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University Park24th Street TheatreBehind former carriage-house doors, 24th Street makes theater for adults and children while serving as a neighborhood gathering place.Next: Sun Oct 25 · 8:00 PM · InformationPasadenaA Noise WithinA Noise Within surrounds its thrust stage with audiences on three sides, putting classical plays within a few rows of the action.Next: Sun Nov 1 · 12:00 PM · Come from AwayDTLA: Bunker HillAhmanson TheatreThe Ahmanson is Center Theatre Group's big house at the Music Center downtown, booking pre-Broadway runs and the best of Broadway and the West End.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 7:30 PM · Jerome Robbins FestivalGlendaleAntaeus Theatre Company / Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts CenterAntaeus brings an ensemble's attention to classic plays, performed at close range in its Glendale home.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 2:00 PM · 2026: Heartbreak HouseHighland ParkBob Baker Marionette TheaterAt Bob Baker Marionette Theater, children can sit at puppet-eye level and finish the show with ice cream.Next: Thu Nov 5 · 8:00 PM · Mollie Elizabeth: People Pleaser LiveSanta MonicaBroadStageBroadStage brings jazz, dance, opera and theater to Santa Monica College, with performances that can spill onto an indoor-outdoor plaza.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Takács Quartet with Jeremy DenkHollywoodCatalina Jazz ClubCatalina Jazz Club has been Hollywood's straight-ahead jazz supper club since Catalina and Bob Popescu opened it in October 1986.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 8:30 PM · Swedish Musical Sensation GUNHILD CARLING (Jazz Singer and Award-winning Musician)CerritosCerritos Center for the Performing ArtsA large suburban performing-arts center that occasionally presents film with live musical accompaniment and other event-style screenings.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 11:00 AM · Dog Man The MusicalHollywoodDolby TheatreThe Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard pairs a large proscenium stage with Dolby Atmos playback and Dolby Vision projection.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 6:00 PM · Max Amini Live in Hollywood!DTLA: Bunker HillDorothy Chandler PavilionThe Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is the first and largest of the Music Center's four venues, with one of the biggest stages in the country.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 6:00 PM · CarmenWestlakeDynasty Typewriter at the HayworthAn independent comedy theater in the Hayworth Theatre on Wilshire, where the bills are published in full and the house identity runs to its own cartoon characters and merch.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · The Ultimate Improv Show!DTLA: Little TokyoEast West PlayersEast West Players has been producing Asian American theater since 1965, with its Little Tokyo stage serving as both a professional house and an artist-development base.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · WIVES (Preview Performance + Post-Show Conversation)Atwater VillageEcho Theater CompanyThe Echo develops new American plays, giving audiences a chance to meet a script before it acquires a long production history.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · The Peterson ShowNorth HollywoodEl Portal TheatreEl Portal turns a former vaudeville and silent-film house into three North Hollywood stages for plays, musicals, comedy and dance.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Crone CreedMiracle MileEl Rey TheatreEl Rey brings live bands into a Miracle Mile movie house, with an Art Deco lobby and sweeping staircases surviving the change of use.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 9:00 PM · Chinese FootballDowntown PomonaFox Theater PomonaFox Theater Pomona puts touring concerts inside a restored Art Deco movie palace, with downtown's galleries, restaurants and record shops close by.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · The Living TombstoneWestwoodGeffen PlayhouseThe Geffen pairs contemporary plays with a Westwood courtyard and fountain inherited from the building's life as a Masonic clubhouse.Next: Wed Nov 11 · 7:30 PM · PurposeHollywoodHollywood Pantages TheatreThe Academy Awards were handed out here for ten years, and a renovation at the turn of this century took the Hollywood Boulevard theater back to its 1930 look.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · The OutsidersHollywoodHudson TheatresThe Hudson's small Hollywood stages have housed everything from solo comedy to the stage version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 8:00 PM · My Soul To Take: UnhingedAtwater VillageIndependent Shakespeare Co. StudioIndependent Shakespeare Co.'s Atwater studio is a small indoor home for new plays and experiments with the classics.