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Midori & Festival Strings Lucerne
2026-04-25 01:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Violin virtuoso Midori performs Schumann’s romantic Violin Concerto with Switzerland’s Festival Strings Lucerne in this concert also featuring music by Beethoven, Dubugnon and Honegger.

What the World Needs Now
2026-04-25 01:30 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Rob Fisher, music director and piano, is joined by vocalists Ross Lekites and Bianca Marroquin to proclaim what “there’s just too little of…love, sweet love.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - Old Globe
2023-01-21 - 2023-02-26 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
You know you’re pretty special when painting the Mona Lisa is the least of your accomplishments! Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Now Tony Award winner and MacArthur Genius Grantee Mary Zimmerman (The White Snake, Metamorphoses) shapes a genre-busting play entirely from da Vinci’s own notebooks. A cast of chameleon-like actors takes us on a journey through da Vinci’s mind as he considers everything from math and engineering to philosophy and love. Created by one of the most acclaimed artists working in the American theatre, this unique and breathtaking show that The New York Times called “a fun house of the mind” illuminates what it truly means to be a Renaissance man.
January 21 – February 26, 2023
Times vary per schedule, check website for more details
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
Written and directed by Mary Zimmerman

Disney's Frozen - Segerstrom Center
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-19 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
From the producer of The Lion King and Aladdin, Frozen, the Tony®-nominated Best Musical, is now on tour across North America and the critics rave, “It’s simply magical!” (LA Daily News). Heralded by The New Yorker as “thrilling” and “genuinely moving,” Frozen features the songs you know and love from the original Oscar®-winning film, plus an expanded score with a dozen new numbers by the film’s songwriters, Oscar winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez and EGOT winner Robert Lopez. Oscar winner Jennifer Lee (book), Tony and Olivier Award winner Michael Grandage(director), and Tony winner Rob Ashford (choreographer) round out the creative team that has won a cumulative 16 Tony Awards. An unforgettable theatrical experience filled with sensational special effects, stunning sets and costumes, and powerhouse performances, Frozen is everything you want in a musical: It’s moving. It’s spectacular. And above all, it’s pure Broadway joy.
Running time (approximate):
~2 hours and 15 minutes
Age Recommendation:
Recommended for children ages 6 and up.
Time varies per schedule, check website

The Little Foxes - South Coast Repertory
2023-02-01 19:30 - 2023-02-26 22:30 | South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, PO Box 2197, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2197, Costa Mesa, CA, United States
Alabama, 1900. Ben and Oscar Hubbard stand to earn millions by funding an industrialized cotton mill. But first they’ll need their calculating sister, Regina, to secure the seed money from her dying husband. When he refuses, the siblings stop at nothing to satisfy their own ambitions and keep the wealth in the family. It is Regina, however, with razor-sharp intellect and diabolical gentility, who is the most ruthless. Ferocious and funny, this celebrated classic takes an absorbing look at all sides of the American Dream.
by Lillian Hellman
directed by Lisa Peterson
Previews: Jan. 29 – Feb. 3, 2023
First Night: Feb. 4, 2023
Regular Performances: Feb. 5 – Feb. 26, 2023
American Sign Language Performance: Saturday, Feb. 11 2023 at 2:30 p.m.
Address: 655 Town Center Drive, PO Box 2197, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2197
Recommendation: Ages 14+. The Little Foxes reflects social and racial attitudes of the American South at the turn of the 20th century.
Running time: Approximately two hours and 45 minutes with two intermissions.

