Featured Events

Philharmonic Society of Orange County - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Itzhak Perlman "In the Fiddler's House"
Tuesday, 1/21/2025

Itzhak Perlman, violin Hankus Netsky, music director, saxophone, piano Andy Statman, clarinet, mandolin Michael Alpert, vocals, guitar, accordion, violin Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl Lorin Sklamberg, vocals, accordion Frank London, trumpet Ilene Stahl, clarinet Judy Bressler, vocals, percussion Mark Berney, trumpet Mark Hamilton, trombone Grantley Smith, drums James Guttmann, bass

Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Kimberly Akimbo
1/21/2025 - 2/2/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 1/21/2025)

“Best theater of the year. A dose of pure joy. Profoundly funny and heartbreaking. The season’s most moving new musical.” - The New York Times [Critic's Pick]

Coachella Valley Repertory - Palm Springs - Presents:
The Light In The Piazza
1/22/2025 - 2/2/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 1/22/2025)

“ … the most soul-satisfying score written for Broadway so far this century." – Chicago Tribune, Chris Jones

Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts - Malibu - Presents:
The Peking Acrobats
Sunday, 1/19/2025

For 32 years, the Peking Acrobats have redefined Chinese acrobatics with daring feats like balancing atop a pagoda of chairs, trick-cycling, tumbling, and contortion. Accompanied by live traditional music and high-tech effects, their performances blend artistry and gravity-defying skill, delivering the festive spectacle of a Chinese carnival.

LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Rachmaninoff & Muhly
1/24/2025 - 1/26/2025 (next performance: Friday, 1/24/2025)

Rachmaninoff favorites and a world premiere by contemporary classical icon Nico Muhly.

The Soraya - Northridge - Presents:
STOMP
1/18/2025 - 1/19/2025 (next performance: Saturday, 1/18/2025)

STOMP is an unforgettable experience for audiences of all ages. The troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. Year after year, audiences worldwide keep coming back for more of this pulse-pounding electrifying show.

Pasadena Community Orchestra - Pasadena - Presents:
Pasadena Community Orchestra - free
Friday, 1/24/2025

Join us for a concert of orchestral music featuring talented local musicians. Our concerts are always free admission, and there is plenty of free parking.

La Jolla Music Society - San Diego - Presents:
Martha Graham Dance Company | 100th Anniversary
Saturday, 1/25/2025

The most celebrated modern dance company in America exemplifies its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance—one that has influenced generations of artists and continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate a remarkable milestone, the company’s 100th Anniversary, with this once-in-a-lifetime performance.

Da Camera Society - Los Angeles - Presents:
Schumann, Schumann – and Brahms!
Friday, 1/17/2025

Program Works forged in music history’s most famous love triangle: R. Schumann – Fantasie in C, Op. 17 C. Schumann – “Liebesfrühling” & more Brahms – Piano Quartet in C Minor, “Werther”

Irvine Barclay Theatre - Irvine - Presents:
Sutton Foster
Saturday, 1/25/2025

Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer, Sutton Foster combines Broadway tear-jerkers with lighthearted musical gems.

LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Beethoven & Tchaikovsky
1/16/2025 - 1/19/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 1/16/2025)

Philippe Jordan revels in the passion of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth, and Yefim Bronfman brings out the power and majesty of Beethoven’s “Emperor.”

LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
LA Phil Etudes with John Adams
Tuesday, 1/28/2025

Green Umbrella New Music Series

Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
Fake It Until You Make It
1/29/2025 - 3/9/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 1/29/2025)

The 2024/2025 Season at the Mark Taper Forum hosts a bold world premiere comedy, originally commissioned and developed by Center Theatre Group, from Los Angeles-based playwright, and CTG L.A. Resident Artist, Larissa FastHorse, about being whoever you want to be, even when it’s not who you are.

Panic! Productions - Burbank - Presents:
Death Of A Salesman
1/9/2025 - 1/26/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 1/16/2025)

All Star Cast in Arthur Miller's Iconic "Death Of A Salesman" Featuring Joe Cortese and Frances Fisher - Opening Jan. 10 at The Colony Theatre in Burbank.

Geffen Playhouse - Los Angeles - Presents:
Noises Off
1/29/2025 - 3/2/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 1/29/2025)

Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce about a theater company desperately trying to get their act together.

Broadway in Hollywood - Hollywood - Presents:
Wicked
12/4/2024 - 2/2/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 1/15/2025)

L.A.'S MOST "POPULAR" MUSICAL RETURNS SO MUCH HAPPENED BEFORE DOROTHY DROPPED IN WICKED, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle.

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts - Irvine - Presents:
Gloria
1/31/2025 - 2/8/2025 (next performance: Friday, 1/31/2025)

Get ready for the explosive Pulitzer Prize finalist Gloria, a dark comedy by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that skewers the cutthroat culture of modern media.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County - Aliso Viejo - Presents:
Once Upon a Symphony: A Free Family Concert
Saturday, 2/1/2025

Join us for a concert where music and storytelling collide! In an interactive 45-minute concert, the Orange County Youth Symphony and narrator Kristi Brown Montesano will guide young listeners through the essential elements of storytelling while introducing the magical world of the orchestra, with music from Harry Potter, The Blue Danube, American in Paris, and more!

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Thursday, 12/31/2026

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Musco Center for the Arts - Orange - Presents:
Doug Varone and Dancers
Saturday, 2/1/2025

Doug Varone and Dancers’ artistic investigations dig deep into the storytelling of human nature, engaging in dialogue with diverse audiences and creative communities globally.