Welcome to The Industry Insiders!

Dear Insider, We are so glad you are here! Thank you for joining The Industry family. It really means so much to us. You help make our work possible — from the large-scale productions that transform sites, audiences, and expectations to the investment in the potential of people and ideas. Together, we aspire to create…

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The Industry’s 2017 Year In Review

In 2017 The Industry invaded Los Angeles in a major way— and we’re not just talking about alien puppets here! This past year we created more innovative & accessible cultural experiences than ever before, stretching our limits and impacting the arts community in Los Angeles and beyond. Click here to download our 2017 Industry Year…

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WAR OF THE WORLDS Secrets Revealed

War of the Worlds. Photo by Greg Grudt/Mathew Imaging.

WAR OF THE WORLDS is a large-scale, city-wide collaborative performance experience presented by the LA Philharmonic and co-produced by The Industry and NOW Art LA. It is The Industry’s most audacious experiment since Hopscotch. The notorious radio drama comes to new life with music by Annie Gosfield, directed by The Industry’s Yuval Sharon, conducted by…

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Congratulations MacArthur fellow Yuval Sharon

Yuval Sharon. Photo courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Photo courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dear friends, On behalf of The Industry I want to share some very exciting news–it was announced today that our founder and artistic director Yuval Sharon was named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Foundation website…

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Yuval Sharon becomes first American director invited to Bayreuth

Yuval Sharon, center, with Jason H. Thompson and Kaitlyn Pietras of the production team during a rehearsal of “Young Caesar.” Photo by Emily Berl for The New York Times.

We are pleased to announce our Artistic Director, Yuval Sharon, has become the first American director invited to produce work at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival in Germany. The festival, founded by Richard Wagner in 1876, will feature Sharon’s new “Lohengrin” as the centerpiece for the 2018 season. In his recent New York Times profile, Mr.…

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Hopscotch recording out January 13, release concert January 20

Hopscotch

The Industry drew international acclaim last year for Hopscotch, a revolutionary mobile opera that took place in cars and public sites around Los Angeles. The recording will be released on January 13 via The Industry Records, and is available to order now by clicking here. To mark the occasion, a release event titled “Hopscotch in Concert” will take place…

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Return of FIRST TAKE, Debut of SECOND TAKE

Unintelligible Response by Paul Pinto, presented at FIRST TAKE on February 21, 2015 (Photo by Dana Ross)

Biennial workshop of new operas in concert, Feb. 24 + 25, 2017 in Los Angeles CO-PRESENTED BY wild Up FIRST TAKE: 6 WORKS-IN-PROGRESS by Nicholas Deyoe, William Gardiner and Thomas Rawle, John Hastings, Laura Karpman, Marc Lowenstein, Dylan Mattingly SECOND TAKE: CONCERT PREMIERE OF ANDREW MCINTOSH’S BONNIE AND CLYDE   “An essential component in American…

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