REDCAT’s 2025 fall season, running September 12 through December 19, 2025, will present a unique offering of bold, new, and commissioned theater, music, dance, film, and art.  

A new season of powerful performance includes Bessie-award winner nora chipaumire’s Dambudzo, an immersive look into Zimbabwe’s political history and legacy of resistance through dance, music, and theater. Called a “rock star of dance” by The New Yorker, chipaumire confronts colonial legacies as she turns the REDCAT theater into a shabini—an informal bar where citizens gather to debate politics and plan community action—in an insurgent act of remembrance and defiance. Inebria Me, a new experimental opera by San Cha, reframes the telenovela as a site for queer liberation with music fusing ranchera, cumbia, punk, classical, and electro melodies. Rooted in DIY, punk, and drag, San Cha combines vocal power with melodrama in a performance that celebrates the intoxicating, transcendent, and sublime power of love that conquers all. In Murmurations, the power of bodies in motion and resonance coalesces in a new music and performance piece by noted Korean-American voice artist, performer, and composer Sharon Chohi Kim. Drawing on both spontaneous flocks of starlings and a collection of low, continuous sounds, Kim considers collective intelligence through electronic music, processed vocals, choreography, and video projection. Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, founders of New Theater Hollywood, premiere THE END IS NEW, a new play about collective community and utopia amid societal breakdown. The performance follows a film editor who is hired to take over the project of a recently deceased documentary filmmaker. As they seek to find meaning within a dramatic collective of once-united characters, they reflect on the desire to rewrite the past in the name of the future.

The 22nd annual New Original Works (NOW) festival returns November 6–22 with nine new works by Los Angeles artists. The 2025 edition of NOW includes original work from: Gabriela Burdsall; Orin Calcagne and Jenson Titus; Lu Coy; jeremy de’jon guyton; Luna Izpisua Rodriguez; Maylee Todd; Divya Victor, Carolyn Chen, American Modern Opera Company; Jacob Wolff; and Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company. Since the inaugural edition in 2004, REDCAT’s NOW festival has served as a catalyst for experimentation and a celebration of new and innovative performing arts by LA-based artists. 

The first monographic exhibition in Los Angeles by artist Guadalupe Maravilla, Les soñadores, brings an environment for healing and storytelling, responding to the current moment as well as the historical migration experience in the United States Born in El Salvador, Maravilla fled the country at the age of eight as an unaccompanied minor to escape the violence of the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War. The exhibition retraces Maravilla’s own journey, from an unaccompanied child crossing the border to the present, while connecting it with the journeys of others, offering a site for ancestral spiritual healing and collective care.

Celebrating the work of S. Pearl Sharp, a foundational presence in the Los Angeles film and video community over the past 45 years, REDCAT presents five of her portraits of Black art, history, and life,  showcasing her creative lives as filmmaker, activist, historian, and poet. 

This season continues REDCAT’s collaboration with Angel City Jazz Festival in October, this year showcasing the work of Dan Rosenboom, Delvin Daniels, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and For Living Lovers. In collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, REDCAT will present No Time to Mourn (an excerpt), a performance and conversation with internationally renowned performance artist and activist, Elia Arce.

Reflecting the creativity of the CalArts community, this season’s CalArts Dance features new work by choreographers James “Cricket” Colter, Micaela Taylor, and sam wentz, highlighting an eclectic array of visions, vernaculars, and kinetic identities. Unfolding Visions presents a selection of film, video, and moving image works by faculty of the School of Film/Video: Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, Janie Geiser, Annapurna Kumar, Yaloo Lim, Wendell McShine, Julie Murray, Charlotte Pryce, and Abigail Severance.

Check out our full event calendar for the fall 2025 season!