The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
Jai Rodriguez, known for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Broadway's RENT, will rejoin the cast of CHICO'S ANGELS 2: LOVE BOAT CHICAS at Cavern Club Cabaret in Los Angeles, reprising his role as Chita Parol.
The Hollywood Bowl's 2026 season got underway with a Broadway-filled celebration featuring Darren Criss, Lea Salonga, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Halle Bailey.
Performer Trip Kennedy will celebrate Mel Brooks' centennial with a musical tribute at Visionarium in South Pasadena — and later discovered he shares Brooks' exact June 28 birthday, making it a party for two.
Choreographer Adam Kerbel premieres LIVING/EDGE, a solo dance-theater work blending improvisation, humor, and physical risk to examine grief and vitality, at Wanda's in Venice, CA.
Review: Even if you leave wanting a few more cannon blasts from Theatricum Botanicum's 2026 adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND, you'll be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful place to spend a summer evening.
British performer David Labi will bring his one-man show Pieces of a Man to the Goldrich Cultural Center for its Los Angeles debut, exploring his late father's survival of Nazi concentration camps through humor and storytelling.
Yvonne Bell, President and CEO of the McCallum Theatre, has appointed Eric Sims as Chief Programming and Operating Officer for the renowned performing arts center.
Director Glenn Kelman is to be commended for taking on the challenge of coordinating twenty cast members moving scenery and set pieces into place to create 22 set changes in 14 locations on such a small stage, as well as setting the timing of each Ameri-News video projection to forward the story.
Laguna Playhouse has released all new production photos from Red by John Logan, now playing at the Playhouse.
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.
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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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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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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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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo (8/02-8/02) |
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Kaiju The Road Theatre Company (9/22-11/01) |
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Studio Cabaret: Telephone Tag George Nakano Theatre (11/13-11/14) |
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Peter Hook And The Light Hollywood Palladium (9/19-9/19) |
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Riptide Film Festival James Armstrong Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
