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: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum
Waiting in the Wings explores the glamor and elegance of a lost era, life on the stage of 1920s music halls, the terror and loss and beauty of aging, and the incomparable treasures of female friendship. …
Review: THE LIGHT WE LEAVE BEHIND Is a Dreamlike Experience Best Left Unexplained
BroadwayWorld reviews THE LIGHT WE LEAVE BEHIND, an unconventional concert experience that's as much about the mood as the music, playing through October 25 in Downtown LA's Arts District…
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.…
Past Shows
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Disney’s FANTASIA Live in Concert
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...
Martha Graham Dance Company: Appalachian Spring by Martha Graham
This world-famous dance company returns to The Soraya with the most skilled and powerful dancers you can ever hope to see (Washington Post). They bring the piece that NPR called one of the milestones of the millennium: Appalachian Spring, a celebration of the American spirit on...
The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra - The Music of Ella Fitzgerald
Directed by Scotty Barnhart, featuring Lizz WrightAlong with the orchestra he formed in 1935, William James Count Basie re-wrote the history of jazz with 18 Grammy Awards, appearances for kings and queens, and performances for every TV show, festival, and on every major stage in...
The Colburn Orchestra
In his third appearance at The Soraya, Salonen will lead the flagship orchestra of the Colburn Schools Conservatory of Music, which has gained international acclaim for producing the next generation of world-class musicians.
An Evening with David Sedaris
With only a podium, a mic, and a wicked sense of humor, Sedaris turns over-sharing into a fine art that leaves audiences breathless from laughter. On the heels of the presidential election, Sedaris will share personal anecdotes and meditations on the crazy year that has been...
Stewart Copeland: Police Deranged for Orchestra - Music of The Police
Called one of the greatest drummers of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine, "The Rhythmatist" Stewart Copeland founded the legendary rock band The Police and is now a prolifically talented composer of opera, ballet, and orchestral music. He returns to The Soraya to dominate his...
An Evening with Branford Marsalis
One of the worlds best-known saxophonists takes our stage again, exploring his Grammy-nominated album The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. His quartet was formed in 1986, but many Americans first met Marsalis on the small screen when he served as Musical Director of The...
A Concert Tribute to Linda Ronstadt: Aida Cuevas, La Marisoul, and Luciana Souza
Cheche Alara, Musical Director and ProducerFeaturing Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime CullarLinda Ronstadts legendary voice had no limits. She commanded pop, country, and traditional Mexican music as well as the Broadway stage. No single performer today embodies such a range, so we...
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
In his second appearance at The Soraya, Afro Latin jazz master Arturo OFarrill pours his heart and soul into a message of unity and tearing down walls. The son of musicians from Cuba and Mexico, OFarrill has dedicated his life and music to inclusion and collaboration. His...
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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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Studio Cabaret: Joel Gaines George Nakano Theatre (1/22-1/23) |
