The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
Inland Pacific Ballet will present its annual production of The Nutcracker this holiday season with four performances at Bridges Auditorium at Pomona College in Claremont, December 13–14, and three performances at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, December 20–21.
Global pop icon Joey McIntyre will lead the world-premiere production of TINSELCOLOR: Holiday Soundtracks LIVE, a new concert experience celebrating the music of classic holiday films.
The Ebell of Los Angeles will present a vibrant slate of events this November featuring voices from across the worlds of art, activism, literature, and comedy.
Pasadena Playhouse will present a holiday celebration for the community, Jingle & Mingle.
Los Angeles is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings.
The creators of PERFECT WORLD discuss how the true story of a brilliant young novelist who vanished in 1939 became the inspiration for their new musical, playing Nov.
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 wee
Maegan Mandarino will perform BIG HAIR: A Rad and Wild Love Affair in direct partnership with the Gene Wilder Foundation as the closing show of the Santa Monica Playhouse BFF Binge Fringe Festival.
My conversation with writer and director Sofia Streisand centers around her inspiration for creating the dark musical thriller Bluebeard's Castle, with its American premiere at the Odyssey Theatre from November 1-23, 2025, and how she expects American audiences to react to its content.
Written and performed by Tanya Thomas and directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson, Naturally Tan explores the complexities of racial identity and colorism facing the Asian diaspora and the consequences wrought by damaging beauty standards.
BroadwayWorld has an exclusive video first look inside rehearsals for Perfect World, a brand-new musical directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Kay Cole.
Sierra Madre Playhouse will present Melody of China on November 22, 2025, at 11:00 a.
“Bluebeard’s Castle,” a dark musical thriller inspired by a medieval French fairy tale, makes its American premiere at the Odyssey Theatre with a preview set for Halloween, followed by opening weekend performances on Saturday and Sunday.
Marking its fifth year of championing boundary-pushing theater, the Los Angeles New Play Project has revealed the group of 2025 award recipients whose bold, timely works explore themes from politics and American history to immigration and suspense.
Laguna Playhouse will present Lythgoe Family Productions' newly revised version of A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, as they celebrate their 10-year anniversary at the Playhouse with the return of the panto show that started it all.
Eight years into redefining what a holiday show can be, drag powerhouses Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme are once again decking the halls, and the patriarchy, with a brand-new production of The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.
The Queen’s Fools have announced an extension of their production HAG, following a sold-out initial run.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s spectacular outdoor venue in Topanga will transform into a winter wonderland for the company’s fifth annual Holiday Family Faire.
A Noise Within’s special brand of holiday magic is set to return for another joy-filled season.
What makes this production so enthralling along with Donovan’s tight direction is the immersive effect of feeling involved in the lives of these two lonely people as they openly reveal their fears and feelings as the 90-minute play unfolds.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present a West coast premiere screening of the documentary film El Canto de las Manos.
Broadway veteran Bobby Daye chats with BroadwayWorld about returning to Moulin Rouge! as Harold Zidler, his love for the Los Angeles theatre scene, and the hilarious moment he fell asleep mid-performance.
IAMA Theatre Company, recognized for developing innovative and boundary-pushing new work, has announced the members of its 2025–26 IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab, led by Lab alumnus Nicholas Pilapil.
Internationally acclaimed actor Ido Samuel will be honored with the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 2025 Arpa International Film Festival, which will take place November 6–9, 2025, at the world-famous TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Riptide Film Festival James Armstrong Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
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Cabaret (FILM) The Plaza Theatre (9/06-9/06) |
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A Faery Hunt and Their Animal Friends Kindred Spirits Care Farm (11/08-11/08) |
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Cynthia Erivo: Let Me Sing To You Hollywood Bowl (10/15-10/15) |
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha La Jolla Playhouse (7/28-8/09) |
