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Back to the Future

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical, Back to the Future: […]

Cocktail Hour

The Ritz , 301 E. Grand Ave., Escondido, CA, United States

Celebrate New Year’s Eve in style with The Rat Pack at the Ritz on Grand.

Batiashvili Plays Beethoven

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili’s rendition of Beethoven’s sole Violin Concerto was praised sixteen years ago for having pure tone and precise intonation. She revisits the concerto under the direction of conductor […]

Paul Jacobs, Organ Recital

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organ virtuoso Paul Jacobs returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for a program that highlights the technical intricacies of Bach and the charisma of Liszt.

The Heart Sellers

North Coast Rep 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr Suite D, Solana Beach, CA, United States

The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh makes its San Diego premiere at North Coast Repertory. It is a portrayal of intelligent, curious and creative immigrant women navigating the challenges of […]

Igor Levit

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Pianist Igor Levit performs works for solo piano by the esteemed Three B’s: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

Four Seasons & Strauss

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Carl St. Clair leads the Pacific Symphony in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons followed by Strauss’s masterpiece An Alpine Symphony set to visuals projected on a large screen.

Schumann & Brahms

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Nathalie Stutzmann’s confident baton guides Schumann’s heroic and in Second Symphony, and Sunwook Kim shines in Brahms’ sophisticated and intimate Second Piano Concerto.

Cody Fry with Orchestra

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

*Rescheduled until further notice* Musician Cody Fry was nominated for a Grammy for his re-orchestration of the Beatles’ classic “Eleanor Rigby”. This singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has stirred up a […]

Kimberly Akimbo

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

A new musical about growing up and growing old, Kimberly Akimbo is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics), a Tony […]

Busoni’s Violin Concerto

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Daniele Rustioni makes her San Diego Symphony debut to lead a program of Italian-themed works beginning with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture. Violinist Francesca Dego also makes her Symphony debut performing […]

Rachmaninoff & Muhly

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

San Francisco Opera music director Eun Sun Kim leads the LA Phil through Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony and a brand-new world premiere of a concerto grosso by composer Nico Muhly. Alexandre […]

The Play that Goes Wrong

La Mirada Theatre 14900 La Mirada Blvd, La Mirada, United States

The Cornley Drama Society is putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong... does!  The accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to […]

Mozart “Jupiter” Symphony

Ambassador Auditorium 131 S St. John Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

Brett Mitchell leads a program that highlights Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, with pianist Inon Barnatan. Florence Price’s Concerto for Piano in One Movement along with Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst will […]

Imani Winds

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Recent Grammy-winning wind ensemble Imani Winds takes the stage to perform “Grooves and Meditations”. The ensemble delivers a captivating program of works by modern composers including a newly commissioned work […]

Marlon Martinez and Marlonius Jazz Orchestra, featuring Olivia Kuper Harris

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Continuing the Future Sounds of Jazz series curated by Stanley Clarke, BroadStage presents the fusion of 20th-century big band tradition with 21st-century culture with Marlon Martinez and Marlonius Jazz Orchestra, […]

Wild Up

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Grammy nominated ensemble, Wild Up, led by Artistic Director Christopher Rountree, blends classical repertoire with pop culture, new music and performance art.

LA Phil Etudes with John Adams

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair John Adams returns for the second installment of the LA Phil Etudes each performed by an LA Phil musician. The program will also include […]

Fake It Until You Make It

Mark Taper Forum 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United States

A bold world premiere comedy from Los Angeles-based playwright, Larissa FastHorse, who focuses her keen sense of satire to examine Native American perspectives on contemporary life.

Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schubert’s chilling yet charming two-movement symphony, nicknamed the “Unfinished.”

Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schubert’s chilling yet charming two-movement symphony, nicknamed the “Unfinished.”

Orchestral Evolution: Childs’ Premiere and Beethoven’s Eroica

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

The program begins with the World Premiere of LA-born, Grammy award winning composer Billy Child’s Concerto for Orchestra and ends with Beethoven’s Eroica symphony. Pianist Alexander Malofeev also takes the […]

Kelli O’Hara in Concert

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

From her Tony-winning performance in The King and I, to starring in The Hours at the Met and The Gilded Ageon HBO, Kelli O'Hara dazzles at every turn. Her eagerly […]

Lunar New Year with Pacific Symphony

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Join the Pacific Symphony’s annual festivities honoring Lunar New Year with a color presentation of Eastern and Western music and dance. Photo: A number from Pacific Symphony’s 2022 Lunar New […]

Celebrating MTT With Yuja Wang

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Michael Tilson Thomas has been part of the LA Phil family for more than five decades, and the orchestra celebrates MTT's 80th birthday with a not-to-be-missed special night of music.

