2023/2024 Dance Season Announced

Our Boldest Season Yet

Be a part of our 2023/2024 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center featuring five bold, awe-inspiring and boundary-pushing dance residencies coming to you this fall!

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Complexions Contemporary Ballet

June 16-18, 2023
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Complexions Contemporary Ballet brings WOKE, a bold and dynamic one-act ballet featuring the full company set to music by Kendrick Lamar, Logic, Drake, plus others, and LOVE ROCKS, where rock meets ballet with music by GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz.

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Make It A Music Center Summer!

The Music Center is your place to move and be moved. With concerts, performances and free events all summer long, The Music Center is L.A.’s place to soak up the sun and dance under the stars...to see it live and to vibe.

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Upcoming Live Events

Join us for the return of live events and performances at The Music Center!

  • Fri May 12 7:00 PM

    Sat Jun 17 7:00 PM

    A TMC Arts Program Cosmogony

    Jerry Moss Plaza

    Shown in real time on LED screens on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center, dancers perform an original contemporary work remotely from Geneva, Switzerland—6,000 miles away from Downtown Los Angeles. The dancers outfitted with motion capture suits ...Show more

    Shown in real time on LED screens on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center, dancers perform an original contemporary work remotely from Geneva, Switzerland—6,000 miles away from Downtown Los Angeles. The dancers outfitted with motion capture suits are digitally altered to become avatars for the high-tech performance. Throughout the 30-minute experience, the dancers will be revealed in human form on-screen intermittently to give audiences a behind-the-scenes glimpse of them dancing from their Geneva studio.

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  • Sat May 13 7:30 PM

    Sun Jun 04 2:00 PM

    LA Opera Otello

    Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

    He's a beloved leader, a distinguished military commander and a devoted husband. But when an envious subordinate introduces the notion—just the slightest whispered hint—that Otello's wife Desdemona might possibly be unfaithful, it's enough to send...Show more

    He's a beloved leader, a distinguished military commander and a devoted husband. But when an envious subordinate introduces the notion—just the slightest whispered hint—that Otello's wife Desdemona might possibly be unfaithful, it's enough to send him into a downward spiral of fury and murder.

    Hailed as the pinnacle of the Italian operatic repertoire, Verdi’s transformation of the original Shakespeare play is a powerful drama of uncontrolled human emotion at its most extreme. Verdi's musical portrait of Otello’s descent into a tortured heart of darkness is explicit in every chilling detail as he destroys all in life that he holds dear.

    Verdi master James Conlon takes command of the truly epic musical forces. The powerhouse cast is led by Artist in Residence Russell Thomas in the title role (considered the "Mount Everest" of the dramatic tenor repertoire). Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes a highly anticipated company debut as the doomed Desdemona and Igor Golovatenko is the sadistic Iago, slyly exploiting Otello's one fatal flaw: jealousy.

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  • Tue May 23 8:00 PM

    Sun Jun 25 6:30 PM

    Center Theatre Group A Transparent Musical

    Mark Taper Forum

    From the very first note, this genre-bending new musical comedy follows a trail of family secrets to unearth a story of self-discovery, acceptance, and celebration. A Transparent Musical is the uplifting comic story of the Pfefferman fami...Show more

    From the very first note, this genre-bending new musical comedy follows a trail of family secrets to unearth a story of self-discovery, acceptance, and celebration. A Transparent Musical is the uplifting comic story of the Pfefferman family, whose patriarch is finally allowing their true selves to emerge as Maura, the transgender matriarch she always knew she was. Maura’s ex-wife is left questioning a lifetime of partnership, her oldest daughter unravels her own perfect life, her son runs the other way, and her youngest child begins to discover who they really are. Based on the hit Amazon Prime original TV show by Joey Soloway, A Transparent Musical is the ground-breaking new musical that shines a light on a Los Angeles Jewish family who are universally relatable, imperfectly human, and startlingly familiar.

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  • Tue May 23 8:00 PM

    Sun Jun 25 1:00 PM

    Center Theatre Group A Soldier's Play

    Ahmanson Theatre

    A Soldier’s Play, the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning thriller by Charles Fuller, has rocketed back into the spotlight, thanks to this 2020 Tony Award®-winning Best Revival from Roundabout Theatre Company. “This is a play that deserves to be ...Show more

    A Soldier’s Play, the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning thriller by Charles Fuller, has rocketed back into the spotlight, thanks to this 2020 Tony Award®-winning Best Revival from Roundabout Theatre Company. “This is a play that deserves to be staged regularly all over America—though it’s hard to imagine that it will ever be done better than this. It keeps you guessing all the way to the final curtain” (The Wall Street Journal).

