Featured Events

August Wilson - San Diego - Presents:
August Wilson’s Jitney
1/18/2020 - 2/23/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

The American master and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson had a close relationship with The Old Globe, where three of his plays premiered. His exciting work returns to our stage with the production that won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, directed by one of Wilson’s foremost interpreters, Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
The Last Ship
1/8/2020 - 2/16/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

A love story, a tale of family and friendship, and a passionate homage to the shipbuilding community Sting grew up in, this “thrilling and stirring musical" (The Guardian) features a Tony-nominated original score by Sting including some of his best-loved songs “Island of Souls,” “All This Time,” and “When We Dance.” "One of our FEATURED events - GO" - Performing Arts LIVE

Hollywood Pantages Theatre - Hollywood - Presents:
Disney's Frozen
12/4/2019 - 2/2/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

From the producers of The Lion King and Aladdin, FROZEN, the Tony®-nominated Best Musical, will celebrate its North American tour opening at the Pantages Theatre December 4, 2019 through February 2, 2020.

Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
What the Constitution Means to Me
1/12/2020 - 2/23/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Fifteen year old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

LA Philharmonic - Los Angeles - Presents:
Beethoven with Emanuel Ax
1/24/2020 - 1/26/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Experience the timeless power of Beethoven’s heroic music! Artist Los Angeles Philharmonic Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

LA Theatre Works - Los Angeles - Presents:
Vietgone
1/24/2020 - 1/26/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

L.A. Theatre Works records Qui Nguyen’s highly original, award-winning tale for radio, podcast and online streaming.

Pacific Symphony - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Lunar New Year
Saturday, 1/25/2020

Join us for Pacific Symphony’s annual festivities honoring the Lunar New Year! Celebrating the Year of the Rat, this performance is sure to sell out once again as audiences from across our communities come together to feast on a colorful presentation of Eastern and Western music and dance. ARTISTS Carl St.Clair, conductor Pacific Symphony

UCSB Arts & Lectures - Santa Barbara - Presents:
Martha Graham Dance Company: The EVE Project
Friday, 1/24/2020

“The most skilled and powerful dancers you can ever hope to see.” The Washington Post “One of the seven wonders of the artistic universe.” The Washington Post

Carpenter Performing Arts Center - Long Beach - Presents:
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Saturday, 1/25/2020

Abraham’s acclaimed company A.I.M stuns with its diverse range of styles. One of today’s most in-demand choreographers—recently commissioned to create a premiere for New York City Ballet—Abraham was born into the hip-hop culture of the late 1970s and incorporates an artistic upbringing of classical music and visual arts into his work.

Colburn School - Los Angeles - Presents:
Colburn Chamber Music Society - Orli Shaham, Piano
Saturday, 1/25/2020

Orli Shaham, Piano JANÁCEK Concertino STEVE REICH Quartet for Two Pianos and Two Marimbas FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 Hailed by The New York Times as a “brilliant pianist,” Orli Shaham has gained a reputation as one of today’s most gifted performers.

San Diego Dance Theater - San Diego - Presents:
Janus IV
1/24/2020 - 1/26/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

San Diego Dance Theater presents its annual repertory concert “Janus.”

Pacific Resident Theatre - Venice - Presents:
All My Sons
1/17/2020 - 3/1/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

EXTENDED thru March 1, 2020 “Explosive as ever” - LA Times Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, and recipient of numerous Tony Awards, this electrifying family drama remains as timely as it is timeless.

McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts - Palm Desert - Presents:
An Intimate Evening with David Foster
1/24/2020 - 1/25/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Hit Man Tour One of the most successful producers in history, 16-time Grammy Award winner David Foster is joined by some special guest artists, performing songs from his unparalleled catalog.

Ruskin Group Theatre - Santa Monica - Presents:
Bad Habits
12/1/2019 - 1/26/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Orson Bean and Alley Mills Star in Ruskin Group Theatre’s World Premiere Comedy "Sparkles with fun” - Splash Magazines/LA “Moments of comic genius” - Broadway World

Little Fish Theatre - San Pedro - Presents:
Pick of the Vine Season 18 - This Year’s Best Short Plays
1/16/2020 - 2/9/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

This enormously popular Short Play Festival returns for its 18th season. Chosen from over 600 international submissions, this year’s crop will take you globetrotting for art, rethinking debt consolidation, taking a seat inside today’s classrooms, and exploring dating techniques from the good old days. Mostly, you’ll be rolling in the aisles.

