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Theatre, Concerts & Opera

A Noise Within: 3352  E. Foothill Bl.,  Pasadena  (626/356-3100) www.anoisewithin.org  The theater continues commitment to August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with Piano Lesson, a captivating story about legacy , identity and cultural heritage in 1930s Pittsburgh where a brother and sister are locked in a bitter dispute in this Pulitzer Prize winning play. Oct. 13-Nov. 10.  A stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol that is uniquely faithful to the original novel by Charles Dickens will once again enthrall audiences for the 2024 holiday season.  Dec. 1-24.

Ahmanson Theatre:  Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles (213/628-2772)   TheatreGroup.org    Upcoming Season: six productions including two Tony Award winning Best Musicals, A Strange Loop, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; also the Broadway revival of Clue.   

A number of services  to accommodate persons requiring mobility, vision and hearing access.   American Sign language interpretation is offered.  Contact  CenterTheatreGroup.org/Access


Catalina Jazz Club:  6725 W Sunset Bl, Hollywood  www.TicketWeb.com  Broadway star, Hugh Panaro will celebrate the recent release of his first-ever CD, Man Without a Mask. A celebration for the handsome, charming, funny and soaring voiced leading man.  Dec. 5 only.

Crypto.com Arena: (formerly the Staples Center) 1111 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles (213/ 742-7100)  www.cryptoarena.com  Check for all upcoming concerts, family shows and special events.  Tickets on sale now.

Colony Theatre:  555 N. 3rd St., Burbank (818/649-9474)  www.imaginetheatreca.org The world premiere of The Girl Who Made the Milky Way, a family friendly  theatrical experience inspired by a Khoisan myth.  An ancient  ethnic group with a long and intriguing history are believed to be the oldest human inhabitants of southern Africa. In the play a young girl evolves from struggling with her place and duties among her people to embracing her uniqueness, voice, courage and identity.  Nov. 9-17

Davidson/Valentini Theatre:  Los Angeles LGBT Center, , 1125 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood.  www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10628 

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Los Angeles Music Center, 135 North Grand Ave., Los Angeles. (213/972-8001)   Shakespearean romance with Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, stars newcomers Amina Edris and Duke Kim.  Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan and  the resident conductor, Lina Gonzalez-Granados leads this elegant, extravagant classic of the world’s most famous romance. Nov. 2, 10, 14, 17 & 20.  Upcoming:  Mozart’s laugh-out-loud Cosi fan tutte, Golijov’s flamenco-inspired Ainadamar, and Verdi’s heart-pounding drama Rigoletto. .

Kristin Chenoweth’s Holiday concert is featured with the LA Opera orchestra.

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Fountain Theatre:   5060 Fountain Ave., Los Angeles. (323/663-1525)  www.fountaintheatre.com   The U.S. premiere of I Daniel Blake, a powerful, timely and poignant story about people coming together in the face of Kafkaesque government bureaucracy the refuses   to see them as human beings Daniel is a caring, warmhearted middle aged man who suddenly finds himself unable to work Katie opes for a fresh start for herself and her teenage daughter.  Together they attempt to navigate the nightmarish unemployment and public housing system while clinging to their dignity and humanity.   Oct. 9-Nov. 24.

Getty Villa: 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy.  Pacific Palisades  (310/440-7300) Getty Villa Theater Lab presents The Unraveling, a new play inspired by Greek mythology exploring the “banishment” of women of a certain age from society.  This venue is an ongoing series that has provided a forum for reinterpretation of classical theater for over a decade. This show tells the story of a  classics professor who has escaped to a remote mountaintop to exist on her own in isolation, onlly to have her carefully curated world invaded by a young video gamer and her estranged daughter.  Performances will take place Nov.  8, 9, & 10.  Free advance tickets required.

Greystone Mansion:   905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills                                         https://beverlyhills.org/1422/

International City Theatre:   Beverly O’Neill Theater, Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 330 East Seaside Way, Long Beach  (562/436-4610)  InternationalCityTheatre.org  Steven Dietz’s comic adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the  Links, a hilarious  new adaptation of this intricate whodunit featuring  detective Hercule Poirot.  Oct. 18-Nov. 3.

Loft Ensemble Theatre:   11031 Camarillo St., North Hollywood                              https://neoensembletheatre.ticketspice.com/ill-be-with-you-shortly  The world premiere of a dark comedy, I’ll Be With You Shortly.  Carrie has been  in a car accident and is becoming aware of her immediate surroundings.  She concludes she is probably dead  She is in some kind of waiting area and while she waits an assortment of individuals parades ahead of her.  Some are directed to a Heavenly paradise.  Others will go straight to some level of the Inferno.   Oct 15-Nov. 7.

