Esa-Pekka Salonen Leads Debussy & Boulez
2025-05-08 - 2025-05-11 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Composer/conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen contrasts two iconic French composers, Boulez and Debussy as he leads the LA Phil and the Fantasie with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Earth After Dark
2025-05-08 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Babak Tafreshi, photojournalist, cinematographer and National Geographic Explorer spent his career documenting the unbelievable beauty of the night sky and working to connect people through the shared experience of simply looking up.

Cirque Goes Broadway
2025-05-09 - 2025-05-10 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Troupe Vertigo enchants with an evening of breathtaking artistry, where cirque acrobatics, classical dance, and the best of Broadway melodies blend into an unforgettable symphonic spectacle. Witness as reality bends and expectations twist, with Los Angeles’s own Troupe Vertigo redefining the boundaries of performance through their dizzying dramatic fusion of Circus-Dance-Theater.

Diana Krall
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Grammy-award winning jazz singer, Diana Krall, has a musical style that has made her one of the most recognizable artists of our time.

Max Richter
2025-05-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The minimalist composer Max Richter celebrates his 2004 album The Blue Notebooks and presents new material

Weilerstein and Payare Perform Chin and Bruckner
2025-05-10 - 2025-05-11 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
South Korean composer Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto is taken up by San Diego Symphony’s own Alisa Weilerstein and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, described as a cathedral in sound, is led by music director Rafael Payare

House of India
2025-05-10 - 2025-06-01 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
A once-successful restauranteur has bills piling up and she must choose: hold on to her late husband’s vision or compromise in the name of progress. This heartwarming world premiere comedy features a vibrant cast who work to build a legacy and a new kind of American Dream.

Chanticleer
2025-05-10 19:30 - 21:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Grammy-Award winning ensemble Chanticleer takes the Main Stage for a program that will include music from Renaissance masterworks to Romantic part-songs, contemporary commissions, vocal jazz and everything in between.

Misalliance
2025-05-12 - 2025-06-09 | A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91107, United States
George Bernard Shaw’s high-flying comedy about eight marriage proposals and a plane crash that take place all in one afternoon. What should have been a celebration of upcoming nuptials into aristocracy becomes wildly unexpected upon the unexpected arrival of uninvited guests.

Mamma Mia!
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-18 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, a tale of love, friendship, and identity is beautifully told through the timeless hits of ABBA

Chamber Music with the LA Phil
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-20 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Experience big performances on a more intimate scale when musicians from the LA Phil perform chamber music in small ensembles.

A Doll’s House Part 2
2025-05-14 - 2025-06-08 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Bold, satisfying, and packed with razor-sharp twists, Lucas Hnath’s Tony-nominated play dives into the messy reality of what it means to be a woman living on your own terms.

Cathedrals of Sound
2025-05-15 - 2025-05-17 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Journey with Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony through the timeless serenity of Gregorian chant and Bach’s Sinfonia. The evening culminates with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7.

Spamilton: An American Parody
2025-05-15 - 2025-05-17 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
It’s the fictitious story of a very famous writer / director / star trying to save Broadway from mediocrity and oblivion. Along the way, this sharp and lovable genius not only takes aim at Broadway’s current mega-hit, but manages to make hysterical mince-meat out of many classic and new Broadway shows.

Julius Rodriguez
2025-05-16 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Continuing the Future Sounds of Jazz series curated by Stanley Clarke, BroadStage presents jazz pianist, drummer, and composer, Julius Rodriguez.

Elegant to Epic: Saint-Saëns and Shostakovich
2025-05-16 - 2025-05-17 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Considered one of the finest pianists of today, Jean-Yves Thibaudet takes the Jacobs Music Center stage to perform his acclaimed interpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns’ final piano concerto. Then Rafael Payare and the Symphony tackle Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, Leningrad.

Ravel & Adolphe
2025-05-16 - 2025-05-18 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Renowned French conductor Ludovic Morlot leads Spanish dance-inspired symphonic poems with the LA Phil, plus a world premiere cello concerto from Julia Adolphe.

Symphonies for Youth
2025-05-17 - 2025-05-24 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
LA Philharmonic hosts an interactive concert that introduces young audiences to symphonic music. Families are invited to participate in hands-on arts workshops.

Gershwin & Strauss
2025-05-18 - 2025-05-25 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Renowned pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet shines in Gershwin’s joyful Concerto in F and Teddy Abrams leads Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra made famous by Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cameron Carpenter Organ Recital
2025-05-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Cameron Carpenter, a celebrated gamechanger in the world of organ, performs an extravagant program of Bach, Franck and Mussorgsky.

Ode to Nature: Payare Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3
2025-05-23 - 2025-05-25 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
World-renowned mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill will make her San Diego Symphony debut, conducted by Music Director Rafael Payare for a program featuring Mahler’s Symphony NO. 3, a monumental two-part declaration of faith.

One of the Good Ones
2025-05-24 - 2025-06-22 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
When Yoli brings her new boyfriend home to meet her Latino American parents, he’s not exactly what they were expecting. Everyone tries to be on their best behavior, but generational differences and cultural assumptions collide. Through equal measures of comedy and compassion, they all discover what it truly means to be a family.

Mozart’s Requiem
2025-05-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
The timeless beauty of Mozart’s Requiem, elevated to new heights with a captivating world premiere commission by Pacific Symphony’s composer-in-residence, Viet Cuong.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason
2025-05-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Two siblings from one of Britain’s most talented musical families performs cello sonatas by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Fauré as well as a new work by British composer and violinist Natalie Klouda.

Tchaikovsky & Pereira
2025-05-29 - 2025-06-01 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Percussionist-turned-conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads the symphony after guiding the orchestra through the suspenseful brass-filled suite of love and obsession from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo before a world premiere spotlighting two of the LA Phil’s own when Principal Percussionist Matthew Howard performs the new concerto by Principal Timpanist and composer Joseph Pereira.

Hamlet
2025-05-29 - 2025-07-26 | Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012, United States
It’s been half a century since Hamlet was produced at the Taper. Tony Award® nominated visionary, Robert O’Hara, who directed the landmark box office hit Slave Play, returns to stage one of the most famous tales ever told in a new, Hitchcockian noir adaptation.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony
2025-05-30 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Gustavo Gimeno leads the LA Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony which opens with a fate motif in the woodwinds and low strings, making its way through the orchestra only to be interrupted by a rich and tender horn solo.

Rigoletto
2025-05-31 - 2025-06-21 | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
When the decadent Duke of Mantua sets his sights on Rigoletto’s young daughter, it’s enough to send the carefree court jester into a deadly rage. But revenge comes at a price. Verdi master James Conlon conducts one of the most heartbreaking operas of them all.