Rogue Machine Theatre - Venice - Presents:
Disposable Necessities
1/11/2020 - 2/3/2020 (next performance: Saturday, 1/25/2020)

“CRITIC’S CHOICE” – LA Times In the future, aging and death have become annoyances of the past!

Fountain Theatre - Los Angeles - Presents:
Between Riverside and Crazy
11/22/2019 - 1/26/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

The L.A. premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the wildly original author of Broadway’s The Motherf*cker with the Hat, Jesus Hopped the A Train and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.

USC Thornton School of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
USC Thornton Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thursday, 1/30/2020

Carl St.Clair leads the USC Thornton Symphony in a performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Op.35 and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante featuring USC Thornton faculty members Margaret Batjer, violin, and Yura Lee, viola.

University of Redlands - Redlands - Presents:
Faculty Chamber Recital: University of Redlands
Sunday, 1/26/2020

Faculty Chamber Recital: Prokofiev Quintet Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 7 p.m. Frederick Loewe Performance Hall

Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles - Los Angeles - Presents:
EST/LA's WinterFest 2020
1/11/2020 - 2/2/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Ensemble Studio Theatre LA presents WinterFest 2020, its annual 4 week festival of member-initiated play readings and projects. Come and see new plays as they are bring developed. WinterFest is comprised of full-length plays/readings and 2 programs of short plays some plays include talkbacks.

Los Angeles Master Chorale - Los Angeles - Presents:
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Los Angeles Master Chorale
Sunday, 1/26/2020

Critics and historians consider F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans to be one of the best films ever. For many admirers, its only flaw has been its comparatively clumsy soundtrack. In this world premiere presentation, Emmy Award–winning composer Jeff Beal (House of Cards) has created a brand-new score for choir and chamber orchestra.

UC Riverside Music Department - Riverside - Presents:
6th annual Villa-Lobos International Chamber Music Festival
Sunday, 1/26/2020

Celebrating the chamber music of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), and other Latin American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lars Hoefs, artistic director/cello

Department of Music - Santa Barbara - Presents:
Faculty Artist Recital: Wesley Arai, Carillon
Sunday, 1/26/2020

Join us for the first faculty artist recital of the year featuring Wesley Arai! UC Santa Barbara University Carillonist Wesley Arai will present a recital from the carillon in UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 2 pm. Listeners are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on the grass outside the tower during the recital.

El Camino College - Torrance - Presents:
Vicious Circle Dance Company, "Chroma"
Saturday, 1/25/2020

Valerie Cabag, artistic director Inspired by Vicious Circle’s current repertoire, Chromotherapy Club Meeting, director and choreographer Valerie Cabag has adapted this piece into a full-length show. "Chroma" explores the use of chromotherapy (color therapy) and the effects that color has on the body.

Open Fist Theatre Company - Los Angeles - Presents:
Neil Simon's Musical Fools
10/4/2019 - 1/26/2020 (next performance: Saturday, 1/25/2020)

Open Fist Theatre Company premieres an hilarious musical adaptation of the Neil Simon play, ‘Fools.’

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble - Los Angeles - Presents:
Dance at the Odyssey 2020
1/10/2020 - 2/9/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Odyssey Theatre presents the best of contemporary dance with 4th annual ‘Dance at the Odyssey’ festival

San Diego Symphony - San Diego - Presents:
Beethoven's Pastoral
1/24/2020 - 1/25/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

From the powerful and expressive strains of Egmont to the natural beauty of the Pastoral, experience Ludwig van Beethoven’s mastery of musical drama. As Edo de Waart has said, there would have been no Beethoven without Franz Joseph Haydn.

California Desert Chorale - Palm Desert - Presents:
California Desert Chorale
12/8/2019 - 4/12/2020 (next performance: Sunday, 1/26/2020)

Let There Be Peace December 8 @ 3:00 pm Indian Wells Theater, 37500 Cook St Palm Desert, CA 92211

CaltechLive! - Pasadena - Presents:
Kres Mersky: The Life and Times of A. Einstein
Saturday, 1/25/2020

Be a guest in Einstein's study as his secretary entertains you while you wait for the great man. A touching and hilarious portrait of this Einstein loyalist and a humanizing look into the famous thinker's life.

Zombie Joe - North Hollywood - Presents:
19th Annual 50 Hour Drive By Theatre Festival
1/25/2020 - 1/27/2020 (next performance: Saturday, 1/25/2020)

Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group proudly presents their amazing 19th annual festival of 5 Short Plays... written, directed and courageously erected in a speedy two days! The Underground's fast, tight & wild annual theatre event, blasting-off ZJU's fabulous 28th season.

