The shows will go on. Some of them, anyway.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is allowing some theatrical performances within the city’s dusk-to-dawn curfew area to return to the stage for the next few days, officials with the Center Theater Group said Friday morning.
“The Los Angeles Mayor’s Office has updated guidance on the downtown L.A.-area curfew and has granted an exception to allow individuals with tickets to an indoor venue to attend that event as scheduled,” said a statement released by the group that manages performances at the L.A. Music Center.
Ticketholders were encouraged to check the revised schedule.
But not all shows will go on as scheduled.
With the “No Kings” protests planned this weekend in response to President Donald Trump’s 20th anniversary military parade in Washington, D.C., the Mark Taper Forum canceled both of its Saturday performances of “Hamlet.” But the play’s performance on Friday was given the green light.
Musical act Ozomatli postponed its show at the California Plaza and an the Bollywood Express event at Union Station was postponed.
The Broad museum will also be closed all weekend, officials said.
Music Center officials got word of the mayor’s decision on Thursday. L.A. Opera moved ahead with its performance that evening of “Rigoletto.”
L.A. Opera said its performance of “Renee Fleming and Friends” will go on as scheduled Saturday evening.
The Walt Disney Concert Hall cancelled performances after the curfew was installed, but Thursday’s concert went on as planned. The next scheduled performance at the hall, 2025 Los Angeles Sounds of Summer Festival, is set for Tuesday.
Theatergoers were urged to leave the curfew area immediately after each performance and discouraged from driving through downtown where military troops are deployed and protests have focused.
For in-person ticket buyers:
— The Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum box offices will close at 7:30 p.m.
— The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion box office will close at 6 p.m.
— The Walt Disney Concert Hall box office is closed for the rest of the week.
Other exemptions from the curfew:
— First responders and public-safety workers.
— People who live in the curfew area.
— Workers in the area, including construction crews and utility crews.
— Media representatives with credential.
— Homeless people.
Troops in the area remain under the guidance of President Trump, who federalized and deployed them over the weekend amid community demonstrations against stepped-up federal immigration enforcement operations.
Prior to the curfew, nightly demonstrations often dissolved into violence, with some demonstrators hurling objects or fireworks at police, who often responded by firing non-lethal weapons or tear gas. Some businesses were vandalized and looted.
Bass implemented the curfew Tuesday evening in a one-square-mile section of downtown Los Angeles, lasting from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. — a curfew that remained in effect Friday, leading to fewer reports of unrest and property damage. Protesters continued to gather, but many retreated when the curfew took effect. Those who failed to do so faced arrest.
Bass and community leaders took issue Thursday with suggestions by Trump and others that the entire city was under a siege of violence necessitating deployment of the military, including the 4,000 federalized National Guard troops and 700 active-duty U.S. Marines.
“To characterize what is going on in our city as a city of mayhem is just an outright lie,” Bass said at an afternoon news conference attended by dozens of local faith and community leaders.
It was unclear how long the curfew would continue.
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