Los Angeles Theatre Center:  515 S Spring St., Los Angeles (213/489-0994)  www.latinotheaterco.org Inspired by testimonials and essays written by young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers,”  A Girl Grows Wings poignantly depicts one girl’s journey as she navigates the fallout her status inflects on her hopes and dreams, “growing her wings” in a touchingly beautiful and imaginative style commissioned by Latino Theater Company.  Oct. 10-20.  Latino Theater Company presents Encuentro 2024 – Presente!, a national theater festival bringing together 19 companies from 12 cities across eight states and Puerto Rico to share their incredible work and artistic processes. Oct. 24-Nov. 10.

Loft Ensemble:  11031  Camarillo St., NoHo Arts District  (818/452-3153) www.loftensemble.org  A new holiday  comedy about Scrooge’s housekeeper in Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol. 

Mark Taper Forum: Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles (213/628-2772) CenterTheatereGroup.org      An exhilarating 2024-2025  Dance Season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center with the  first ever dance presentation this theatre.  Making its Music Center Debut with the West Coast Premiere of a dazzling show set in a Fictional Jazz Club, Urban Bush Women will be the first- ever dance company to perform at this intimate theatre, Nov. 22-24.

Matrix Theatre:  7657 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles  http://hollywoodfringe.orgt/projects/10967

Morgan-Wixson Theatre: 2627 Pico Bl., Santa Monica (310/828-7519) www.morganwixson.org,    Annual Youth Musical  opens Nov. 9 with The Prom, a hit Broadway show.   Nov. 9-Dec. 7.

Musco Center for the Arts:   Chapman Universit July 13-28.y,  (714/997-6812) Ticketing@chapman.edu   The 2024-25 season; Free Heartbeat of Mexico ( family festival)  Sept. 8; Preservation Halll Jazz Band, Sept. 27;  The Heartbeat of Mexico (free), Sept. 8;  Hubbarad Street Dance Chicago, Sept. 20; Dance Theatre of Harlem, Oct 24.

Nimoy Theater: (UCLA) 1262 Westwood Bl., Los Angeles  Walking the Beat Fountain Theater/Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble, School Matinee Performance Grades 9-12   Sept. 23.  Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Sept. 27-28.

Odyssey Theatre:  2055 S. Sepulveda Bl., West Los Angeles (310/477-2055) odysseytheatre.com        Cirque d Soleil clown Daniel Passer and award winning director Beth F. Miles bring a clown ode to loss and remembrance to the Odyssey stage, exploring the unexpected humor and discoveries to be found in the loss of memory, and deeply honoring the experience  of people whose memories are fading.   Heading Into Night  A clown play about…(forgetting).  The story explores the unexpected humor and discoveries to be found in the loss of memory, and deeply honoring the experience of people whose memories are fading.  Oct 3-Nov. 17.

Renberg Theatre:  Los Angeles LGBT Center, The Village at Ede Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles bit.ly/happyfall24

Robey Theatre:   514 S. Spring St.,  at Los Angeles Theatre Center (213/489-7402)  info@therobeytheatrecompany. or Royce Hall:  UCLA campus, 10745 Dickson Court, Westwood (310/825-2101)  www.cap.ucla.edu

Royce Hall: UCLA, Royce Hall B100, Los Angeles (310/825-44301)  info@cap.ucla.edu

Santa Monica Playhouse:  1211 4th St., Santa Monica (310/394-9779 ext 1) 
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts: 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, www.SCFTA.org  (714/556-2787)    Upcoming Dance Headliners and in conversation series for the 2024 season includes Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck, American Ballet Theater’s The Nutcracker, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s Coppel-o/A,  American Ballet Theater Mixed Repertory.   Headliner Series features Get Happy: Jessica Vost, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive, A Broadway Birthday, Sondheim, Lloyd Webber and Friends.

At the Samueli Theater:  Family Series features Jazz Ash & the Leaping Lizards, Nov. 2-3; Journey to Oz, Nov. 23-24.


Theatre 40: Mary Levin Cutler Theatre, 241 S. Moreno Dr., Beverly Hills  (310/364-0535) www.theatre40.or      Agatha Christie’s  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a thrilling tale of greed, blackmail and murder most foul. This  ingenious 1926 novel cemented Christie’s reputation as the greatest mystery novelist of all time.  The story’s shocking twist ending has thrilled readers for generations and has been called “the best and most cunning solution devised in her storied career.”  Now the landmark novel comes to the stage in a new and fast moving adaptation.  Filled with colorful characters, outrageous laughter and nail-biting  suspense.    This Christie classic is sure to leave audiences guessing, gasping and delighting in the case long after the curtain has come down.   Nov. 14-Dec. 15.

