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Igor Levit
2025-01-08 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Pianist Igor Levit performs works for solo piano by the esteemed Three B’s: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

The Heart Sellers
2025-01-08 - 2025-02-02 | North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr Suite D, Solana Beach, CA, 92075, 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 living in a new country. Suh blends drama and humor to touch upon the insights and complexities of the human heart.

Paul Jacobs, Organ Recital
2025-01-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, 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.

Batiashvili Plays Beethoven
2025-01-03 - 2025-01-05 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, 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 Robin Ticciati, leading the LA Phil in Dvořák’s own folk-inspired lyricism including his Prague Waltzes and the strikingly colorful “mood picture” that is his Eighth Symphony.

Cocktail Hour
2024-12-28 | The Ritz, , 301 E. Grand Ave., Escondido, CA, 92025, United States
Celebrate New Year’s Eve in style with The Rat Pack at the Ritz on Grand.

Back to the Future
2024-12-26 - 2025-01-05 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, 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: The Musical is adapted for the stage..

Arturo Sandoval Swinging Holiday
2024-12-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The multiple-Grammy-winning Arturo Sandoval makes the holidays a jumping, jiving, jingling night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, performing a program of holiday favorites.

Home Alone in Concert
2024-12-22 - 2024-12-23 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
David Newman leads John Williams’ score of the holiday comedy classic Home Alone. Enjoy this movie score performed live to picture with the entire family.

Tres Souls: Boleros de Navidad
2024-12-21 19:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Spend an evening of bolero classics and Latin American holiday songs as Tres Souls (Rocio Mendoza, Roberto Carlos and Jesus Martinez) serandes the audience with a bilingual festive Christmas performance.

Home Alone in Concert
2024-12-21 - 2024-12-22 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States

ELF™ in Concert
2024-12-21 - 2024-12-22 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The charm and magic of John Debney’s magical score from the Christmas film, Elf, is performed by a live symphony orchestra set to the movie played on big screen in high-defination.

VOCTAVE – It Feels Like Christmas
2024-12-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
This holiday spectacular features holiday favorites from Voctave’s chart-topping a cappella album. This a cappella sensation has had over 160 million social media views of their videos and has appeared on countless recordings.

National Geographic: Adventures in Caving
2024-12-19 19:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
For more than two decades, photographer Robbie Stone has traveled to remote regions to document the world’s deepest, largest, and longest cave systems. Take an inside look at the beauty in some of Earth’s last true frontiers of exploration.

Sandra Bernhard: Easy Listening
2024-12-19 - 2024-12-20 | The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 92010, United States
This holiday season, ride along with the legendary Sandra Bernard
as she takes you on a tour of her musical influences – from the Supremes to the Stones to the women of the ‘70s who acted as our spiritual guides: Tina, Joni, Dusty, Aretha, Laura, and Carole. Climb into the Pontiac station wagon and get ready to hit the road.

Voctave Songs of the Season
2024-12-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Known for their harmonies and vocal versatility, the 11-member group, Voctave, will perform a holiday season program by a cappella

Chamber Music with the LA Phil
2024-12-17 - 2025-01-14 | 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.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2024-12-12 08:00 - 2024-12-22 17:00 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
This holiday season, Mays will return to The Old Globe after his San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award–winning performance in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in 2013. He will portray over 50 beloved characters from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—from Scrooge and Marley to Tiny Tim and the three Ghosts. In this new version of his acclaimed one-man show, Mays showcases Dickens’s text with his virtuosic performance.

Once Upon a Mattress
2024-12-10 - 2025-01-05 | Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The comedic romp sets Princess Winifred the Woebegone — or “Fred” to her friends — an unapologetic free spirit, loose in a repressed kingdom, reveling in her ability to charm and transform with willpower, honesty, and a little bit of help from her friends.

Handel’s Glorious Messiah
2024-12-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
A timeless masterwork that transcends three centuries of fads and fashions, Handel’s Glorious Messiah is an event of joy, reflection, and renewal.

Festival of Carols
2024-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The Chorale presents an eclectic lineup of holiday events in December including Festival of Carols, featuring magnificent arrangements of traditional carols spanning the globe, alongside contemporary classics sung with the virtuosity and flair only the Los Angeles Master Chorale can deliver.

Carols by Candlelight
2024-12-07 - 2024-12-11 | Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, 535 N Main Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Join the Pacific Chorale as Istad weaves a seamless blend of classic and contemporary holiday carols, celebrating the essence of the season.

Brahms with Zubin Mehta
2024-12-06 - 2024-12-08 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Conductor Zubin Metha teams up with violinistLeonidas Kavakos for a program that will feature Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Second Symphony

Two Concertos: Barnatan Plays Shostakovich
2024-12-06 - 2024-12-08 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Music Director Rafael Payare leads pianist Inon Barnatan in a program that highlights the humorous side of classical music in works by Richard Strauss and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Bodytraffic
2024-12-06 - 2024-12-07 | The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 92010, United States
L.A.-based dance company, BODYTRAFFIC, led by Tina Finkelman Berkett, returns to The Wallis. Internationally acclaimed, BODYTRAFFIC has not only conquered the contemporary dance realm, but also bewitched audiences worldwide with its astounding performers, transcendent technical mastery, and a repertoire that vibrates with the sheer joy of dancing.

Manny and the Wise Queens
2024-12-06 | Ocean Side Theatre, 217 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA, 92054, United States
The first full staging of Manny and the Wise Queens by Idris Goodwin Gift-bearing travelers find themselves in the attic of Manny, a depressed recent high school graduate, who has locked himself away to escape the remnants of holiday cheer in his quarantined town. Luckily, the sudden arrival of the two wise queens provides a potential key to Manny’s deliverance in this comedic celebration of home, hip-hop and unexpected gifts.

Art of the Spanish Guitar
2024-12-05 - 2024-12-07 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Two-time Grammy nominated artist Mak Grgić, for his Pacific Symphony debut, will perform Rodrigo’s masterful Fantasy for a Gentleman, filled with lively, dancing melodies, and musical sunshine.

Leslie Odom, Jr. The Christmas Tour
2024-12-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Tony and Grammy Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton, One Night in Miami) returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for a night of holiday hits including selections from his release The Christmas Album.

A Christmas Carol
2024-11-30 - 2024-12-24 | South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, PO Box 2197, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2197, Costa Mesa, CA, United States
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is an Orange County tradition. South Coast Repertory brings back fan favorite characters—Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge for a classic tale to rekindle the holiday spirit.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2024-11-30 - 2024-12-24 | A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91107, United States
In Geoff Elliott’s delightfully faithful adaptation of what might just be the greatest story of redemption ever written, Marley and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future join forces to save Ebenezer Scrooge from a lonely and terrible fate.

Leslie Odom, Jr.—The Christmas Tour
2024-11-30 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Multi-faceted performer recognized for his work on Broadway (Hamilton), television and film, Leslie Odom, Jr. is a Tony, Grammy and Emmy award nominee. He brings a night of holiday hits to Jacobs Music Center including selections from his newly released album The Christmas Album.
