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Best Musicals in October 2024

Hamilton at Pantages Theater Hollywood

Hamilton

A true cultural phenomenon, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize-winning Hamilton is changing the face of the modern musical. An exhilarating historical epic, that is equal parts Sondheim and Notorious B.I.G., this record-breaking Broadway musical traces the life and times of Alexander Hamilton, one of America's most important (and colorful) historical figures.

Kimberly Akimbo at Pantages Theater Hollywood

Kimberly Akimbo

This shining musical from Jeanine Tersoi and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire is going on a national tour across North America. Launching in the fall of 2024, this tour gives wider audiences a chance to enjoy the heart and hilarity of this poignant new musical. Mark your calendars, do not miss this hit show!

American Idiot at Mark Taper Forum

American Idiot

The Center Theatre Group is breaking exciting ground this fall with a new production of Green Day's rock opera musical American Idiot. Working in collaboration with the Tony Award winners Deaf West Theatre, the play will star Deaf and hearing actors performing in both English and American Sign Language simultaneously. The show, based on Green Day's multi-platinum Grammy award-winning 2004 album, first premiered in Berkeley in 2009 and became the theater's best-selling show of all time, and after it moved across the States and the global stage. Now the monumental show is returning to its home state of California for an unforgettable and unique performance that has to be witnessed!

Little Shop Of Horrors at Janet & Ray Scherr Forum

Little Shop Of Horrors

When flower store assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles upon a very strange new plant species, he has high hopes that his discovery will lead to fame, fortune and the heart of his unrequited crush, Audrey. But Seymour gets a whole lot more than he bargained for from this exotic foliage. After an accident, the cute little Audrey II (named for his beloved) develops an insatiable thirst for human blood and a set of R&B singing pipes, leading Seymour to turn serial killer to keep his secret from bursting out of Skid Row and endangering the whole human race!

Mughal E Azam at Dolby Theatre

Mughal E Azam

A spectacular whirlwind experience, self-proclaimed as the "most expensive theater production from India", Mughal-e-Azam is not to be missed. The show won a staggering seven Broadway World India Awards including best play, best director, and more! Director Feroz Abbas Khan created the show as his own interpretation of the 1960 K. Asif Film of the same name.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Fred Kavli Theatre

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Don your highest high heels, fishiest fishnets, tightest of corsets, and other generally garish garments because it's time to do the Time Warp... Again! Give yourself over to absolute pleasure as Richard O'Brien's iconic Horror Picture show returns triumphantly for this 50th-anniversary spectacular screening of the iconic movie with shadow cast!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Fox Performing Arts Center

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Don your highest high heels, fishiest fishnets, tightest of corsets, and other generally garish garments because it's time to do the Time Warp... Again! Give yourself over to absolute pleasure as Richard O'Brien's iconic Horror Picture show returns triumphantly for this 50th-anniversary spectacular screening of the iconic movie with shadow cast!

A Midsummer Night's Dream at Walt Disney Concert Hall

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This season, don't miss the Bard's wondrous supernatural rom-com as the magic comes to you in this local production. A delightful and dizzying tale that still enraptures audiences after 400 years, prepare to enter a realm where a tiff between fairy royalty gets very, very out of hand, affecting supernatural folk and mortals alike!