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 series of special events and programming at the Mark Taper Forum, the Kirk Douglas Theatre and throughout greater Los Angeles. CTG:FWD. The events provide greater opportunities for community gatherings and conversations, can’t miss special events and ways to help center Los Angeles based artists and the arts community. It also provides an opportunity to open the doors of the Mark Taper Forum during this pause in traditional season programming . The initial slate of programming includes Alex Edelman’s Just for Us, Feinstein’s at the Taper, Amal Walks Across America.
A number of services to accommodate persons requiring mobility, vision and hearing access. American Sign language interpretation is offered. Contact CenterTheatreGroup.org/Access
A Noise Within: 3352 E. Foothill Bl., Pasadena (626/356-3100) www.anoisewithin.org
Atwater Village Theatre: 3269 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles (747/350-8066) www.EchoTheaterCompany.com Open Fist Theatre Company presents The Bauhaus Project, a world premiere theatrical event presented in two binge-worthy parts. Art and design face off with fascism and antisemitism. July 12-Aug. 25. Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of darkly funny, off-beat Dido of Idaho by Abby Rosebrock. The play focuses on the lengths to which a woman might go for the love of a good man. July 16-Aug. 26. IAMA’s 2023-24 Emerging Playwrights Lab culminates with two weekends of free play reading July 12-July 21. Admission is free but reservations are required. www.iamatheatre.com
905 Cole Theatre: 905 Cole Ave., Hollywood www.onstage411.com/newsite/show/play_info.as[?show_id=7138 Honeymoon Suite (with Apologies to Neil Simon) A world premiere comedy which in several ways reflects a play by the great Neil Simon but tells a different story. There are three couples, and each of them will experience pivotal moments in their relationship that will affect their marital destiny. Aug. 2-25.
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.
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) Glorya Kaugfman Presents Dance at the Music Center concluding the season with the L.A Premiere of Ballet Hispanico’s Dona Peron – a modern ballet about the infamous Argentinian icon Eva Peron, July 12-14. Renee Fleming returns for one night only, July 15.
Upcoming: A stunning lineup of classics and LA premieres including a cinematic twist of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, a Shakespearean romance with Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, Mozart’s laugh-out-loud Cosi fan tutte, Golijov’s flamenco-inspired Ainadamar, and Verdi’s heart-pounding drama Rigoletto.
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Dugan’s Backyard Plalyhouse: Woodland Hills dbtickets@gmail.com Irish Goodbye, an adult dark comedy premieres. In a small New Jersey pub, across the train tracks from the back of a Catholic Cemetery, a disgraced cop and ex beauty queen take shelter from a frigid storm, forming an unlikely bond one lonely Christmas Eve. July 19,20, 21, 26, 28, Aug. 2, 3, & 4.
Festival of Arts: 650 Laguna Canyon Rd., tickets@lagunapageant.com Laguna Beach Summer Concert Series, from July 3-Aug 30, on the Festival’s Concert Stage features Grammy winner Poncho Sanchez, jazz all stars Grace Kelly and Gregg Karukas, Ericv Clapton approved tribute band The Cream of Clapton, funk legend Greg Adams and more. Concerts are free with Festival admission. City of Hope’s Blue Piano Tour honoring everyone whose lives have been touched by cancer. Performed on select Saturday nights. Tickets start at $25 and include Festival of Arts admission. July 6-Aug. 30.
Fountain Theatre: 5060 Fountain Ave., Los Angeles. (323/663-1525) www.fountaintheatre.com Fatherland, a true story of the 18-year-old son who turned in his father to the FBI because of his dad’s role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Fast moving, powerful and theatrical, it erupts verbatim from the official court transcripts, case evidence and public statements. Extended through July 21.
Getty Center: 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles (310/440-7300) Getty’s free annual outdoor concert series Off the 405, is back with an exciting lineup, kicking off June 1 and running through Aug. 24. Concerts take place from 6-9 p.m. and will begin with a live DJ set. Attendees are welcome to arrive early, explore the Getty Center’s Central Garden and current exhibitions, bring a picnic or purchase food and beverages onsite before the show begins. July 20, 27, Aug. 24.
