SoCalPulse

Peter Pan
2024-08-06 - 2024-08-18 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
This extraordinary musical full of excitement and adventure features iconic and timeless songs. Peter Pan embraces the child in us all so go on a journey from the second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning – your entire family will be Hooked!

Norah Jones Visions Tour 2024
2024-08-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Live Nation presents Norah Jones upon the release of her ninth solo album Visions, a collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert
2024-08-09 - 2024-08-10 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
The San Diego Symphony will present Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert with composer John Williams’ venerated score performed live to the film. The concert will be led by conductor Norman Huynh.

Michael Cavanaugh: Singer Songwriters
2024-08-10 07:30 - 09:30 | Pasadena Symphony and Pops, 131 S St. John Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105, United States
Michael Cavanaugh returns to the Pasadena Symphony with the easy listening music of Paul Simon, James Taylor and Neil Diamond.

“Rhinestone Cowboy” A Tribute to Glen Campbell
2024-08-10 19:30 - 21:30 | California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N Escondido Blvd, Escondido, CA, 92025, United States
Glen Campbell American Pop Country singer Grammy Award-Winning artist of the 1960s and 70s is celebrated by Jeff Ellis an award-winning artist. Performing hits with a full live band and big hits such as “Rhinestone Cowboy”, “ Galveston” and so many more..

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert
2024-08-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Pacific Symphony, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626, United States
Christopher Dragon conducts the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in the musical score of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, live to film. Witness the ultimate battle between father and son set to live music.

Choral Festival
2024-08-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Pacific Chorale’s Choral Festival returns to the Concert Hall, uniting hundreds of singers from throughout and beyond the community in a program featuring a choral favorite, Haydn’s
Mass in Time of War
.

Jason Mraz and The Superband: The Mystical
2024-08-11 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Jason Mraz and the Superband return to The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, this time backed up by the glorious sounds of the San Diego Symphony, one of only two dates on this tour accompanied by symphony orchestra.

2024-08-13 - 2024-09-08 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Part memoir, part manifesto about the rise of a superstar, inspired by Sasha Velour’s own origin story and the history of Drag.

VELOUR: A DRAG SPECTACULAR
2024-08-13 - 2024-09-15 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Created by groundbreaking drag artist Sasha Velour and legendary theatre artist Moisés Kaufman, Velour: A Drag Spectacular is a sweeping, coming-of-age tale that intertwines the radical history of drag and queer expression with personal storytelling. Inspired by Velour’s journey from a small-town, genderfluid child to a globally renowned drag superstar, the show unfolds through a stunning blend of innovative projection mapping, video animation, and awe-inspiring lip-sync performances. Velour, known for her emotional and provocative performance art, uses the power of drag to reveal her deepest fears and joys, immersing the audience in a vivid queer fantasia. Velour: A Drag Spectacularexplores the often confusing yet joyous search for belonging, the deep wells of grief that force us to confront our inner truths, and ultimately, the beauty and humanity of drag.

Totally '80s
2024-08-16 19:30 - 20:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Celebrate one of the best decades of music and relive the rock, R&B, and new wave hits from icons like George Michael, Phil Collins, Blondie, Huey Lewis & The News, Journey, Michael Jackson and more with conductor Stuart Chafetz and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra.

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
2024-08-17 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States

Gipsy Kings Featuring Nicolas Reyes
2024-08-18 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Gipsy King, made up of members of the Reyes and Baliardo families, is known for their mix of Catalan rumba, flamenco, salsa and pop music. Their rendition of “Hotel California” was included in the film
The Big Lebowski.
Their music has also been featured in shows like
Entourage
and Disney’s
Toy Story 3

John Williams’ Magical Music of Harry Potter
2024-08-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Great Park Live, 8000 Great Park Blvd, Irvine, CA, 92618, United States
Embark on a magical orchestEmbark on a magical orchestral journey outdoors, under the stars, when Enrico Lopez-Yañez conducts the spellbinding scores that defined the iconic Harry Potter saga, from the awe-inspiring compositions of John Williams to the mystical works of Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat.

Gary Clark Jr.
2024-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Gary Clark Jr. achieved global impact following his first Grammy in 2014, winning Best Traditional R&B Performance. Throughout 2019, Clark ascended to greater heights. Clark has just completed his fourth and most compelling body of work to date, titled JPEG RAW, out now via Warner Records.