Emanuel Ax - Walt Disney Concert Hall
2023-02-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
An evening of Schubert and Liszt with beloved pianist Emanuel Ax.
The acclaimed Emanuel Ax performs an evening of quintessentially Romantic-period selections by Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt with his accustomed warmth and humanity in a must-see event.
Program
SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664, Op. posth. 120
SCHUBERT/LISZ: TFour Songs
Aufenthalt
Liebesbotschaft
Der Müller und der Bach
Horch, horch! Die Lerch
LISZT: Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: No 6. Vallée d’Obermann
Intermission
SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960

Peltokoski, Thayer and Mozart - San Diego Symphony
2023-02-02 19:30 - 22:30 | California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N Escondido Blvd, Escondido, CA, 92025, United States
The 22-year old Filipino-Finnish conducting sensation Tarmo Peltokoski leads the Orchestra in Sibelius’ awe-inspiring anthem and ode to Finland, the gorgeous Symphony No. 2. Concertmaster Jeff Thayer is the soloist for Mozart’s third violin concerto.
ARTISTS AND REPERTOIRE

Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
Jeff Thayer, violin
Kaija Saariaho: Ciel d’hiver (Winter Sky)
W.A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216, “Strassburg”
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Ray Chen Plays Mendelssohn - Walt Disney Hall
2023-02-03 20:00 - 2023-02-04 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Violinist Ray Chen gives his take on the beloved Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Matthias Pintscher.
This performance is generously supported by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts.
Program
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
BRAHMS (orch. Schoenberg): Piano Quartet No. 1

Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents Songs We Love
2023-02-04 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
“Songs We Love” explores the first 50 years of jazz song and highlights the highly influential years of jazz history: the 1920s–1950s.
Three guest vocalists join this all-star group to sing through some legendary jazz tunes and pay tribute to icons of the past. Famous singers to be explored include Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland.
Saturday, Feb. 4 07:00 p.m
Saturday, Feb. 4 09:00 p.m.

Appropriate - South Coast Repertory
2023-02-04 - 2023-02-26 | South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, PO Box 2197, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2197, Costa Mesa, CA, United States
Arkansas, present day. The estranged members of the Lafayette family gather at their late father’s crumbling plantation to prepare for the estate sale. But decades of resentment have a way of bubbling to the surface, and a shocking discovery in the piles of clutter sends them spiraling as they confront repressed histories, regrets and each other. Winner of the Obie Award for Best American Play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ crackling comedic drama is called “subversively original…remarkable and devious” by The New York Times.
Previews: Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2023
First Night: Feb. 4 at 2:30 p.m.
Regular Performances: Feb. 5 – Feb. 26, 2023
American Sign Language Performance: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 at 2:30 p.m.
Recommendation: Ages 16+ for strong language and sexual themes.

The Marriage of Figaro - L.A Opera
2023-02-04 - 2023-02-26 | Los Angeles Opera, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Music Director James Conlon conducts Mozart’s greatest comedy—a story about love and lust. Can Figaro outwit the Count who has a wandering eye for his love and save his upcoming nuptials?
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by James Conlon

Address: 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 972-8001

Times Vary per schedule, see website for more details.

Romeo & Juliet - Pacific Symphony
2023-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Pacific Symphony, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626, United States
Theirs was a love forbidden, and a love immortal. Experience Prokofiev’s intoxicating, impassioned “Romeo and Juliet,” as Carl St.Clair leads you through the greatest moments from Prokofiev’s sensuous ballet. (Here’s some inside trivia — Prokofiev originally intended a happy ending!)
Concert Timings:
February 5, 2023, 3:00 pm
Doors open at 2 p.m.
There is no Preview Talk before this performance.
ARTISTS:
Carl St.Clair, Conductor
Pacific Symphony

Fran Lebowitz - Segerstrom Center for the Arts
2023-02-06 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators. Her essays and interviews offer her views on current events and the media – as well as pet peeves including tourists, baggage-claim areas, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan.
A fascinating character in her own right, she has once again captured the public’s imagination with the Netflix docu-series Pretend It’s a City, directed by Martin Scorsese.
“The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humor. Now and forever.”
— David Sedaris
Monday, Feb. 6 08:00 PM

