, one a Republican—are polar opposites and modern-day legends. As the U.S. Supreme Court’s first two female justices, they grappled with matters of the law and personal belief. Sisters in Law celebrates a friendship transcending party, religion, This production is made possible in part by generous support from the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation. and culture.
“[A] funny … and moving tale of two women so similar and yet so different.” – NPR
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THEATER • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org#thewallisbh The Wallis Presents The Wallis Presents A MUSICAL JOURNEY INTO THE LIVES OF CHARLES DICKENS’ NINA SIMONE AND LEDISI
LITTLE GIRL BLUE
CREATED BY LEDISI The Legend of Little Girl Blue is a beautifully DIRECTED BY GREGG FIELD orchestrated mixture of classical, jazz, WRITTEN BY DANIEL BEATY and rhythm & blues sounds with riveting MUSICAL DIRECTOR KIM BURSE storytelling of the musical bond between PRODUCED BY BILLY PORTER an artist from one era influenced by a legend from the past. Ledisi returns to her DEC 13-22 roots in jazz, while performing her classics LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER reimagined with strings and big band horns, in honor of one of her greatest inspirations, TICKETS START AT $30 the great Nina Simone.
DIRECTED BY SIMON HARVEY Joy to all mankind? Bah! Humbug! Spend an PERFORMED BY DAVID MYNNE evening in the company of a mean, tight-fisted, ADAPTED BY ANDREW MCPHERSON squeezing, grasping, clutching old miser. Watch ADDITIONAL SCRIPT BY horrified as Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by four SIMON HARVEY AND DAVID MYNNE creepy ghosts—each one more terrifying than DEC 4-8 the last. In their inimitable style, the team that brought you Great Expectations will now celebrate LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER the holiday season with a mesmerizing one- TICKETS START AT $25 man performance of Charles Dickens’ timeless, transformative story. Recommended for adults of all ages and brave children ages 8+
THEATER • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org A Wallis and Four Larks Production
AFTER MARY SHELLEY WORLD PREMIERE CREATED, STAGED, AND COMPOSED BY MAT SWEENEY Mary Shelley's modern myth awakens new questions of scientific enquiry and moral DESIGN AND CHOREOGRAPHY BY responsibility for each generation. L.A.’s SEBASTIAN PETERS-LAZARO own Four Larks' exuberant amalgamation of physical theatre, live music, and FEB 12-MAR 1 immersive design brings Shelley's LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER creature to life, in their Wallis debut. TICKETS START AT $60
THEATER • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org The Wallis Presents Plush Theatricals in association with Wise Children production of
BOOK BY EMMA RICE U.S. PREMIERE LYRICS BY CHRISTOPHER DIMOND MUSIC BY MICHAEL KOOMAN Adapted by Emma Rice (Kneehigh’s Brief Encounter BASED ON THE FILM LES ÉMOTIFS ANONYMES WRITTEN and The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk) from the French- BY JEAN-PIERRE AMÉRIS AND PHILIPPE BLASBAND Belgian film Les Émotifs Anonymes, this new DIRECTED BY EMMA RICE musical is a treat for all the senses. Angélique MAR 17-29 makes beautiful chocolates, carefully infused with BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER all the emotion that seems to overwhelm her in daily life. Jean-René runs a chocolate factory that TICKETS START AT $39 is running out of steam. Both seek help from the usual sources: Jean-René favors self-help tapes, “A sweetly funny, and Angélique joins a support group. Filled with all The Wallis Presents Slingsby’s the joy and pain it takes to survive and love in the gorgeously tender modern world, Romantics Anonymous is a tale that musical rom-com.” will lift any heart. - The Times (London)
