THE WEEK AHEAD
A CURATED PREVIEW OF WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MUSIC, MOVIES, THEATER AND THE ARTS
TUESDAY
Francesca Gabbiani The cactus is a metaphor for resilience, endurance and adaptation in an age of climate change in the artist’s hand-cut paper collages.
Through May 11. Baert Gallery, 1923 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles. baertgallery.com
Li Songsong: The Past Chinese artist Li Songsong’s stream-ofconsciousness abstractions are on view in his first solo exhibition in L.A.
Through April 27. Pace, 1201 S. La Brea Ave., L.A. pacegallery.com
WEDNESDAY
Stalin’s Master Class Playwright David Pownall imagines what happens when composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich see their musical genius fall under the order of the Soviet dictator and his cultural commissioner.
Through May 26. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. odysseytheatre.com
Brazil Director Terry Gilliam’s 1985 spectacle starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin and Jim Broadbent unfolds on the big screen in this Academy Musuem screening.
7:30 p.m. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, 6067 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. academymuseum.org
THURSDAY
The Body’s Midnight Boston Court Pasadena co-production with IAMA Theatre Company centers on a couple setting out on an idyllic road trip but soon confronting “the unavoidably messy and breathtaking journey of their lives” in Tira Palmquist’s play.
Through May 26. Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave. bostoncourtpasadena.org
The Labèques, Muhly, and Dessner Sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque perform piano concertos by Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gustavo Gimeno leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. Friday, 2 p.m. April 21 Walt Disney Concert Hall. 111 S. Grand Ave, L.A. laphil.com
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak More than 150 sketches, storyboards and paintings by the children’s book author as well as designs created for opera, film and TV.
Through Sept. 1. Skirball Cultural Center, 2701N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. skirball.org
How Green Was My Night Soil: The Excremental Economy in Edo Japan
Harvard professor David L. Howell lectures on the 18thand 19th-century urban practices of what became Tokyo, where excrement was deployed as fertilizer for vegetable fields that fed a growing city.
4 p.m. Rothenberg Hall at the
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. huntington.org
La Passion de Simone USC’s opera program presents a double bill of Kaija Saariaho’s powerful “Simone” with a libretto by the celebrated Lebanese-born French writer Amin Maalouf, paired with a more fanciful opera based on a Grimm Brothers fairy tale, “The Juniper Tree,” by Philip Glass and Robert Moran.
7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. April 21. Raubenheimer Music Faculty Building, 840 W. 34th St., L.A. music.usc.edu/events/
FRIDAY Adventureland. The 2009 cult classic directed by Greg Mottola and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart screens as part of “The Black List: 20 Films for 20 Years” series.
7 p.m. Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N. Vermont Ave., L.A. americancinematheque.com
I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker
The first West Coast exhibition of the artist’s major print series in their entirety, including more than 200 works from the Norton Simon’s rare collection.
Through Aug. 5. Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. nortonsimon.org
Tiny Beautiful Things The cathartically emotional play adapted by Nia Vardalos from Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling collection of advice columns centers on the writer who commits to “radical sincerity” by sharing her own stumbles.
Through April 28. Chance Theater, 5522 E. La Palma Ave.,
FOR THE RECORD
“Picture Worlds” exhibit: In the Week Ahead feature in the April 7 edition, an item on the Getty Villa about the exhibit “Picture Worlds” said it closes July 2. It ends July 29.