LA Phil New Music Group with Paolo Bortolameolli
2023-02-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
This program features multiple world premieres from award-winning female composers: pianist/organist Courtney Bryan, violinist Erika Vega and the musical “Thomas Edison” Katherine Balch.
“A pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (The New York Times), Courtney Bryan is a pianist, organist, and composer whose music is in conversation with jazz, experimental music, gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Mexican-born composer and violinist Erika Vega is currently studying the connection between the elements of poetry and those of music. Katherine Balch captures the magic of everyday sounds, becoming in the process a veritable “musical Thomas Edison
Program
Carolina HEREDIA Ausencias/Ausências/Absences
Erika VEGANo oyes ladrar a los perros for sinfonietta and organ (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative)
Intermission
Katherine BALCHall around the sea blazed gold (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Courtney BRYANPiano Concerto, House of Pianos (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music)

The Rite of Spring & common ground[s]
2023-02-09 - 2023-02-11 | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The late Pina Bausch’s seminal work The Rite of Spring, one of dance theatre’s most significant works, takes the stage at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this February! Co-produced by the incredible Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables, and Sadler’s Wells, The Rite of Spring examines the notion of unyielding ritual when the sacrifice of a “chosen one” changes the season from winter to spring. Created by Bausch in 1975, her unparalleled choreography will be given a thrilling new life by a specially assembled company of 34 dancers from 14 African countries. Rite is paired with the West Coast premiere of common ground[s], a tender work of dance created, performed, and inspired by two remarkable women—Germaine Acogny, founder of École des Sables and “the mother of contemporary African dance,” and dancer Malou Airaudo. Together, The Rite of Spring and common ground[s] will offer Angelenos an incredible experience of poetic dance!

Patti LuPone Don’t Monkey with Broadway
2023-02-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Spend an evening with a true Broadway legend as three-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone returns to Segerstrom Center with her acclaimed one-woman show. In Don’t Monkey with Broadway, LuPone explores – through indelible interpretations of classic Broadway show tunes by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin – how her life-long love affair with Broadway began and her concern for what the Great White Way is becoming today.
Conceived and directed by Scott Wittman
Musical Direction Joseph Thalken
Thursday, 8 p.m.

Valentine’s Day with The Righteous Brothers - Pacific Symphony
2023-02-10 20:00 - 2023-02-11 22:00 | Pacific Symphony, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626, United States
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo The Righteous Brothers topped the charts for four decades. Now, Bill Medley joins forces with one of the most versatile vocalists in America, Bucky Heard, to bring The Righteous Brothers back to the stage. The Righteous Brothers concert experience features a string of their biggest top-ten hits, including “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (the most played song in radio history), “Soul & Inspiration,” “Unchained Melody,” “Rock and Roll Heaven,” Medley’s Grammy-winning Dirty Dancing theme “The Time of My Life” and much more.
Pacific Symphony opens the evening with music by Elmer Bernstein including themes from the Hollywood blockbusters The Ten Commandments, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape, Airplane!, and The Magnificent Seven.

ARTISTS:
Richard Kaufman, Conductor
The Righteous Brothers, Vocalists
Pacific Symphony

Guest Conductors for The Great Escape March
Evan Siegel (Feb. 10)
John Daniels (Feb. 11)
Concert Timings:
February 10, 2023, 8:00 pm
February 11, 2023, 8:00 pm

