| Cygnet Theatre - San Diego - Presents: The Rocky Horror Show 9/18/2024 - 11/2/2024 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/16/2024) Cygnet is remounting one of our audiences’ favorite shows! Reality, fiction, and camp collide in this mash-up of comics, rock and roll, and late-night horror flicks. |
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| Cal State University Fullerton - Fullerton - Presents: The Prom 10/10/2024 - 10/19/2024 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/16/2024) Book by Chad Beguelin & Bob Martin
Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Music by Matthew Sklar
Directed by Sarah Ripper
Choreography by Courtney Ozovek
Musical Direction by Jennifer Schniepp |
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| Musical Theatre West - Long Beach - Presents: Ain’t Misbehavin’ – The Fats Waller Musical Show 10/18/2024 - 11/3/2024 (next performance: Friday, 10/18/2024) The joint’ll be jumpin’ this fall as Southern California’s premier theatre company, Musical Theatre West (MTW), brings the electrifying energy of the Harlem Renaissance to life with "Ain’t Misbehavin’". |
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| South Coast Repertory - Costa Mesa - Presents: Little Shop of Horrors 9/21/2024 - 10/19/2024 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/16/2024) Down-on-his-luck Seymour pines for the beautiful Audrey. When he stumbles across a strange new plant, Seymour may get everything he’s ever wanted. But first he’ll have to tackle its unquenchable thirst for blood!
Ages 13 and up |
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| Santa Barbara Music Club - Santa Barbara - Presents: Santa Barbara Music Club 2024-25 Season Premier Concert Saturday, 10/19/2024 The Santa Barbara Music Club presents a program of classical music on Saturday, October 19 at 3:00 at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, 4575 Auhay Dr. featuring pianists Myroslava Kisilevitch and Natasha Kislenko performing works by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Chaminade, Ravel, and Lysenko. Free admission. See www.SBMusicClub.org |
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| Getty - Los Angeles - Presents: Art & Science Family Festival 10/19/2024 - 10/20/2024 (next performance: Saturday, 10/19/2024) Pique your curiosity at this interactive family festival celebrating Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. See how light can dazzle and delight by making your own suncatcher and creating pictures with the power of the sun! Explore the medieval idea of the cosmos by making your own piece of wearable art based on your astrological sign. Imagine seeing Earth from outer space with a huge interacti |
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| The Old Globe - San Diego - Presents: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors 9/20/2024 - 10/20/2024 (next performance: Tuesday, 10/15/2024) Celebrate Halloween with a new side-splitting adventure based on Bram Stoker’s classic tale that’s sure to induce blood-curdling screams—of laughter! |
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| Grand Avenue Arts: All Access - Los Angeles - Presents: Grand Ave Arts: All Access Saturday, 10/19/2024 Grand Ave Arts: All Access, one of L.A.’s longest-running, free open house experiences for arts and culture exploration in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), returns for the eighth annual celebration on Saturday, October 19, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
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| Santa Barbara Symphony - Santa Barbara - Presents: Tchaikovsky Immersion - The Full Story Behind the Fourth Symphony 10/19/2024 - 10/20/2024 (next performance: Saturday, 10/19/2024) Join Maestro Nir Kabaretti and The Symphony for an immersion into Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony on opening weekend. Nir takes you behind the notes to discover how this symphony came into being, the meaning of the motives, and the mystery woman who made it possible, followed by a performance of the work. |
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| Center Theatre - Los Angeles - Presents: American Idiot 10/2/2024 - 11/16/2024 (next performance: Tuesday, 10/15/2024) This October, Center Theatre Group is joining Deaf West Theatre to launch a new production of global rock superstars Green Day’s legendary 2004 rock opera, “American Idiot.”
New shows added! Extended to November 16th! |
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| Ensemble Theatre Company - Santa Barbara - Presents: Dracula: A Comedy Of Terrors 10/11/2024 - 10/27/2024 (next performance: Tuesday, 10/15/2024) Ever wondered what would happen if you took Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire tale and put in into a blender with the comedic influences of Mel Brooks, Monty Python and The 39 Steps? That’s just what happens in this lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud 90-minute gender-bending, quick-change magical romp. |
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| Odyssey Theatre Ensemble - Los Angeles - Presents: Kill Move Paradise 9/14/2024 - 11/3/2024 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/16/2024) Gregg T. Daniel directs the Southern California premiere of this powerful, uplifting new play by Pulitzer Prize-winner James Ijames (Fat Ham). |
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| La Jolla Playhouse - La Jolla - Presents: Primary Trust 9/24/2024 - 10/20/2024 (next performance: Tuesday, 10/15/2024) Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Happy hour is a state of mind. |
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| SLO REP - San Luis Obispo - Presents: Misery 10/11/2024 - 10/27/2024 (next performance: Thursday, 10/17/2024) Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. |
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| Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Costa Mesa - Presents: Eric McCormack and Laura Bell Bundy 10/17/2024 - 10/19/2024 (next performance: Thursday, 10/17/2024) Join us for an electrifying concert with Broadway icons Eric McCormack and Laura Bell Bundy! |
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| Broadway in Hollywood - Hollywood - Presents: Kimberly Akimbo 10/15/2024 - 11/3/2024 (next performance: Tuesday, 10/15/2024) Winner of every BEST MUSICAL Award including the Tony Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle, the Drama Desk Awards, the Lucille Lortel Awards, and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. |
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| A Noise Within - Pasadena - Presents: The Piano Lesson 10/13/2024 - 11/10/2024 (next performance: Thursday, 10/17/2024) A Noise Within presents a new production of the fourth (stand alone) play with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson’s remarkable “American Century Cycle.” |
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| USC/Quantum Vibrations - Los Angeles - Presents: Quantum Preludes Thursday, 10/17/2024 An evening of film and live music, featuring the work of internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Tania Candiani with experimental musician and sound artist Rogelio Sosa and special guests. |
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| Performing Arts LIVE - Southern California - Presents: Post your Music, Theater and Dance events NOW! Tuesday, 12/31/2024 It's FREE and EASY to post an event. See POST EVENT on our Home page.
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| 5-Star Theatricals - Thousand Oaks - Presents: Little Shop Of Horrors 10/4/2024 - 10/20/2024 (next performance: Thursday, 10/17/2024) A delectable sci-fi horror musical with an electrifying 1960s pop/rock. Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected assistant at a floral shop who happens upon a strange plant, which he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his crush at the shop. Little does he know that this strange and unusual plant will develop a soulful R&B voice, a potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst for HUMAN BLOOD! |
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