BY ERICH KÄSTNER Never underestimate the determination of a ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY NICKI BLOOM child! Young Emil catches a train to visit family in the big city. Something valuable is stolen, but the MAR 27-29 thief soon discovers Emil was not such an easy LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER target. A group of quick-thinking and resourceful TICKETS START AT $25 children rally around. Can a bunch of kids work together to uncover and outsmart the true criminal? In Slingsby’s award-winning signature style, Emil and The Detectives is told by two skilled actors immersed in smoke and mirrors, miniature worlds, and a cinematic score. Recommended for adults and children ages 8+
THEATER • 19/20 SEASON @TheWallis.orgTheWallisBH The Wallis Presents The Wallis Presents New International Encounter's The Samantha F. Voxakis and Karen Racanelli Production HERSHEY FELDER:
“★★★★ Warm, family- MAY 8-17 LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER friendly fairytale with a TICKETS START AT $25 A NEW PLAY smart twist” - The Stage MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, THIS FEATURING THE SNOW WHITE HAS LAUGHS FOR ALL! MUSIC OF SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Join our charmingly cheerful heroine as she escapes her hilariously LOS ANGELES PREMIERE homicidal stepmother with help from JUL 18-AUG 2 a family of feisty woods-dwelling, BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER In this L.A. Premiere by Hershey Felder, Hershey banjo-strumming, washboard-wearing TICKETS START AT $39 will take on a little known story about the vegans. New International Encounter great Russian pianist and composer, Sergei presents an original take on the Rachmaninoff. Set at the Garden City Hotel in classic Brothers Grimm fairytale. Long Island, New York, this is the story of the Filled with live music, magic, and great composer crossing paths with someone festive fun, it's a tale of adventure, he believed to be a descendent of Czar Nicholas danger, and a very shiny red apple. II. Living in America and longing for his familiar A Cambridge Junction and Tobacco Russian roots and home, Sergei Rachmaninoff Factory Theatres co-production. allowed himself to be taken on a journey that Recommended for adults of all ages & children ages 5+ few would ever believe. Join us for a trip back in time to 1928 New York, for something shockingly different and new, as we explore the worlds of Anna and Sergei.
THEATER • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org PROGRAM (d)elusive minds AMERICAN PREMIERE BY FERNANDO HERNANDO MAGADAN Resolve WEST COAST PREMIERE BY LA BASED WEWOLF Snap WORLD PREMIERE BY LA BASED MICAELA TAYLOR
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2019/20 COMPANY-IN-RESIDENCE Keeping SEPT 26 – 28 it Local: BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER
L.A.’s own critically-acclaimed BODYTRAFFIC returns DANCE IN to The Wallis as the 2019/2020 Company-In-Residence. BODYTRAFFIC is a world-class contemporary dance company, LOS ANGELES performing master works by international choreographic superstars, and represents the strength of the Los Angeles Dance @ The Wallis is made possible in part by a grant from the National dance scene. BODYTRAFFIC’s emotionally charged and technically Endowment for the Arts (NEA). virtuosic dancers aim to touch, inspire, and entertain audiences throughout the world. BODYTRAFFIC's fall concert spans the best of what is happening locally in dance, as well as abroad, featuring a world premiere work by L.A.-based Michaela Taylor. “It’sTICKETS all START green AT $39 lights for BODYTRAFFIC” SINGLE–Los Angeles TICKETS Times FOR THIS SHOW GO ON SALE JULY 17!
