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Threshold: Between Wilderness and Wonder, a new immersive installation by Candace and Pete Metzger, is now on view at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station from September 22 through November 14, 2025.

Nominated for 13 Tony Awards, the 2022 musical adaptation SOME LIKE IT HOT is a surprisingly delightful, hilariously fun, and gleefully silly musical comedy that also has an endearingly open-minded new twist that re-contextualizes the movie's main raison d'être into something more empowering and th

Blessed with undeniable vocal talents and an endearingly charming persona, Tony and Olivier Award winner and Disney Legend Lea Salonga recently returned to Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center for the Arts for the one-night-only Orange County stop of the North American leg of her brand-new, perfectly-cura

The Rose Center Theater will hold auditions for its upcoming holiday production, Robin Hood and the White Arrow: The Feast of Stephen.

South Coast Repertory (Artistic Director David Ivers and Managing Director Suzanne Appel) brings to life one of America’s most produced plays with the heartwarming comedy The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh.

CASA 0101 Theater will present the World Premiere production of Josefina López's latest play, Eléctrico, as part of CASA 0101 Theater's ongoing 25th Anniversary Season.

South Coast Repertory announced a presentation reading of The Born Identity created, written and performed by the Sklar Brothers, and co-created and directed by Evan Shapiro.

South Coast Repertory has opened its 62nd season with MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, running September 13–October 19, 2025, on the Segerstrom Stage.

The Rose Center Theater’s production of Annie opened this weekend to sold-out audiences and standing ovations.

Fresh off its sit-down engagement at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre, the new(-ish) 2022 Broadway jukebox musical & JULIET is finally making its long-awaited pit-stop an hour south of L.

Pacific Symphony has announced its 2025–26 Family Musical Mornings series, presented by Farmers & Merchants Bank.

Vanguard University's Department of Theatre Arts invites audiences to kick off the holiday season with a witty, romantic, and heartwarming production of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

Vanguard University's Department of Theatre Arts will open its 2025-26 season with the magical musical Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Pacific Symphony will launch its 2025–26 Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series with Rachmaninoff & Sibelius, a program featuring two of the late Romantic repertoire’s most powerful works.

Experience the electrifying Million Dollar Quartet and relive the night Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins made music history.

Sonia De Los Santos will bring Bilingual Songs of Hope for All Ages to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in October.

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.

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

The Rose Center Theater will present a new production of the Broadway classic ANNIE, running September 13 through September 28, 2025.

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

The Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach hosted a vibrant day celebrating youth creativity and community engagement with its 2025 Junior Art Awards Ceremony and the return of the beloved Family Art Day.

BroadwayWorld, the leading source for theatre news and entertainment, has officially launched the BroadwayWorld Games Center, a brand-new destination for interactive Broadway-themed games designed for theatre fans of all ages.

The Phantom Projects Theatre (311 South Euclid St, La Habra CA) continues its decades long commitment to arts education and accessibility by presenting its second annual No-Fee, No Tuition, Summer all-youth musical, Seussical, Jr.