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Hairspray

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

You Can’t Stop the Beat! Hairspray, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon is back on tour! Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960’s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world? Featuring the beloved score of hit […]

Mozart & Brahms

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

Pianist Sunwook Kim—praised for his “keen mind” and “pearly virtuosity” by The Times of London—joins principal players and section musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic for two quartets. First is Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 2, which is vibrantly cheerful despite its technical demands on the performers. By contrast, Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 abounds in […]

Hélène Grimaud Colburn Celebrity Recital

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

Hélène Grimaud brings her unique poetic expression and peerless technical control to music by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Artists Hélène Grimaud, piano

Nat Geo Live: Adaptation

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

Alizé Carrère, Environmental Anthropologist & Filmmaker Explore the remarkable ways people around the world are adapting to a changing climate with environmental anthropologist and filmmaker Alizé Carrère. Dive into the South Pacific waters of Vanuatu, where islanders are using innovative techniques to combat the effects of climate change and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish that threaten […]

Verdi’s Rigoletto

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

A lecherous Duke, who lives to take his pleasure. His twisted court jester, who lives to take his revenge. Carl St.Clair conducts this season’s semi-staged opera production: Verdi’s Rigoletto, the composer’s masterpiece of duplicity and deception. A full theatrical experience in the splendor of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. PROGRAM Doors open at […]

Schumann and Sheherazade

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

Anna Clyne, British “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods” (The New York Times), offers us her one-movement orchestral piece, designed, as she says, to “evoke a visual journey for the listener.” South Korean-born Sunwook Kim was the youngest person ever to win the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition. Kim shows off his talents on […]

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I

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

The King and I is one of the greatest musicals from the golden age of Broadway – adored by the public and critics alike – with one of the finest scores ever written including “I Whistle a Happy Tune,” “Getting to Know You,” and “Shall We Dance?” Set in the 1860s, The King and I […]

Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Debussy

The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, United States

Revel in two amazing pieces by the French composer Claude Debussy. The first, Prelude to "Afternoon of a Faun," made his international reputation for its unashamed sensuality and dreamy delicacy. The second, Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, is remarkable for its lushness, unlike anything else the composer wrote. And who better than the amazing pianist […]

Rodrigo Amarante

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

Brazilian-born singer, songwriter, and arranger Rodrigo Amarante shares songs from throughout his acclaimed discography, new compositions, and some Brazilian favorites, all specially arranged for a small acoustic ensemble to honor the marvelous dynamics of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Strings, horns, latin percussion, piano, and guitar: This is a unique opportunity to hear Amarante’s music in […]

Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie: Starring Indigo Blume

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

New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander brings two of his beloved children’s books, Acoustic Rooster and Indigo Blume, to the stage in a world premiere Kennedy Center commission. Alexander teams up with his writing partner Mary Rand Hess and long-time musical collaborator Randy Preston to tell a story about being scared, being brave, and […]

Sō Percussion and Caroline Shaw with special guest Shodekeh Talifero

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

The brilliant multi-genre quartet, Sō Percussion, joins forces with two preeminent collaborators to present a mesmerizing evening of new music. Selections from Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, their 2020 song cycle, will be performed with co-composer Caroline Shaw, the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Groundbreaking breath artist, beat boxer, and […]

Colburn Orchestra Sounds About Town

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

The Colburn Orchestra is the flagship ensemble of the Colburn Conservatory of Music, which was established in 2003 and currently offers degrees from a Bachelor of Music up through a Professional Studies Certificate. The Conservatory offers full scholarship, housing, and stipends to all its students; admittance is highly competitive. Since its inception, director Yehuda Gilad […]

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