DANCE • 19/20 SEASON @TheWallis.orgTheWallisBH Photos by Rob Daley ANNIVERSARY40TH
The Wallis Presents “...an expresser of inner-city CONTRA-TIEMPO culture” – Reno-Gazette Journal
JAN 17–18 CONTRA-TIEMPO, founded and directed BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER by Ana María Alvarez, takes Afro-Latin dance to new heights infusing elements TICKETS START AT $29 of Salsa, Afro-Cuban, and urban dance styles. joyUS justUS reclaims the dominant “...a place where deficit-based narrative of people of color diverse voices in this country and flips it on its head by embodying stories of joy and justice. are always welcome, seen and heard” – Onstage Blog The Wallis Presents LULA WASHINGTON
JAN 30–FEB 1 The Lula Washington Dance Theatre BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER focuses on using dance to explore social and humanitarian issues, TICKETS START AT $29 including aspects of African-American PROGRAM history, culture, and life. This in- demand ensemble, celebrating its 40th Fragments BY LULA WASHINGTON anniversary, has built an international Enough BY DAVID ROUSSEVE reputation for the earthiness, vitality, Message for My Peeps energy, and humanism of its repertory, BY TAMICA WASHINGTON-MILLER bringing charisma and interpretive power Open Your Eyes to every dance. The company returns BY LULA WASHINGTON to The Wallis following their debut Reign BY RENNIE HARRIS performance in 2018, which celebrated the Zayo BY ESIE MENSAH legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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DANCE • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org PROGRAM CHOREOGRAPHY BY ACHINTA S. MCDANIEL F**k Fusion WEST COAST PREMIERE Diya aur Toofan Terpsichore in Ghungroos WORLD PREMIERE The Wallis Presents Program subject to change HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE
The Wallis Presents BLUE13 DANCE A SITE-SPECIFIC WORK COMPANY
APR 15–18 AND CONTEMPORARY BOLLYWOOD WORKS LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER & PROMENADE TERRACE TICKETS START AT $50 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ACHINTA S. MCDANIEL WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR JON PAUL Blue13 Dance Company’s energetic and Directed and choreographed by Heidi Duckler, The Chandelier will take FEB 21–22 theatrical contemporary dance style draws the audience on an epic journey from the Promenade Terrace throughout inspiration from the classical and cultural BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER the grounds of The Wallis, culminating in the Lovelace Studio Theater. The art forms of the Indian subcontinent. Using Chandelier is based on a novel of the same title by Brazilian writer Clarice TICKETS START AT $29 dance as a vehicle for storytelling, Blue13’s Lispector. Duckler will animate the interior monologues and devise characters moody, rhythmic, and charged work from the odd fragments of dialogue to create a moving portrait of a family living presents an intelligent American experience amongst the ruins of a colonial society. Through layers of imagery, acts of of performance that turns the cultural repetition, and audience engagement, the work explores the contrasting ideas of stereotype of Indian dance on its head. impermanence and the irrevocable.
DANCE • 19/20 SEASON @TheWallis.orgTheWallisBH Photo by Peter Zuehlke Peter Photo by “Lunn reminds us that Photography by Rob Daly by Photography communication in dance is only partially about A Wallis Production reading meanings; more in Association with importantly and more BODYTRAFFIC rewardingly, it’s about being moved.” –The Guardian MINGHELLA
WRITTEN BY ANTHONY MINGHELLA The Wallis’ first fully-produced DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY dance program will be The JONATHAN LUNN Minghella Project. The late Oscar- APR 18-25 winning writer/director Anthony Minghella was commissioned by BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER choreographer Jonathan Lunn to TICKETS START AT $39 write a series of texts for dance. The four works they created PROGRAM spanning twenty years will be presented together for the first Hang Up time as The Minghella Project in Mosaic collaboration with The Wallis’ Self Assembly 2019/2020 Company-In-Residence, We Swim BODYTRAFFIC, along with actors Program subject to change and creative artists held close to Minghella and Lunn.
DANCE • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org The Wallis Presents CINEMA
/ARCHITECTURE IN MOTION CINEMA MAY 14–16 Combining contemporary dance with BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER martial arts, acrobatics, gymnastics, and hip-hop, Diavolo explores the relation TICKETS START AT $39 and interaction between the human body CINEMA and its architectural environment to understand overarching social, physical, Cinema @ The Wallis and emotional impacts. Their international in partnership with notoriety is highlighted by a Top 10 placing in the 12th season of “America’s Film Independent present PROGRAM Got Talent,” attracting over 90 million 4 SPECIAL EVENTS Voyage television viewers. FOR FILM LOVERS Trajectoire NOV 5, 2019 FEB 25, 2020 MAY 5, 2020 JUN 30, 2020
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The Wallis and Film Independent have presented star-studded and unique performances, including Michael Keaton and Paula Pell in a stage reading of the film My Dinner with Andre, Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant examining their characters in HBO’s Deadwood, a stage reading of the iconic rom-com When Harry Met Sally, directed by Randall Park, and a surprise musical performance from GRAMMY Award- winning artist, Childish Gambino. Stay tuned for show information and announcements!
