Alexander Shelley, the new music director of the Pacific Symphony, in the several times this listener has heard and witnessed him, is a conductor not given to exaggeration. He is an honest musician, ...

The 26 th OC Arts Awards, celebrating outstanding local achievements in the arts, were held Tuesday night at Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, in the heart of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Arts ...

Planning for the annual makeover from family-friendly theme park to fog-filled streets and mazes of terror at Buena Park’s Knott’s Berry Farm can take months, if not years. An important part of that ...

Casagrán, who studied law at UCLA before earning a theater degree from UC San Bernardino, co-founded Ophelia’s Jump and has built the ...

For the Addams family, naturally, things get a little stranger. Cabrillo Playhouse opens its 2026-27 season with “The Addams Family,” the musical comedy inspired by Charles Addams’ famously macabre ...

From pottery classes to open studios, local spaces offer a chance to work with your hands, step away from screens and connect with others.

This fall, Southgate Productions brings “Assassins” to the Curtis Theatre, taking on a musical that feels like part of a history lesson.  “This is definitely a bit of a darker turn for Southgate,” ...

As the season-opening concert of your brand new music director – your first in some 35 years – it was an entirely anticlimactic evening on Thursday at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

As local newsrooms shrink, California’s Community NEWS Act offers a potential lifeline for independent arts and culture reporting – but the governor must act by Sept. 30.

This September, Culture OC marks three years as an independent nonprofit newsroom. Anniversaries usually invite us to look back. This year, we are also looking outward at the artists, organizations, ...