 | Los Angeles Master Chorale - Los Angeles - Presents:
Día de los Muertos
Sunday, 10/29/2017 Guest conductor María Guinand leads a spirited program exploring Latin American choral music in a concert timed to coincide with Mexico’s vibrant Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. |
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 | McCallum Theatre Education - Palm Desert - Presents:
McCallum Theatre's 20th Annual Choreography Festival
11/11/2017 - 11/12/2017 (next performance: Saturday, 11/11/2017) Choreography by both emerging and established dancemakers take center stage in McCallum’s 20th Annual Choreography Festival. Exciting original dances in a number of styles are performed by companies from across the nation with winners announced at the conclusion of each performance. |
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 | Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra - Santa Monica - Presents:
Santa Monica Symphony 73rd Season Premiere
Sunday, 10/22/2017 Join us for the 73rd Season Premiere Concert under the baton of Maestro Guido Lamell as we present symphonic masterpieces by Lyadov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich! |
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 | American Youth Symphony - Los Angeles - Presents:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - American Youth Symphony
Sunday, 11/19/2017 Be sure to ‘phone home’ and tell your friends and family: AYS is performing John Williams’ legendary score for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial live-to-picture! Led by Music Director Carlos Izcaray, AYS invites you to experience this iconic film in a new, unique way. |
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 | Festival Mozaic - San Luis Obispo - Presents:
Festival Mozaic WinterMezzo Concert: Mozart, Chopin & Prokofiev
Sunday, 10/22/2017 Scott Yoo, violin, and Anna Polonsky, piano perform Mozart, Chopin and Prokofiev in the idyllic setting of Congregation Beth David.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 23 in D major, K.306
FREDERIC CHOPIN - Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23 & Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, op. 47
SERGEI PROKOFIEV - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F minor, op. 80 |
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 | Riki Cane Larimer - North Hollywood - Presents:
Cagney The Musical
10/5/2017 - 10/29/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) CAGNEY, a dramatic new musical, follows the life of the legendary James Cagney from the streets of New York to his rise from a vaudeville song-and-dance man to one of the brightest stars of Hollywood as the original tough guy.
"Robert Creighton has the looks and the moves as he sings and dances his way through the Cagney story. It is one of our FEATURED events. GO!" - Performing Arts LIVE |
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 | Lineage Dance - Pasadena - Presents:
Healing Blue
Sunday, 10/22/2017 Healing Blue is an inspiring arts event that tells the true stories of women and breast cancer.
Part storytelling event, part modern dance, this performance of Healing Blue mixes new stories, dance and music with several of the most moving stories from past performances of Healing Blue. |
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 | Little Fish Theatre - San Pedro - Presents:
On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning
9/28/2017 - 10/19/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) by Eric Overmyer
directed by Richard Perloff
A fearless feminine Victorian trio set out for Terra Incognita and find adventure, opens September 28 |
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 | Gay Freedom Band of Los Angeles - Los Angeles - Presents:
Gay Freedom Band of LA - Intergalactic
Sunday, 10/22/2017 The Gay Freedom Band of Los Angeles presents “Intergalactic,” a concert featuring symphonic works with celestial undertones, including an arrangement of the opening fanfare from Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra (of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame), Sun Dance by celebrated concert band composer Frank Ticheli and crowd-pleasing themes from the television and film series Star Trek and Star Wars. |
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 | California Repertory Company - Long Beach - Presents:
Machinal
10/12/2017 - 10/21/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) Sophie Treadwell's classic Machinal is a powerful drama that explores the deeply corrosive effects of misogyny in America.
Machinal tells the story of Helen, a young woman who feels that every decision she makes merely moves her from one cage to another. |
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 | Invertigo Dance Theatre - Santa Monica - Presents:
Invertigo’s 10th Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, 10/22/2017 Invertigo Dance Theatre presents their 10th Anniversary Celebration featuring two new works "Interior Design" and "Formulae & Fairy Tales," with a post-show party for all. |
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 | Cygnet Theatre - San Diego - Presents:
The Legend of Georgia McBride
10/11/2017 - 11/12/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) San Diego Premiere
He's young, he's broke, he's just found out his wife is going to have a baby, and now Casey has lost his gig as an Elvis impersonator.
By Matthew Lopez
Directed by Sean Murray |
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 | Chorale Bel Canto - Whittier - Presents:
The American Choral Legacy
Saturday, 10/21/2017 The concert features stunning compositions by living American composers, including Shawn Kirchner, Morten Lauridsen, Williametta Spencer, Eric Whitacre and others.
Under the leadership of Stephen Gothold, Chorale Bel Canto has provided quality classical concerts in the greater San Gabriel Valley for over 35 years. |
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 | Welk Resort Theatre - Escondido - Presents:
Kiss of the Spider Woman
9/1/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Directed and Choreographed by Award Winner Ray Limon
"Thrilling” - The New York Times.