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DANCE • 19/20 SEASON @TheWallis.orgTheWallisBH CONTEMPORARY The Wallis Presents Photos by Pedro Greig Pedro Photos by HERB ALPERT & CIRCUS MUSIC LANI HALL SEP 21 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER
TICKETS START AT $39 CIRCUS MUSIC Herb Alpert, iconic trumpeter, composer, and his wife, the GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist Lani Hall, will perform an eclectic mix of CIRCUS MUSIC Alpert’s greatest hits. The evening will feature everything from Cole “… a revolution in Porter to the Beatles, and from The Wallis Presents “...ebullient the spectacle of classic Tijuana Brass to Brasil ’66, performances by and improvisational jazz. circus.” – Les Echos CIRCA musicians who convey the pleasure of playing together” – The New York Times
CREATED BY YARON LIFSCHITZ AND THE CIRCA ENSEMBLE NOV 1–2 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER TICKETS START AT $29
Internationally acclaimed contemporary circus company Circa comes all the way from Australia to make its debut as The Wallis’ first foray into contemporary circus with Humans. In a thrilling and heart-stopping performance, Circa pushes the boundaries of circus to take us on a stirring journey of what it means to be human and of how our bodies, our connections, and our aspirations all form part of who we are.
SINGLE TICKETS FOR THIS SHOW GO ON SALE JULY 17! CONTERMPORARY CIRCUS • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org The Wallis Presents The Wallis Presents BROOKLYN RIDER GARRICK OHLSSON, & MAGOS HERRERA piano DREAMERS NOV 8 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER OCT 10 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER TICKETS START AT $39
TICKETS START AT $29 Garrick Ohlsson has established Johnny Gandelsman, violin himself worldwide as a musician of Colin Jacobsen, violin magisterial interpretive and technical Nicholas Cords, viola prowess. Join us for a remarkable Michael Nicolas, cello evening of Brahms and Chopin. Mexican-born songstress Magos BRAHMS Rhapsodies, Op. 79 Herrera and the omnivorous string BRAHMS Fantasien, Op. 116 quartet, Brooklyn Rider, join forces BRAHMS Variations on a for an unforgettable musical journey Theme of Paganini, Op. 35 (Book II) reinterpreting classics of the era from CHOPIN Nocturne in B-flat minor, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Op. 9, No. 1 Argentina, and Spain, celebrating such CHOPIN Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 luminaries as Octavio Paz, Federico The Wallis Presents García Lorca, and Rubén Darío. The Wallis Presents “...razor-sharp accuracy, JOSHUA ROMAN, cello DAVID ORLOWSKY AND & CONOR HANICK, piano QUARTETTO DI CREMONA producing a sound so lush it almost glistens.” OCT 5 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER OCT 12 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER – The Seattle Times TICKETS START AT $39 TICKETS START AT $39
Cellist Joshua Roman has earned David Orlowsky and Quartetto di Cremona an international reputation for his takes their audience on a Klezmer wide-ranging repertoire, and his journey, providing a deeper insight into a commitment to communicating the music form which hosts a great energy at essence of music in visionary ways. its core, and is engraved with the darkest On this evening, Roman will be joined by the “effortlessly elegant” (The New and happiest memories of history which, York Times) pianist Conor Hanick. without doubt, have been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Western classical ARVO PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel music for centuries. BACH Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027 OSVALDO GOLIJOV Dreams and ALFRED SCHNITTKE Sonate für Prayers of Isaac the Blind Violoncello und Klavier (1978) AVIYA KOPELMAN Hidden Place ARVO PÄRT Fratres BETTY OLIVERO Zeks Yiddishe BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 3 in Lider un Tantz from Der Golem A major, Op. 69 “Master of Klezmer.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung
MUSIC • 19/20 SEASON @TheWallisBH The Wallis Presents The Wallis Presents The Wallis Presents The Wallis Presents SONIA DE DINNERSTEIN/ ART GARFUNKEL MEGAN HILTY LOS SANTOS HAIMOVITZ: IN CLOSE-UP & CHEYENNE JACKSON LA GOLONDRINA: BEETHOVEN/GLASS JAN 12 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER JAN 25 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER A MUSICAL JOURNEY JAN 9 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER TICKETS START AT $39 TICKETS START AT $39 NOV 10 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER TICKETS START AT $39 For his In Close-Up tour, Art Broadway and TV stars Megan Hilty TICKETS START AT $25 (Wicked, “Smash”) and Cheyenne As the world approaches the 250th Garfunkel, along with a guitarist and keyboardist, performs Simon Jackson (Xanadu, “American Horror A native of Monterrey, Mexico, anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in & Garfunkel songs, solo hits, select Story”) join forces for a thrilling Sonia de los Santos has been 2020, two extraordinary artists pair covers, and reads excerpts from his and personal evening highlighted hailed by Billboard as “one of the this giant with one of contemporary book, What Is It All But Luminous. He by powerhouse Broadway Latin Children's Music Artists music’s most influential composers recently told Nashville Scene, “I don't showstoppers, American songbook You Should Know.” This debut – Philip Glass. Pianist Simone look at it as a tour. I just look at it as: classics, and rare musical gems. concert reflects her experiences Dinnerstein and cellist Matt ‘This is what I do.’ I go out on the road growing up in Mexico and moving Haimovitz collaborate on a dynamic and I do shows. This is my life. I sing; to another country, learning program that includes a Beethoven's and I go all over the world and I do about other cultures, and in the Opus 102 Cello Sonatas, alongside my shows. I love it. And you do these process, feeling closer to her solo piano and cello works by Glass. famous songs, you earn your pay and own heritage. BEETHOVEN Sonata Op. 102 No. 1 move on to the next town—I like this.” Recommended for children ages 4+ GLASS Partita 2 for Solo Cello GLASS Mad Rush for Solo Piano BEETHOVEN Op. 102 No. 2
MUSIC • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org The Wallis Presents VIJAY GUPTA, violin PETER MYERS, cello Presents SUZANA BARTAL, piano FROM THE TOP & REENA ESMAIL, MAR 4 composer BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER INDIA & THE WEST: TICKETS START AT $35
COMPOSITIONS & NPR's From the Top comes to The CONVERSATIONS Wallis to amplify and celebrate the amazing talents and voices of FEB 15 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER virtuosic young musicians from TICKETS START AT $29 California and beyond with guest An evening of chamber music and host Vijay Gupta. Heard weekly on cross-culture dialogue centered on the Southern California's KUSC, From great musical traditions of India and the the Top combines serious music and West. Featuring original works by Indian informal interviews in a delightful American composer, Reena Esmail, and entertaining concert experience. performed by violinist Vijay Gupta, cellist Join us for this behind-the-scenes Peter Myers, and pianist Suzana Bartal. look into how one of NPR’s most successful weekly music programs VARSHA for solo cello gets made. DARSHAN for solo violin - mmt 3 SAANS for piano trio Recommended for adults of all ages and children ages 7+ JHULA JHULE for violin and piano Piano Trio Take What You Need
The Wallis Presents ANGELA HEWITT, piano BACH ODYSSEY FEB 23 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER world. BBC Music Magazine stated TICKETS START AT $39 “I know of no musician whose Bach An award-winning playing on any instrument is of PRELUDES @ THE WALLIS pianist, Hewitt greater subtlety, beauty of tone, is best known persuasiveness of judgment, or Take a deeper dive into The Wallis' music for her Bach instrumental command than Hewitt’s programs! Join Classical KUSC Radio’s interpretations. In is here.” Brian Lauritzen and guest moderators September 2016, for FREE pre-concert conversations Bach Odyssey Recital XI she began her with the artists one hour prior to select Four Duets, BWV 802-805 Bach Odyssey, classical music performances, along with a Eighteen Little Preludes, performing the complete keyboard complimentary glass of wine. BWV 924-928, 930, 933-938, 939-943, 999 works of Bach in a series of twelve Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944 recitals. Hewitt’s recitals and Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 award-winning recordings have French Overture in B minor, BWV 831 garnered praise from around the