KODO

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The pulse-pounding rhythms of traditional Japanese drumming, taiko, return with a new program, One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe.

The Great Yes, The Great No

The Wallis 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, United States

Conceived and directed by William Kentridge, The Wallis presents The Great Yes, The Great No —party play, part Greek choir, part chamber opera. It is a story that mixes history […]

Pines of Rome

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Bernstein’s high-spirited musical prelude sets the stage for two contemporary works that follow: a new piano concerto by esteemed composer Adolphus Hailstork and a new and colorful orchestral work by […]

Tchaikovsky & The Mermaid

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Conductor Xian Zhang leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid, and pianist George Li effortlessly performs Tchaikovsky’s titanic Piano Concerto. Photo: Xian Jiang courtesy of the L.A. Phil

Samara Joy

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2023 Best New Artist Grammy winner, Samara Joy, makes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with her distinctive style and voice that has been compared to legendary singers like Sarah […]

Symphonic Journeys: Strauss, Walton, Brahms

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Music Director Rafael Payare conducts the Symphony in Strauss’ powerful tone poem along with William Walton’s beautifully lyrical and nostalgic Viola Concerto with Chi-Yuan Chen on viola. The concert ends […]

Empty Ride

The Old Globe 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, United States

A major new American play that first launched in the 2024 Powers New Voices Festival. Kisa, a painter in Paris, returns to her small Japanese hometown after the 2011 tsunami […]

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends

Ahmanson Theatre 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

CTG presents the North American premiere of Old Friends starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga—a theatrical event that is a celebration of the life and work of Stephen Sondheim, musically […]

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

A Noise Within 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

In the Bard’s grand and gripping tale of murder, treason, ambition and greed, Macbeth and his wife will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power.

Lise Davidsen

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Winner of the Operalia competition in London, opera superstar, Lise Davidsen returns to the BroadStage for the Celebrity Opera Series.

Kodo: Warabe

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Warabe blends simple forms of taiko expression that celebrate the unique sound, resonance, and physicality synonymous with Kodo—forever children of the drum at heart.

Seong-Jin Cho, A Colburn Celebrity Recital

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Seong-Jin Cho, a pianist beloved by audiences worldwide, returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for a highly anticipated recital of music by Maurice Ravel, showcasing his tender yet assertive […]

Ravel & Brahms

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to join the LA Philharmonic for Ravel’s joyful Concerto in G, and Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi leads a Brahms quartet lovingly orchestrated by […]

An Evening with Joshua Bell & Larisa Martínez: Voice & the Violin

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Husband-and-wife duo Joshua Bell and Larisa Martínez present Voice and the Violin, exploring repertoire from classical art song and opera to musical theater and selections by Puerto Rican and Spanish composers. […]

A Night at the Copa

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

A mystery awaits Pacific Symphony with a audience favorite group that returns by popular demand. This ensemble from Portland, Oregon mixes it up with a cocktail of classical zest, Latin […]

Batsheva Dance Company

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The critically acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company presents a shared passion of sorrow and beauty in its newest evening length work MOMO, from master choreographer Ohad Naharin. In the company’s words, […]

Takács Quartet with David Requiro, Cello

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

The world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 50th season and returns to Samueli Theater with a beautiful program that will include Haydn, Britten and Schubert.

Dvorák Cello Concerto

Ambassador Auditorium 131 S St. John Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

Brett Mitchell leads a program with Mark Kosower performing Dvorák’s Cello Concerto. The program will also highlight Wagner’s “Maghic Fire Music” from Die Walküre and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

MTT’s Street Songs and Winter Daydreams

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Beloved American conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas makes his SDSO debut in this special program that opens with his own Street Song for Symphonic Brass. Rising star pianist Parker […]

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Grammy award winner, drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington takes the BroadStage with her multi-talented sextet Social Science to bring their fresh blend of jazz, indie rock, and hip-hop music.

Hector Olivera, Organ Recital

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Argentinian organist Hector Olivera exercises his remarkable finger and footwork with the 6,134 pipes of “Hurricane Mama.”.

Annie

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Annie, the beloved story about an orphan girl, features the iconic book and score, written by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. This celebration of family, optimism […]

3 Summers of Lincoln

La Jolla Playhouse 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States

It is the summer of 1862 and President Lincoln must find a way to end the Civil War. This new musical tells the inspirational story in our nation's history. Mandell […]

LA Opera presents Adoration

REDCAT 631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, United States

Adoration  tells two simultaneous stories—a fictional story of terrorism and betrayal juxtaposed with a real story of family strife and rejection of something foreign. An adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s 2008 […]

Rachmaninoff and the Tsar

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Hershey Felder's newest musical play will feature him in the role of composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff alongside British-Italian actor Jonathan Silvestri in the role of Tsar Nicholas II.

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