 | Geffen Playhouse - Los Angeles - Presents:
Furlough's Paradise
4/16/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. |
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 | La Jolla Playhouse - La Jolla - Presents:
WOW Festival - La Jolla Playhouse
4/24/2025 - 4/27/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) La Jolla Playhouse’s celebrated annual WOW Festival is a four-day celebration of immersive, interactive and surprising art experiences from local, national and international artists. This is theatre - without walls.
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 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Hamilton
4/23/2025 - 5/4/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) “HAMILTON is the kind of transformative theatrical experience that has only happened a few times in the history of American musicals.” – The Guardian
A revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation. |
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 | Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus - Palm Springs - Presents:
Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus: Disney Pride In Concert
4/24/2025 - 4/27/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) Be our guest! This spectacular celebration of LGBTQ+ life, love, family, and pride is presented through the combination of timeless songs from the Disney songbook, curated video clips from the Disney vault, and the personal life experiences of singers. |
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 | South Coast Repertory - Costa Mesa - Presents:
You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!
4/5/2025 - 5/3/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) Take your seat for an irreverently funny celebration through the cosmos!
Since Greg’s terminal diagnosis, he’s felt a deep connection to the Earth—and to save himself, he’ll need to save the planet. Viv desperately wants to savor every last minute with her husband. Meanwhile M, our emcee, searches desperately to find meaning in the chaos of their final year with Dad. |
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 | Santa Barbara Symphony - Santa Barbara - Presents:
Brahms' Requiem
4/26/2025 - 4/27/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) It was a work Brahms labored over for a dozen years. Consoled by the psalms, the gospels, and the prophets, he set their words to his music. Music that would be his grandest. Perhaps even his greatest. Nir Kabaretti is joined by area choruses for Brahms’ poetic settings from the Bible, “A German Requiem.” Plus, the haunting Rückert songs by Gustav Mahler. |
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 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Mozart & Nielsen
4/25/2025 - 4/27/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) Ryan Bancroft guides the tumult and triumph of Nielsen’s Fourth, and Yeol Eum Son brings out the sublime sophistication of Mozart. |
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 | Coachella Valley Repertory - Palm Springs - Presents:
Other Desert Cities
4/16/2025 - 4/27/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) “ … the most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many a season.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
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 | Cygnet Theatre - San Diego - Presents:
The Hot Wing King
4/9/2025 - 5/2/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) A cooking competition becomes a hilarious battleground for belonging.
Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy explores the challenges and rewards of being true to yourself and the families we create. |
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 | Cal State University Fullerton - Fullerton - Presents:
"Spring Dance Theatre: From All Sides"
5/1/2025 - 5/10/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/1/2025) CSUF's dancers and choreographers return to the Hallberg Theatre's intimate thrust stage.
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 | International City Theatre - Long Beach - Presents:
The Violin Maker
4/24/2025 - 5/11/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) ICT continues its 40th anniversary season with the American premiere of a true story about luthier Amnon Weinstein, who gathered and restored ruined violins that survived the Holocaust. Interwoven with music, this new play is testament to hope and survival in dark times.
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 | McCallum Theatre - Palm Desert - Presents:
Open Call Talent Project
5/2/2025 - 5/3/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/2/2025) Outstanding local performers of all ages are presented in this exciting talent competition – a visually stunning and energy-filled production with a full cast finale that has become a McCallum sell-out event. Audience members can vote for their favorite performer and the winners are announced and celebrated at the final performance. |
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 | The Old Globe - San Diego - Presents:
Regency Girls
4/2/2025 - 5/11/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) A group of best friends take a rebellious road trip through 19th century England in this riotous new musical. |
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 | Latino Theater Company - Los Angeles - Presents:
The Last Play by Rickérby Hinds
4/17/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) The world premiere of Hinds’s meta-theatrical comedy injects a dose of Hip-Hop into the 40th Latino Theater Company season at The Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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 | San Diego Master Chorale - San Diego - Presents:
San Diego Master Chorale Presents: Brahms Requiem
4/26/2025 - 4/27/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) Regarded as a powerful requiem for the living, Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem explores life after loss while offering hope and solace for humanity. The San Diego Master Chorale presents this profound masterwork, using Brahms’ own arrangement for two pianos, featuring pianists Bryan Verhoye and Jessie Chang. Experience this incredible masterpiece live — you won't want to miss it! |
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 | South Coast Repertory - Costa Mesa - Presents:
The Staircase
4/27/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) A mysterious tale about holding on, letting go and the curious force that pulls us back home. |
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 | Performing Arts LIVE - Southern California - Presents:
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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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 | Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts - Malibu - Presents:
The Flying Karamazov Brothers: 50 Years of Juggling and Cheap Theatrics
Sunday, 4/27/2025 Expect the unexpected with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, featuring the four self-proclaimed eccentric lunatics spicing things up with laugh-out-loud comedy, wild theatrics, arcane errata, and astonishing juggling feats. Formed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1973, the Flying Karamazov Brothers have been seen around the world, on Broadway, television, and on the big screen. |
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 | The Music Center - Los Angeles - Presents:
Grupo Corpo
5/2/2025 - 5/4/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/2/2025) Making its triumphant return to The Music Center after 14 years, Grupo Corpo will transport audiences into the heart of Brazil. Experience a world-class company that melds exquisite movement and fantastic rhythms! |
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 | North Coast Repertory Theatre - Solana Beach - Presents:
Peril in the Alps at North Coast Repertory Theatre
4/16/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Sunday, 4/27/2025) The twin sister of Captain Hastings wife, Dulcie, has been kidnapped – and Hercule Poirot rightly expects not only extortion to follow, but murder! |
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