MUSIC • 19/20 SEASON @TheWallis.orgTheWallisBH The Wallis Presents ORY SHIHOR, piano The Wallis Presents BEETHOVEN’S EMERSON STRING WORKSHOP: THE MOST QUARTET BELOVED SONATAS MAY 8 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER with text written by Hershey Felder TICKETS START AT $39 VIOLINS OF HOPE APR 4 BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER The Emerson String Quartet has FREE FILM SCREENING OF maintained its stature as one of the VIOLINS OF HOPE: STRINGS world’s premier chamber music OF THE HOLOCAUST ensembles for more than four WVIZ/PBS IDEASTREAM decades. The quartet has made FOLLOWED BY A CONCERT FEATURING more than 30 acclaimed recordings, DELIRIUM MUSICUM and has been honored with nine Grammys. BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER The Wallis Presents APR 2 BEETHOVEN E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 JOHNNY CONCERT TICKETS START AT $29 BEETHOVEN C Major, Op. 59 No. 3 GANDELSMAN, violin Violins of Hope is a collection of violins COMPLETE played by Jewish musicians during “... with musicians like BACH CELLO SUITES the Holocaust. Each violin has its own this there must be some inspiring story that educates both MAR 21 LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER young and old about the Holocaust in hope for humanity.” a deeply personal and emotional way. TICKETS START AT $50 – The Times (London) The instruments have been featured Following up on his celebrated in film and TV, and have been played in debut recording of JS Bach's concert halls and exhibited in museums Sonatas and Partitas, GRAMMY throughout the world. The Wallis is award-winning violinist and honored to present L.A.-based Delirium producer Johnny Gandelsman Musicum, who will perform on several of TICKETS START AT $29 (Brooklyn Rider, Silkroad the instruments as part of the Violins of In eternal piano sonatas such as Ensemble) brings his new project Hope Los Angeles tour in 2020. Delirium the Pathetique, the Moonlight, the to The Wallis, presenting Bach's Musicum will perform pieces by S. Barber, Waldstein, and the Appassionata, complete cello suites on violin. J. Williams, F. Mendelssohn and more, Ludwig Van Beethoven experimented to give life to the instruments, and in an with form and musical storytelling hommage to the story of the people who “Music has the power in ways that changed music forever. played them. to heal…to transcend Step into Beethoven’s Workshop with This concert is presented as part of internationally renowned pianist pain and anguish…and Violins of Hope Los Angeles County, a region-wide dialogue about music, art, Ory Shihor (noted for being “boldly to bring hope. Even social justice, and free expression. individualistic” according to The through humanity’s New York Times) as he returns to darkest chapters– The Wallis to perform these beloved sonatas, and tell their stories. music persists.” Hershey Felder will not be performing in this concert. – Susanne Reyto CHAIR, VIOLINS OF HOPE LOS ANGELES COUNTY
MUSIC • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org Pia Toscano
“At a time when the classical-music Establishment is B.Slade finally waking up to the presence of women composers “The Sorting Room Is and conductors in L.A.‘s answer to NYC’s its midst, National Joe’s Pub.” – Backstage Sawdust is out ahead.” – New York Magazine NATIONAL SAWDUST @ THE WALLIS PRESENTS
