Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Puppet Up!'s motley crew of Jim Henson puppets are as raw and funny as you can get...if you're willing.…
Here are my interviews with director Melissa Chalsma, composer David Melville, and actor Carene Rose Mekertichyan on COMEDY OF ERRORS presented by Independent Shakespeare Company outdoors in Griffith Park this summer.…
All in all, Lakefront offers a very enjoyable two-hour romantic journey guaranteed to keep you laughing and rooting for these lost and lonely souls looking for their soulmate.…
Focusing on four lonely people in Southern California, it dramatizes the ever-shifting facets of our relationships as we struggle to be vulnerable and honest with others and ourselves.…
Beautifully and tenderly directed by Matthew McCray, this ferociously performed and often visually hypnotic intimate production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is such a pleasant surprise, instantly becoming one of Chance Theater's most piercingly emotional new musicals it has ever produc…
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
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…
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Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith unite forces for an evening of duets that defy categorization in pursuit of an evocative, arresting sound. Deeply attuned and grounded in the present, Iyer and Smith perform original music from their acclaimed...
Wild Up performs Robert Ashley’s Private Parts , “The Park” and “The Backyard,” the bookends of his cult TV opera Perfect Lives . Narrated live by Christopher Rountree, Ashley’s hypnotic text drifts through themes of reincarnation and memory, conjuring a surreal Midwestern myth...
Relics and Their Humans marks the second collaboration between writer, director, and performer Ain Gordon and composer, writer, and performer Josh Quillen. Their first project, Radicals in Miniature — which premiered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2017 — was a New York Times...
Vocalist Luciana Souza has highlighted the expressive power of the guitar in her work for over two decades, most notably through her acclaimed Duos Trilogy - Brazilian Duos , Duos II , and Duos III — all Grammy-nominated recordings. With New Moon , she deepens that journey in an...
Grammy-winning pianist and a recipient of the 2026 Bell Jazz Artist Award, composer and bandleader Sullivan Fortner is celebrated for his immense talent and artistic versatility. Raised in New Orleans, Fortner’s roots are deeply felt in his music, evoking the spirit of the...
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey leads a powerhouse trio featuring Grammy-nominated pianist Aaron Diehl and acclaimed bassist Harish Raghavan — a collaboration The New York Times hails as “stunning.” Formed in 2021, the Tyshawn Sorey Trio...
From tape loops and birdsong to Leonard Cohen and Beethoven’s Op. 132, Canadian Cassandra Miller weaves surprising influences into her minimalist language. Paired with the immersive spectralism of CalArts alum Catherine Lamb, this program bends time and sound alike through...
Bellow tells the extraordinary true story of one of Ireland’s foremost accordionists, Danny O’Mahony, a man who has dedicated his life to the preservation of traditional Irish music and to the mastery of his craft. Bellow takes the audience on a raw, intimate and deeply personal...
In the west coast premiere of Manifestos 6: Ben Patterson , world-renowned artist Charles Gaines interprets Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass (c. 1962), a score for performance that uses words rather than traditional musical notation. Gaines converts...
In this 60-minute chamber opera, commissioned by the Japan Society, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang reimagines three texts by iconic Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The result is a stunning and haunting monodrama, note to a friend , addressing our eternal human...
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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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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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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CLOWNISH: Not artificial. Or intelligent. Theatre Rhinoceros (9/17-10/04) |