Hollywood Bowl: 2301 Highland Ave., Los Angeles ( 323/850–2000) hollywoodbowl.com July 4th Fireworks Spectacular with Harry Connick, Jr., July 2-4. Season highlights include 9 performances with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, Zubin Mehta’s return after 30 years, world premiere of Infinita Saga Concert Experience, stellar assists, classical superstars, Jazz Festival, July 4th fireworks, Herbie Hancock, Maestro of the Movies, Andrew Bird Trio joins Pink Martini, Local Natives to mention a few. Great season!!
International City Theatre: Beverly O’Neill Theater, Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 330 East Seaside Way, Long Beach (562/436-4610) InternationalCityTheatre.org The Double V dramatizes the true story of the first Black civil rights movement in the U.S., sparked by a letter to the editor from James G. Thompson of Wichita, Kansas. The Pittsburgh Courier kicked off the Double V campaign, a historical drama. Aug. 21-Sept. 8.
Mark Taper Forum: Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles (213/628-2772) CenterTheatereGroup.org
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, Footloose, the heartfelt story that pins a father longing for the son he lost against a young man aching for the father who walked out on him. Rockin’ rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated Top 40 score augmented with dynamic new songs enhances the performance. Footloose celebrates the wisdom of listening to young people while guiding them with a warm heart and open mind. Opens June 29. Goldilocks on Trial tells of Goldilocks on trial for breaking and entering. Will she be found guilty and sent to jail or will the truth come out. It’s up to the judge and some very silly jurors to decide in this hilarious tale.
Musco Center for the Arts: Chapman Universit July 13-28.y, (714/997-6812) Ticketing@chapman.edu The 2024-25 season Features An Evening With Jay Leno, Aug. 24; Free Symphony in the Cities, Aug. 4; Free Heartbeat of Mexico ( family festival) Sept. 8.
Odyssey Theatre: 2055 S. Sepulveda Bl., West Los Angeles (310/477-2055) odysseytheatre.com Dance at the Odyssey series presents first looks at new works by cutting edge choreographers over the course of several weekends: July 6, 7 , 11 , 12, 13 & 14. Tom Allen is a widower, raising his 15-year-old daughter as a single dad in The Pitch. Desperate for money, he grabs a job in a boiler room set-up, selling machine parts over the phone. He soon discovers that his job requires him to make ethical compromises, occasionally misrepresenting the products he sells. He finds himself in competition with his co-workers. His tension builds as he discerns that his boss may be under investigation by authorities, endangering the job that Tom needs so much. How many compromises can he make if he wishes to remain a moral man and a good dad? July 6-Aug. 25. Noel Coward’s provocative comedy Design for Living, banned in 1930s London for its risque content and bawdy themes. The show is a dramatic, hilarious and scandalous love triangle. It asks can love prevail against the norms of society? July 3-Aug. 25. Comedy Night at the Odyssey presents some of the best comics in the country on the third Friday of every month beginning Aug. 16.
Porticos Art Space: 2033 E Washington Bl., Pasadena: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/if-all-the-sky-were-paper-by-bestselling-andrew-carroll-tickets-912274426367?aff=ebdssbdestsearch If All the Sky Were Paper, by bestselling author Andrew Carroll who embarked on a literary journey in search of wartime correspondences after discovering a profoundly moving letter written by a distant cousin detailing service as a pilot in the Second World War. The echo of this letter led Carroll on a path of discovery all 50 states, over 30 countries and two active war-zones where he cataloged testimonies of troops,medics, nurses,chaplains, family members on the home-front and civilians caught in the crossfire of combat. The humanistic odyssey of human experiences in war are not presented on on stage. Carroll’s newly revised and expanded version of the play is both pertinent and timeless. June 21–July 7.
Renberg Theatre: Los Angeles LGBT Center, The Village at Ede Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles bit.ly/happyfall24 Rogue Artists Ensemble presents Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular following the professional and romantic rise and fall of two queer, closeted stuntman in the Hollywood world of faux masculinity, this world premiere play places the intoxication of film trickery and its toll on the body and psyche center stage through life size and miniature puppetry, live video, cinematic illusions and physical acts. Based on true life stories. Aug. 10- Aug. 25.
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
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.