The Puccini Duo: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi - San Diego Civic Theatre
2023-02-11 - 2023-02-19 | San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd Ave, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
The Puccini Duo, brings to life two great Puccini one-act operas. Suor Angelica tells the story of a woman (Marina Costa-Jackson) who bears a child out of wedlock and is sent to a convent for penance. The comic-opera Gianni Schicchi begins with the death of wealthy Florentine Buoso Donati, and his distraught family who are upset about being forgotten in his will.
LANGUAGE – Sung in Italian with English and Spanish text projected above the stage
RUN TIME – 2 hours and 15 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Friday, February 17, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Under a Baseball Sky - Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
2023-02-11 - 2023-03-12 | Cheryl and Harvey White Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
From José Cruz González, author of American Mariachi, comes a Globe-commissioned story about baseball’s deep roots in the Mexican American community. When troublemaker Teo is put to work cleaning up a vacant lot belonging to his elderly neighbor, this unlikely pair forms a bond forged in history and America’s favorite pastime.
Time varies per schedule, please check website for more details
Under a Baseball Sky is supported by major production sponsors Hal and Pam Fuson, Sheryl and Harvey White, and Entravision and artist sponsors Philip and Margarita Wilkinson (for playwright José Cruz González).
José Cruz González’s Under a Baseball Sky was commissioned by the Old Globe and underwritten by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.

An Evening with Lucia Micarelli
2023-02-11 19:30 - 21:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Actress, violist, and vocalist Lucia Micarelli has performed as a featured soloist with Josh Groban, Chris Botti and Jethro Tull. She returns to the BroadStage for an evening of music, moving from classical to jazz to traditional fiddle music and Americana. Micarelli maps a thrilling evening of music, moving from classical to jazz to traditional fiddle music and Americana – all bound together by her signature emotional vulnerability and technical wizardry.

“Dazzling skills and a Mona Lisa smile.” –The Washington Post

Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord - Kirk Douglas Theatre
2023-02-12 - 2023-03-12 | Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
Kristina Wong began sewing masks out of old bed sheets on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Before long, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers—including children and her own mother—to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine. A laugh-out-loud look at post-pandemic life.
Times varies per schedule, check website for more information
Written & Performed by Kristina Wong
Directed by Chay Yew
A Co-Production with East West Players
With additional support from the Skirball Cultural Center

Sunday Morning Music/Santa Monica: Dream with Me
2023-02-12 11:00 - 12:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Los Angeles-based soprano Julia Metzler, pianist Bernadene Blaha and violinist Roger Wilkie come together for a heartwarming Valentine’s program featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Zemlinsky, Bernstein, Massenet and Beethoven. Resident virtuoso Antonio Lysy rounds out the ensemble on cello.
Dream with Me
Let the music inspire you in this heartwarming Valentine’s program featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Zemlinsky, Bernstein, Massenet, and Beethoven. Los Angeles-based soprano Julia Metzler joins Bernadene Blaha on piano and and Roger Wilkie on violin — and resident virtuoso Antonio Lysy himself rounds out the ensemble on cello for a morning full of sweeping romance.

California Connections - Pacific Symphony
2023-02-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Pacific Symphony, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626, United States
California has been blessed with an abundance of great composers. The film industry has magnetized many European emigres to resettle in the Golden State. Composers Miklós Rósza (Hungary) and Alexandre Tansman (Poland) were both Jewish and escaped Europe as the Second World War was brewing. They both benefitted from work in Hollywood. John Williams and Danny Elfman are both prolific film composers. Los Angeles-born Viet Cuong, who now resides in Orange County, is Pacific Symphony’s composer-in-residence.
Enjoy delightful chamber music with host and pianist Orli Shaham and principal musicians of Pacific Symphony in the coffee-house atmosphere of the Samueli Theater.

ARTISTS:
Orli Shaham, Piano
Rose Corrigan, Bassoon
Joshua Ranz, Clarinet
Dennis Kim, Violin
Meredith Crawford, Viola
Warren Hagerty, Cello

PROGRAM
MIKLÓS RÓZSA: Duo, Op. 8
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN: Bassoon Sonatine
VIET CUONG: Wax and Wire
JOHN WILLIAMS: Air and Simple Gifts
DANNY ELFMAN: Piano Quartet

