 | San Diego International Fringe Festival - San Diego - Presents:
The San Diego International Fringe Festival
5/15/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Monday, 5/19/2025) The San Diego International Fringe Festival (SDIFF) is fast approaching, returning for its 13th bold and beautiful year from May 15–25, 2025.
ALL participants are welcome to post their event information to Performing Arts LIVE. It's FREE and Easy. See POST EVENT on the home page. |
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 | Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
Life of Pi
5/6/2025 - 6/1/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 5/20/2025) The Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit "Life of Pi” is an unforgettable, epic tale of adventure. Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel (over 15 million copies sold) is a worldwide phenomenon and “an exhilarating evening of theater” (The Wall Street Journal). |
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 | The Old Globe - San Diego - Presents:
House of India
5/10/2025 - 6/8/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 5/20/2025) A family's restaurant legacy hangs in the balance in this heartwarming play
World premiere
By Deepak Kumar
Directed by Zi Alikhan |
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 | La Jolla Playhouse - La Jolla - Presents:
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
5/17/2025 - 6/15/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 5/20/2025) “Hot and hilarious… prepare for laughter.” The New York Times
Direct from Broadway, this dazzling production welcomes you into Jaja’s bustling shop in Harlem, where a lively and eclectic group of West African hair braiders create masterpieces on the heads of neighborhood women.
May 17 - June 15 | Mandell Weiss Theatre |
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 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Chamber Music with the LA Phil - Mozart, Shaw & Schumann
Tuesday, 5/20/2025 Experience big performances on a more intimate scale when musicians from the LA Phil perform chamber music in small ensembles. Come early and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine before the performance, starting at 6:30pm. |
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 | Jerry Pinter - Irvine - Presents:
UCI Jazz Orchestra - Spring 2025
Wednesday, 5/21/2025 UCI Jazz Orchestra
Jerry Pinter, director
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 8 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall |
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 | UCSB Department of Music - Santa Barbara - Presents:
UCSB Jazz Ensemble
Wednesday, 5/21/2025 The UCSB Jazz Ensemble presents its final concert of the academic year featuring our graduating or otherwise departing students, including trumpeters Evan Asakawa, Lucian Mahan, Ellie Olson, Noah Hall, vocalist Sele Kalra, multi instrumentalist Brendan Snow, and baritone saxophonist Tony Muwaswes. |
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 | A Noise Within - Pasadena - Presents:
A Man of No Importance
5/4/2025 - 6/1/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/22/2025) Awarding musical gem celebrates the power of theater, love and friendship with added blas áitiúil (“Irish flavor) at A Noise Within. |
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 | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
Schoenberg in Hollywood
Thursday, 5/22/2025 The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are proud to present the West Coast premiere of Tod Machover’s opera Schoenberg in Hollywood. The opera explores the complex relationship between uncompromising art and mass appeal, and of whether – and how – art can change the world. |
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 | Odyssey Theatre Ensemble - Los Angeles - Presents:
Love's End
5/9/2025 - 6/15/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/23/2025) The Odyssey Theatre brings a taste of French Culture to L.A. with the West Coast premiere of this award-winning French play by celebrated contemporary playwright Pascal Rambert. |
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 | Performing Arts LIVE - Southern California - Presents:
Post your Music, Theater and Dance events NOW!
Thursday, 12/31/2026 It's FREE and EASY to post an event. See POST EVENT on our Home page.
Performing Arts LIVE is the most comprehensive database of theater, dance and classical music events in Southern California!
Be sure to check out our home page and the pages that follow daily. We FEATURE events of great interest here. |
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 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Gershwin & Strauss
5/23/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/23/2025)
Jean Yves Thibaudet shines in Gershwin’s joyful Concerto in F, and Teddy Abrams leads Strauss’ Nietzsche-inspired epic. |
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 | San Diego Symphony - San Diego - Presents:
Ode to Nature: Payare Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3
5/23/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/23/2025) Rafael Payare, conductor
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
San Diego Symphony Chorus
San Diego Children's Choir
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3 in D minor |
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 | Benita Bike's DanceArt - La Crescenta - Presents:
Benita Bike's DanceArt at La Crescenta Library
Saturday, 5/24/2025 See beautiful dancers and ask the questions you've always wanted to ask about dance and dancers. |
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 | Brand Library & Art Center - Glendale - Presents:
The Brand Associates Dance Series 2025
5/3/2025 - 5/31/2025 (next performance: Saturday, 5/31/2025) The Brand Associates Dance Series, curated by acclaimed choreographer, teacher and producer Jamie Nichols, presents top dance companies from Southern California performing site-specific work in non-traditional performance spaces around Brand Library & Art Center. The series is free and family friendly.
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 | Hollywood Fringe Festival - Hollywood - Presents:
Hollywood Fringe Festival
6/19/2025 - 6/29/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 6/19/2025) The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.
Festival performers can post their individual event information for free on our website. See POST EVENT on our home page. |
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 | Skylight Theatre Company - Los Angeles - Presents:
“The Winter’s Tale”
4/24/2025 - 6/14/2025 (next performance: Monday, 5/19/2025) Skylight Theatre Company presents “The Winter’s Tale” in the Los Angeles debut of Play On Shakespeare
Skylight Theatre Company premieres Tracy Young’s modern verse translation of William Shakespeare's “The Winter’s Tale”. |
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 | Rogue Machine Theatre - Los Angeles - Presents:
Corktown ‘39
5/3/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Monday, 5/19/2025) Rogue Machine's Political Thriller Exposes Assassination Plot in the U.S.
“Wholly Engrossing. The Cast is Superlative in Every Particular. RECOMMENDED/Top Ten" - Stage Raw |
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 | The Fountain Theatre - Los Angeles - Presents:
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
5/11/2025 - 6/22/2025 (next performance: Monday, 5/19/2025) Every night is opening night! Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour delves deep into metaphor to explore what it means to be young, Iranian and living under a repressive regime in today’s interconnected world with a script that is unique format: no rehearsals, no director, no set, and a different actor for each performance, each actor receiving the script for the first time onstage.
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 | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
Schoenberg in Hollywood
Tuesday, 5/20/2025 The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are proud to present the West Coast premiere of Tod Machover’s opera Schoenberg in Hollywood. The opera explores the complex relationship between uncompromising art and mass appeal, and of whether – and how – art can change the world. |
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