Jessica Gelt

5 days ago | latimes.com | Jessica Gelt

It’s all about the magic of puppets in the play “Life of Pi,” which opened Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre — part of the inaugural North American tour after opening on Broadway in 2023 and later winning three Tony Awards. Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 novel follows a shipwrecked Indian boy who survives at sea in the company of animals including a Bengal tiger.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jessica Gelt

Buildings along Tuna Street on Terminal Island have been placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2025 list of America’s 11 most endangered historic places. The only two surviving buildings from Terminal Island’s days as a thriving Japanese American fishing village in the early 1900s have been placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2025 list of America’s 11 most endangered historic places.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jessica Gelt

Playwright Noa Gardner, right, embraces actor Ben Cain on opening night of “The Staircase” at South Coast Repertory. That night, SCR was notified that the NEA grant funding the play had been canceled. South Coast Repertory was celebrating the opening night of a play it had commissioned and spent years developing when it received the notification: The $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant that funded the project had been canceled. The Tony Award-winning theater in Costa Mesa was not alone.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Gelt

South Coast Repertory was celebrating the opening night of a play it had commissioned and spent years developing when it received the notification: The $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant that funded the project had been canceled. The Tony Award-winning theater in Costa Mesa was not alone.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jessica Gelt |Ashley Lee

President Trump continues to press for control over institutions that shape the arts, culture — and history. Last week the administration removed board members appointed by former President Biden from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., including former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.