The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
Conundrum Theatre Company will present the two-time Tony Award-winning rock opera AMERICAN IDIOT at the Broadwater Theater Main Stage in Hollywood, featuring Green Day's punk rock album brought to life with a cast led by August Broussard.
“The Revolutionists,” a sharp-tongued makeover of the French “Reign of Terror” by playwright Lauren Gunderson, at International City Theatre in Long Beach in a production directed by Jamie Torcellini.
Around the BroadwayWorld is our monthly snapshot of the biggest stories making waves across the global theatre community.
BroadwayWorld's new Producer Fantasy Game lets fans draft six Broadway shows and earn points from real box office grosses, awards, and weekly predictions.
Grammy-winning New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas, with an opening set by Butter Funk Family, will perform at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Descendants of Thieves, the men's fashion label, is expanding into animation with its debut short film, screening at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as part of the Dances With Films Festival.
Co-directed by Nat Wolff and Austin Cauldwell, WHERE WE PLAYED: VOICES FROM THE FIRE documents children's firsthand experiences of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and will screen in the Doc Shorts Block at TCL Chinese Theatre.
Opera Laguna will present a one-night-only semi-staged concert of The Student Prince on July 3 at the Laguna Playhouse.
Rachel Austin's THE DO OVER, a comedic disco solo show about grief and loss, will make its world premiere at the LGBT Center on McCadden as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
The Grammy-winning Los Angeles Children's Chorus will kick off a 12-day West Coast Tour with a free public send-off concert in Pasadena before performing in Vancouver, Seattle, Eugene, and San Francisco.
Guild Opera Company will present THE COMEDY OF OPERA at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, featuring comedic divas Diana Lucas and Gracie Moore alongside guest artists performing comic opera gems.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum opened its 2026 summer repertory season in rustic Topanga Canyon with “Romeo and Juliet.
La Mirada Theatre released a new video offering a look inside its upcoming production of ANASTASIA The Musical, which is scheduled to run for several weeks in summer 2026.
La Jolla Playhouse has shared a new clip from its current world premiere production of THE MONSTERS, offering a closer look at the sibling drama that opened earlier this month at the Mandell Weiss Forum in La Jolla, California.
Two Cups Theatre's inaugural production, Cumming Down the Mountain, a 60-minute queer comedy about a church wilderness retreat, will have its world premiere at the Hobgoblin Playhouse as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Comedian Paula Poundstone, known for NPR's 'Wait, Wait… Don't Tell Me' and her role in Pixar's 'Inside Out,' will perform for one night only at the Bram Goldsmith Theater in Beverly Hills.
You may ask yourself—is seeing a touring stage production of the globally and generationally ubiquitous 1959 musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC still worth experiencing live on stage in 2026? While the stage musical in its current touring form certainly doesn't offer anything revolutionary or new to the s
Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu stars alongside Sullivan Jones in THE MONSTERS, a new play about estranged siblings reunited through the world of mixed martial arts, exploring forgiveness and family at La Jolla Playhouse in 2026.
Dillon Klena has been cast as Dmitry in La Mirada Theatre's upcoming production of ANASTASIA, the musical based on the beloved story of the Russian grand duchess.
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment started their preview performances of a gorgeous new production of ANASTASIA, book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.
Theatricus stages the world premiere of Christian Missonak's THE HENRY CLYDE CANNING MURDER HOUSE at Moving Arts in Atwater Village, the first fully-produced winner of the VOX NOVA Playwright Festival.
Yamini Nambimadom stars in BARBIE SMITH: GOD'S FAVORITE TEASE, a solo show structured as a Christian abstinence seminar, at the LA LGBT Center's Davidson/Valentini Theatre as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Valley Opera and Performing Arts will present Bizet's Carmen at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, directed by Dylan F.
9 to 5 the Musical was an enjoyably nostalgic experience for those of us who actually lived through working in mid-20th Century offices, albeit losing much humorous dialogue and lyrics due to the faulty sound system.
Lucy Prebble's THE EFFECT, a play examining love and brain chemistry through two clinical trial participants, will be staged at Thymele Arts in Hollywood, directed by Braden Lynch and Tristan McDaniel.
|
Next to Normal Phantasma Arts (7/17-7/25) |
|
After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
|
E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
|
Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
|
Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
|
Mentiras All Stars YouTube Theater (9/19-9/19) |
|
90s Corridos Tour Peacock Theater (8/22-8/22) |
|
NIC & DESI: SONG, DANCE & ROMANCE Coachella Valley Repertory (7/21-7/21) |
|
‘F**king Strangers’ Atwater Village Theatre (7/17-8/24) |
|
What the Constitution Means to Me George Nakano Theatre (1/08-1/10) |