Scripps Ranch Theatre - San Diego - Presents:
Italian American Reconciliation
1/17/2020 - 2/16/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

The plot of this Italian American comedy is near operatic: 2 men, 2 women and an overseeing matriarch - Aunt Mae. Huey is married to Janice, Aldo loves Janice, Teresa hates Janice. Huey also loves Teresa, and Janice shot Huey's dog. Throw in a balcony scene straight out of Cyrano de Bergerac, Tony and Tina's Wedding, and Jersey Shore, and you'll have some idea of what you are in store for!

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble - West Los Angeles - Presents:
"The Unseen Hand" and "Killer's Head"
1/15/2020 - 3/8/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

What happens when 1880 Western bandits are brought back to life in Azusa, CA by a space alien? Sam Shepard’s The Unseen Hand joins Odyssey Theatre Ensemble‘s 50th Anniversary “Circa ’69” Season of significant and adventurous plays that premiered around the time of the company’s inception, coupled with Shepard’s gritty and audacious Killer’s Head.

Cygnet Theatre - San Diego - Presents:
The Great Leap
1/22/2020 - 2/16/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

When an American basketball team travels to Beijing for an exhibition game in 1989, the drama goes deeper than the strain between countries. For two men with a past and one teen with a future, the game is a chance to claim personal victories on and off the court. Tensions rise right up to the final buzzer as a pivotal moment in history collides with the action in the arena.

Claire Trevor School of the Arts - Irvine - Presents:
The Living Earth Show: Hyphen
Saturday, 1/25/2020

Hyphen showcases new works written for The Living Earth Show by Iranian electroacoustic music composers of different generations.

Whitefire Theatre - Sherman Oaks - Presents:
Solofest 2020
1/4/2020 - 3/28/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

The Whitefire Theatre presents Solofest 2020, the largest solo theater festival on the West Coast. Now in its 8th year, Solofest 2020 brings 80 shows in 90 days celebrating the solo artists from around the globe – each story-teller sharing their compelling and often unusual take on life.

Theatre 40 - Beverly Hills, CA - Presents:
Sunday Dinner
1/16/2020 - 2/16/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Shocking family secrets may upstage the food at this Italian-American family's Sunday dinner. Michael Matera, a young priest in the Chicago Archdiocese, returns to his parents’ home in the Bronx after his grandfather dies. The Matera clan is gathering at the family home for Sunday dinner.

Coronado Playhouse - Coronado - Presents:
Matilda
1/17/2020 - 2/23/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world. Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life.

The Road Theatre Company - North Hollywood - Presents:
Nowhere On The Border
1/14/2020 - 3/8/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

A border watch volunteer confronts a Mexican man who claims to be looking for his missing daughter. Set in a hostile wasteland between nations, Nowhere On The Border reveals the personal dramas that drive people to cross borders both physical and emotional.

Carpenter Performing Arts Center - Long Beach - Presents:
Oh What A Night!
Sunday, 1/26/2020

OH WHAT A NIGHT! A Musical Tribute to Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons An exhilarating musical revue with boundless energy, engaging humor and hits like “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “My Eyes Adored You,” “Working My Way Back to You,” and “Who Loves You” and more from the dynamic songbook of those boys from Jersey!

La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment - La Mirada - Presents:
Arsenic And Old Lace
1/24/2020 - 2/16/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Combining murder and mayhem with zany humor, here’s an uproarious black comedy that gives “hospitality” a bad name! Meet Abby and Martha Brewster, two spinster sisters known for their acts of charity -- which lately includes poisoning lonely old men with arsenic-laced elderberry wine.

OB Playhouse & Theatre Company - San Diego - Presents:
The Rocky Horror Show
1/17/2020 - 3/1/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

An outrageous musical comedy featuring a Transylvanian transvestite, a cryogenically preserved zombie motor biker and Frankenstein's monster in Greek god form. This sexual parody of horror and science fiction films premiered onstage in London in 1973, becoming the popular cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975.

Kentwood Players - Westchester - Presents:
The Giver
1/17/2020 - 2/22/2020 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2020)

Kentwood Players, opens its 70th community theatre season with the futuristic, multimedia play "The Giver." Adapted for the stage by Eric Coble from the Newberry Award-winning novel by Lois Lowry, the world of "The Giver" is a seeming utopia of sameness. It lacks color, memory, climate and terrain. It exists without inequality, unemployment, injustice … or choice.