The latest news on live theater in Los Angeles from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is presenting The People of Pompeii, a darkly funny new comedy by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright Bernardo Cubría, co-directed by Ellen Geer and Xochitl Romero.
Direct from its smash hit run at the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival, the noir comedy clown mystery Dead Man, written and directed by Ann Noble, is being presented by The Echo Theater Company and Theatre Ghosts on Tuesdays July 21, 28 and August 4 at 8 p.
Duain Richmond, known for portraying Fela Kuti in the Broadway production FELA!, has formed Sacred Noise Unknown (SNX), an LA-based musical collective featuring members of Antibalas, La Misa Negra, Buyepongo, and more.
Babatunde Akinboboye, a baritone singer will bring fresh new perspective to opera with “Hip Hopera,” a genre-defying musical style fusing the classical opera with the rhythmic intensity and attitude of hip-hop, at the Sierra Madre Playhouse.
The Wayward Artist will present the Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos, directed by Craig Tyrl, at Irvine United Congregational Church.
The Blank Theatre announced casting for week three of its 34th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, featuring three plays by playwrights aged 15–19 performed at the Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz.
Tom Alper's new play ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER, about a divorced son who moves in with his aging mother, will receive a free staged reading at Santa Monica Playhouse, featuring a cast of four.
Sounds of Los Angeles County will present COUNTRY NIGHTS at George Lane Park in Quartz Hill, CA, featuring live line-dancing lessons, outlaw country vinyl, and performances by Breakin' Boots, DJ Maxey, and the Gilbert Louie Ray Band.
Gabby Tamez headlines the Corazón Norteño Tour at San Angelo Park in La Puente, featuring Jessica Ballesteros and Grupo La Virtud, as part of LA County Parks' free Sounds of LA County summer concert series.
Sounds of Los Angeles County will present UTOPIA ONE LOVE SUMMER FEST at East Rancho Dominguez Park in Compton, featuring live performances spanning deep house, Afrobeats, hip-hop, funk, and disco.
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi
Musical Theatre West's brand new presentation of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT marks the fifth time the 74-season-old institution is revisiting this ubiquitous musical, this time starring hunky Broadway alum and America's Got Talent standout Brian Justin Crum.
John Wuchte and his Kick Boom Theater ensemble of five actors and two onstage musicians (Wuchte on percussion and Sarah Green on guitar) continue their exploration of live percussion scoring the actors’ movement, gestures and stylized dialogue during Anatomy of a Back at the Electric Lodge in Veni
Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.
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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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Mentiras All Stars YouTube Theater (9/19-9/19) |
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90s Corridos Tour Peacock Theater (8/22-8/22) |
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NIC & DESI: SONG, DANCE & ROMANCE Coachella Valley Repertory (7/21-7/21) |
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‘F**king Strangers’ Atwater Village Theatre (7/17-8/24) |
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What the Constitution Means to Me George Nakano Theatre (1/08-1/10) |
