The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
The Blank Theatre announced casting for week two of its 34th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, featuring three plays by playwrights aged 15–19 performed at the Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz.
What did our critic think of THE GREAT CLOWN BANK SHOW at Open Fist Theatre Company?The lunacy is unbridled, but with all the insanity, you’re too often left wondering: “What is going ON??” And moreover: “Why??”
Altadena Music Theatre announced its 2026 summer season with productions of GREASE and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, performed at a temporary outdoor venue at the Mountain View Mausoleum after the Eaton Fire displaced the company.
Musical Theatre West will present JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, starring Broadway performer Brian Justin Crum in the title role.
Los Angeles Ethio-Jazz ensemble Ethio Cali will mark 15 years on the Grand Performances stage, joined by Jurassic 5 turntablist DJ Nu-Mark in a night curated by Nance Arte Presents.
SkyPilot Theatre Company will present GRAVE MISTAKES, a comedy by Ben Abbott, at LACAE Theater in North Hollywood.
The Tavern Brawlers will present THE DRESSER, Ronald Harwood's Tony- and Oscar-nominated backstage dramedy, as the closing production of the 2026 Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival at The MAIN.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will celebrate the horror genre with the new exhibition, The Horror Show, opening in the fourth-floor Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery on September 26, 2026.
The Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation will present an encore engagement of What the Constitution Means to Me at the George Nakano Theatre, reuniting the original cast from last season's sold-out run.
Abigail Thorn's queer Shakespearean play The Prince, which won three BroadwayWorld Awards including Best New Play, will have a staged reading at Dynasty Typewriter, with a late show added after the first sold out in under 48 hours.
Emily Goglia Presents The Limelight Club will make its debut at Three Clubs on Vine Street in Hollywood next week.
The Grammy® Award-winning Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) and LACC soloist Sophia Lalin join forces with Pacific Symphony, soprano Kaitlyn Lusk, and voices/LA, and for one of the Southland’s most highly anticipated summer events – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, In Con
Brian Henson's Puppet Up! returns to the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Los Angeles for eight performances from July 31 through August 9, 2026.
Writer, producer, and actor Dwyer illuminates the interior life of a woman whose existence echoes much of what is happening today, misogyny, betrayal, insecurity, ageism — making this a timeless, sometimes terrifying tale.
Write Act Repertory will present HOT SUMMER NIGHTS - THE MUSICALS, featuring five world premiere one-act musicals by six writers and six directors, performed by a cast of 17 at the Brickhouse Theatre in North Hollywood.
The Actors' Gang will present Two Gentlebots of Verona, a free, family-friendly adaptation of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, from August 1–30, 2026 in Culver City and Burbank as part of its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park for Families series.
Noted jazz drummer and longtime Disney Cast Member Matt Johnson & The New Jet Set present “Swingin’ the Disney Songbook,” a critically acclaimed program of original retro-cool jazz arrangements of beloved hits from timeless Disney animated films, at Campus Jax in Newport Beach, on Thursday, Ju
Husband-and-wife duo Absolute Focus — santoor virtuoso Kamaljeet Ahluwalia and tabla master Jas Ahluwalia — will perform traditional Hindustani ragas alongside cellist Chris Votek at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
Artist Raphaele Cohen-Bacry's suspended installation of collaged black paper figures and bird forms will be on display at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station in Glendale, CA.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum presents Waiting in the Wings, a vibrant, funny, deeply humane comedy by Noël Coward that reminds us that a life well-lived is measured not by applause, but by connection.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the first North American touring production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years, will celebrate its one-year anniversary, and welcome new cast members.
Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic announced a benefit concert at the Hollywood Bowl to raise funds for communities affected by devastating earthquakes in Venezuela.
The vocal octet 8TPS will present P H O R I A at the Renberg Theatre, featuring six world premieres by trans and nonbinary composers exploring the emotional space between euphoria and dysphoria.
Sierra Madre Playhouse will present the 1925 silent film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN alongside the world premiere of a live score for string quartet and vocal quintet, composed and conducted by George Sarah.
Unbound Productions announced WICKED LIT 2026, a Halloween theater festival at Chance Theater in Anaheim featuring two one-act plays: an adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Las Lloronas, drawn from La Llorona myths.
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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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Dracula the Musical The Nocturne Theatre (8/06-8/23) |
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A Faery Hunt and Their Animal Friends Kindred Spirits Care Farm (7/26-7/26) |
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Cowboy Junkies: Celebrating 40 Years and Beyond Smothers Theatre (9/19-9/19) |