    In 1944, on a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is murdered and a series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. Broadway’s Norm Lewis leads a powerhouse cast in the show Variety calls “a knock-your-socks-off-drama," directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon.

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  • Thu Jun 01 8:00 PM

    Sun Jun 04 2:00 PM

    LA Phil Dudamel conducts Mozart

    Walt Disney Concert Hall

    The incomparable creativity of Mozart is on full display in this wondrous program that includes his final piano concerto and final symphony. Peerless Mozart interpreter Mitsuko Uchida—described by Gramophone as having stunning “virtuosity...Show more

    The incomparable creativity of Mozart is on full display in this wondrous program that includes his final piano concerto and final symphony. Peerless Mozart interpreter Mitsuko Uchida—described by Gramophone as having stunning “virtuosity and elan” and tonal shading “verging on the miraculous”—joins the LA Phil for the Piano Concerto No. 27. Dudamel leads the exuberant “Jupiter” Symphony, one of the composer’s longest symphonies and one of his most enduring and loved.

    Concerts in the Thursday 2 subscription series are generously supported by the Otis Booth Foundation.

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  • Thu Jun 08 7:00 PM

    A TMC Arts Program The Music Center's 35th Annual Spotlight Grand Finale

    Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

    The Music Center's Spotlight Grand Finale features an evening of unforgettable performances by our 14 Spotlight Grand Prize Finalists at The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Join us to celebrate the cu...Show more

    The Music Center's Spotlight Grand Finale features an evening of unforgettable performances by our 14 Spotlight Grand Prize Finalists at The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Join us to celebrate the culmination of a multi-faceted year-long journey by these incredibly talented high school artists who are part of the Spotlight program.

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  • Sat Jun 10 2:00 PM

    Sun Jun 11 7:00 PM

    LA Master Chorale Ellington / Williams

    Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams were giants of jazz who never stopped searching for new means of expression. Inspired by their faith, both created major sacred choral works that grew out of the African American church tradition and pushed aga...Show more

    Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams were giants of jazz who never stopped searching for new means of expression. Inspired by their faith, both created major sacred choral works that grew out of the African American church tradition and pushed against the boundaries of both sacred music and jazz. This concert is a celebration of distinctive music created by two American originals.

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  • Sat Jun 24 8:00 PM

    A TMC Arts Program The Music Center's Summer SoundWaves: Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente

    Jerry Moss Plaza

    As the most anticipated record of 2023 in Brazil, Cometa is a collaboration between Grammy® winners Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente recorded live in São Paulo at the beginning of 2023. One of Jazz’s leading singers and interpreters, Souza...Show more

    As the most anticipated record of 2023 in Brazil, Cometa is a collaboration between Grammy® winners Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente recorded live in São Paulo at the beginning of 2023. One of Jazz’s leading singers and interpreters, Souza has been releasing acclaimed recordings since 2002, including her six Grammy®-nominated records Brazilian Duos, North and South, Duos II, Tide, Duos III and The Book of Chet. Trio Corrente is comprised of Fabio Torres, Paulo Paulelli and Edu Ribeiro. Having performed together over the last two decades with a Who’s Who of Brazilian artists and amazing their loyal following in Brazil and Europe, Trio Corrente is the group of choice for musicians such as Paquito de Rivera, Rosa Passes and Ron Carter, who confessed being “deeply impressed by the quality and maturity of the Trio.” With de Rivera, Trio Corrente won two Grammy® Awards and toured the world.

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    $20 Adults; up to 4 free child tickets with one paid adult ticket

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    $20 Adults; up to 4 free child tickets with one paid adult ticket

We Stand With Black Communities

We mourn the countless unjust deaths of Black people.  We recognize the inexcusable pain and suffering that Black individuals and Black communities experience daily as a result of racial injustice and violence, and we stand with those who are raising their voices for justice. Black lives matter.

The Music Center must listen, learn and redouble its efforts to seek out meaningful steps and actions that ensure that every member of our community is treated with dignity.  We must work even harder to create, support and uplift art that is rooted in compassion, truth and cultural equity and to provide an inclusive, collaborative, creative, and safe space for marginalized voices in our community to be heard.

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TMC Arts, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera and LA Phil.