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A disfigured musical genius known only as the Phantom haunts the Paris Opera House and grows obsessed with the young soprano Christine, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's tale of jealousy and passion. This revitalized production, first staged in London in 2021, still carries 'Music of the Night,' 'Masquerade,' and the title song more than three decades after it first opened.

The richest woman in the world returns to her ruined hometown with an offer to save it, for one very steep price, in this haunting and grotesque comedy about what people will do for a billion dollars. Tony winners Jefferson Mays and Darko Tresnjak reunite following their acclaimed run of Amadeus.

Disney's first North American tour in over 25 years reunites members of the original Tony-nominated creative team, from composer Alan Menken to costume designer Ann Hould-Ward, with new sets and costumes built for the road. The Oscar-winning score still carries "Be Our Guest" through Belle and the Beast's classic love story.

Bizet's tale of a rebellious factory worker and the soldier she seduces and destroys gets a brand-new staging steeped in Spanish Gothic imagery from director Thaddeus Strassberger. It's also the first production led by incoming LA Opera Music Director Domingo Hindoyan, sung in French with English supertitles.

Adapted from S.E. Hinton's novel and Francis Ford Coppola's film, this musical follows Ponyboy Curtis and his Greaser family through 1967 Tulsa's class war with the wealthier Socs. Danya Taymor's staging won four 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

A young artist leaves South Central LA on a cross-continental search for something real, in this Tony-winning show based on the life of singer-songwriter Stew. Twenty years after its world premiere, the show finally gets its LA premiere, directed by Tony winner Zhailon Levingston.

Phylicia Rashad directs the original Broadway cast in this winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, now making its LA debut. Inside the home of a civil rights dynasty, the youngest son's uninvited houseguest cracks open decades of image management and buried resentment.

Bernstein's operetta sends the eternally optimistic Candide through war, earthquake, and the Inquisition chasing Voltaire's satire of "the best of all possible worlds." Francesca Zambello's production returns to LA Opera with Patti LuPone reprising her role as the Old Lady.

The Cornley Amateur Drama Society attempts Dickens's A Christmas Carol and predictably implodes, in Mischief's latest disaster from writers Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Missing actors, collapsing sets, and a growing cast feud turn Scrooge's redemption story into its own kind of catastrophe in its North American premiere.

Bess Wohl's play, winner of the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, makes its West Coast debut after a Broadway run, following six women who gather in a 1970s Ohio basement to start a consciousness-raising group and end up rewriting their own lives. The New York Times called it "an unadulterated pleasure, powerfully moving and funny."

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene performs the score in Yiddish, the original language of Sholom Aleichem's Tevye stories, with English and Russian supertitles. What began as a planned six-week run in New York became an 18-month phenomenon, directed by Joel Grey and led by Steven Skybell as Tevye.

In a Georgia high school AP English class, five students studying The Crucible start questioning who really gets called a hero or a villain, in Kimberly Belflower's Broadway play. Three of the country's leading regional theatres co-produce this seven-time Tony-nominated hit for its West Coast premiere, directed by Jess McLeod.