 | La Jolla Music Society - La Jolla - Presents:
Cameron Carpenter
Friday, 5/16/2025 Cameron Carpenter is the world’s most visible organist, the first ever to be nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for a solo album.
He holds the 2012 Leonard Bernstein Award, and in 2014, launched his International Touring Organ (ITO)- a first-of-its kind digital organ built to his own design. |
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 | San Diego Symphony - San Diego - Presents:
Elegant to Epic: Saint-Saëns and Shostakovich
5/16/2025 - 5/17/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/16/2025) Rafael Payare, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103, Egyptian
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, Leningrad |
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 | Rubicon Theatre Company of Ventura - Ventura - Presents:
Bonnie & Clyde
4/30/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) What makes this musical special isn’t just the story — it’s the way it’s told. Audiences won’t just see two criminals. They will see two dreamers — Bonnie, with her head full of poetry and stardom, and Clyde, desperate to escape poverty and make a name for himself. It’s a love story wrapped in tragedy. A crime spree set to a powerful score. |
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 | Latino Theater Company - Los Angeles - Presents:
Just Like Us
4/10/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/16/2025) Inspired by the bestselling book by Helen Thorpe and more timely now than ever, this non-fiction play by Karen Zacarías follows four Latina teenage girls whose close-knit friendship is put to the test when each finds her opportunities in life dictated by immigration status—or lack thereof.
Extended through May 25th! |
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 | LA Opera - Los Angeles - Presents:
Ainadamar
5/3/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) Federico García Lorca is writing his way into a new Golden Age. But as a revolutionary artist and a gay man in 1930's Spain, the poet finds himself in the crosshairs of Franco’s rising regime during a time of civil war. Grammy-winning Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov blends flamenco rhythms with operatic melodies in this stunning portrait of a visionary poet, as told by his muse Margarita Xirgu. |
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 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Ravel & Adolphe
5/16/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/16/2025) Ludovic Morlot leads Spanish dance-inspired symphonic poems, plus a world premiere cello concerto from Julia Adolphe. |
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 | San Diego International Fringe Festival - San Diego - Presents:
The San Diego International Fringe Festival
5/15/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) The San Diego International Fringe Festival (SDIFF) is fast approaching, returning for its 13th bold and beautiful year from May 15–25, 2025.
ALL participants are welcome to post their event information to Performing Arts LIVE. It's FREE and Easy. See POST EVENT on the home page. |
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 | South Coast Repertory - Costa Mesa - Presents:
The Staircase
4/27/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) A mysterious tale about holding on, letting go and the curious force that pulls us back home.
Mother and Son spend their evenings playing cards and retelling stories of Hawaiian legend. Better those than their own, which lurk below the surface. When Son’s former sweetheart resurfaces, both he and Mother must choose how they will embrace the future. |
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 | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television - Los Angeles - Presents:
Rodrigo Opera
5/16/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/16/2025) Directed by James Darrah, professor and director of Opera UCLA
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Rodrigo is an opera by George Frideric Handel that tells the gripping story of Spain’s last Visigothic king. |
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 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Mamma Mia
5/13/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) “This high-energy musical brings happiness wherever it goes!” – TIME |
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 | Long Beach Chorale & Chamber Orchestra - Long Beach - Presents:
Mozart’s Requiem: Live in Long Beach
5/17/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Saturday, 5/17/2025) The Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra will present two performances of Mozart's final and most mysterious work on Saturday, May 17, and Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 4 p.m. at Grace First Presbyterian Church in Long Beach. |
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 | Geffen Playhouse - Los Angeles - Presents:
Furlough's Paradise
4/16/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. |
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 | Inland Master Chorale - Relands - Presents:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sunday, 5/18/2025 The Inland Master Chorale presents a concert version of the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at 4 pm Sunday, May 18 at the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel, 101 Chapel Drive, Redlands.
Based on the Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, with songs from the 1996 Disney film, this is a story of love, acceptance, and heroism set against the backdrop of the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral. |
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 | Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
Life of Pi
5/6/2025 - 6/1/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) The Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit "Life of Pi” is an unforgettable, epic tale of adventure. Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel (over 15 million copies sold) is a worldwide phenomenon and “an exhilarating evening of theater” (The Wall Street Journal). |
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 | GYO - Glendale - Presents:
Glendale Youth Orchestra Presents RAVEL
Sunday, 5/18/2025 the Glendale Youth Orchestra presents the 36th Season Finale concert. Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of composer Maurice Ravel’s birth. |
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 | Laguna Playhouse - Laguna Beach - Presents:
Fences
4/30/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) Troy Maxson was a star of the Negro baseball leagues, but now it’s 1957 and he’s a garbage man in Pittsburgh. In one of August Wilson’s best and most well-known plays, we see one man struggle with disappointment and the effect it has on his marriage and relationship with his sons. |
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 | Hollywood Fringe Festival - Hollywood - Presents:
Hollywood Fringe Festival
6/19/2025 - 6/29/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 6/19/2025) The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.
Festival performers can post their individual event information for free on our website. See POST EVENT on our home page. |
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 | SLO REP - San Luis Obispo - Presents:
I Hate Hamlet
5/2/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious dramatic comedy, when television star Andrew Rally moves back to New York and finds himself cast as Hamlet, nothing seems right. With lucrative offers of shallow television shows, self doubt, fear of the greatest of roles, and a girlfriend who won’t have sex with him. |
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 | Dance On Productions - Los Angeles - Presents:
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
4/9/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) Written by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Jack Heller. West Coast Premiere. |
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