Gershwin and the Golden Age Featuring Michael Feinstein Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Dr. Noreen Green, conductor Samuel Glicklich, piano Sunday, Oct. 11 at 7PM After achieving massive success on Broadway and in classical music, George Gershwin moved to Hollywood, joining the...
Broadway legend and seven-time Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster joins Pacific Jazz Orchestra, LA’s acclaimed 40-piece hybrid big band and string orchestra led by Artistic Director Chris Walden, for an evening of music from Broadway and beyond on Saturday, September 19, 2026, 8:00...
Saturday, Sept. 19 at 8PM Ever since Sutton Foster stepped into the title role of the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002, earning her first Tony Award, she has established herself as one of the greatest talents in the industry. A fixture on Broadway, she has...
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'...
Snarky Puppy makes its Soraya debut on this date, marking a milestone for the ensemble that has won five GRAMMY Awards since 2014. Led by bassist Michael League, the collective features 20 musicians who rotate through their ranks in ever-changing fresh combinations. The band was...
Snarky Puppy, led by bassist Michael League, brings their collective of rotating musicians to The Soraya for their debut performance at the venue. The concert is the group's only Los Angeles stop on their Somni World Tour. GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter and Carnatic Raga...
Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves pay tribute to John Coltrane in celebration of the jazz legend's centennial. The performance features Marsalis and his quartet performing with Reeves, offering new renditions of standards from the 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman as...
This concert explores George Gershwin's move from Broadway and classical music to Hollywood, where he joined the predominantly Jewish composers who shaped the golden age of film music. Michael Feinstein performs alongside the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony in this celebration of...
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 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 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 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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 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 makes her Soraya debut in this concert performance. McDonald is the winner of an Emmy Award, two GRAMMY Awards, and a record-setting six Tony Awards, and was most recently seen headlining the Broadway revival of Gypsy in her Tony-nominated role as Mama Rose.
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.
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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The Soraya presents Onstage Chamber concerts, featuring a diverse range of Baroque music this fall. The series kicks off on October 23 with a performance by Edgar Meyer on double bass, Tessa Lark on violin, and Joshua Roman on cello. The intimate setting allows audiences to...
Based on a true story when peace, camaraderie, and music prevailed on the battlefield in 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, and peace. A...
Celebrated tenor saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman introduced his first permanent band with his 1994 album MoodSwing, an astonishing collection by four precociously talented musicians who would rapidly establish themselves as creative beacons. After years of individual...
Eden Espinosa, Joshua Henry, and Megan Hilty Richard Kaufman, Music Director and Conductor | Our 10th-anniversary concerts conclude with a Broadway triple threat featuring the brightest and best performers Broadway has to offer: Eden Espinosa (Wicked, Rent), Joshua Henry...
Go anywhere if invited and make the world a little more happy is Yamatos motto. With 150-200 performances a year worldwide, Yamato travels all over the world with Japans traditional Wadaiko drums, putting its very souls into the unusual instruments, whose sound stirs the hearts...
Vasily Petrenko, Conductor Olga Kern, piano | A program of British composers welcomes back Britains pre-eminent ensemble. Russian-American pianist Olga Kern now recognized as one of her generations great artists joins the RPO to perform Edvard Grieg's immediately recognizable...
With Lindsay Deutsch, violin & Noreen Green, Conductor | The violins from the Holocaust were on their way to Los Angeles when their journey was interrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. The historic instruments stand as a testament to resilience, now more than ever, in their...
Featuring Ballet Folklrico de Los ngeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime CullarIn what has become a popular holiday tradition at The Soraya, the lively Nochebuena celebration returns live on stage with favorite artists that are part of The Soraya family.
Featuring Ballet Folklrico de Los ngeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime CullarIn what has become a popular holiday tradition at The Soraya, the lively Nochebuena celebration returns live on stage with favorite artists that are part of The Soraya family.
The worlds most celebrated animated film, shown on The Sorayas towering screen and accompanied by a live orchestra, is not to be missed. Restored to brilliant color and updated with excerpts from Fantasia 2000, this classic will ignite the imaginations of a new generation...
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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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Jane Austen UnScripted Kings Road Park (9/12-9/27) |
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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) |
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The Swan The Garage Theatre (8/21-9/26) PHOTOS |