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Steve MAY 21-22 LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER JUN 24-JUL 11 Ross TICKETS START AT $40 LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER Miranda Cuckson, violin The Sorting Room transforms the Katharina Rosenberger, composer Lovelace Studio Theater into a 140- John Burnett, media artist seat custom built nightclub space that offers Los Angeles audiences a folds presents a sensory journey from the rare opportunity to experience some present to the past, engaging with the voices of the best and emerging talent in of other artists and bringing the ephemeral cabaret, live contemporary music, nature of sound and thought into dialogue A Little spoken word, and more. Make a night with the tangible world. An array of paper New Music out of it! Enjoy a cocktail, beer, or objects—sculptures, manuscripts, scraps wine from The Wallis' Briskin Bar woven between the strings of the violin— inside the theater. highlights the importance of capturing the art and thought of past centuries. These traces Wallis Subscribers ALWAYS have of our physical world further serve as an first access to the very best singers, impulse to reflect on our current dependency dancers, comedians, poets, and more! on the digital and virtual realms. Artists represented are performers from previous Sorting Room events. MUSIC • 19/20 SEASON TheWallis.org MUSIC FAMILY SONIA DE FREE LOS SANTOS LA GOLONDRINA: ON THE A MUSICAL JOURNEY PROMENADE TERRACE NOV 10 FAMILY Ages 4+ DANCE DANCE SUNDAYS THEATER WITH DEBBIE ALLEN
CHARLES DICKENS' & FRIENDS A CHRISTMAS OCT 13, NOV 10, DEC 8, JAN 12, FAMILY MAR 8, APR 12, MAY 10, JUN 14, CAROL DEC 4–8 JUL 12 @ 12-2PM Ages 8+ Emmy Award-winner Debbie Allen returns with the 5th season of outdoor FAMILY dance events for the whole family. THEATER THEATER SLINGSBY The Wallis THEATRE COMPANY'S produces and EMIL & THE STORY PIRATES DETECTIVES OCT 13, DEC 8, MAY 10 presents thrilling MAR 27-29 @ 11AM family-oriented Ages 8+ The kid-centric company is arts experiences back for more outdoor musical sketch comedy based on that ignite the THEATER stories written by children, imagination, NEW INTERNATIONAL geared especially for toddlers! ENCOUNTER THEATRE'S encourage SNOW WHITE creativity, and MAY 8-17 MUSIC speak to the inner Ages 5+ PARKER BENT child in all of us! NOV 10, MAR 8, JUN 14 @ 11AM MUSIC Parker Bent will delight FROM THE TOP audiences of children and families with his original music, MARCH 4 sly wit, and warm humor. You Ages 7+ may even find yourself on-stage singing with him!
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CHILD TICKETS Montage Beverly Hills All children age three and up must have a valid 310.860.7800 | montagehotels.com ticket and sit in their ticketed location. Children under age 3 will require a lap ticket at a cost of A GLANCE $5 per child and are required to sit on a parent or The Wallis @ guardian's lap for the duration of the performance. 424.389.1850 gratitudekitchenandbar.com PARKING IS A BREEZE TICKET REPRINTS Convenient onsite parking is available at Valet parking is available for $16 for Lost, damaged or stolen tickets may be reprinted 450 N. Crescent Drive and South Santa evening performances and $13 for for reserved-seating performances only and will Monica Blvd. We encourage patrons to matinees. Valet service closes an hour be available for pick-up one hour prior to the arrive 30 minutes prior to performance after the end of the performance. performance. Please present your current picture ID to the Ticket Services Associate for pick-up. 310.888.8042 time to enjoy our first-rate amenities. HeritageBeverlyHills.com Handicapped Parking is available for There is a $1 per ticket reprint fee. Subscribers Self-Parking is available at a flat rate of patrons displaying a handicapped placard receive free reprints. $8 for evening performances and $5 for for the same flat rates. Policies and ticket prices subject to change matinees. [Please note: Flat parking rates without notice. start two hours before the performance start Parking rates at The Wallis are determined Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills time. Parking before noon or 6pm is pro-rated by the City of Beverly Hills and are subject to LATE SEATING 310.860.6666 with a maximum charge of $22.] change without notice. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the waldorfastoriabeverlyhills.com House Staff and may wait until intermission to be seated or be asked to sit in a different OUR VENUE location than printed on their ticket. BRISKIN BAR @ THE WALLIS Audiences patrons who wish or need to step away are invited to enjoy craft cocktails, wine, for a moment. You can still see and hear TICKET SERVICES OFFICE Hours: 10AM – 6PM M-F 310.652.2827 | LawrysOnline.com or draft beer before, during, or after the performance in progress but the audience can’t hear you. 12PM – 6PM Saturdays* every performance! *By phone only on non-performance days