"Creates an entire world out of a prison cell.... Dazzling."- Newsweek.
"Capture[s] the magic musicals were meant for."- Wall Street Journal. |
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 | Pacific Symphony - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Halloween Goes Hollywood
Saturday, 10/21/2017 The 13th Annual Despicable Villains’ Choice Awards. Celebrate Halloween with a concert featuring such frightfully fun film music as “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Don’t forget to wear your costume — dress as your favorite despicable villain!
Join in the fun at the interactive Musical Carnival in the concert hall lobby, where kids can test drive a musical ... |
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 | The Chance Theater - Anaheim - Presents:
Tribes
9/21/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) by Nina Raine
A boy born deaf who has been ostracized by his family discovers he is not alone. A story of finding the place that you belong. |
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 | Athenaeum Music and Arts Library - La Jolla - Presents:
Chamber Music: Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook
Saturday, 10/21/2017 Hugo Wolf’s “Italian Songbook” performed as a mini-opera.
Enjoy chamber music as it was intended—in a warm, intimate setting, where you are treated as a guest in our historic home. All concerts are followed by a private reception with the artists. |
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 | Garry Marshall Theatre - Burbank - Presents:
Master Class
9/20/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) Inspired by world-renowned Opera diva Maria Callas’ magnificent JuiIliard master class series, Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning play spotlights the tour-de-force artist and vulnerable woman known as La Divina. |
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 | El Camino College - Torrance - Presents:
Kenneth Walker Dance Project
Saturday, 10/21/2017 Kenneth Walker Dance Project: "The Seasons"
The sheer breadth and style of contemporary ballet this company performs is lauded and by fans every time they take the stage. KWDP presents a range of repertoire not usually seen in single choreographer companies that is a mixture of classical technique with modern sensibilities. |
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 | Glendale Centre Theatre/Tim Dietlein - Glendale - Presents:
Is He Dead?
10/13/2017 - 11/18/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) The Glendale Centre Theatre is will be showing the hilarious Mark Twain Comedy "Is He Dead?" from October 13th to November 18! Come join us for one of the funniest nights at the theater you will never forget! |
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 | Los Angeles Ballet - Glendale - Presents:
Pushing Dance Boundaries
Saturday, 10/21/2017 Avant-garde works from three remarkable choreographers: Alejandro Cerrudo’s cutting-edge contemporary Second to Last duets and Pacopepepluto, a World Premiere from phenom Menghan Lou, and the groundbreaking masterwork The Four Temperaments by George Balanchine. |
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 | One More Productions - Garden Grove, - Presents:
Cabaret
10/5/2017 - 10/29/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) Willkommen, welcome! Based on Christopher Isherwood’s book, CABARET takes place in 1930’s in a seedy Berlin night club where a young English performer strikes up a relationship with an American writer. |
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 | The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges - Claremont - Presents:
The Claremont Concert Orchestra
10/21/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Saturday, 10/21/2017) David Cubek, conductor
Mendelssohn, Die Hebriden overture
Ruth Crawford, Andante for Strings and Rissolty, Rossolty
Schubert, Symphony No. 3
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 | Pacific Symphony - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Mozart & Rachmaninoff
10/19/2017 - 10/21/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) Hailed by The Independent as a “big pianist with a calmly commanding presence,” Garrick Ohlsson joins Pacific Symphony with Mozart’s Ninth Piano Concerto — a work that legendary pianist Alfred Brendel has referenced as “one of the greatest wonders of the world.” Also featured on the program is the West Coast premiere of André Previn's new work for orchestra along with Rachmaninoff’s formidable ... |
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 | Loyola Marymount University, College of Communication and Fine Arts, Department of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
Faculty Piano Recital: Wojciech Kocyan
Saturday, 10/21/2017 Virtuoso Loyola Marymount University faculty pianist Wojciech Kocyan presents his annual recital with special guest artist Yoshika Masuda, violoncello.
Program:
Sonata for piano and cello in G minor, Op. 65 - Frédéric Chopin
Sonata for piano and cello in G minor, Op. 19 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Concert is free and open to the community.
Reception following in George A.V. Dunning Courtyard |
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 | Cal State University Fullerton - Fullerton - Presents:
Punk Rock
10/13/2017 - 10/28/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) "Punk Rock" explores the pressures of teenage life as a group of educated, intelligent young people begin to plan for college and the rest of their lives with tension and latent violence simmering under the surface.