California Dreamin’
2024-08-24 19:30 - 21:30 | L.A. County Arboretum, 301 N Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, CA, 91007, United States
Music that shaped a state of mind from the Gold Rush through the ‘60s – from Chet Baker’s West Coast Jazz and the Latin sounds of Carmen Miranda and Santana to the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas and more.

Marvel Studios’ Infinity Saga Concert Experience
2024-08-30 - 2024-08-31 | The Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, 90068, United States
Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform a specially created score live to picture that will transport audiences on a cinematic journey through the studio’s first 23 films.

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Tchaikovsky Spectacular
2024-08-30 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
The final classical concert of the summer season features Rafael Payare conducting the San Diego Symphony Orchestra with soloist Blake Pouliot. The concert will end with a pyrotechnic/firework display accompaniment to the 1812 Overture.

The Skin of Our Teeth
2024-09-01 - 2024-09-29 | A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91107, United States
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder is set in 20th century New Jersey and the Ice Age. It is an ambitious, funny, wildly unruly story of humankind told through the lives of the Antrobus family using humor, history and mythology to highlight humanity’s drive to carry on.

Primary Trust
2024-09-03 08:00 - 17:00 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Kenneth, a 36-year-old bookstore worker in a small upstate New York town, spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar with his best friend Bert. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth faces challenges he has long avoided—with transformative and heart-warming results. Primary Trust is a touching story of new beginnings, old (and new) friends, and finding the courage to see the world for the first time.

Cyrano de Bergerac
2024-09-04 - 2024-09-29 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
One of the greatest plays ever written is radically reborn in this critically acclaimed adaptation of a timeless and heartrending love story.

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
2024-09-07 - 2024-10-13 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Tony Award-nominated playwright Ken Ludwig reimagines Agatha Christie’s Orient on the Express. Enter world-famous detective Hercule Poirot, who must navigate a train full of suspects and solve the murder before the killer strikes again.

California Dreamin’
2024-09-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Pasadena Symphony and Pops, 131 S St. John Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105, United States
Award-winning music from stage and screen with songs from Oklahoma, Gigi, Wicked and Chicago with composers Henry Mancini, Alan Menken and more.

Tchaikovsky Spectacular
2024-09-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Great Park Live, 8000 Great Park Blvd, Irvine, CA, 92618, United States
Enjoy Tchaikovsky’s passionate Violin Concerto performed by violinist Philippe Quint. Plus, Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful Capriccio Espagnol, hailed by Tchaikovsky as a colossal masterpiece of instrumentation,” a dance from The Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky’s thrilling “1812” overture, complete with a brilliant fireworks finale!

Duel Reality
2024-09-11 - 2024-09-22 | Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Duel Reality from The 7 Fingers, also known as Les 7 doigts de la main, makes their Center Theatre Group debut, featuring their signature electrifying—and endearing—mix of circus, theatre, illusion, music, and dance.

Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
2024-09-11 - 2024-10-20 | Cygnet Theatre, 4040 Twiggs St., San Diego, 92110, United States
A satirical tribute to the science fiction and B-list horror movies of the 20th century, the show centers around two naïve lovers, Brad and Janet. Stripped of inhibitions – and their clothes – Brad and Janet embark on a wild, unforgettable journey of pleasure and self-discovery.

Jersey Boys
2024-09-13 - 2024-09-29 | California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N Escondido Blvd, Escondido, CA, 92025, United States
Jersey Boys is the international musical phenomenon that takes you behind the scenes – and behind the music – of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

To the Hands
2024-09-14 - 2024-09-15 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Pacific Chorale’s chamber choir joins a string quintet to perform Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, Buxtehude’s Ad Manus, and more in a moving theatrical presentation leveraging music’s power to center the voices of refugees and the unhoused. Samueli Theater, 615 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa. pacificchorale.org

The Importance of Being Earnest
2024-09-14 08:00 - 2024-11-10 17:00 | Lamb’s Players Theatre, 1142 Orange Avenue, Coronado, 92118, United States
Lamb’s Players Theatre produces Oscar Wilde’s brilliant comic masterpiece about two men who assume the identity of a fictional man named Ernest and the journey, the love and the challenges they find themselves in along the way.

Classic Albums Live Performs Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
2024-09-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Classical Albums Live performs Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, their eleventh studio album released in 1977, note for note, cut for cut. Enjoy live performances of their immortal classics like “The Chain,” and “Second Hand News”.
