Los Angeles events this week: 25 September – 2 October 2026

Where to go in Los Angeles: events, concerts and shows worth your night

Los Angeles is where the entertainment industry lives, and it shows on any given night: the world’s best-known outdoor amphitheater, a concert hall that changed how cities build them, comedy clubs where the biggest names test new hours, and a live music scene spread across a hundred square miles. Below is where to go in Los Angeles for a night out, with addresses, and what tends to be on when.

Concerts and live music in Los Angeles: the Bowl, the Greek and the Troubadour

The Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Avenue, Hollywood, hollywoodbowl.com) is the summer home of the LA Philharmonic and the city’s signature venue: nearly 80 concerts from June to September under the arched shell, where picnicking with wine at your seat is the tradition. The Greek Theater (2700 N Vermont Avenue, Griffith Park) is its smaller rival, about 5,900 seats among the trees. Indoors, the Walt Disney Concert Hall (111 S Grand Avenue, Downtown, laphil.com), Frank Gehry’s steel curves, holds the LA Phil the rest of the year, and the Wiltern (3790 Wilshire Boulevard, Koreatown), an art deco theater with about 1,850 seats, takes the mid-sized tours. The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood) is the 500-capacity club where Elton John played his first US show and new bands still break.

Comedy in Los Angeles: the Sunset Strip clubs

The Comedy Store (8433 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, thecomedystore.com) is the industry’s proving ground: three rooms, shows every night, and headliners who drop in unannounced to work on new material. The Laugh Factory a few blocks east and the Hollywood Improv on Melrose complete the circuit; the Largo at the Coronet on La Cienega mixes comedy with music in a 280-seat theater and books the names that don’t need to tour.

Los Angeles nightlife: Downtown, Hollywood and the Eastside

Downtown is where the clubs are now, in the Arts District and around the Fashion District warehouses, with electronic nights that run until 4 am. Hollywood has the Sunset Strip’s rock history and its velvet-rope clubs; Silver Lake and Echo Park, on the Eastside, have the indie rooms, the Echo (1822 Sunset Boulevard) among them, and bars that close at 2 am like everywhere in California. Distances are real: plan the night around one neighborhood, and budget for rideshares.

Museums and galleries in Los Angeles for an evening

The Broad (221 S Grand Avenue, Downtown, thebroad.org) is the free contemporary museum across from Disney Hall, with Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms and a line to match; reserve a timed entry. MOCA (250 S Grand Avenue) sits between them, and LACMA on Wilshire Boulevard is the encyclopedic museum, open late on Fridays. The Getty Center in Brentwood stays open until 9 pm on Saturdays and runs a free summer concert series on its terraces. Gallery openings cluster in Hollywood, the Arts District and Culver City on Saturday evenings.

Los Angeles festivals and events by season

• Winter: the Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, awards season from January to March, with the Oscars in Hollywood, and the Frieze Los Angeles art fair in February.
• Spring: Coachella in the desert two hours east over two April weekends, and the LA Marathon in March.
• Summer: the Hollywood Bowl and Greek Theater seasons from June to September, free outdoor concerts at Grand Performances downtown and Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park, and LA Pride in June.
• Fall: the LA Phil’s season opening in October, Halloween on the Santa Monica Boulevard carnival in West Hollywood, and Día de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Things to do in Los Angeles tonight and this weekend

The listings above are the live version of all this: every concert, show, club night and exhibition on in Los Angeles tonight, tomorrow and this weekend, with times, prices and tickets, updated every hour.