Theatre 40: Mary Levin Cutler Theatre, 241 S. Moreno Dr., Beverly Hills (310/364-0535) www.theatre40.or
Balancing Act, the story of an accountant who plans to escape with a large amount of embezzled money, but is visited at his New York apartment on the eve of his planned departure by a shy once-young lady from his accounting department who suspects there may be foul play afoot and ostensibly seeks his advice. He tries every way he can think of to “keep her quiet” including escorting her to his bedroom. Aug. 1-25
Emma vs Dragon, a reading of a new play, July 14, 2:00 p.m. When Churchyards Yawn, a reading of a play, July 28 at 2:00 pm. Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear. Vincent van Gogh presents Holmes with a most unusual case, Sept. 19-Oct. 20. Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a thrilling tale of greed, blackmail and murder most four. 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 .
Theatre West: 3333 Cahuenga Bl. West, Los Angeles (818/761-2203) www.theatrewest.org
Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Kavli Theatre: 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Thousand Oaks (800/745-3000) www.startheatricals.com
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.
Venice United Methodist Church: 1020 Victoria Ave., Venice (323/821-2449) http://wejt.org West Coast Jewish Theatre presents antisemitism play reading series : The Last Yiddish Speaker, Aug. 11; Two Jews Walk into a War, Aug. 25; Lebenaraum, Sept. 8.
Victory Theatre Centre: 3326 West Victory Bl., Burbank (818/841-5421) www.thevictorytheatrecenter.org The world premiere of Crevasse. a true story of betrayal, Nazi propaganda and cartoons. In 1938 a German filmmaker went to Hollywood to find American distribution for her award winning film Olympia. Only one studio head would meet with her: Walt Disney. An astonishing story of betrayal, Nazi propaganda and cartoons. July 26-Aug. 18.
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis): 9390 N. Santa Monica Bl., Beverly Hills (310/746-4000) www.thewallis Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, a first of its kind in the early 1940s combined the complex storytelling of the typical stage play with the music and movement of traditional musicals. Join Muse/Que for the story of how the Broadway musical came to represent hope and wonder in American culture July 26-28. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra fall events features The Wallis continues to offer free events for families and young audiences.
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. The season features programs that reflect on the profundity of our cultural moments by examining themes of life, death and transcendence in music. . Season highlights include Dudamel leading 11 performances in Mahler Grooves Festival, Seoul Festival, John Williams Spotlight, Emmanuelle Haim begins her 3 year tenure as Artist-Collaborator with Han del Project, Pan American Music initiative, World Premiere of Carlos Simon’s Gospel Mass…and much more.
Whitefire Theatre: 13500 Ventura Bl., Sherman Oaks (818/687–8559) FreudOnCocaine.com Freud on Cocaine returns to the theatre for a second run. An outrageous new comedy based on the documented letters, notes, dreams and recollections of Sigmund Freud that attest to his decade-long use of cocaine in his practice and personal life. March 29-May 3.
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum: 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga (310/455–3723) www.theatricum.com The upcoming summer season will transform the stage alternately into the captivating countryside of Bohemia in The Winters Tale by Shakespeare, the enchanted woods of Athens in A Midsummer Nights Dream, the imaginary isle of Neverland in the world premiere of Wendy’s Peter Pan. Tartiffe: Born Again translated and adapted from Moliere and the USA Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote by Bernardo Cubria. June 1-Sept. 30.
Zephyr Theatre: 7456 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles http//hollywoodfringe.org/projects/7157 The Road to Masada: Antisemitism and Me reflects the Oldest Hatred and Michael Feinstein investigates its origins with the aid of a History Machine (and multimedia), portraying multiple characters and covering some 2000 years of history in a clear, comprehensible, concise and compact 75 minutes. Mitchell explores antisemitism in the hopes of understanding its history and the history of all forms of hatred, with the objective of helping us all to find understanding of one another. June 22 & 27. Despite the show’s title, Girl in Reverse: A Feminine Rage Manifesto, the show is neither a feminist screed or particularly consumed with rage. A woman who has been in a monogamous relationship for 15 years but suddenly finds herself seriously attracted to two other men. She experiences an emotional and sexual awakening of impulses but is not ready to jettison her primary relationship with a loving and supportive partner. What will she ultimately do? June 14, 22 and 30.