Babatunde Akinboboye, a visionary classically-trained baritone singer brings 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, on Friday and Saturday, August 28 and 29...
Babatunde Akinboboye, a classically-trained Nigerian American baritone, performs Hip Hopera, a genre-defying musical style fusing classical opera with the rhythmic intensity and attitude of hip-hop. Accompanied by DJ Amond Jackson, Babatunde traverses recognizable arias such as...
Dancing Storytellers brings Indian myths to life through a family-friendly program blending classical South Asian dance, folk movement, storytelling, and audience engagement. The performance weaves together three stories: Bheema's meeting with Hanuman, the clever mice who outwit...
Asia America New Music Institute (AANMI) presents Echoes of Home, a program of new works exploring the places, people, and memories that shape our sense of belonging. The concert features two world premieres by AANMI founder Chad Cannon and Chinese composer Weijun Chen, the West...
Yu&Sung Duo, featuring violinist YuEun Kim and pianist Sung Chang, celebrates the music and moments that stay with us throughout our lives in this chamber music program inspired by Kim's journey into motherhood. The program features works by Dvořák, Clara Schumann, Prokofiev...
Yu&Sung Duo, featuring violinist YuEun Kim and pianist Sung Chang, celebrates the music and moments that stay with us throughout our lives with the chamber music program “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” on Friday, September 4, 2026, 8:00 PM, at the historic 99-seat Sierra Madre...
The mesmerizing sounds of Indian Veena (plucked string instrument), bansuri (bamboo flute), and percussive tabla blend seamlessly in a program of classical Indian ragas when Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its Hindustani Music Series with “Samyga - A Confluence of String, Wind...
Jazz keyboard maestro Brandon Coleman leads the Brandon Coleman Ensemble through a program of original compositions infused with improvisational dialogue and rhythmic drive. The performance merges deep jazz sensibility with electronic texture and soulful grooves. Coleman, a...
Jazz keyboard maestro Brandon Coleman, a central figure in the Los Angeles jazz and funk-fusion scene who pushes the boundaries of sound, brings his distinctive musical artistry to Sierra Madre Playhouse on Sunday, September 6, 2026, 8:00 PM. Coleman leads the Brandon Coleman...
A family-friendly animated biographical film inspired by the childhood of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, directed by Karine Vézina and André Kadi. Suitable for viewers ages seven and up, it follows a vibrant, free-spirited young girl in Coyoacán, Mexico, whose world is challenged...
Sierra Madre Playhouse pulls the curtains back on its state-of-the-art movie screen to present Hola Frida!, a family-friendly animated biographical film released in 2024 inspired by the childhood of acclaimed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, on Saturday, September 12, 2026, 4:00 pm...
The Sierra Madre Playhouse becomes a hub for Indian classical dance and music when dancer/choreographer Rukhmani Mehta takes the stage for a spellbinding program of Kathak, a rarely performed traditional dance form known for its dazzling footwork and fast spins that originated...
Brightwork newmusic, noted for boundary-breaking chamber music that blurs the line between pop and the avant-garde, concludes its Sierra Madre Playhouse residency with Midterms: This Will Hurt Someone, a concert of provocative, humorous and deeply human works inspired by civic...
Brightwork newmusic concludes its Sierra Madre Playhouse residency with a concert of provocative, humorous and deeply human works inspired by civic life and social change, curated by Artistic Director Aron Kallay. Highlights include the world premiere of What Remains (Ancheh...
The Los Angeles-based Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble brings to life the gong-chime music and dance traditions of the southern Philippines. The family-friendly performance unfolds as both a concert and cultural experience, featuring interlocking rhythms, layered melodies, and...
The Los Angeles-based Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble (PKE) brings to life the gong-chime music and dance traditions of the southern Philippines on Saturday, September 26, 2026, 11:00 AM, at the historic Sierra Madre Playhouse. Centered on the mesmerizing sound of the kulintang...
Sierra Madre Playhouse in conjunction with The 6th Act presents the charming romantic comedy Outside Mullingar by Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award–winning writer John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck) for 16 performances from October 2-25, 2026. The play, directed by...
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
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.…
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Versa-Style Street Dance Company brings an exciting new version of its critically acclaimed full-length work “Box of Hope” to Sierra Madre Playhouse for two performances on Friday and Saturday, August 7 and 8, 2026, at 8:00 PM. Choreographed by company Founders/Co-Artistic...
The Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its Jazz @ the Playhouse series with jazz and R&B vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader Sidney Jacobs. Jacobs leads a dynamic quartet through a set that blends original music with reimagined standards filtered through a contemporary groove...
The historic Sierra Madre Playhouse, which has earned a reputation as one of the Southland’s leading jazz presenters in recent years, continues its popular Jazz @ the Playhouse series with noted jazz and R&B vocalist and songwriter Sidney Jacobs on Sunday, August 2, 2026, 8:00...
Camille Hernandez, the Poet Laureate of Anaheim, presents an immersive reimagining of poetry from her chapbook Motherlands as part of the Sierra Madre Playhouse Authors Series. Hernandez transforms her work into a choreopoem, merging movement, rhythm, and language into living...
A trio of trailblazing musicians featuring violinist Indradeep Ghosh, cellist Chris Votek, and tabla player Neelamjit Dhillon present traditional ragas on Sunday, June 14, 2026, 4:00 PM, at Sierra Madre Playhouse. The concert, a meeting of strings and rhythm at the confluence of...
CONTRA-TIEMPO, a Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company, showcases its latest project, “Roots of Loving Us,” with back-to-back matinee and evening performances on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM, at the historic 99-seat Sierra Madre Playhouse. An...
Roots of Loving Us is an innovative, multi-modal, full-length work-in-progress by CONTRA-TIEMPO, a Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company, incorporating somatic healing, dance, music, and imagery to explore 21st century family structures including adoption, foster...
Acclaimed violinist and author Vijay Gupta, noted for his wide-ranging artistry and visionary community engagement, takes the stage at Sierra Madre Playhouse on Friday, June 12, 2026, 8:00 PM, for an intimate and inspiring evening of storytelling and music. Designed as both a...
Haunted is a one-act dance opera with music by Paul Salerni and libretto by former California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, based on Gioia's narrative poem of the same name. The work recounts a passionate but doomed love affair wrapped in a ghost story, scored for baritone, three...
Twinkle Time fills Sierra Madre Playhouse with her vibrant high energy artistry, blending bilingual pop-rock music, hip-hop, EDM glam, and empowering messages in a joyous family concert geared for children and adults of all ages, on Saturday, June 6, 2026, 11 AM. Noted for her...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Concert Pasadena POPS (8/29-8/29) |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Concert Pasadena POPS (8/29-8/29) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Comics Reading Comics Dynasty Typewriter (9/13-9/13) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