By Simon Stephens • Directed by Luke Yankee |
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 | Colburn School - Pasadena - Presents:
Colburn Orchestra: Mozart, Dvorák, Adams
Saturday, 10/21/2017 The Colburn Orchestra returns to Ambassador Auditorium for a program sampling greats across eras of classical music.
Mozart’s beloved and playful Overture to The Marriage of Figaro opens the concert. Then, violinist Aubree Oliverson performs Dvorák’s rich and colorful Violin Concerto. John Adams’s Harmonielehre, a study in harmony originally manifested in the composer’s dreams. |
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 | USC Thornton School of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
Jazz Night featuring ALAJE
Thursday, 10/19/2017 ALAJE, the USC Thornton Afro-Latin American Jazz Ensemble led by Aaron Serfaty, headlines this ongoing series featuring USC Thornton student jazz ensembles. |
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 | USC Thornton School of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
USC Thornton Chamber Singers & Concert Choir: Soundscapes
Friday, 10/20/2017 The USC Thornton Concert Choir celebrates the life of prolific Cuban composer Electo Silva, while the Chamber Singers team with USC's Polish Music Center to present works by composers Roxanna Panufnik and Pawel Lukaszewski, among others. |
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 | Echo Theater Company - Los Angeles - Presents:
Fixed
9/14/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Friday, 10/20/2017) Dually inspired by Calderón’s Spanish Golden Age Drama The Physician Of His Own Honor and the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, which detailed New York’s then-underground drag queen “ball culture,” this fierce and funny new play by Boni B. Alvarez is set in the heart of L.A.’s Historic Filipinotown. |
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 | Cal State University Fullerton - Fullerton - Presents:
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra & Chamber Jazz Ensemble
Friday, 10/20/2017 Bill Cunliffe & Chuck Tumlinson, directors
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, directed by Bill Cunliffe, consistently receives high scores and acclaim at major west coast jazz festivals. |
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 | Little Fish Theatre - San Pedro - Presents:
Boeing Boeing
9/22/2017 - 10/21/2017 (next performance: Friday, 10/20/2017) By Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverly Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Cylan Brown
Zany farce involving a man with three fiancees and scheduling issues. |
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 | Anaheim Ballet - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Anaheim Ballet's Martini Ballet
Thursday, 10/19/2017 Ballet served straight up…
Anaheim Ballet presents Martini Ballet, an intoxicating look at yesterday’s tiki bar retro lounge scene. Multimedia presentations, repertory pieces and classical works round out the evening performed by the athletic and exhilarating Anaheim Ballet dancers. |
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 | Los Angeles LGBT Center Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and Sixth Avenue - Hollywood - Presents:
Exit Strategy
9/29/2017 - 11/5/2017 (next performance: Friday, 10/20/2017) West Coast Premiere written by Ike Holter and directed by Deena Selenow.
From the playwright and producers of "Hit the Wall" comes this fierce and funny new work about the chaotic final days of an urban public high school. "Exit Strategy" is a riveting, edge-of-your-seat drama from a vital new voice in American playwriting. |
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 | LA Opera - Los Angeles - Presents:
The Pearl Fishers
10/15/2017 - 10/28/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) Soprano Nino Machaidze, one of LA Opera’s favorite leading ladies, returns as a veiled priestess with a hidden past, pursued by two lifelong friends and romantic rivals |
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 | The Group Rep - North Hollywood - Presents:
Lost in Yonkers
9/8/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Friday, 10/20/2017) CRITICS PICK! GrigwareTalksTheatre/BWW
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!CarolKaufmanSegal/CarolsCultureCorner
I LOVED IT! Cathy Wayne/ NoHoArtsDistrict.com
POWERFUL AND HILARIOUS
RonIrwin/HuntingtonNews
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING, IMPECCABLY PERFORMED PRODUCTION! PatTaylor/TOLUCAN
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 | American Contemporary Ballet - Los Angeles - Presents:
American Contemporary Ballet presents INFERNO
10/13/2017 - 10/28/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) This October, go straight to hell. Dante's tale is retold through Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen's violent piece for two pianos and American Contemporary Ballet's sinuous dancers. Where? 350 feet above downtown Los Angeles. |
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 | Boston Court - Pasadena - Presents:
Blake Pouliot
Saturday, 10/21/2017 "Pouliot has the whole package… the look, charisma and talent.” - The Toronto Star
Twenty-two year old award-winning Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot brings an evening of classical music to Boston Court. |
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 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Palm Desert - Presents:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, 10/19/2017 Join the Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic on Thursday, October 19th when Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and features Stephen Williamson. On program: Schubert, Symphony No. 8, Mozart, Clarinet Concerto and Schumann, Symphony No. 2.
