Los Angeles Upcoming Events
Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon
Next Up: Wednesday, May 13 | 8:00pm | Pasadena Playhouse
Two American travelers lose their way in the Scottish Highlands and stumble upon Brigadoon—a mysterious village that appears for just one day every hundred years. With its lush score, live orchestra, sweeping choreography, and a newly adapted book, this beloved…
Exit the King
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 7:30pm | A Noise Within
It’s King Bérenger’s last day on Earth – he just doesn’t want to admit it. In Exit the King, Eugène Ionesco delivers a savagely funny and touching look at mortality. As the king clings to power (and life), his crumbling…
Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 8:00pm | Latino Theater Co. at The Los Angeles Theater Center
Teatro Alebrijes, a one-of-a-kind LGBTQ Latinx theater ensemble from San Jose, CA, returns to The LATC with one of the highlights of Latino Theater Company’s 2024 Encuentro Festival: Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos (Carlota: Jewelry Box of Secrets). Carlota holds a…
Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | All Day | Armory Center for the Arts
Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination brings together seven artists who turn to craft to divine memory, enact ritual, and seek knowledge of the future. Working with earth, fiber, metal, cyanotype, terracotta, and film, they carry ways of understanding the world…
LACO Master Class Series: Coleman Itzkoff, Cello Free
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 5:00pm | Thayer Hall - The Colburn School
Cellist Coleman Itzkoff leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students as part of the LACO Master Class Series, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. Hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for his “flawless…
Little Shop of Horrors
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 7:00pm | Lineage Performing Arts Center
We close the season with Little Shop of Horrors—a quirky and heartfelt sci-fi musical about a timid florist’s assistant and the plant that changes everything. In true Lineage style, dance will breathe a new life into this classic story…
Hell Mouth
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 8:00pm | The Road Theatre Company
Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List.
Jack and The Beanstalk
Next Up: Saturday, May 16 | 1:00pm | Theatre West
Zorro
Next Up: Saturday, May 16 | 7:30pm | San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
Zorro comes home when POP presents the Los Angeles premiere of Héctor Armienta’s acclaimed new opera, filled with romance, humor, and suspense. Set in the early 1800s in el pueblo de Los Angeles, still a colony of Spain, this thrilling…
Happy Hour No. 133: Sounds Mysterious with Brian Lauritzen
Next Up: Saturday, May 23 | 3:00pm | The Wende Musuem's A-Frame Theater
Brian Lauritzen leads our audience in our patented game of Guess The Composer. Though we’ve practiced every note, we still don’t know who wrote the music. In this audience-favorite musical guessing game, even the performers are in the dark about…
Piano Spheres & David Gordezky present: The Satie Project
Next Up: Saturday, May 30 | 8:00pm | Boston Court Pasadena
Piano Spheres & David Gordezky present:The Satie Project – “Movements in the shape of a gallop or trot”Dada and experimental puppetry come together with the complete piano four-hands works of Erik Satie interspersed with new compositions by seven American composers…
Sidney Jacobs: Civil Soul
Next Up: Saturday, June 20 | 8:00pm | Boston Court Pasadena
Sidney Jacobs presents Civil Soul–a journey through jazz and the protest music of the ’70s, working with a stunning array of jazz legends in a celebration of this influential music and movement of the time.
Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky
Next Up: Sunday, November 8 | 10:00am | The Wende Museum
The exhibition, co-curated by the Wende’s Curatorial Department and NASA historian Lois Rosson, explores the ways in which new discoveries in space exploration during and after the Cold War have inspired visual artists on a global scale. The exhibition shows…