Upcoming Shows
Majo Aguilar con Mariachi y Banda
Majo Aguilar presents a World Premiere collaborative performance blending traditional ranchera and mariachi music with modern influences. A Mexican singer and songwriter, Majo Aguilar is the granddaughter of legends Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, and made her debut in 2017...
Duck Pond by Circa
Duck Pond by Circa Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble Sun Nov 1 | 3PM Members Acknowledgements Media About the Artists Event details Feathers will fly when Swan Lake is reimagined as a contemporary circus spectacular and collides with the story of The Ugly...
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dance Theatre of Harlem makes its Soraya debut with the Los Angeles premiere of Robert Garland's Higher Ground (2022), a critically acclaimed piece combining classical ballet and vernacular Black dance set to six influential Stevie Wonder songs from the 1970s. The performance...
Dance Theatre of Harlem: Higher Ground
Dance Theatre of Harlem makes its Soraya debut with the Los Angeles premiere of Robert Garland's Higher Ground, a joyous and critically acclaimed piece from 2022. The work combines classical ballet and vernacular Black dance to sharpen social commentary found in six influential...
The Bad Plus Farewell Concert with Guest Trio Jeff Parker, Paul Bryan, and Scott Amendola
After 26 years, The Bad Plus, founded by Reid Anderson and David King, makes their only Los Angeles stop on their final tour at The Soraya. The concert features a special opening guest trio led by Jeff Parker on guitar, Paul Bryan on bass, and Scott Amendola on drums.
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Considered one of the finest symphony orchestras in Eastern Europe, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine makes its Soraya debut with conductor Volodymyr Sirenko and featuring pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi. The program includes a Liszt Piano Concerto, Beethoven, and...
Terence Blanchard & Ravi Coltrane
The Jazz at Naz festival opens with a concert headlined by Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane, joining the centennial celebration of John Coltrane and Miles Davis' births. The two modern-day jazz giants have deep lifelong relationships with the artists they honor and have come...
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with José James
The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra returns to The Soraya with special guest José James as part of the Jazz at Naz festival. The concert will feature a project that John Clayton is currently collaborating with James on, writing arrangements for a new album paying tribute to the...
Jazz Club: Alfredo Rodriguez Band featuring Pedrito Martinez and Hamilton de Holanda Trio
The Soraya's mainstage transforms into an intimate supper club for Jazz Club, featuring the Alfredo Rodriguez Band with Pedrito Martinez and opener the Hamilton de Holanda Trio. This is part of the Jazz at Naz festival's closing concert series.
Jazz Club: Emmet Cohen Trio with Ekep Nkwelle
The Emmet Cohen Trio performs with rising star vocalist Ekep Nkwelle as part of the Jazz at Naz festival's Jazz Club series, where The Soraya's mainstage transforms into an intimate supper club.
Jazz Club: Linda May Han Oh Quintet featuring Melissa Aldana and Sara Serpa
The Jazz at Naz festival wraps up with the Linda May Han Oh Quintet featuring saxophonist Melissa Aldana and vocalist Sara Serpa. The performance is part of the Jazz Club series, in which The Soraya's mainstage transforms into an intimate supper club.
Jacob Jonas The Company & Delirium Musicum: River / As Eternity Flows
Two Los Angeles companies collaborate on a double bill of groundbreaking works: choreographer Jacob Jonas will expand his piece River, and Delirium Musicum founder and violinist Etienne Gara will premiere his first-ever piece composed for movement, As Eternity Flows, featuring...
LA Phil at The Soraya
The LA Phil makes its Soraya debut led by guest conductor and L.A. Opera's newly appointed Music Director Domingo Hindoyan. The program features the world premiere of an LA Phil commission, Miguel Farias' Mistralianas, with soprano Sonya Yoncheva.
The LA Phil
The LA Phil makes its Soraya debut led by Domingo Hindoyan, newly appointed music director of LA Opera, with soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The program features the world premiere of an LA Phil-commissioned song cycle, Mistralianas, by Venezuelan-Chilean composer Miguel Farías, paired...
Audra McDonald
Saturday, April 3, 2027 at 8PM Audra McDonald — winner of an Emmy Award, two GRAMMY® Awards and a record-setting six Tony Awards — returns to Los Angeles and will make her debut at The Soraya in a not-to-be-missed concert. Pronounced by Time magazine as “the greatest living...
National Symphony Orchestra
The National Symphony Orchestra, based at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, makes its Soraya debut as part of a United States tour while the Kennedy Center undergoes renovation. Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will conduct, with guest violin soloist Ray Chen.
