Lisa Smith News

Québec-based Cirque FLIP Fabrique will perform in Smothers Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts. 

Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist Laila Biali will perform in Smothers Theatre at 8 p.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2023  at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts. 

Five-time GRAMMY Award winners and living legends, the Blind Boys of Alabama and American electric blues harmonica master and GRAMMY award winner, Charlie Musselwhite will perform in Smothers Theatre at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts.

The Carnegie has announced that Tyler Gabbard has been named Theatre Director of The Carnegie’s Otto M. Budig Theatre. Along with this news comes the unveiling of an exciting season of musicals that offers something for everyone to enjoy.

Acclaimed composer, conductor, musician, and vocalist Damien Sneed leads a cast of singers and musicians in Joy to the World: A Christmas Musical Journey on Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 2 p.m. at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu.

The Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre (PBDT) of Los Angeles is back presenting their “Joys of the Season” show at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts' Smothers Theatre on the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University on December 10th and 11th, with doors opening at 7:30 pm and show at 8:00 pm. 

Ukulele virtuoso and songwriter Taimane brings her genre-stretching performance to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre for a performance at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. 

Two-time GRAMMY and Oscar Award–winner Peabo Bryson brings an intimate concert experience to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 8 p.m. 

Delphi Trio kicks off the 2022-2023 Recital Series in Raitt Recital Hall on Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 2 p.m.. 

Guitarist/composer/teacher and musical director STEPHANE WREMBEL will premiere his specialty program “Shades of Django” in the Smothers Theatre at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine on Sunday, October 23, 2022, at 7 p.m. 

Guitarist/composer/teacher and musical director STEPHANE WREMBEL will premiere his specialty program “Shades of Django” in the Smothers Theatre at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine on Sunday, October 23, 2022, at 7 p.m. 

Aquila Theatre presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at Pepperdine University. The performance will take place in Smothers Theatre at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts. 

Celebrated singer and songwriter Peabo Bryson, two time Rock and Roll inductee Graham Nash, dance companies Pilobolus and Flamenco Vivo, and Broadway stars Megan Hilty, Mandy Gonzalez and Javier Muñoz are just a few of the artists set to appear at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine University during its 2022–2023 season. 

A handpicked collection of world-class musicians from the orchestra group Classic Albums Live will perform the Beatles' Let It Be album in its entirety at Pepperdine University as the first show of the 2022-2023 season.

What's going on this weekend in local Southeast Louisiana theatre?

GRAMMY Award-winning founding member of the rock group the Police Stewart Copeland will host the West Coast premiere of his original oratorio Satan's Fall at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.  

The indisputable music icon Roger McGuinn returns to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Monday, April 25, 2022 at 8 p.m.

GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn brings his soulful blues sound to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 8 p.m.  

Pepperdine University's Fine Arts Division will present The Winter's Tale by playwright William Shakespeare on Wednesday, April 6 through Friday, April 8, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Three dynamic vocalists and an all-female jazz band pay tribute to three of history's greatest jazz singers in the musical performance Bessie, Billie, & Nina—Pioneering Women in Jazz at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 8 p.m.