SoCalPulse

Chamber Music with the LA Phil
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-20, 2025-04-08 - 2025-04-22 | 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.

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

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.

Chanticleer
2025-05-10 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Earth After Dark
2025-05-08 19:30 - 21:30 | 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.

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.

Life of Pi
2025-05-07 - 2025-06-01 | Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Direct from Broadway, Life of Pi is based on a novel that sold more than 15 million copies—a tale about a sixteen-year-old boy who survives on a lifeboat with his four furry companions.

A Man of No Importance
2025-05-04 - 2025-06-01 | A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91107, United States
An amateur theater group in Dublin is determined to stage a version of Oscar Wilde’s Salome at their leader’s church despite the objections of church authorities in this intimate musical, a queer coming-out story inspired by the 1994 film starring Albert Finney.

Ben Folds
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-27 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Join the incomparable Ben Folds for a night of genre-bending music with Pacific Symphony that’s anything but ordinary. Dubbed a musical wizard, Folds blends pop anthems with symphonic genius, showing why he’s the cool uncle of the music world. Fresh from his Emmy nod and always ready to drop knowledge, whether on his podcast or bestselling books, this award-winning singer-songwriter-composer is set to deliver a show that’s as unpredictable as it is unmissable.

La Traviata
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-27 | San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd Ave, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Verdi’s timeless masterpiece, and one of the most beloved operas of all time, transports you to 19th-century Paris where Violetta Valéry, a courtesan, falls in love with the young nobleman Alfredo Germont. Despite their passionate affair, societal conventions and family interference threaten their happiness and Violetta is forced to make a heartbreaking choice.

Mozart & Nielsen
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-27 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Ryan Bancroft guides the LA Phil in the tumult and triumph of Nielsen’s Fourth, and South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son brings out the sublime sophistication of Mozart.

Evgeny Kissin Rescital
2025-04-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Pianist Evgeny Kissin, known expert of Romantic era classics, makes his first Walt Disney Concert Hall recital in over a decade for a night of Chopin, Beethoven and Shostakovich.

Hamilton
2025-04-23 - 2025-05-04 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Hamilton is the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honor, love, and a legacy that would shape the course of a nation. Based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography and set to a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education.

Cody Fry with Orchestra
2025-04-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
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 huge following for his emotional orchestral pop and is joined by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage.

When the Saints Go Marching In
2025-04-19 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The spirit of good times roll in with Mardi Gras spirit with music made famous by Fats Domino, Mahalia Jackson, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. Byron Stripling, Sydney McSweeney and Bobby Floyd leading the parade with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra!

Carlos Simon’s Gospel Mass with Dudamel
2025-04-17 - 2025-04-18 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Gustavo Dudamel leads the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Gospel Mass paired with a nostalgic Bernstein Divertimento.

Jordi Savall with Hesperion XXI – Music of Fire & Love
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
For more than fifty years, Jordi Savali has rescued musical gems from the obscurity of neglect and oblivion and given them back for all to enjoy. A tireless researcher, Jordi Savall has devoted his career to reviving and interpreting the vast repertoire of early music. With his legendary ensemble Hespèrion XXI, Savall has assembled a group of exceptional musicians, each a specialist in the intricacies of historical instruments, to breathe life into centuries-old compositions.

Peril in the Alps
2025-04-16 - 2025-05-19 | North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr Suite D, Solana Beach, CA, 92075, United States
Peril in the Alps is a world premiere Hercule Poirot comic mystery based in part on “Poirot Investigates” by Agatha Christie. The twin sister of Captain Hasting’s wife, Dulcie, has been kidnapped – and Hercule Poirot rightly expects not only extortion to follow, but murder! In this sequel to his wildly popular Murder on the Links, Steven Dietz takes us on a thrilling and dangerous trip to the snow-capped Alps, where the cunning Belgian detective may finally meet his match.

Rachel Mahon, Organ Recital
2025-04-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Canadian organist Rachel Mahon brings her panache and attention to detail to L.A. for her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut for a program that will feature Bach, Mendelssohn, Whitlock and more.

Curse of the Ring
2025-04-10 - 2025-04-15 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Step into the mythical work of Wagner’s first opera in the iconic Ring Cycle whose story influenced Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and whose music inspired John Williams’ iconic soundtrack to Star Wars.
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Los Angeles Philharmonic
2025-04-10 - 2025-04-13 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Violinist Martin Chalifour joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Program details to be announced.

Cheyenne Jackson
2025-04-10 - 2025-04-12 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Cheyenne Jackson presents Signs of Life, autobiographical in nature and deeply comical and moving. This cabaret by versatile and celebrated, Grammy-nominated performer will have audiences laughing.

All the Devils are Here
2025-04-09 - 2025-04-20 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Tony Award Nominee and Grammy Award Winner Patrick Page turns his attention to the twisted motivation and hidden humanity at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Page illuminates the playwright’s ever-evolving conception of evil by delving into more than a dozen of his most wicked creations.

Alisa Weilerstein: Fragments 3
2025-04-08 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
In FRAGMENTS 3, the third installment of this groundbreaking performance series for solo cello performed by
Alisa Weilerstein, new works are woven together with Johann Sebastian Bach’s third cello suite, responsive lighting and scenic architecture, inviting audiences into an immersive, multisensory experience.
