The latest news on live theater in Costa Mesa from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
BroadwayWorld talks with Teal Wicks, who plays Anne Hathaway in & Juliet, about what it was like to turn the classic Shakespeare tragedy into a 2 1/2 hour musical party featuring one hit song after another.
Experience the electrifying Million Dollar Quartet and relive the night Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins made music history.
BroadwayWorld’s industry-leading, completely free digital show program service, Stage Mag, announced the launch of Stage Mag 2.
BroadwayWorld introduces MyShows, a new feature that lets you track shows you’ve seen, rate productions, share reviews, and connect with friends.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Heathers The Musical, which recently made its return to New York City at New World Stages, plans to hit the road! Heathers will launch a US tour, beginning in Spring 2027, with tours across other parts of the world to come as well.
Sonia De Los Santos will bring Bilingual Songs of Hope for All Ages to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in October.
Rehearsals are officially underway for the upcoming North American tour of The Sound of Music.
The North American Tour of THE NOTEBOOK is getting ready to kick off from Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH, before continuing to 30+ cities in its first year, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.
Rehearsals have officially begun for the upcoming North American tour of The Sound of Music.
The cast has been announced for the forthcoming 2025-26 tour of Chicago.
All new casting has been announced for the 2025-2026 North American Tour of the Tony Award-winning musical SIX.
All new footage has been released from the North American tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the first touring production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years.
The Ojai Art Center Theater invites you to a frightfully funny theatrical event with Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, a fast-paced and wildly entertaining reimagining of Bram Stoker’s classic tale.
Back by popular demand, the hit musical Avenue Q will return to The GEM Theatre in Garden Grove, running September 4 through October 12, 2025.
One of the world’s top Irish dance shows, featuring a starry roster of international dance champions, A Taste of Ireland—The Irish Music & Dance Sensation, is coming to California, fresh off its West End debut in the U.
The principal cast has been revealed for the upcoming North American Tour of the new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
When it comes to the Hollywood Bowl's Summer 2025 production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice classic rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR—which opened August 1 for three sold-out performances playing throughout the weekend—there are just not enough superlatives to bestow upon one of the mos
Overall, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE—now on stage at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa through August 10, 2025—comes off as guaranteed musical candy for Neil Diamond devotees, thanks to its current form as a polished, tidy, nostalgia-baiting jukebox musical loaded with familiar hits, sprinkles
Casting and cities have been announced for the North American Tour of SUFFS.
The Rose Center Theater will present a new production of the Broadway classic ANNIE, running September 13 through September 28, 2025.
Casting and cities has been announces for the North American tour of The Outsiders, the Tony Award® winning Best Musical.
Bursting with powerful, beautifully-rendered musical performances and emotionally-stirring characterizations from a terrific ensemble cast, Chance Theater's incredible-sounding, fiercely-acted, deeply searing new production of SPRING AWAKENING is, according to this critic, one of the best, most sati
The first dates have been announced for the North American tour of the Broadway musical THE GREAT GATSBY.
The full cast and 2025-26 tour route have been announced for the upcoming tour of THE NOTEBOOK, which kicks off this September.
Musically entertaining though rather light on narrative heft, Musical Theatre West's otherwise rousing, concert-like new production BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY—now on stage at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach through July 27, 2025—is a straightforward, nostalgic jukebox music
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Marco Antonio Solis Long Beach Amphitheater (10/04-10/04) |
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Little Shop of Horrors 40th Anniversary Tour with Ellen Greene (the Original Audrey) The Grove (10/18-10/18) |
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The Book of Mormon (Non-Equity) Segerstrom Center for the Arts (12/29-1/03) |
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Jagged Little Pill Paper Wing Theatre (7/17-8/09) |
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Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors Paper Wing Theatre (8/28-9/20) |
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Music of ABBA: ARRIVAL from Sweden Great Park Live (8/22-8/22) |
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Tchaikovsky Spectacular: Concert of Hope Tchaikovsky Spectacular: Concert of Hope (9/05-9/05) |
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Back to the Future in Concert Great Park Live (8/01-8/01) |
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UB40 Fred Kavli Theatre (10/25-10/25) |
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Gorillaz Oakland Arena (10/28-10/28) |
