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Tony Award-winning performer Lillias White has joined the upcoming Broadway Voices Unite Benefit Concert, which will take place June 22 in Santa Monica, CA.

At the Long Beach Playhouse, one tradition is closing their Mainstage Season with a musical.

North Coast Repertory Theatre has extended its production of Noah Haidle’s BIRTHDAY CANDLES, a touching tribute to one woman’s life.

Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) will host a three-week public run of two stage productions, including Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical JR.

A Jukebox for the Algonquin will make its West Coast Premiere engagement of a new comedy, written by Paul Stroili, directed by Larry Eisenberg, and produced for Theatre Forty by David Hunt Stafford.

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood has announced the final production of its 2024–2025 season in Sawyer’s Playhouse (the company’s second stage), the world premiere of The Impact of Dildos on a Funeral by Emma J.

While still a high schooler living and finding his passion for theatre in Los Angeles, Trevor James had the opportunity to sing “The Old Red Hills of Home” from Parade for composer Jason Robert Brown.

Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed Liverpool Legends will be at House of Blues Anaheim on Friday, July 11, 2025, at 7:00pm.

Touted as the first 'non-replica' regional production of this Disney stage musical mounted in Southern California, La Mirada Theatre's fresh iteration of FROZEN - THE MUSICAL still has plenty of Disney-esque magic to offer young and old audience members alike seeking to revisit the land of Arendelle

Theatre Unleashed returns to the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June with The Meeting, a powerful new play by acclaimed playwright Brian James Polak that imagines a not-so-distant dystopia in which all forms of artistic expression are banned.

Hot Off the Press is a program of new solo writings presented by talented scribes in staged readings.

This production is erotic, evocative, lean as a bone and, at a certain point, leaves HAMLET behind entirely.

LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE is presenting the world premiere of a new Hercule Poirot comic mystery, PERIL IN THE ALPS, written and directed by Steven Dietz (Laguna Playhouse’s wildly successful production of Murder on the Links), and based in part of “Poirot Investigates” by Agatha Christie.

A new audio adaptation of runboyrun, the acclaimed play by Mfoniso Udofia, will premiere June 16, 2025 on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.

Actress-writer Jessica Lia Berry brings a revived and revitalized version of her acclaimed solo show to the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Pasadena Playhouse has announced the Mainstage offerings for the 2025/2026 Season, kicking off with an all new Pasadena Playhouse production of Jonathan Spector's 2025 Tony Award-winning, razor-sharp satire Eureka Day.

​​​​​​​Catalina Museum for Art & History will host Yacht Rock Night at the Museum, offering a relaxed summer evening of live music, island atmosphere and community connection on the museum's outdoor plaza.

Holocaust Museum LA will present the Teicholz Film Series, a selection of five films focused on the theme of the aftermath of the Holocaust.

JELLO BRAIN, directed by Terra Mackintosh and Produced by Jonah Weiland, is a one-woman show written and performed by Natalie Grove.

Chromolume Theatre has announced the next production of its 2025 Season of Musicals — A Season of Love and Romance (and Adultery) — the Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County.

BroadwayWorld sat down with ballet dancer Andrei Chagas about how his foray into musical theater changed him as a dancer, and what audiences can expect of the latest production of Swan Lake, which will run at the Segerstrom June 20-22 before moving to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion June 26-29.

The production by Chance Theater, directed brilliantly by Shinshin Yuder Tsai, is lyrical, riveting, and provocative.

Michael Maguire is perhaps best known to theater goers for his portrayal of Enjolras in the original Broadway company of ‘Les Miserables’ for which he won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Theater World Award and was featured on the cover of Newsweek.

*UPDATE* As of Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced a reduction in curfew hours for parts of downtown LA.

The 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival will present the world premiere of Salon Noir, a one-act comedic celebration of radical Black joy, blending sketch, lyric play, and heartfelt farce.