Los Angeles Theatre Newsroom

Laguna Art Museum is launching its Every Single One campaign, an initiative aimed at raising $1 million to enhance the museum’s community programs and expand accessibility in its facilities. Learn more!

Acclaimed Playwright, Don B. Welch will return with, the rousing hand clapping foot stomping gospel play, “HEAVENBOUND” in Los Angeles, starring Melba Moore and more. Learn how to purchase tickets.

 Comedian and Emmy Award Winner Dulcé Sloan will perform a side-splitting evening in a comedic showcase for one night only at The Wallis. Learn more here!

ArtsUP! LA and Rex & Friends will perform Heart of the Holidays this holiday season. Learn more about the upcoming performances set for this December here!

 Berkeley Symphony has announced that Music Director Joseph Young will conclude his tenure at the end of the 2024-25 season, marking six transformative years of artistic leadership. 

Ira Glass will present 'Seven Things I've Learned' at the Carpenter Center on December 14, sharing insights and stories from his career in public radio.

As embodied by Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi in the revival of GODOT at the Geffen Playhouse, Vladimir and Estragon are a formidable pair. Beckett’s play about the unknowable darkness of the human condition has - go figure! - long been catnip for comedians, and you get why Wilson and Mandvi would want a whack at them.

East West Players has extended its revival of the acclaimed Tony-nominated musical Pacific Overtures. This production of Pacific Overtures continues the theater’s long-standing relationship with the work of Stephen Sondheim. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Michelle Liu Carriger of UCLA's Department of Theater received the Barnard Hewitt Award for her book on theater history, recognized for its innovative approach and meticulous scholarship. Learn more!

Explore the 2025 DIVERSEartLA retrospective at the LA Art Show, highlighting eight years of diverse representation and advocacy in the arts. Discover its transformative journey and call to action. Learn more and see how to attend.

The Music Man Foundation awarded $2.7 million to 15 nonprofits using music to enhance wellbeing and announced a 2025 grant opportunity for organizations aiming to create lasting change through music.

Pinkleton has thrown every prop gimmick and novel idea in the book at the show, and in the process has disrupted the stuff that simply works about the piece.

Experience the return of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE ONE-MAN PLAY in Los Angeles. Gus Krieger brings Dickens' classic to life, performing all characters in this intimate production at Who Goes There. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Comedian Adam Sank Los Angeles premieres his acclaimed one-man show, Bad Dates: A One Man Show About Many Men, at the Broadwater Main Stage for one-night-only on December 6, 2024.  Adam actually came out of retirement to share his bad, but hilarious dating experiences.

Emma Andres is a professional ballet dancer and contemporary/classical ballet choreographer who also has experience working in the techniques of jazz, contemporary, and modern. In 2023, she established Little Women Ballet, creating a series of dance works leading up to the company’s full-length ballet about the classic Louisa May Alcott tale. I decided to speak with Emma about it.

Moving Arts will present the World Premiere of here comes the night by Lisa Kenner Grissom, directed by Hailey McAfee beginning in January in Los Angeles.

The L.A. County Holiday Celebration marks its 65th anniversary on December 24, showcasing the diverse artistry of Los Angeles with a variety of performances.

CHRISTMAS IS… NOT your average Christmas celebration will bring you some much needed cheer this holiday season. Live, one night only at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood.

Rubicon Theatre will present the World Premiere of A COWBOY LULLABY, an original theatrical concert about the truths, myths, lies and legends of the American West, and the poetry of characters with dreams as vast as the open range.

Vocalist, clarinetist, and composer Holland Andrews will perform 'Where The Apple Fell' at REDCAT on December 14, exploring a new sonic world and the transmission of spirit.

The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center's 30th Short Film Festival will honor industry leaders and feature over 60 short films, three feature films, and panel discussions.

Experience a captivating program of magic and illusion at Theatre West with magician George Tovar and guest host Jeanine Anderson. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Bob Barth's ONE NIGHT STAND returns with a captivating lineup, including a spotlight on the new production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF starring Jason Alexander. Tune in for an evening of entertainment.

The Long Beach Ballet will continue its annual holiday tradition, for the 42nd year this December, of presenting The Nutcracker at the Terrace Theater at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center for seven performances.

Bob Baker’s perennial holiday favorite Bob Baker’s Nutcracker opens November 30, 2024, at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s production manager Daisy Hernandez managed to find some time out of her very busy puppet responsibilities to answer a few of my queries