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Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
12/4 - 12/6/2025


Pacific Symphony's upcoming performance features Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, conducted by guest conductor Tianyi Lu, who is known for her dynamic style and connection to the ...

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
12/4 - 12/6/2025


Dive into a night of elegance and emotion with Cassandra Miller’s serene Swim , Ravel’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in G Major featuring Alexandra Dariescu—hailed as ...

The Nutcracker for Kids


Celebrate the holiday season with a beloved classic designed especially for young audiences! The Nutcracker for Kids is a narrated adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s timeless ballet, ...

Handel's Glorious Messiah


A timeless masterwork that transcends three centuries, Handel’s Messiah is an event of joy, reflection and renewal. Thrill to the blazing trumpets, thundering timpani, and ...

Holiday Organ Spectacular


Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing ...

Tony Yazbeck
Tony Yazbeck
12/11 - 12/13/2025


Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Tony Yazbeck!

Songs for Creative Revolution (DECEMBER 14th, 2025)


Join four Bay Area singer-songwriters, Karen Joy Brown and Katie Phillips, former bandmates of Sonoma County’s beloved Bootleg Honeys, along with Cassidy Frost and Bridget ...

A Rat Pack Christmas with Tony DeSare


Get transported to a mid-century holiday lounge where the martinis are chilled, the horns are smooth, and the Christmas cheer has style. Tony DeSare, with ...

2025 Christmas Cabaret
12/11 - 12/21/2025


American Coast Theater Company presents its 2025 Christmas Cabaret, celebrating the holiday season with a blend of traditional classics, modern favorites, and original pieces. Featuring ...

Robin Hood & the White Arrow: the Holiday Feast of Stephen


Step into Sherwood Forest this holiday season with Robin Hood and the White Arrow: The Feast of Stephen , an original musical adventure at the ...


This winter, the Rose Center Theater transforms into Sherwood Forest for Robin Hood and the White Arrow: the Holiday Feast of Stephen. Brennan Eckberg stars ...

The Holiday GEM
11/20 - 12/21/2025


The Holiday GEM, directed and musically directed by Damien Lorton, is an original holiday musical set to bring joy to audiences at the historic GEM ...

The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
12/11 - 12/21/2025


Celebrating its 10th season at Segerstrom Center, SoCal’s favorite holiday tradition returns with American Ballet Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of  The Nutcracker .  Created by one ...

A Christmas Carol
11/29 - 12/28/2025


South Coast Repertory celebrates its 45th annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, returning to the Segerstrom Stage from November 29 to December 28. ...

Stella Cole
Stella Cole
1/15 - 1/17/2026


Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Stella Cole!

The Wiz
The Wiz
1/13 - 1/25/2026


“The Wiz is cause for celebration!” -Chicago Tribune

The Great Race
The Great Race
1/31 - 2/1/2026


Join our characters, Po Po and Kung Kung, as they celebrate Chinese New Year by making dumplings and sharing the story of The Great Race ...

The Notebook
The Notebook
1/27 - 2/8/2026


“The Notebook is everything. Run, don’t walk!” — Hoda Kotb, Today “Romantic, life-affirming, and ingeniously adapted.” — USA Today

Hare and Tortoise
Hare and Tortoise
2/21 - 2/22/2026


Meet two competing friends in this fantastic adaptation of Aesop’s classic fable. Hare is ready to race, but Tortoise has many things to do before ...

Monty Python's Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot
2/17 - 2/22/2026


“Pure Glee! Spamalot is deliriously funny!” -The Wall Street Journal “The funniest musical on Broadway!” -The Washington Post

Spamalot
2/17 - 2/22/2026


In 2005, Spamalot won the Tony Award for best musical comedy. Lovingly ripped off from the classic film "Monty Python and The Holy Grail," this ...

The Shark is Broken
The Shark is Broken
2/4 - 2/22/2026


It’s 1974. The set of  Jaws . The mechanical shark is malfunctioning, the schedule is in shambles, and three actors—Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy ...

Norbert Leo Butz
Norbert Leo Butz
2/26 - 2/28/2026


Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Norbert Leo Butz!

Doodle POP
Doodle POP
3/14 - 3/15/2026


A mischievous duo starts to doodle... and ends up creating a whole imaginative world! They invite us along on their sea adventure with a tiny ...


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Latest Costa Mesa Reviews


Review: Pun-tastic SHUCKED Harvests Laughs at Segerstrom Center


by Michael Quintos - November 14, 2025

Filled with a seemingly non-stop parade of awww-shucks delivered puns—of both super naughty and super corny varieties—the show, for lack of a more eloquent description, is so frikkin silly and stupid in the best possible ways a comedy can get. Mind you, this isn't an insult at all—the show is so una...

Review: Laughs Fly High in PETER PAN GOES WRONG at La Mirada


by Michael Quintos - November 09, 2025

Now presenting an even more over-the-top follow up compared to their first go-round in THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG staged here last February, the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment revisit the earnestly bumbling folks at the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Socie...

Review: South Coast Repertory Presents THE HEART SELLERS


by Michael Quintos - November 10, 2025

An intermission-less, two-character, conversational-centric play that focuses on a pair of women's specific immigrant experiences—marked with loneliness, hopes, fears, and puzzlements big and small—Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh's absorbing, touching, and occasionally (thankfully) very funny play...

Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL Returns to OC’s Segerstrom Center


by Michael Quintos - October 30, 2025

After making a splash when it first visited the OC back in 2022, MOULIN ROUGE! - THE MUSICAL—the dazzling, Tony Award-winning 2019 Broadway stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's groundbreaking 2001 movie musical—is back full throttle at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa for a limited week-lo...

Review: Musical Theatre West Welcomes Back HELLO, DOLLY!


by Michael Quintos - October 22, 2025

During the recent opening night performance of Musical Theatre West's vibrant new production of the 10-time Tony Award-winning 1964 musical HELLO, DOLLY!, the enthusiastically appreciative audience might as well have chanted 'Hello, Tami!' judging from the reactions during the show's finalé bows. Ma...

Review: Chance Theater Presents WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME


by Michael Quintos - October 17, 2025

The current fragile state of, arguably, one of our country's most important founding documents—and whether or not some of our current leaders are legally following it—seems to be top of mind these days, which bodes well for the timely arrival of Chance Theater's latest production, playwright Heidi S...

Review: Tony-Winning SOME LIKE IT HOT Musical Adaptation Amuses at Segerstrom Center


by Michael Quintos - October 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 tho...

Review: Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga Makes Glorious Return to Segerstrom Center


by Michael Quintos - October 07, 2025

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...



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