Events occuring on 2/22/2026

McCallum Theatre - Palm Desert - Presents:
McCallum Theatre 2025-2026 Season
9/10/2025 - 5/7/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

McCallum Theatre 2025-2026 Season Get Ready For An Exciting New Season! Expanded Program – Over 20 Brand New Shows! 8 Broadway Shows – McCallum Audience Favorites – Classical – Dance – Comedy – Cabaret and much more!

La Jolla Playhouse - La Jolla - Presents:
The Recipe
2/10/2026 - 3/22/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she careened from Pasadena to New York to Washington D.C. to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school. A funny and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character and her path from confusion to discovery, failure to success.

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara - Presents:
The Shark Is Broken
2/4/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

It’s 1974. The set of Jaws. The mechanical shark is malfunctioning, the schedule is in shambles, and three actors - Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider - are stuck on a boat, battling egos, alcohol, and artistic frustration. A razor-sharp, behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of the greatest films of all time.

The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project - Los Angeles - Presents:
Darryl Maximilian Robinson Presents Puck's Epilogue Speech of DREAM at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
2/7/2026 - 3/5/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

The 2022 Making The World Happening Award Winner and 2024 Broadwayworld Los Angeles Award Nominee for "The Front Page" provides a new video theatre rendering of a famed speech byone of The Immortal Bard's most delightful and magical characters.

Pasadena Playhouse - Pasadena - Presents:
Amadeus
2/11/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

The stage is set for a riveting rivalry between two composers: Antonio Salieri, the court’s celebrated musician, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the vulgar prodigy whose brilliance threatens everything Salieri holds dear.

South Coast Repertory - Costa Mesa - Presents:
God of Carnage
1/23/2026 - 3/21/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

Two Tony Award-winning plays performed in repertory, alternating nightly, with one set, overlapping casts and unlimited firepower!

San Luis Obispo RepertoryTheatre - San Luis Obispo - Presents:
Million Dollar Quartet
1/30/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

This high-energy jukebox musical is a celebration of music history, packed with heart, humor, and pure rock ‘n’ roll magic.

A Noise Within - Pasadena - Presents:
Richard III
2/8/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

Richard manipulates, marries and murders a path to the top at A Noise Within in the original ‘Game of Thrones.’

Geffen Playhouse - Los Angeles - Presents:
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA
2/4/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

A darkly funny, gripping world premiere from rising playwright Beth Hyland, this tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession, and our ghosts that refuse to be ignored.

Rubicon Theatre Company - Ventura - Presents:
The 39 Steps
2/11/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

A missing spy. A mysterious woman. A man on the run. When an ordinary man stops to help a stranger, he’s catapulted into a high-speed chase across the Scottish countryside — with only his wits (and a trench coat) to survive. This fast-paced farce features over 150 characters played by just four actors in a whirlwind of costume changes, clever staging, and nonstop laughs.

Palm Canyon Theatre - Palm Springs - Presents:
Hair
2/6/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

Hair helps to bring the spirit of the 60s back to life in beautiful Palm Springs at Palm Canyon Theatre. A vibrant rock musical bursting with freedom, rebellion, and powerful anthems, Hair captures the spirit of the 1960s counterculture.

The Bent - Palm Springs - Presents:
In the Wake
2/12/2026 - 2/28/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

The Bent Theatre brings Lisa Kron’s (FUN HOME) In The Wake to the Coachella Valley beginning Thursday, February 12 at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Directed by Laura Stearns, this bold, emotionally resonant, and sharply funny play explores love, friendship, and family, and the collision between personal ideals and lived reality.

Modernism Week - Greater Palm Springs - Presents:
Modernism Week
2/12/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

Palm Springs is the epicenter of midcentury art, architecture, and culture. Activities include home and neighborhood architecture tours, bus tours, art shows, shopping, film premiers, as well as engaging talks and presentations. In addition you'll find food, cocktails, live music, and evening entertainment. Browse all 2026 activities, purchase tickets, and plan your Modernism Week today.

Chance Theater - Anaheim - Presents:
Once
1/23/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

On the Cripe Stage… Get ready to experience the heart and soul of Once! This intimate musical, based on the Academy Award-winning film, tells the story of a Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant whose chance encounter sparks a week-long collaboration full of music, dreams, and unexpected connection.

La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment - La Mirada - Presents:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
1/30/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

An unjustly exiled barber returns to London to seek vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs.Lovett, the resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop above which he opens a new barber practice.Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people lining up for more.

New Village Arts - Carlsbad - Presents:
The Apiary
1/23/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

The San Diego premiere of an enthralling and funny new work by Kate Douglas, The Apiary is a funny and thrilling story set in a synthetic honeybee laboratory twenty years in the future. The Apiary follows four women tasked with keeping the last surviving colonies alive until a shocking discovery inside the hive turns their work, their loyalties, and their futures upside down.

Star Theatre Company - Oceanside - Presents:
"Moon Over Buffalo"
2/13/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Friday, 2/13/2026)

In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend Me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they’re playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors.

Community Actors Theatre - San Diego - Presents:
"The Main Line"
2/6/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Friday, 2/13/2026)

A very moving Show, written and directed by Jennie Hamilton, Running February 6 - March 1, 2026 - “The Main Line” - Life story of the renowned, late Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson, To commemorate Black History. Fri/Sat at 7pm., Sun. at 3pm. $20.00 General. $17.00 for seniors, students, military & Groups of 10 or more attending the same performance.

Coronado Playhouse - Coronado - Presents:
Barefoot in the Park
2/6/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Friday, 2/13/2026)

The laugh-out-loud ups and downs of love!

Open Fist Theatre Company - Los Angeles - Presents:
Brownstone
1/24/2026 - 2/28/2026 (next performance: Friday, 2/13/2026)

Three poignant stories hopscotch through time in Catherine Butterfield’s ‘Brownstone.’ Open Fist Theatre Conpany presents the Los Angeles premiere.