The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
The Music Center announced its 2026–2027 GLORYA KAUFMAN PRESENTS DANCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER season, featuring the Joffrey Ballet, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and a ballet festival curated by Tiler Peck.
LA-based writer and performer Midge Lema brings BEAN VS.
CRABSHLEY, a 30-minute solo clown show written by and starring Maggie Monahan, will debut at Hollywood Fringe Festival at The Broadwater Studio, following a human-sized horseshoe crab navigating a wedding and societal milestones.
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble will present ROBERT HEIDE: IN SEARCH OF LOST AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS on May 30 as part of its Thresholds of Invention series.
Stonehaven Studios will present its 2nd Annual Afrofuturist Art Fairs across two Los Angeles-area venues during Juneteenth week, featuring performances, film screenings, youth programming, and artist showcases.
THE SEVEN DEADLY SEAS, a rock musical by Sarah Sturdevant following a pirate-and-princess love story, will return to Los Angeles as part of Pacific Opera Project's POP Artist Recital Series in Highland Park.
As directed by Kristin Hanggi and led by actors Emma Hunton, Diana Huey and Aynsley Bubbico, KILLING MUSICALS looks to blend pathos, satire and female empowerment not always particularly smoothly.
It's not every day that you get to speak with the composer of the musical you're working on.
The Grammy Museum is launching Tower of Song: Iconic Songwriters & Recordings, a new ongoing exhibit that showcases the Grammy Hall of Fame, which has inducted more than 1,100 historically significant recordings since 1973 that are 25 years or older.
The Scott Dunn Orchestra returns to the Wallis Annenberg Center with FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD, exploring music by European émigré composers who fled the Nazis and shaped Hollywood's first golden age.
Independent Shakespeare Co.
Sierra Madre Playhouse will present HAUNTED, a one-act dance opera with music by Paul Salerni and libretto by former California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, featuring baritone Rod Gilfrey and three dancers.
Thousands of jazz lovers gathered at Tongva Park for the finale of the inaugural Santa Monica International Jazz Festival.
Soaring Solo Studios will present THERE'S SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH CYRUS at Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection written and performed by actor Cyrus Deboo, portraying 22 characters in a 70-minute solo show.
Carli Wright's original musical THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS blends horror, romance, and comedy at the Hobgoblin Playhouse during the Hollywood Fringe Festival, featuring a seven-person cast, live acoustic songs, and a ghost haunting her childhood home.
MacArthur Fellow and Obie Award winner Samuel D.
Denver-based theater-maker Todd Sullivan's MANIAC, a clown work loosely inspired by a 19th-century serial killer trial, will open at The Broadwater Black Box in Hollywood as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale will present SOUND WAVES, an immersive concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring two world premieres and works inspired by water, breath, and nature.
THE WAITING, a new musical exploring grief through folk melodies and poetry, will be staged at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts as part of the ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshop.
Moonlight Stage Productions, the resident theatre company at the City of Vista’s Moonlight Amphitheatre, is presenting the San Diego Regional Premiere production of THE CHER SHOW.
The Secrets of Uvhash-Ra, a dark academia Lovecraft mystery written by actress Kate Shaefer, will make its Hollywood Fringe debut at The Hobgoblin Playhouse in Los Angeles, directed by Soda Persi.
Interviewing for the Role of Father, a 90-minute two-hander about a transgender filmmaker documenting her terminally ill father, will be performed at Bad Ladder Theater in Los Angeles as a Hollywood Fringe Festival Scholarship Recipient.
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s “Summer Edition” of Dance at the Odyssey will return for three weekends celebrating adventurous, compelling work from Los Angeles choreographers
xThe LA Phil has unveiled the 2026 season at The Ford, its hillside open-air venue, running from May 8 to October 31.
Musical Theatre West announced Brian Justin Crum, known for his viral America's Got Talent performance and Broadway credits including Wicked, will star as Joseph at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.
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Next to Normal Phantasma Arts (7/17-7/25) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can The Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
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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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Riverdance 30 – The New Generation Ahmanson Theatre (4/13-4/18) |
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P3's August Cozy Cabaret: I've Seen This Sh!t Before The Broadwater Second Stage Theatre (8/10-8/10) |
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Water for Elephants Hollywood Pantages Theatre (9/08-9/27) |
