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Center Theatre Group will present Sutton Foster in “Once Upon a Mattress,” which will come to the Ahmanson Theatre direct from a Broadway run in December. Learn how to purchase tickets.

A co-production between Latino Theater Conpany and Playwrights’ Arena, the world premiere of Boni B. Alvarez’ Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of A German Jewish Boy opens May 18, 2024; at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

The world premiere of an epic World War II odyssey inspired by an astonishing, little-known true story opens this weekend at The Los Angeles Theatre Center in a co-production between L.A.’s Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena. Check out all new photos here!

Rubicon Theatre Company, celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season this year, launched its new summer concert series VENTURA LIVE!. Learn more about the lineup and see how to purchase tickets.

Antaeus Theatre Company has revealed its 2024-25 season featuring THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, TWELFTH NIGHT, and another classic at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Body’s Midnight is a brilliant, meditative, fiercely funny and brutally heartrending world premiere drama at Boston Court Pasadena.  It is a hard play to capture its essence, both explosively hilarious and lyrical, surreal, and profoundly mournful, a ferocious elegy to all the things that are disappearing.

Next up at A Noise Within, George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance which opened May 12, 2024. Guillermo Cienfuegos directs the cast of: Joshua Bitton, Dan Lin Josey Montana McCoy, Trisha Miller, Riley Shanahan, Erika Soto, Deborah Strang, Frederick Stuart and Peter Van Norden.

Pasadena Playhouse has announced the lineup for its 2024/2025 season. The season includes Martin Crimp’s critically acclaimed new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac; a fresh new revival of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award® winner for Best Musical, La Cage aux Folles; a new production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning classic, Topdog/Underdog; and a new play to be announced at a later date. 

Bob Barth's One Night Stand features Sarah Martin of Belle & Sebastian and director Tracey A. Leigh discussing her new work, TWO STOP.

We spoke to playwright Leviticus Jelks about the production of his play My White Husband at Moving Arts. 

Closing out BroadStage’s 2023/2024 blackbox series is a performance by the curator of the series himself, NAACP award-winning author, lauded songwriter, Grammy-nominated producer, and multimedia storyteller The Reverend Shawn Amos.

International City Theatre will present the Los Angeles premiere of The Outsider, a funny and timely satire by Paul Slade Smith about a flawed candidate who might just be the perfect fit for the job.

“Nora and Jim” is being presented in two locations in June 2024, in Glendale at the Glendale Room and as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Broadwater Studio.

On Friday, May 10, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom presented his May Revision proposal for the 2024-25 State Budget. With a remaining $27.6 billion dollar deficit in the current year, the arts were among the hardest hit in Newsom’s proposed spending cuts.

Celebrate the life and films of Colin Higgins at the 12th installment of 'Kat Kramer's Films That Change The World' on May 25th at NuArt Theater, featuring a red carpet reception and live performance by Ty Taylor.

The Colburn School, a renowned performing arts school based in Los Angeles, revealed the 2024 cohort of its Fortissima program. Learn more!

The Rabbit Queen, a new satirical musical about a woman who convinced the world she could give birth to rabbits, revealed its cast for the west coast premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June.

Marcy Carsey will be honored at LATW's 50th Anniversary Gala on June 2 at The Broad in Santa Monica. Learn more and join the celebration of her contributions to the entertainment industry.

Lily Tung Crystal has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of East West Players. Learn more about Tung and about the theatre.

Center Theatre Group has added & JULIET to its 2025/26 season lineup. See the full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Discover the new theatrical production WHERE Y'ALL FROM, exploring themes of identity and heritage at Zephyr Theatre. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Chance Theater has extended the Orange County Premiere of 'Alma,' written by playwright Benjamin Benne, winner of the ATC National Latine Playwrights Award, and directed by Sara Guerrero.

 Long Beach Opera will continue its 2024 season with the much-anticipated staged West Coast premiere of trailblazing composer Kate Soper's IPSA DIXIT.

The Ebell of Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring women and building community through arts, culture and education, will host an enlightening conversation between American Soprano, Renée Fleming and Dr. Assal Habibi, Associate Research Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California.

Opening weekend of Rubicon Theatre Company's VENTURA LIVE! concert series featured a sold out performance and premier of Make Your Own Kind of Music, an evening celebrating the 60s and 70s’ most iconic women in music, starring Heather Youmans and special musical guests. Check out photos here!