Jessica Gelt is an arts and culture writer for the Los Angeles Times. She also co-writes the paper’s twice-weekly Essential Arts newsletter. In her career at the paper she has served as assistant style editor for the Sunday magazine, co-edited the Daily Dish food blog, written a nightlife column called “The Enabler” and regularly covered red carpets and backstage events at the Emmys, Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes. She has penned cultural commentary and reams of celebrity profiles, as well as investigated claims of sexual misconduct in music and the arts. Over the years, she has written in-depth features about theater, television, film, music, movies, books, art, fashion, food, travel and more. Her award-winning work has appeared in the New York Observer, the L.A. Weekly and Vulture, among others.
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It’s not often that two major stars of the small screen appear together onstage in one of the 20th century’s most significant works of modernist drama. But that’s just what’s happened as Aasif Mandvi and Rainn Wilson team up in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot” at Geffen Playhouse.
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Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz’s “Revolución Diamantina” earns multiple Grammy nominations. Wild Up earns a nod too.
Plus, MOCA and orchestral collective Wild Up host a free postelection arts hub, and more arts news you might have missed.
Vote and take in a museum to calm your election day anxiety; later in the week, Sophia Loren and ‘Waiting for Godot,’ starring Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi, come to town.
Kim Kardashian, Andrew Garfield and Anna Wintour are among those attending the event honoring artist Simone Leigh and filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.
Disney+’s new John Williams documentary is available to stream, but find out where you can see it in a theater with the sound that his music deserves.