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Carols for Kids
2025-12-20 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
A new LA Master Chorale tradition designed for kids under 6. This family-friendly event features favorite childhood carols, holiday-themed activities, and a photo with Santa.

Festival of Carols
2025-12-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The Master Chorale brings back perennial holiday favorites Festival of Carols , featuring spectacular arrangements of traditional carols from around the world. Hear some of your favorite carols and explore new songs

Tis the Season
2025-12-21 - 2025-12-22 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
A festive favorite for the whole family! Pacific Chorale, dazzling musicians, and Santa himself bring holiday magic to life with a sparkling mix of classic carols and joyful surprises.

Handel’s Messiah
2025-12-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Experience the Grammy Award-winning voices of the Master Chorale in the iconic holiday masterpiece—Handel’s Messiah as led by conductor Grant Gershon.

Messiah Sing-Along
2025-12-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Join 20 singers, soloists, the chamber orchestra, and two thousand other voices in the 45th anniversary celebration of music and community.

The Notebook
2026-02-03 - 2026-02-08 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, The Notebook tells the story of Allie and Noah, both from different worlds, who share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart. The Notebook, directed by Michael Greif, features music and lyrics by multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller
2026-02-03 - 2026-02-22 | La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd, La Mirada, 90638, United States
This Tony Award-winning Sondheim musical is a tale of love, murder, and revenge that follows an unjustly exiled barber as he returns to London to seek vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2026-02-03 - 2026-03-21 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Hilarious and harrowing, this portrait of a marriage ceaselessly astonishes audiences with its razor-sharp dialogue and thrilling performances.
George and Martha invite a young couple to their home for a nightcap. As the clock ticks into the wee hours, Nick and Honey find themselves submerged in a cocktail of clever mind games, deep-seated resentments and broken promises.

Adams, Cheung & Lanao
2026-02-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
John Adams curates the third installment of the LA Phil Etudes, a project highlighting each of the orchestra’s principal musicians in solo pieces by today’s leading composers. Elim Chan leads the LA Phil New Music Group in a new work by up-and-coming Spanish composer Sílvia Lanao, and Gloria Cheng returns for a world premiere piece by Anthony Cheung.

Chasing Monarchs
2026-02-05 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Fifty years after the startling discovery that monarch butterflies spend winters in the forests of Mexico, photographer and National Geographic Explorer Jaime Rojo reveals this winged wonder of the insect world in new ways with never-before-seen visuals.

Cheyenne Jackson, Signs of Life
2026-02-05 | The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 92010, United States
Emmy and GRAMMY- nominated luminary Cheyenne Jackson brings his infectious charm and powerhouse vocals to the stage with Signs of Life, a musical meditation on art, love, fatherhood, and the cosmic twists that have shaped his remarkable path.

St. Clair Conducts Beethoven & Don Quixote
2026-02-05 - 2026-02-07 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
An evening of musical storytelling and virtuosity led by Maestro Carl St. Clair. Acclaimed violinist Paul Huang takes center stage in Beethoven’s exquisite Violin Concerto, a masterpiece renowned for its lyrical beauty and technical brilliance.

Steve Hackman’s Beethoven X Beyoncé
2026-02-06 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Steve Hackman’s production seamlessly weaves 15 of Beyoncé’s popular songs with the familiar classical music of Beethoven. The production’s emotional peak features the soulful union of two of the most recognizable melodies from each composer: Beyoncé’s “Halo” and the hauntingly beautiful second movement from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Rickie Lee Jones
2026-02-06 - 2026-02-07 | The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 92010, United States
Two-time Grammy award winner, Rickie Lee Jones makes her Wallis debut with a program that continues to shape the cultural conversation as she teaches us to embrace contradiction: joy tangled with sorrow, glamour with grit, innocence with experience.

Thomas Adès and Yuja Wang featuring Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky
2026-02-06 - 2026-02-08 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Thomas Adès returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall to conduct an evening of Russian masterworks with Yuja Wang at the piano, alongside a US premiere piece and one of his own works, Aquifer.

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
2026-02-07 - 2026-03-15, 2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Katie Holmes brings to life a landmark role in a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler—a defining masterpiece about honeymooners whose marriage begins to crack and the world around them begins to unravel.

