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Ahmanson Theatre
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135 N. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Box Office Phone:
(213) 628-2772
Box Office Hours:
Tue-Sun, 12pm-6pm, 2 hours before curtain.
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We Will Rock You
Open:
Jul-15 2014
Close:
Aug-24 2014
Boom Boom Clap! It’s the thunderous roar of revolution with the blockbuster hits of the legendary Queen driving its epic story. In the future, computer-generated music reigns, live rock is outlawed, and conformity is brutally enforced. Until a pair of young renegades, Galileo and Scaramouche, dare to break free and search for a long-buried electric guitar. Before Another One Bites the Dust, you can be sure our heroes will find Somebody to Love. |
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The Last Confession
Open:
Jun-10 2014
Close:
Jun-29 2014
1978, and a little-known country priest is crowned Pope John Paul I in an uneasy compromise. Thirty-three days later, before he can set his liberal reforms into place, “the Smiling Pope” is found dead: the very day after threatening to remove three prominent Cardinals from their posts. No investigation or autopsy is performed, and a Vatican press release about the cause of his death is later proven to be, in large part, false. The Last Confession, an unflinching and searing drama, recounts the... |
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Porgy and Bess
Open:
Apr-22 2014
Close:
Jun-01 2014
Catfish Row, and the livin’ ain’t easy for Bess, bound to one man and in love with another, while the world crumbles around them. And yet they cling to their faith and each other until they burst into those breathtaking Gershwin standards: “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “I Got Plenty of Nothing” and more.ke South Pacific and Follies, this rare production captures the iconic masterwork the way it was meant to be appreciated: on the sumptuous Ahmanson stage with a magnificent... |
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Harmony
Open:
Mar-04 2014
Close:
Apr-13 2014
They were the first sensational boy band: six talented young men who came together in 1920s Germany and took the world by storm with their signature blend of sophisticated close harmonies and uproarious stage antics. While the Comedian Harmonists sold millions of records, starred in a dozen films and packed the houses of the most prestigious concert halls, the group’s religious composition – a mixture of Jews and gentiles – put them on a collision course with history. Their amazing story inspired... |
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Peter and the Starcatcher
Open:
Dec-03 2013
Close:
Jan-12 2014
Before Peter was Pan, he was just a boy. But when this orphan climbs aboard the good ship Neverland, he whisks us away on an exhilarating adventure full of cut-up cutthroats, unlikely heroes and – at its core – a boy-meets-girl story that will make you never want to grow up. Believing is seeing. In this groundbreaking production , a dozen wildly talented actors flex their theatrical muscles and funny bones to spin a rich, fresh, action-packed tale that engages the audience in the most magically... |
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Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty
Open:
Nov-21 2013
Close:
Dec-01 2013
Matthew Bourne (Edward Scissorhands, The Car Man) returns to the Ahmanson, re-imagining Sleeping Beauty as a gothic romance complete with faeries and vampires, enchanting and arresting scenery and costumes: all in a fully immersive surround sound experience. Bourne knows how to engage and enthrall an audience, making ardent new fans of his unique stories in dance. There won’t be any sleeping during this Beauty. Only rapturous applause. |
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The Sunshine Boys
Open:
Sep-24 2013
Close:
Nov-03 2013
At the pinnacle of Vaudeville, Al Lewis and Willie Clark were the undisputed Kings of Comedy before splitting unceremoniously. But when CBS attempts to re-unite the legendary double bill for a once-in-a-lifetime television special, the shtick hits the fan when old grudges begin horning in on the act. |
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The Scottsboro Boys
Open:
May-21 2013
Close:
Jun-30 2013
The Scottsboro Boys, which Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press called “. . . a staggeringly inventive piece of musical theatre . . .,” explores a shocking and pivotal chapter in American history with arresting originality, innovative staging and piercing new songs. The show is based on the infamous “Scottsboro” case in the 1930s, and tells the story of the nine unjustly accused African American men whose lives would eventually spark the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Fela!
Open:
Apr-25 2013
Close:
May-05 2013
A triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, Fela! is the true story of Kuti, who created a new type of music, Afrobeat, and mixed these pounding eclectic rhythms (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies) with incendiary lyrics that openly attacked the corrupt and oppressive military dictatorships that rule Nigeria and much of Africa. His songs of rebellion were an inspiration to millions. |
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End of the Rainbow
Open:
Mar-12 2013
Close:
Apr-21 2013
The setting of End of the Rainbow is December 1968, and Judy Garland is about to make her comeback . . . again. In a London hotel room preparing for a series of concerts, with both her new young fiancé and her adoring accompanist, Garland struggles to get “beyond the rainbow” with her signature cocktail of talent, tenacity and razor-sharp wit. This savagely funny drama offers unique insight into the inner conflict that inspired and consumed one of the most beloved figures in American popular... |
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Backbeat
Open:
Jan-20 2013
Close:
Mar-01 2013
The birth of one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands in history is told in the new dramatic musical Backbeat, which will have its American premiere and pre-Broadway presentation at the Ahmanson Theatre. Backbeat, the story of how the Beatles ‘became’ the Beatles, is co-written by Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys, based on the 1994 Universal Pictures film by Softley, Michael Thomas and Stephen Ward. “Backbeat” is directed by five-time Tony Award nominee David Leveaux. Featuring the all-time... |
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Anything Goes
Open:
Nov-27 2012
Close:
Jan-06 2013
This 1934 musical comedy about the lovers, liars and clowns on a transatlantic cruise is “a daffy, shipshape romp!” - Variety. When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. |
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Seminar
Open:
Oct-10 2012
Close:
Nov-18 2012
In Seminar, four aspiring young writers sign up for private writing classes with Leonard (played by Goldblum), an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this provocative new comedy. |
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Mary Poppins
Open:
Aug-09 2012
Close:
Sep-02 2012
Based on P.L. Travers’ cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins features the Academy Award®-winning music and lyrics of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The stage production has been created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who has written the book, and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics. Olivier Award-winning... |
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War Horse
Open:
Jun-14 2012
Close:
Jul-29 2012
England, 1914. As World War One begins, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped from England to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary journey, before finding himself alone in no man’s land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home. |
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