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 | Fountain Theatre - Los Angeles - Presents:
Runaway Home
9/13/2017 - 11/5/2017 (next performance: Saturday, 10/21/2017) Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the unhealed wounds of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward continue to fester. In this powerful, funny and deeply moving mother-daughter story, 14-year-old runaway Kali embarks on a journey to pick through the wreckage of what used to be her life, rhyming, stealing and scamming her way through the still-destroyed neighborhood. |
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 | Chapman University - Orange - Presents:
Cabaret
10/19/2017 - 10/21/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) Cabaret takes place in the midst of Germany’s post-World War I economic depression, as it transitions from the underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and rise of the Nazi Party. |
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 | Glendale Centre Theatre/Tim Dietlein - Glendale - Presents:
Puss in Boots
8/5/2017 - 11/11/2017 (next performance: Saturday, 10/21/2017) The Glendale Centre Theatre presents their new Children's Theatre production of Puss in Boots. A tap dancing, big band twist on the classic fairy tale you know and love.
Join us for GCT’s jazzy rendition of Puss in Boots! |
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 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Mirga Conducts Mahler
10/19/2017 - 10/21/2017 (next performance: Thursday, 10/19/2017) Mirga Conducts Mahler
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thursday, October 19th, 8PM
Friday, October 20th, 8PM
Saturday, October 21st, 2PM
Artists
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, conductor
Gidon Kremer, violin
Janai Brugger, soprano
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 | ArtPower at UC San Diego - La Jolla - Presents:
Trisha Brown Dance Company
10/21/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Saturday, 10/21/2017) “[A] pillar of American postmodern dance.”—New York Times
In planning since before Trisha Brown’s death earlier this year, ArtPower is proud to present a unique iteration of In Plain Site, a site-specific work created for the UC San Diego campus by Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC). |
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 | San Luis Obsipo Repertory Theatre - San Luis Obispo - Presents:
The Rabbit Hole
10/6/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) SLO REP presents RABBIT HOLE, a Pulitzer Prize Winning drama by David Lindsay-Abaire about love, loss and family.
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. |
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 | USC Thornton School of Music - Los Angeles - Presents:
Strings Showcase
10/11/2017 - 11/15/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 11/1/2017) USC Thornton's extraordinary Strings students showcase their talents in solo and chamber works. |
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 | A Noise Within - Pasadena - Presents:
Mrs. Warren's Profession
10/8/2017 - 11/18/2017 (next performance: Sunday, 10/22/2017) A Noise Within Theatre Company presents George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession live on stage! |
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 | Eden Lutheran Church and School - Riverside - Presents:
Reformation Organ and Choral Concert
Saturday, 10/21/2017 A recital of organ and choral music from the Protestant Reformation which celebrates its 500th Anniversary on October 31st. |
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 | Odysssey Theatre - Los Angeles - Presents:
The Dance of Death
9/23/2017 - 11/19/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) Deliciously dark, relentlessly brutal, fiercely funny. Lizzy Kimball, Darrell Larson and Jeff LeBeau form three points of a treacherous triangle in Conor McPherson’s new version of The Dance of Death by August Strindberg, running Sept. 23 through Nov. 19 at the Odyssey Theatre. |
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 | Hollywood Pantages- Nederlander - Los Angeles - Presents:
Hamilton
8/11/2017 - 12/30/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now. |
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 | Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
Head of Passes
9/13/2017 - 10/22/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) An astonishing, deeply moving new drama about family, acceptance, and the power of faith from MacArthur “Genius Award”-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney (The Brother/Sister Plays), featuring Tony Award® winner Phylicia Rashad.
"Phylicia Rashad is outstanding! GO see her at work!" - Performing Arts LIVE |
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 | University of Redlands - Redlands - Presents:
Studio Big Band Concert
Wednesday, 10/18/2017 Dr. David Scott
This event is free and open to the public. |
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 | The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music @ Cal State Long Beach - Long Beach - Presents:
Bob Cole Conservatory Faculty Recital - Harpsicord
Sunday, 10/22/2017 Bob Cole Conservatory Faculty Recital, Mark Uranker- Harpsichord
Featuring works by Harrison, Albright, Andreessen, Duphly, and Ligeti for harpsichord. |
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 | The Music Center On Location - Culver City - Presents:
Until The Lions
10/18/2017 - 10/21/2017 (next performance: Wednesday, 10/18/2017) An ancient Indian epic reimagined through the eyes of women, Until the Lions is award-winning choreographer and dancer Akram Khan’s powerful take of poet Karthika Naïr’s book Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata. The title of the piece borrows from a popular African proverb, “Until the lions have their own historian, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” |
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 | Bach Collegium San Diego - San Diego - Presents:
Bach-at-Noon FREE Concert
Wednesday, 10/18/2017 Bach Collegium San Diego presents a free 45-minute concert of historically-informed music of the Baroque era and beyond. |
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