September 2018
Broad Fest
The annual community festival, Broad Fest, returns on Sunday, September 2, 2018 with music and dance performances, food trucks and activities for kids and adults alike. DJ Anthony Valadez brings his musical flare to this year’s festival between exuberant performances by Jungle Fireserving up their musical recipe for Afro-Caribbean funk, presented with the generous support of Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl; Element Band & Ara Dabandjian with their melodic contemporary Armenian groove; and the all-female percussion and vocal group, Adaawe, blending African, R&B, Jazz, Latin…
Find out more »KCRW’s Left, Right & Center LIVE in Los Angeles
KCRW's Left, Right & Center LIVE: Decisions, Decisions Tour ...because elections have consequences The Broad Stage, Santa Monica 6:30p Doors • 7:45p Show KCRW is taking Left, Right & Center on the road - just in time for the 2018 midterm elections that will decide which party controls Congress. Join LRC's host, Josh Barro along with one of the right's most respected voices, Rich Lowry, the host of With Friends Like These, Ana Marie Cox and luminaries from across the political spectrum…
Find out more »November 2019
Songs of the Disinherited
Considered a masterwork in the American modern dance canon, Donald McKayle’s “Songs of the Disinherited” chronicles the marginalization, suffering, and joy of African Americans in the United States. The works continued presentation by dance companies across the country prove its themes are as relevant today as when the piece first premiered in Los Angeles in 1972. SMC’s Synapse Contemporary Dance Theater is honored to present the two culminating movements of this masterwork; Angelitos Negros, a towering depiction of female strength…
Find out more »February 2020
KCRW’s Left, Right & Center Live!
KCRW's Left, Right & Center Live! Super Thursday (the Super Tuesday pre-show) KCRW's wildly popular politics show Left, Right & Center comes to The Broad Stage for a special live show right before Super Tuesday, the biggest day of primary election voting. Date & Time Thursday, February 20, 2020 Doors | 7pm Show | 8pm Location Broad Stage 1310 11th St Santa Monica, CA 90401 Josh Barro, the host and Center of the show, moderates the lively conversation with Left…
Find out more »June 2022
Mark Morris Dance Group & Music Ensemble: Mozart Dances
The Broad Stage presents the venue debut of Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) with the MMDG Music Ensemble in Mozart Dances, June 9 through 12. Mozart Dances has been praised as music embodied, with three exquisite Mozart piano works set to Morris’s buoyant, exhilarating choreography. The program features a world premiere chamber arrangement of Piano Concerto No. 27 by MMDG Music Director Colin Fowler, along with Piano Concerto No. 11 and Sonata for Two Pianos, all performed live on The…
Find out more »Mark Morris Dance Group & Music Ensemble: Mozart Dances
The Broad Stage presents the venue debut of Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) with the MMDG Music Ensemble in Mozart Dances, June 9 through 12. Mozart Dances has been praised as music embodied, with three exquisite Mozart piano works set to Morris’s buoyant, exhilarating choreography. The program features a world premiere chamber arrangement of Piano Concerto No. 27 by MMDG Music Director Colin Fowler, along with Piano Concerto No. 11 and Sonata for Two Pianos, all performed live on The…
Find out more »