Articles
Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre
Before the hit movie-to-musical adaptations Legally Blonde and Heathers, Laurence O’Keefe wrote Bat Boy, a cult classic camp-horror musical about a boy who is half human and half bat.…
Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Colony Theatre
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a vivacious and colorful show making the most of its 1960s setting to dazzle us with period fashions and backdrops.…
Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre
CRONE CREED is an ambitious take on mythology and fate, and it is one of the best shows the El Portal has offered in recent years — out of a field of many exceptional efforts.…
Review: KAIJU at Road Theatre Company
Consistently over-the-top with plenty of laughs and some technical dash for which the Road has long been known, Sawyer’s production shoots out a volley of satirical darts, few of which land with much impact.…
Review: THE OUTSIDERS at Hollywood Pantages Theatre
A musical about disenfranchised teenage boys in warring gangs in the middle of the twentieth century has an impossibly high standard to measure up against in the department of subject matter.…
Review: South Coast Repertory Presents A Revamped INTO THE WOODS
To celebrate the musical's 40th anniversary, South Coast Reportory recreates INTO THE WOODS with a decisively different approach, one that both entices and, at times, triggers an uneasy vibe (at first) that seems to have permeated out from the show's darker second half. Admittedly, something felt of…
Review: THE PETERSON SHOW at Echo Theatre Company
There are no easy answers here, but playwright Janine Nabers raises many questions. What happens when something outside your control forever taints your legacy? How to separate art from artist? How to hold someone accountable even when you love them?…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater
When the US airspace shut down after the attacks of 9/11, what happened to the planes already on their way? Hit Broadway musical Come From Away, penned by Canadian composer-lyricist couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, recounts the story.…
Review: SPIDER’S WEB at Group Rep At Lonny Chapman Theatre
Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Delights at La Mirada Theatre
The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…
Past Shows
49 total · showing 11–20
Sutton Foster with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra
Sutton Foster, two-time Tony Award winner, makes her Soraya debut with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra and 40 of the finest L.A. studio musicians led by Hollywood veteran Chris Walden. Foster has originated numerous roles in notable musicals including Shrek the Musical, Mel Brooks'...
Chavela y Sus Mujeres
Chavela y Sus Mujeres is a musical tribute to the late Chavela Vargas, the celebrated interpreter of rancheras, boleros, and corridos, making its U.S. debut at The Soraya. Four distinguished Latina vocalists — Ely Guerra, Eugenia León, Ofelia Medina, and La Marisoul — perform...
FeaturedJeremy Jordan
Jeremy Jordan Sat Apr 11 | 8PM Triumphing in the title role of Broadway’s The Great Gatsby, Jeremy Jordan secured a place in the top echelon of Broadway stars. For more than a decade, he amassed credits starting with his breakout roles on televisions’ “Smash” and his...
Alonzo King LINES Ballet - Ode to Alice Coltrane
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Ode to Alice Coltrane Sat Feb 21 | 8PM Alonzo King is one of America’s most decorated choreographers, and his San Francisco-based company has stood at the forefront of bold work both on the West Coast and in their global touring for more than four...
Love Inside Out: Valentine's Day with Veronica Swift and the Pacific Jazz Orchestra
Sat Feb 14 | 8PM There’s nothing Veronica Swift can’t do — pop, rock, soul, jazz, Broadway, and more. DownBeat magazine concurs, “Veronica Swift is a woman of many voices, and she uses every one of them to refract a dizzying kaleidoscope of moods.” Her first Soraya solo concert...
Sacredness: Gerald Clayton Honors Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music
Sat Jan 31 | 2PM The Soraya has assembled an entire company of musicians who are 2026 Grammy nominees: pianist and music director Gerald Clayton, Los Angeles-based gospel choir Tonality, and jazz vocalists Christie Dashiell, and Michael Mayo. Opening The Soraya’s fifth annual...
FeaturedMOMIX
MOMIX Alice Sat Nov 22 | 3PM Alice in Wonderland finds it way again and again onto stage and screen. In this postpandemic version by Moses Pendleton, choreographer and founder of Momix, the journey goes far beyond Lewis Carroll. All the characters are familiar, portrayed by...
Ballet BC - BOLERO X
Ballet BC BOLERO X Sat Nov 15 | 8PM Bolero is a constant musical underscoring in our lives. From television commercials to marching bands, the long steady crescendo is mesmerizing and euphoric. Ravel’s masterpiece approaches its century milestone, and in the hands of Israeli...
Fly Me to the Moon A Tribute to Quincy Jones Featuring the Pacific Jazz Orchestra
Fly Me to the Moon A Tribute to Quincy Jones Featuring the Pacific Jazz Orchestra with Special Guest José James Chris Walden, conductor Quincy Jones was a household name for decades, but long before Michael Jackson and “We Are the World,” the musician/arranger/producer worked...
Pacific Jazz Orchestra Presents Tribute to Quincy Jones at The Soraya, Oct 18
Pacific Jazz Orchestra (PJO) launches its 2025-26 season with FLY ME TO THE MOON, A Tribute to Quincy Jones, featuring guest vocalists José James and Lisa Fischer in an exploration of Jones’ masterful early work from the 1950s and 60s, one night only on Saturday, October 18...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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Adam Pascal Feinstein's at the Nikko (10/23-10/24) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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EVITA Valverde Annex (10/17-10/25) |
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THE WHO'S TOMMY Hollywood Pantages Theatre (10/27-11/15) |
