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 ...

This fall, Southgate Productions brings “Assassins” to the Curtis Theatre, taking on a musical that feels like part of a history lesson.  “This is definitely a bit of a darker turn for Southgate,” ...

As the season-opening concert of your brand new music director – your first in some 35 years – it was an entirely anticlimactic evening on Thursday at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

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

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.

This September, Culture OC marks three years as an independent nonprofit newsroom. Anniversaries usually invite us to look back. This year, we are also looking outward at the artists, organizations, ...

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will take the stage at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Sept. 19 in what could be a watershed moment for a deepening commitment by the ...

Back then it was the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and it seemed almost too good to be true. Finally, Orange County had its own monumental temple for the performing arts – the realization of a ...

After a decade spent bringing world-class productions and student artists to the stage, this cultural gem honors its past by looking ahead. Encore Content is produced in paid partnership with the ...