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 7:30 AM · Begins October 17Long BeachInternational City TheatreInternational City brings a season of plays and musicals to the Beverly O'Neill Theater, on a manageable scale for downtown Long Beach.Next: Wed Nov 4 · 7:30 PM · The Laugh TrackCulver CityKirk Douglas TheatreThe Kirk Douglas is Center Theatre Group's smallest stage, in downtown Culver City, and the one where it stages the most world premieres.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · Dogman: The MusicalLa MiradaLa Mirada Theatre for the Performing ArtsA city-run La Mirada theater with a Broadway-style mainstage season, concerts, family programming and a scale large enough for full touring productions.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · La Mirada Theatre presents: Little Shop of HorrorsLong BeachLong Beach PlayhouseLong Beach Playhouse keeps two stages busy with plays and musicals, backed by a community company that dates to 1929.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · REEFER MADNESS: The MusicalDTLA: Bunker HillMark Taper ForumThe Mark Taper Forum is Center Theatre Group's play house on the Music Center campus downtown, in the round under a circular roof.Next: Wed Nov 11 · 7:30 PM · Destiny of DesireSanta MonicaMorgan-Wixson TheatreMorgan-Wixson's volunteer-built theater gives Santa Monica a steady supply of musicals, straight plays and productions for younger audiences.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Into The WoodsAtwater VillageMoving ArtsMoving Arts puts new writing before a small Atwater Village audience, from early readings to fully staged productions.Next: Fri Jan 22 · 8:00 PM · What Price Freedom - RETURN ENGAGEMENTWest AdamsNate Holden Performing Arts CenterEbony Repertory brings theater rooted in the African diaspora to the Nate Holden, alongside music, dance and lectures.Next: Thu Nov 19 · 7:30 PM · Matilda: The MusicalWest Los AngelesOdyssey Theatre EnsembleThe Odyssey makes theater in a former gas-tank factory, where three small stages support experimental plays, revivals and dance.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Best MedicineAtwater VillageOpen Fist Theatre CompanyOpen Fist's artists run the company as well as make its productions, bringing ensemble work to a small Atwater Village stage.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 12:00 PM · Open Fist presents rare revival of José Rivera ’ s Obie – winning MarisolCivic CenterPasadena Civic AuditoriumPasadena Civic Auditorium has hosted everything from Ella Fitzgerald to televised talent shows, with concerts and stage productions continuing its broad public role.Next: Fri Dec 18 · 3:00 PM · NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas BalletPlayhouse DistrictPasadena PlayhousePasadena Playhouse stages new work and revivals in a theater built with local donations, carrying a community project into its second century.Next: Wed Nov 4 · 7:30 PM · Passing StrangeSouth ParkPeacock TheaterThe Peacock Theater seats 7,100 downtown at L.A. Live, and no seat in it is more than 220 feet from the stage.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Los Horoscopos de DurangoHollywoodRogue Machine TheatreRogue Machine gives contemporary plays a close-up staging at the Matrix, with a particular commitment to Los Angeles writers.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · A Case for the Existence of GodSanta MonicaRuskin Group Theatre Arts CenterRuskin's LA Café Plays turn ideas into five short productions in a single day, alongside a regular season of longer works.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 7:00 PM · Library GirlBeverly HillsSaban TheatreNext: Fri Nov 6 · 7:00 PM · Michael BlausteinSanta MonicaSanta Monica PlayhouseSanta Monica Playhouse keeps family theater, original productions and actor training together in a small Fourth Street venue.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 9:00 PM · Drunk TheatreUniversity ParkShrine Auditorium and Expo HallThe Shrine pairs a vast seated auditorium with an adjoining expo hall, giving University Park two very different ways to see a big show.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · Nine Vicious - SeditionLos FelizSkylight TheatreSkylight gives new plays a small Los Feliz stage, including work that later travels to theaters well beyond Los Angeles.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 8:00 PM · RorschachDowntown Long BeachTerrace TheaterThe Terrace Theater is the concert hall inside the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, sharing a campus with the arena and the ballroom.