Alex Theatre

The Glendale Youth Orchestra (GYO) is one of Los Angeles County’s lead youth orchestras. The GYO has played twice in recent years at the Walt Disney Concert Hall to great acclaim. In 2011, the GYO auditioned and was selected as a PREMIER LA Phil Youth Orchestra. GYO’s mission is based on the belief that our young people have a better chance of succeeding in their world if they appreciate and participate in its rich artistic and cultural traditions. GYO provides young musicians in grades 6-12 from all over L.A. County a unique opportunity to play classical music under the direction...

Take a free backstage tour of the Alex Theatre for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the historic venue as you have never seen it before! The tour is led by a guide who will conduct an overview of the landmark’s 90-year history, from its inception as a vaudeville house and movie palace in 1925 to its transformation to a world-class performing arts and entertainment center in the 1990s and more recently, the backstage expansion of 2014 and current programs and activities. Participants will also have the chance to see sound and lighting demos and explore and learn about the facility’s...

Hop aboard the “Chattanooga Choo Choo” to “Tuxedo Junction” and get “In the Mood” to hear a “Moonlight Serenade” performed by a13-piece Big Band and six singer-dancers with some hot boogie-woogie! Experience the swing, the rhythm, and the jazzy, brassy, sentimental, and patriotic music of the 1940s!

Hop aboard the “Chattanooga Choo Choo” to “Tuxedo Junction” and get “In the Mood” to hear a “Moonlight Serenade” performed by a13-piece Big Band and six singer-dancers with some hot boogie-woogie! Experience the swing, the rhythm, and the jazzy, brassy, sentimental, and patriotic music of the 1940s!

Global Arts presents ERIK LIVE In Concert, performing in Armenian.

Take a free backstage tour of the Alex Theatre for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the historic venue as you have never seen it before! The tour is led by a guide who will conduct an overview of the landmark’s 90-year history, from its inception as a vaudeville house and movie palace in 1925 to its transformation to a world-class performing arts and entertainment center in the 1990s and more recently, the backstage expansion of 2014 and current programs and activities. Participants will also have the chance to see sound and lighting demos and explore and learn about the facility’s...

Based on Cervantes’ iconic Spanish novel and choreographed by Los Angeles Ballet’s Christensen and Neary (after Petipa), Don Quixote weaves a splendid tapestry of love, illusion, daring, and adventure. Gypsies, matadors, and windmills result in a profusion of excitement, humor, and family fun.

Musical Theatre Guild presents a staged concert version of A CLASS ACT (2001) Music & Lyrics: Edward Kleban Book: Linda Kline & Lonny Price ‘Kiss today goodbye, the sweetness and the sorrow’; ‘God, I’m a dancer! A dancer dances’; ‘Everything is beautiful at the ballet!’ Those lyrics are from among the most successful, beloved, longest-running Broadway shows of the last 40 years. The intelligent, troubled, funny, gifted man who wrote them is the central character of A Class Act. Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch are among the characters, but you won’t hear any songs from A Chorus Line. The entire...

Equally accomplished as conductor and composer, Matthias Pintscher‘s intrinsic understanding of the score from the composer’s perspective informs his ability to communicate on the podium. He is admired for his fresh and bold conducting style and wonderful rapport with musicians, serving as music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain and artist-in-association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. LACO patrons can enjoy Pintscher’s ‘remarkably acute visual sense’ in a varied program featuring Fauré, Schoenberg, Ravel and Beethoven.

With its namesake Beach Boys’ 1967 LP as its inspiration, the Wild Honey Orchestra and Guest Artists will explore the Beach Boys’ dazzling post-Pet Sounds work from Smiley Smile (1967) onward to 1977’s underground classic The Beach Boys Love You. From the classic hits Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, Sail On Sailor and Surf’s Up to the underdog gems from amazing records like Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Sunflower, Holland, and many more, over 30 songs from this incredible era will be brought to life with full orchestration in the same manner as last year’s Wild Honey productions of the Beatles’...

Gianmarco, born Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóvar in Lima, Peru, is a singer-songwriter of international prominence. He has won the Latin Grammy Award for the Best Singer-Songwriter Album three times. As a composer, his creations are the choice of acclaimed artists such as Marc Anthony, Alejandro Fernández and Gloria Estefan. Currently, Gianmarco is recognized as one of the best songwriters in Peruvian history, and he now embarks on his ‘Libre’ tour featuring his new studio production.

The Antaeus Theatre Company is comprised of a group of talented actors – many of whom you’ve seen in film, television, and on Broadway – who have delighted audiences with up-close encounters with some of the greatest plays ever written since 1991. Now Antaeus is bringing a series of staged theatrical readings to the Alex Theatre Forecourt in 2016, in anticipation of opening its new theatre in Glendale in the Fall of 2016.