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The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles will welcome former GMCLA member and 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 15's Salina EsTitties as a special guest artist for Los Angeles's beloved holiday spectacular.

Musical Theatre West (MTW) announced its selections for its Fifth Annual New Works Reading Festival.

 Getty's Villa Theater Lab will present Thieves of California,  a performance inspired by Aeschylus's ancient Greek tragedy, Seven Against Thebes and set in a dystopian future in California.

Festival Ballet Theatre will return to the Irvine Barclay Theatre this December with its acclaimed production of The Nutcracker, running December 6–24, 2025.

Marin Theatre in Mill Valley will present the West Coast Premiere of Sally & Tom by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, running October 30–November 23, 2025.

Blumenthal Arts will present The Magicians Table, a London-born immersive magic experience, at Blume Studios’ Stage 2 in Charlotte beginning November 19, 2025, for a limited run through February 15, 2026.

Boston Court Pasadena will present the West Coast premiere of Mariology, a new play written and directed by Nancy Keystone and developed with Critical Mass Performance Group, beginning November 8, 2025.

Blood, Sweat & Tears will perform live in concert with special guest Jason Scheff at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

Broken Token Productions gave a first look at photos of rehearsals for its upcoming premiere production of Le Switch by Philip Dawkins at The Broadwater Blackbox.

Laguna Playhouse is presenting the second show of its 2025/2026 season with the rolling world premiere comedy, BESIDE MYSELF by Paul Slade Smith and directed by David Ellenstein.

Latino Theater Company will return with La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, the company’s signature holiday pageant that has been a Los Angeles holiday tradition since 2002.

Duo Remanence, featuring Mana Tinkerhess on harpsichord and Eric Tinkerhess on cello and viola da gamba, will present a musical journey featuring timeless works from the Baroque era.

Join Kristen Bell and Josh Gad at EPIC Players' Once Upon a Cabaret, a magical Disney-themed evening in LA celebrating inclusion and creativity.

Tony Award nominee Will Swenson and Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita will star in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at La Mirada Theatre.

Los Angeles is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings.

The creators of PERFECT WORLD discuss how the true story of a brilliant young novelist who vanished in 1939 became the inspiration for their new musical, playing Nov.

My conversation with writer and director Sofia Streisand centers around her inspiration for creating the dark musical thriller Bluebeard's Castle, with its American premiere at the Odyssey Theatre from November 1-23, 2025, and how she expects American audiences to react to its content.

Theatre West will present A Sleighful of Songs, a holiday musical celebration created by John A.

The Pasadena Chorale will open its 2025–2026 season with Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), performed in the composer’s rarely heard arrangement for piano four hands.

Inland Pacific Ballet will present its annual production of The Nutcracker this holiday season with four performances at Bridges Auditorium at Pomona College in Claremont, December 13–14, and three performances at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, December 20–21.

Global pop icon Joey McIntyre will lead the world-premiere production of TINSELCOLOR: Holiday Soundtracks LIVE, a new concert experience celebrating the music of classic holiday films.

The Ebell of Los Angeles will present a vibrant slate of events this November featuring voices from across the worlds of art, activism, literature, and comedy.

Pasadena Playhouse will present a holiday celebration for the community, Jingle & Mingle.

Maegan Mandarino will perform BIG HAIR: A Rad and Wild Love Affair in direct partnership with the Gene Wilder Foundation as the closing show of the Santa Monica Playhouse BFF Binge Fringe Festival.

Written and performed by Tanya Thomas and directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson, Naturally Tan explores the complexities of racial identity and colorism facing the Asian diaspora and the consequences wrought by damaging beauty standards.