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 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Spamilton: An American Parody
5/15/2025 - 5/17/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/15/2025) After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, Spamilton: An American Parody will stage a singing, dancing, comedy revolution in Costa Mesa! |  |
 | Irvine Barclay Theatre - Irvine - Presents:
BodyTraffic
Thursday, 5/15/2025 In pursuit of the most challenging, original, and diverse choreography in the field, Los Angeles-based BODYTRAFFIC has made waves from coast to coast with its far-reaching appeal. | |
 | 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. | |
 | Santa Barbara Symphony - Santa Barbara - Presents:
Gil Shaham Weekend
5/17/2025 - 5/18/2025 (next performance: Saturday, 5/17/2025) Gil Shaham joins The Symphony and Nir Kabaretti for two programs. On Saturday, Tchaikovsky’s virtuosic Violin Concerto. Then on Sunday, Gil and wife Adele Anthony share the stage for Double Violin Concertos of Bach and a recent concerto of Avner Dorman. | |
 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Cameron Carpenter
Sunday, 5/18/2025 Cameron Carpenter, a celebrated gamechanger in the world of organ, performs an extravagant program where “everything he touches turns fantastical and memorable” (The New York Times). | |
 | Irvine Barclay Theatre - Irvine - Presents:
Louis: A Silent Movie with Live Accompaniment by Wynton Marsalis
Tuesday, 5/20/2025 Louis: A Silent Movie with Live Accompaniment by Wynton Marsalis is a captivating blend of vintage cinema and contemporary musical brilliance. | |
 | Cliburn International Piano Competition - Fort Worth - Presents:
Cliburn International Piano Competition
5/21/2025 - 6/7/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 5/21/2025) The Cliburn announces the major elements of the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, taking place May 21–June 7, 2025, at Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Applications open October 16, 2023, and will be due October 16, 2024. | |
| | Coachella Valley Repertory - Palm Springs - Presents:
The Beverly Hills Hotel Peace Talks
5/21/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 5/21/2025) A weekend that might have changed world history. | |
 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Gershwin & Strauss
5/23/2025 - 5/25/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/23/2025)
Jean Yves Thibaudet shines in Gershwin’s joyful Concerto in F, and Teddy Abrams leads Strauss’ Nietzsche-inspired epic. | |
 | Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
Hamlet
5/28/2025 - 7/6/2025 (next performance: Wednesday, 5/28/2025) It’s been a half a century since “Hamlet” was produced at the Taper and next season Tony-nominated visionary, Robert O’Hara, who directed the landmark box office hit “Slave Play,” returns to stage one of the most famous tales ever told. | |
 | LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents:
Tchaikovsky & Pereira
5/29/2025 - 6/1/2025 (next performance: Thursday, 5/29/2025) Tchaikovsky’s symphony of fate, the Vertigo suite, and percussion music by and for percussionists | |
 | Philharmonic Society of Orange County - Costa Mesa - Presents:
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY
Friday, 5/30/2025 FEATURED PERFORMERS
LA Phil
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Matt Howard, percussion
PROGRAM:
HERRMANN: Suite from Vertigo
Joseph PEREIRA: Percussion Concerto (LA Phil commission)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 | |
 | Temecula Valley Players - Temecula - Presents:
Sweeney Todd
5/30/2025 - 6/15/2025 (next performance: Friday, 5/30/2025) An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. | |
 | St Matthew's Music Guild - Pacific Palisades - Presents:
St. Matthew's Music Guild: Season Finale – Inna Faliks, piano
Friday, 5/30/2025 Inna Faliks returns to St. Matthew’s Music Guild to perform the West-coast premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Piano Concerto No. 4 (A Hero’s Journey) | |
 | El Camino College - Torrance - Presents:
ECC Studio Jazz Band
Sunday, 6/1/2025 David Sills, director
This dynamic ensemble is dedicated to the performance and preservation of classic, straight-ahead jazz big band music. The ensemble performs arrangements from the great composers, arrangers and bandleaders from the jazz tradition in the style of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Woody Herman and Gil Evans. | |
 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Life of Pi
6/3/2025 - 6/15/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 6/3/2025) “Glorious. A dazzling marvel of stagecraft. This powerful production sparks to stunning life.” - Entertainment Weekly | |
 | SLO REP - San Luis Obispo - Presents:
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
6/6/2025 - 6/29/2025 (next performance: Friday, 6/6/2025) Happiness is great musical theatre! With charm, wit, and heart, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang. Musical numbers include My Blanket and Me, The Kite, The Baseball Game, Little Known Facts, Suppertime, and Happiness. Guaranteed to please audiences of all ages! | |
 | El Camino College - Torrance - Presents:
ECC Opera Workshop - Spring Showcase
Tuesday, 6/10/2025 Kevin Blickfeldt, director
El Camino College’s preeminent singer-actor ensemble will perform scenes from musicals, oratorios and operas. Students advance their vocal, musical, and dramatic skills through research, rehearsal and performances. | |
 | El Camino College - Torrance - Presents:
Lo Tech/No Tech Dance Concert
Tuesday, 6/10/2025 Hosted by ECC faculty member Daniel Berney
This performance is a compilation of the dance department technique classes including ballet, modern, improvisation, jazz, tap, Latin social, hip-hop, belly dance, and a special guest presentation by the ECC First Year Experience program! | |
 | Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents:
Parade
6/17/2025 - 7/12/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 6/17/2025) Winner of the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, “Parade” has been proclaimed as “a work of art! As commanding as any musical revival to hit Broadway in years” (Deadline). It was also nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album. | |
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