Arts and Culture Events in Orange County
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Thursday April 18 4:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
FREE: Music on the Porch at The Ranch
Free but buy drinks and tip the performers. Lovely outdoor scenery. Acoustic-centric singers every day at 4pm . Saturday and Sunday brunch music from 11am – 3pm. Check their calendar for specifics at https://www.theranchlb.com/ranch/calendar-events/live-music daydatemu......More
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Thursday April 18 6:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
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Thursday April 18 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Live Jazz at Campus Jax
Dinner club with a fantastic sound system. Ticket prices vary. One entree per guest must be purchased. March 7: Tony Guerrero and Jeremy Siskind record release party March 14: Anne Walsh and Tom Zinc – from Bossa to Bacharach April 4: Joel Wenhardt April 10: Kirsten Edk......More
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Thursday April 18 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Disney's Beauty and the Beast at The Vanguard Lyceum Theater
A Broadway musical based on the smash hit Disney animated feature.
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Thursday April 18 8:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
Pippin at The Gem Theater
As told by a traveling troupe of actors, led by the cunning and charming Leading Player, Pippin is the story of a young prince, heir to the throne, who is searching for his own “corner of the sky.” Pippin returns from university certain that he will find a fulfilling pu......More
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Thursday April 18 8:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
Urinetown, The Musical at CSUF
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an irreverent satire that skewers politics, social irresponsibility, and even musicals themselves. After a devastating 20-year drought, the govern......More
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Friday April 19 through April 20
FREE: Fullerton College Jazz Festival
Student ensembles performing all day. April 19: Vocal jazz. April 20: instrumental jazz
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Friday April 19 4:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
FREE: Classic Car Show and Live Music on Historic Main Street
The Garden Grove Car Show is the longest running car show in Orange County, CA. Dozens of Classic Cars, Antique Cars and Custom Coupes descend on Main Street every Friday at 4pm and provide an evening of fun and spectacle for the whole family. Live music is usually on ......More
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Friday April 19 4:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
FREE: Music on the Porch at The Ranch
Free but buy drinks and tip the performers. Lovely outdoor scenery. Acoustic-centric singers every day at 4pm . Saturday and Sunday brunch music from 11am – 3pm. Check their calendar for specifics at https://www.theranchlb.com/ranch/calendar-events/live-music daydatemu......More
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Friday April 19 5:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
OC Japan Fair in Costa Mesa
For the OC Japan Fair 2024, you’ll enjoy “Oiran Dochu,” or an “alluring procession,” a reenactment of processions done by the oiran, courtesans of Yoshiwara in the Edo Period, to advertise the houses in which they worked. Referral link Yuri Yoshida, known as Yuriyan Ret......More
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Friday April 19 6:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
FREE: Jazz Pianist Ron Kobayashi plus Special Guests at Bayside
Free but tip the band and buy a drink.. Ron is joined by a guest vocalist every Friday. Pianist and composer Ron Kobayashi has performed with a variety of musical artists including Mel Torme, Peter Frampton, Kenny Burrell, Tom Scott, Margaret Whiting, Peter White among ......More
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Friday April 19 7:00pm - 9:30pm PDT
FREE: Live Jazz at The OC Fish Grill
Performed on the patio. The food is awesome and affordably priced.
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Friday April 19 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Don't Dress for Dinner at The Camino Real Playhouse
It’s an evening filled with mistaken identities, bribery, deception and plans that go disastrously awry. Confusion reigns in this hilarious farcical tale of a weekend that becomes a nuptial nightmare!
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Friday April 19 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
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Friday April 19 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Sweeney Todd at The Cabrillo Playhouse
A thrilling musical, Sweeney Todd, whose real name is Benjamin Barker, uses his new alias to resume work in his barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling pie shop after being wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment by the corrupt Judge Turpin. After swearing vengeanc......More
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Friday April 19 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Disney's Beauty and the Beast at The Vanguard Lyceum Theater
A Broadway musical based on the smash hit Disney animated feature.
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Friday April 19 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Opera Chapman presents: Celestial Visitors
A thrilling double-bill performance of two one-act operas: Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione (Scipio’s Dream), followed by the West-Coast premiere of Robert Moran’s From the Towers of the Moon, based on the iconic Japanese legend The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Music perform......More
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Friday April 19 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Tiny Beautiful Things at The Chance Theater
Based on the real-life stories that inspired the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed (writer of the bestselling memoir Wild) that launched the acclaimed Hulu series, Tiny Beautiful Things is a play rich with humor, insight, compassion – and absolute honesty. When “Sugar......More
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Friday April 19 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Dance Escape Dance Concert at UCI
M.F.A. choreographers present a dynamic program of original new works that celebrate the extraordinary talents of both graduate and undergraduate dancers. Get ready to be mesmerized by their creativity, passion, and artistry as they transport you to a realm of movement ......More
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Friday April 19 8:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
Little Shop of Horrors at The Phantom Projects Theatre
A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses......More
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Friday April 19 8:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
Pippin at The Gem Theater
As told by a traveling troupe of actors, led by the cunning and charming Leading Player, Pippin is the story of a young prince, heir to the throne, who is searching for his own “corner of the sky.” Pippin returns from university certain that he will find a fulfilling pu......More
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Friday April 19 8:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
Urinetown, The Musical at CSUF
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an irreverent satire that skewers politics, social irresponsibility, and even musicals themselves. After a devastating 20-year drought, the govern......More
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Saturday April 20 All Day
FREE: Fullerton College Jazz Festival
Student ensembles performing all day. April 19: Vocal jazz. April 20: instrumental jazz
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Saturday April 20 9:00am - 11:00am PDT
FREE: South OC Cars and Coffee
South OC Cars and Coffee is the world’s largest weekly car show, attracting a mix of hypercars, supercars, exotics, vintage, classic, muscle and sports cars, hot rods, rat rods, pickups, 4×4’s and motorcycles. No registration is required, spectators are welcome and we m......More
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Saturday April 20 10:00am - 1:00pm PDT
The Met presents La Rondine Live and in High Definitinon
Note that this is playing in several theaters. This link will provide a comprehensive list of locations. Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an ......More
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Saturday April 20 11:00am - 3:00pm PDT
FREE: Music on The Porch at The Ranch
Lovely outdoor scenery. Acoustic-centric singers every day at 4pm . Saturday and Sunday brunch music from 11 – 3. Check their calendar for specifics at https://www.theranchlb.com/play/events/live-music daydatemusiciantimegenreSaturday6-AprCameron Stiles11am-3pmCountry, ......More