THE BRAM GOLDSMITH THEATER is a ACCESSIBILITY Accessible seating for IN PERSON 9390 North Santa Monica Blvd. 310.405.0155 | neranobh.com 500-seat venue where no seat is more patrons with mobility limitations are Beverly Hills, CA 90210 than 50 feet from the stage, creating an located in several locations on the main intimate environment for you to enjoy floor of the theater. Wheelchair accessible BY PHONE your favorite performer. restrooms are also available on the main 310.746.4000 floor level. ONLINE 310.820.2448 | toscanabrentwood.com THE LOVELACE STUDIO THEATER is an TheWallis.org | [email protected] intimate flexible space with traditional A state-of-the-art telecoil induction theater seating of eight rows of raked system is installed in the Bram Goldsmith During performance dates, Ticket Services will be open seats or cabaret style seating with Theater. Assisted Listening Devices are also two hours before curtain time and a half hour after the cocktail tables and chairs. available at no cost to our patrons. performance begins. Please note that Ticket Services is unable to process exchanges and future sales one hour 310.274.6534 | portaviabh.com QUIET ROOM The Lyn and Les Bider Please contact Ticket Services to notify us prior to curtain time on performance dates. Family Foundation Quiet Room is of any special needs, so we can help make Dates, times, prices, and artists are subject to change. available during most performances for your experience exceptional. To learn more about The Wallis' ticket policies, please visit TheWallis.org/Policies 310.273.5578 | thefarmofbeverlyhills.com TheWallis.org 3-SHOW FLEX PASS UNLOCK SAVINGS & RESERVE SUBSCRIPTION YOUR PREFERRED SEATS NOW! FOR $99 PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION PERKS We know, we know, there • 20% off all tickets in your series package. are so many amazing • 10% off additional single tickets all performances to choose season long (subject to availability). from! Can’t decide? Purchase • Advance access to tickets before the the Flex Pass and make your general public. selections later.* • Guaranteed choice of show date. THE PERKS • Guaranteed locked-in pricing (when a show is popular, prices increase). • One free Drink Voucher for Flex • Preferred seating from the best seats Pass holders, per subscription, available. redeemable at The Briskin Bar @ • Current subscribers receive the first The Wallis. opportunity to change seat locations at • Last minute decision making renewal time. flexibility—mix and match up to • Advance notice of special events and added performances. three shows or bring 2 friends with • Insurance on lost tickets (we’ll gladly you to see just one performance! replace them). • A savings of up to 25% off of single • Four free ticket exchanges. tickets. • Pay only $19 in handling fees for the entire season order (non- • One free ticket exchange if subscribers pay $7 per ticket). used prior to the day of the performance.** DESIGN YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION PERKS • Additional 10% discount on single • Select a minimum of 4 qualifying tickets when booked with your Flex events from Price Level 1 or 2. Pass purchase.* • 10% off all tickets for 4-5 • Priority and reserved seating.* qualifying events. • 15% off 6+ qualifying events. • Locked-in discount before prices • Preferred seating after Premium increase for popular shows (tickets Subscribers are seated. subject to availability). • Advance notice of special events • Early Ticket Access for certain events and added performances. before the general public (requires • Insurance on lost tickets (we’ll email opt-in). gladly replace them). • Four free ticket exchanges. *Tickets subject to availability in PL3 and PL4 seating • Pay only $19 in handling fees for only. Flex Pass may not be valid for select performances the entire season order (non- or special added events. subscribers pay $7 per ticket). ** No refunds or exchanges for unused tickets.
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