Choose Something Like a Star - L.A Master Chorale
2023-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Named after a poem by Robert Frost, this concert features music of aspiration and inspiration from Brahms and Schumann to Meredith Monk and Michael Abels.
Featuring two world premieres, VOYAGER written by Matthew Brown and Alas de noche by Diana Syrse, along with extrodinary pieces from classic Brahms to contemporary Runestad, this program is about what inspires us and to what we aspire.
ARTISTS
Grant Gershon, conductor62 singers, piano, and percussion

Sunday in the Park with George |
2023-02-14 - 2023-03-19 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
One of the most acclaimed musicals of all time, Sondheim’s most innovative and groundbreaking musical has rarely been produced in Los Angeles with the full-scale production it deserves—until now. Inventive, insightful, and in a class of its own, this ravishing, captivating masterpiece encapsulates the complexity of life—and the art of understanding it.
Recipient of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Sundayremains a masterpiece that affirms the painful, isolating joys of creation, and the need to learn new lessons. Like a densely plotted canvas, it’s worth seeing, no matter where or how it’s hung.” – Time Out New York
Times varies per schedule, check website for more details

Petrossian Valentine's Day Dinner
2023-02-14 11:00 - 18:00 | Tiffany and Co., 3333 Bristol St Costa Mesa, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
PETROSSIAN AT TIFFANY & CO. AT SOUTH COAST
Petrossian at Tiffany & Co. at South Coast will have a special Valentine’s Day tasting menu on Tuesday, February 14th from 11am to 6pm for $225 per person. The menu features Petrossian favorites: caviar, smoked salmon from Paris, oysters, lobster, house made pasta with black truffles from Burgundy. To help celebrate, Krug Grande Cuvée & Dom Perignon will be available by the glass. This will be the only menu available – no a la carte – and prepaid reservations are required. Reservations can be made through OpenTable.
Valentine’s Day – Tasting Menu Lunch
Tuesday, February 14th | 11am – 6pm
$225 per person + tax and gratuity
Prepaid reservations only
Reservation link: www.opentable.com/booking/experiences-availability?rid=1229497&restref=1229497&experienceId=134706

GRAND PARK’S LOVERS ROCK
2023-02-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012, United States
Grand Park’s Lovers Rock sets the stage for love’s big day with a beautiful and romantic urban oasis to celebrate with friends, families, partners and pups! The four-hour event features live music with DJ Puffs and multi-instrumentalist Low Leaf, a photobooth hosted by Las Fotos Project, a pop-up art gallery presented by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, screen-printing with Cultivarte Studios, a flower market with Poppy Lavender Florals, a cookie design workshop provided by East Los Sweets and more. Bring a picnic or purchase delectable bites from The Food Clinic. Dine and groove under the stars while celebrating love, kindness and community!

Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff Concerto 3
2023-02-16 20:00 - 2023-02-17 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic Third Concerto and haunting choral symphony as performed by the acclaimed pianist Yuja Wang and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
Program
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30
Intermission
RACHMANINOFF: The Bells

blackbox: Lizzie No - BroadStage
2023-02-17 20:00 - 22:00 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Jazz & Blues
Curated by The Reverend Shawn AmosWith the release of her debut album, Hard Won, in March 2017, NYC singer-songwriter, harpist, and guitarist Lizzie No established herself as one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary folk music. Billboard Magazine called the album “simultaneously understated and fervent.” She followed up the album with the release of “Sundown,” a benefit track for Black Lives Matter.

BroadStage – The Edye

O.C. Lantern Festival 2023 - South Coast Cultural Center
2023-02-18 11:00 - 16:00 | Pacific Symphony, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626, United States
Free Family event! Bring the entire family of this year’s Pacific Symphony’s annual Lantern Festival, celebrating the Year of the Rabbit! The Lantern Festival, which can be traced back 2,000 years, marks the return of spring and the reunion of family. The act of lighting and appreciating lanterns is a way for people to let go of the burdens of their old selves and express their best wishes for themselves and their families for the future.
11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Music and dance performances, storytelling, riddles and art-making activities.
Concert Timings:
February 18, 2023, 11:00 am