Musical Theatre West’s Man of La Mancha
2026-02-13 - 2026-03-01 | Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., LONG BEACH, CA, 90840, United States
When the world feels impossible, where do we find hope? Musical Theatre West brings this beloved Broadway classic to life at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, where courage, imagination, and storytelling can transform even the toughest challenges. Join Richard Bermudez as Don Quixote, a dreamer determined to remake the world not as it is, but as it could be. From the iconic “The Impossible Dream” to moments of heart, humor, and heroism, this inspiring production will lift your spirits and spark your imagination. Showtimes vary.

Love Inside Out With Veronica Swift & Pacific Jazz Orchestra
2026-02-14 | The Soraya, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330, United States
There’s nothing Veronica Swift can’t do — pop, rock, soul, jazz, Broadway, and more. DownBeat magazine concurs, “Veronica Swift is a woman of many voices, and she uses every one of them to refract a dizzying kaleidoscope of moods.” Her first Soraya solo orchestral concert pairs her with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra, magnifying the scope of her powers. Torch songs, anthems, ballads, new love and heartbreak alike — Swift will pierce hearts of every type this Valentine’s Day. Saturday, February 14, at 8 p.m.

Amadeus
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
A Tony and Oscar-winning masterpiece that follows the riveting rivalry between two composers: the celebrated Antonio Salieri and the vulgar prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiasco Theater’s Bartleby
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Fiasco Theater Company and The Old Globe take on Herman Melville’s darkly comic classic—a hilarious and haunting reflection on work, will, and what happens when one mild-mannered employee refuses to go along with the program. This Globe-commissioned world premiere promises a wildly theatrical rediscovery of one of American literature’s most indelible stories.

Recipe: A New Play About Julia Child
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-22 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she careened from Pasadena to New York to Washington DC to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school. A funny and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character and her path from confusion to discovery, failure to success.

Beethoven and Ortiz with Dudamel
2026-03-05 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Beethoven’s celebratory Seventh Symphony meets Gabriela Ortiz’s powerful Revolución diamantina (“Glitter Revolution”), a bold response to the 2019 feminist uprising around Mexico’s epidemic of violence against women. Her Grammy-nominated work is, for the first time, set in motion with Grupo Corpo, the internationally renowned dance company known for its blend of popular Brazilian culture, African rhythms, and classical technique.

William Shakespeare’s Richard III
2026-03-08 08:00 - 17:00 | A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91107, United States
Experience a gripping tale of ambition, manipulation, and ruthless power. A thrilling drama, Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most iconic explorations of corruption, control, and the obsessive pursuit of power. A thrilling drama, Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most iconic explorations of corruption, control, and the obsessive pursuit of power.

God of Carnage
2026-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 | South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, PO Box 2197, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2197, Costa Mesa, CA, United States
A playground fight between 11-year-old boys brings parents together to resolve their sons’ conflict. At first, diplomacy rules. But as each parent reveals their demands, meeting spirals into a free-for-all of opposing parenting styles and marital tensions.

Kim’s Convenience
2026-03-27 - 2026-04-19 | Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
This award-winning comedy drama, which inspired the Netflix hit, is a hilarious, feel-good story about a Korean family-run corner store. Mr. Kim works hard to support his family with his convenience store but as he evaluates his future, he faces both a changing neighborhood and the gap between his values and those of his Canadian-born children.

Carmen
2026-03-27 08:00 - 17:00 | San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd Ave, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
The most fearless and indomitable heroine in all opera is back! When Carmen tosses a flower to the soldier Don José, he becomes obsessed, leaving his post to join her band of smugglers. But when she loses interest and sets her sights on a bullfighter, Don José may not be able to handle the rejection.

Delirium Musicum
2026-03-29 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
A musical phenomenon, LA-based chamber orchestra, Delirium Musicum, represents the next wave of classical musicians with their interpretations of everything from Baroque masterpieces to the music of tomorrow.

Brahms’ Symphony No. 4
2026-03-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
The music of Brahms with commentary from Music Director Laureate Carl St. Clair as he guides the audience through Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 before it is performed.

Glass’ Cocteau Trilogy Katia and Marielle Labèque
2026-03-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Philip Glass’ operas inspired by the films of Jean Cocteau, reimagined as suites for two keyboards and performed by Katia and Marielle Labèque with scenography designed by Nina Chalot and Cyril Teste.