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:30 PM · Classical: Gershwin, Copland, and Visions of Humanity & UnityCulver CityThe Actors' GangThe Actors' Gang puts new plays and reworked classics inside a former railway substation in Culver City.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 9:00 PM · Late Night Fridays 26/27South ParkThe BelascoThe Belasco is a 1926 theater on South Hill Street downtown, now run by Live Nation for concerts and comedy.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Patrick DroneyBurbankThe Colony TheatreThe Colony brings professional theater to Burbank, with a company history rooted in television actors returning to the stage.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Catch Me If You CanHollywoodThe Fonda TheatreThe Fonda puts touring bands in a Hollywood theater that has alternated between stage productions, movie premieres and live music for a century.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 9:00 PM · ADÉLAEast HollywoodThe Fountain TheatreNew plays and flamenco share the Fountain's small East Hollywood stage, with a program that draws on the city's different communities.Next: Sun Oct 18 · 7:00 PM · Forever Flamenco: RenacerCal State LAThe Luckman Fine Arts ComplexThe Luckman brings international music and dance to Cal State LA, with gallery exhibitions adding another reason to visit the campus.Next: Sat Feb 6 · 8:00 PM · Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez 75th Anniversary TourDowntown InglewoodThe Miracle TheaterThe Miracle is Inglewood's independent stage for music, comedy and film, in a restored historic theater downtown.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 8:00 PM · D Smoke B-Day Show @ The MiracleWestwoodThe NimoyThe Nimoy turns Westwood's former Crest cinema into a small-scale home for live performance, with its painted Hollywood landmarks still in view.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 8:00 PM · Victoria Marks: A Deer Walks into a DanceNorth HollywoodThe Road Theatre on MagnoliaThe Road develops new plays inside the NoHo Senior Arts Colony, where residents can take part behind the scenes.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · KaijuBurbankThe Victory Theatre CenterThe Victory gives new American plays a small Burbank stage, often while their writers are still finding the final shape.Next: Mon Nov 16 · 7:30 PM · Page to Stage: The AngelsStudio CityThe Whitefire TheatreA small Studio City theater with a heavy appetite for solo performance and new work, operating just off Ventura Boulevard.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 6:00 PM · The Last SongWilshire CenterThe WilternA Wilshire Boulevard theater at Western Avenue that takes comedy at theater scale, the size where a touring act plays a single date instead of a weekend run.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · Tinlicker North America 2026HollywoodTheatre of NOTENOTE's small Hollywood stage favors new plays with a willingness to be strange, chosen by a company its artists govern together.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Forever in There or F*ck Around and Find OutBeverly HillsWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing ArtsA former Beverly Hills post office leads into the Wallis, where dance, plays and concerts share a two-theater complex.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Ronald K. Brown / EvidenceSan PedroWarner Grand TheatreSan Pedro's 1931 movie palace is in the middle of a major city-led renovation, so public film programming is paused until the work is complete.Next: Wed Dec 9 · 5:00 PM · Warner Grand Theatre Sneak Peek Holiday MixerWestchesterWestchester Playhouse (Kentwood Players)Kentwood Players turned a warehouse near LAX into a playhouse, continuing a theatrical habit that started with an elementary-school PTA.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 7:30 PM · (2026-S2) Westchester Playhouse Murder MysteryMid-WilshireWilshire Ebell TheatreThe Wilshire Ebell Theatre is the stage on the historic Mid-Wilshire campus of The Ebell of Los Angeles, a women's club founded to build community through the arts.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 8:00 PM · Katt Williams On Book Tour!InglewoodYouTube TheaterYouTube Theater is the 6,000-seat indoor stage on the Hollywood Park campus beside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Jorge Medina - Legendario TourNorth HollywoodZombie Joe's Underground Theatre GroupZombie Joe's makes live horror at close quarters in North Hollywood, with disturbing imagery and performance art central to its approach.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · URBAN DEATH TOUR OF TERROR "ULTRA" Haunted Theatre Attraction!