In Listing, a real estate agent with a passion for historic preservation has  the perfect modernist masterpiece come his way but tragedy, societal tension and ghosts of the home’s past all simmer to the surface and the home’s good bones can’t hide the bad blood, Jan. 16-Feb. 16, 2025, running in repertory with Beatnik Girl,  the story of a young woman of vision and principle as she struggles with misogyny, antisemitism and an unwanted pregnancy while trying to be a Beat poet .

An Odd Mourning at, staged reading of a new play.  Winner of the Beverly Hills Theater Guild Playwright Award.  Julia Child was a complicated woman who came from a wealthy British family and married a brilliant Nobel Prize winning scientist.  They had a son, Dorian who never grew into the man Benjamin had hoped for.  Upon her death, the two men are left ruderless. When Benjamin injures himself in a fall, the two men are forced to allow an East Indian medical professional to tend the wound, disrupting the routine, challenging their mental and physical capacities and breaking the spell the house is under.  Nov. 16, 2:00 p.m.

 


Theatre West:  3333 Cahuenga Bl. West, Los Angeles (323/851-4839)  www.theatrewest.org    Storybook Theatre marks its 40th anniversary with The Ugly Duckling, an interactive musical.  Oct.12-Jan. 11, 2025.  Saturdays at 1:00 pm.

Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Kavli Theatre: 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard,  Thousand Oaks (800/745-3000) www.startheatricals.com 

24th Street Theatre:  1117 West 24th St., Los Angeles (213/745-6516) www.24thstreet.org    Pascal & Julien,  a uniquely touching story about fathers and sons and the  birth of a friendship.  The story of a closed isolated middle aged man whose true self is able to emerge through his friendship with a child.  Aug. 30-Oct. 26

UCLA Nimoy Theater:  1262 Westwood Bl., Los Angeles (310/825-2101)  tickets@cap.ucla.edu   Upcoming highlights for the 2024 season include:   Rapper Omaer Offedum’s The Little Syria Show, Ethiopian ensemble Ethioand Cabaret sensation Meow Meow, Choreographer-dancer Calib Teicher and pianist-composer Conrad Tao.

United Theater:  Downtown Los Angeles (213/972-8001)  The Los Ange;es P[era Orchestra now with Hollywood Sound Effects  presents Living legends, Latin Grammy winners, and even violins modified with trumpet horns.  LA Opera has it all Brilliant guest artists join for Spanish Dracula with Live Orchestra.  A blend of live music and cult cinema.  Oct. 25-27.

Victory Theatre Centre:  3326 West Victory Bl., Burbank  (818/841-5421)  www.thevictorytheatrecenter.org  Crevasse, a  critically acclaimed  new play by Tom Jacobson. Thru Nov. 10.   In 1938  German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl went to Hollywood to find  American distribution for her award winning film,  Olympia.   This is the true story of betrayal.  Nazi propaganda and cartoons.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis): 9390 N. Santa Monica Bl., Beverly Hills (310/746-4000)  www.thewallis   .  L.A’s Dance Community Darling returns with BodyTraffic with a spellbinding program of three new works from renowned choreographers, Dec. 6&7  In addition to their regular shows, the Wallis continues to offer free events for families and young audiences.

Walt Disney Concert Hall - Photo: Grant Mudford

Walt Disney Concert Hall – Photo: Grant Mudford

Walt Disney Concert Hall: 151 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles (213/972-7288) www.wdch.com   The Frank Gehry designed home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic embodies the unique energy and creative spirit of both the City of Angels and its world-class orchestra under the direction of  maestro Gustavo Dudamel and features the works of the world’s musical greats featuring Classical, World Music, Jazz, Songbook and the Master Chorale.  Featuring Brahms with Zubin Mehta, Dec. 6-8.  The season features programs that reflect on the profundity of our cultural moments by examining themes of life, death and transcendence in music.    Lightscape: An artwork by Doug Aitken produced in partnership with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the LA Phil   The core of the work is a feature length film, a multi-screen fine art installation, and a series of live musical performances.  Lightscape creates a modern mythology asking the questions “where are we now?” and “where are we going?” Nov. 16.

Whitefire Theatre:  13500 Ventura Bl.,  Sherman Oaks                                www.ticketleap.events/tickets/spyforspy/shermanoaks

Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum: 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga (310/455–3723)  www.theatricum.com