The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
The Blank Theatre announced casting for week one of its 34th Annual YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, featuring three original plays by writers aged 15–19 performed free at the Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz.
The LA Phil opened its 2026 Hollywood Bowl season with “The Best of Broadway,” featuring glittering stars of stage and screen, including host Billy Crystal and Halle Bailey.
Casting high school aged teen-agers can be a trickier needle to thread than one might think.
With complex characterizations, whip-smart dialogue, and vibrant, shrewd performances, the four women at the center of the show are alive from the second the lights go up.
Jaxx Theatricals will present CLUBHOUSE, an original jukebox rock musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, tackling themes of loss, addiction, and mental health through classic rock songs and a live on-stage band.
Ellen Geer's re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel comes to life at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, with newcomer Ruben Jones as Jim Hawkins and Gerald C.
Jessica Crouch, who plays Donna Sheridan in the National Broadway Tour of Mamma Mia!, talks about the cast's infectious chemistry, the emotional heart behind the music, and why audiences may want to bring tissues along with their dancing shoes.
Watch a 'One Upon A December' from Anastasia at La Mirada Theatre.
Check out new production photos of Chromolume Theatre's Elegies: A Song Cycle by William Finn, now playing as part of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Plaza Mexico in Lynwood, California, will host a Father's Day celebration featuring performances by Banda La Elegida, Grupo Blanco, and Grupo Prendi2, along with food, raffles, and Loteria and Panini tables.
The Upside Down is returning to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights this season.
Ovation TV and Spectrum revealed the recipients of the 2025-2026 Stand For The Arts Awards, which recognizes local arts, cultural and educational organizations and programs.
Julien's Auctions has partnered with Turner Classic Movies for The Ann Miller Collection, an online auction dedicated to the stage and screen performer, featuring more than 200 items from the personal estate of the tap dancer and Golden Age musical star.
I talk with legendary conductor Thomas Wilkins, who has worked with the Hollywood Bowl for over twenty years, in addition to a truly staggering, award-winning career conducting and guest conducting a who’s who’s list of orchestras.
Have you ever wondered what really goes on in cemeteries when memories are shared with those seen and unseen at grave sites? Then head on over to see two, funny and life-affirming plays in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, bundled together as Amazing Graves, produced by Amanda Lynne for Neo
The Waitress musical hits the road this fall! Celebrate its 10th anniversary with a North American tour hitting 40+ cities.
MUSE/IQUE will present DEFIANTLY JONI: A Singer/Songwriter Bares Her Soul at the Mark Taper Forum, led by Rachael Worby with Chris Pierce, Effie Passero, and the MUSE/IQUE Orchestra, in partnership with Center Theatre Group.
The Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center at CSULB announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring Patti LuPone, Samantha Bee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Adam Kinzinger, dance companies, tributes, and family shows.
CAP UCLA announced its 2026-27 season spanning music, dance, theater, and film, featuring Akram Khan Company's final touring production, a world premiere punk operetta starring Kathleen Hanna, and Kronos Quartet performing an all-Glass program.
Ian McRae's PAINTED PONIES, directed by Elina de Santos, will receive its world premiere on the Audre Stage at Ruskin Group Theatre Arts Center in Santa Monica, starring Rachel Sorsa as a mother reckoning with past mistakes.
MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL announced a multi-city anniversary tour celebrating 25 years since its debut in a 76-seat Orlando theater.
It's a very well done, confrontational hour-long play at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, but also life-affirming to know none of us are alone in the struggle for emotional maturity rather than turn to the easy crutches of overeating, alcohol abuse, drug use or unbridled sex to forget about
The documentary short MIKE AND BILLY'S AMERICAN PIE will have its grand finale festival screening at TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood, followed by a Q&A with director Erin Zimmerman and subject Billy Cross.
Town of Trouble Studio's new musical, set in a dystopian world where children are sold for gold, will play The Broadwater Second Stage at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Devo has joined the lineup of special guests for Music from the Films of Wes Anderson at the Hollywood Bowl, which will feature Jim James, Jenny Lewis, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bill Murray, Karen O, Iryna Orlova, and more.
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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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ECO The Fountain Theatre (10/02-10/04) |
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Babatunde Blends Hip Hop and Opera Sierra Madre Playhouse (8/28-8/28) |
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Studio Cabaret: Joel Gaines George Nakano Theatre (1/22-1/23) |
