From pottery classes to open studios, local spaces offer a chance to work with your hands, step away from screens and connect with others.

We’re thrilled to share with you our writers’ picks for notable events in theater, dance, visual arts, culture and music for fall 2026. Culture OC’s talented team of arts and culture writers has ...

Orange County Music & Dance, Southern California’s premier after-school pre-K to 12 performing arts school dedicated to cultivating the whole child through a rigorous and programmatic path to mastery, ...

As local newsrooms shrink, California’s Community NEWS Act offers a potential lifeline for independent arts and culture reporting – but the governor must act by Sept. 30.

Two Orange County museums move into larger centers to showcase the evolution of wave riding through the years.

Shakespeare’s centuries-old “bed trick” gets a decidedly modern makeover in “The Bed Trick,” Keiko Green’s contemporary comedy about sex, friendship, deception and consent at Chance Theater in Anaheim ...

The Emmy Award-nominated TV Series ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ puts the city’s colleges, restaurants, landmarks and neighborhoods on the screen — and gives viewers a very real taste of Fullerton.

The Center’s first artist in residence debuts with his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in a gala concert this weekend.

Guests entering the new Knott’s Scary Farm maze, The Zoo, will encounter a unique array of hybrid creatures, military experimentation, vibrantly painted walls and a whole lot of poop. The Zoo maze ...

San Diego-based nonprofit ballet company Pointeworks is making its second season debut of “Ballet Nights” this June with performances in San Diego on June 14 and Irvine on June 20. Founded in 2023 by ...

Ask anyone who’s been keeping up with chart-topping jazz pianists over the last 40 years, and one name will be mentioned repeatedly on that short list: David Benoit. The Laguna Niguel resident, who ...

The story of the Orange County Women’s Chorus doesn’t begin in a concert hall, conservatory, or cultural institution, but in a living room in 1997 in Irvine with nine women wondering what might happen ...