15: “Phoenix,” Stewart Goodyear’s Wallis debut piano concert. 15: The Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena hosts its annual “Black Tie & Burgers” Gala, celebrating the club’s 85th anniversary. 13: Mambo Kings and Camile Zamora present “Havana Nights.” The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills.
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9: “Sunday Funday,” a series of free, family-friendly dance, music and theatre experiences. 7: Ballet Hispanico celebrates its 50th anniversary with “Noche de Oro.” The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills.
1: “An Evening with Motown.” The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills. 1: The Gooden Center’s 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration. Performances continue at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Oct. Opera opens its 37th season with Donizetti’s “Lucia de Lammermoor,” conducted by Lina Gonzalez-Granados in her debut as Resident Conductor.
28: A Noise Within launches its season with Peter Hall’s musical adaptation of George Orwell’s satire, “Animal Farm.” Performances continue at Pasadena’s A Noise Within Theatre through Oct.2. Mary Urquhart, co-chair of the Pasadena Art Alliance’s biennial art auction, held last May, reports that the event netted more than $510,000 to aid arts grants and awards programs in Southern California. After our first season back on stage, we knew that this year had to be about celebrating American musical theater and our playhouse community coming together again.” The Pasadena Playhouse (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda/ Pasadena Star-News) AUCTION ACTION Also, in a landmark partnership, the playhouse is working with Pasadena high schools to mount a production of Sondheim’s “Into the Woods,” with students collaborating with professionals.Ĭapping the 2022/23 season, will be two Los Angeles premieres, “Sanctuary City,” by Martyna Majok, and “Stew” by Zora Howard.ĭanny Feldman, playhouse producing artistic director said, “This celebration has been several years in the making and has taken on even deeper meaning since the death of Sondheim last year. The grand finale will be a concert featuring Sondheim’s muse, Bernadette Peters. The season opens in January with “Sunday in the Park with George,” followed by “A Little Night Music. Bernadette Peters (File photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) However, the venerable playhouse – aka – the State Theater of California – has survived.Īnd now, it is embarking on the most ambitious and momentous event in its history, a six-month celebration of the works of the brilliant American composer, the late Stephen Sondheim. Over the years, the theater has weathered threats of demolition, bankruptcy and earthquake damage – not to mention corona virus restrictions and some cantankerous theater critics. “The Show Must Go On.” That adage has been the mantra for the Pasadena Playhouse since Gilmor Brown first opened its doors, on South El Molino Avenue, in 1924.
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