Outside of the annual BroadStage Season programming, various SMC and rental events and performances take place within the three venues at The Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center - The Edye, The Music Hall, and The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage. Check back regularly for a list of upcoming Visiting Events. To learn more about renting a venue click HERE.
Featured Events
Hershey Felder Presents
Rachmaninoff and the Tsar
August 7-25, 2024 at 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Having safely fled Russia during the 1917 revolution, legendary pianist-composer Sergei V. Rachmaninoff made his home in the United States. In 1942, at the age of 68, he received American citizenship and bought a home in Beverly Hills, but his soul never left Russia. Six months thereafter, a terminal illness brought forth the memory of a long ago encounter with Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Tsar’s daughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. This memory would haunt him until the end.
RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR features Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most beloved and enduring compositions including Prelude in C# minor, The 2nd Piano Concerto, The Paganini Variations, Preludes, symphonic selections and more.
With Hershey Felder as Sergei Rachmaninoff, for the first time on stage, Felder will appear opposite another artist, British-Italian Jonathan Silvestri in the role of Tsar Nicholas II.
CTR PRESENTS: LUMINATIONS - Projections of Hope
September 13, 2024 at 7PM
Featuring The Art of Kate Johnson and Music by Mike Garson
Dance performances by Alina Kalinouskaya and Donna Sternberg & Dancers