By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Indy Thirty years ago, Segerstrom Center for the Arts served as the launchpad for what has been called the best show The Beatles never did. Classical Mystery Tour stands in a league of its own as both an acclaimed Beatles tribute band...

South Coast Repertory’s theatrical event of the season is about to end, but there’s still time to experience two remarkable plays that share actors and a set. Through March 21, South Coast Rep is presenting a rotating repertory of two Tony Award-winning plays: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward...

Gallery Sonder is hosting “After the Dust Settles” March 20 through May 10, the first solo exhibition in the United States by German artist Ruben Benjamin. Exploring painting and sculpture as enmeshed disciplines, Benjamin presents a body of work shaped by pressure, movement, and accretion, where material processes cultivate shifting...

Segerstrom Center for the Arts has announced its 2026-2027 Broadway season, and it’s an extra special celebration because it marks the Center’s 40th anniversary season. This landmark season features 11 acclaimed Broadway productions, including six Orange County premieres. Casey Reitz, President and CEO of Segerstrom Center for the Arts, said “I...

By Zoe Luczaj | NB Indy Arts Writer If you think your Instagram is revealing, you haven’t met Sophie Calle. Decades before social media blurred the boundary between private and public life, Calle was staging her own experiences and quietly inserting herself into the lives of others — as art. Now on...

Steve Roden joined a punk rock band when he was in his teens, but he eventually became an artist who worked across painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, video, music, and sound. According to the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art which has an exhibit of his work titled “Steve...

Pacific Symphony invites audiences to welcome the Year of the Horse this Lunar New Year with a vibrant evening of music and dance on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. The orchestra’s annual celebration returns to the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall with a dynamic program that blends Eastern...

A new musical era has begun for Pacific Symphony. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, hundreds of Pacific Symphony subscribers, donors, VIPs and members of the media came to Segerstrom Concert Hall to experience a presentation of the symphony’s 2026-2027 Classical Series, presented by Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation. The new season,...

Monty Python fans rejoice: the Holy Grail of musical comedy, “Spamalot,” returns to Segerstrom Center for the Arts February 17 through 22. Lovingly adapted from the 1975 film classic, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Spamalot” has everything that makes a great knight at the theatre: flying cows, killer rabbits,...