Announcing Select Highlights of the 2025-26 Season

Executive and Artistic Director Thor Steingraber made an unprecedented announcement today, sharing early highlights for the upcoming 2025-26 season, including several monumental engagements (click HERE for full press release).

The season will once again feature performances from every genre, including jazz, dance, Broadway, chamber and orchestral music, and LA’s foremost performance series of Spanish-language artists.

Today we share these four highlights:

• Opening Weekend: West Coast Premiere of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Off-Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof—concert performance in Yiddish, directed by Broadway Legend Joel Grey and starring the original Tevye, Steven Skybell. In 2018, Broadway audiences fell in love with a new version of Fiddler on the Roof, presented in Yiddish with English supertitles. This West Coast premiere of the production will be presented in a concert format in the tradition of last season’s opening weekend hit production of Randy Newman’s Faust: The Concert.  
• Riccardo Muti: Legendary Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for The Soraya’s 15th Anniversary Gala. On the occasion of The Soraya’s 15th Anniversary in January 2026, a new milestone will be reached when The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) performs led by Muti.
• Martha Graham Dance Company: The 2025-26 Season continues The Soraya’s ongoing creative collaborative partnership with the Martha Graham Dance Company. These performances will include a World Premiere work commissioned by The Soraya with new music arranged by Wild Up Artistic Director/Conductor Christopher Rountree to accompany new choreography. Further details will soon be available about this monumental creation which will be recorded at The Soraya before traveling worldwide. 
• 5th-Annual Jazz at Naz Festival: The annual Jazz at Naz festival has been recognized as one of the best winter jazz festivals on the West Coast as well as the jazz epicenter in Los Angeles. It was recently voted “Best Festival” in the San Francisco Classical Voice’s 2024 Audience Choice Awards and also named by DownBeat Magazine as one of the world’s Top Jazz Venues for 2025. Jazz at Naz has showcased major debuts for emerging artists such as two-time GRAMMY winner Samara Joy and created a home for the world’s jazz legends such as John Pizzarelli, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, and Charles Lloyd.

To read a more detailed version of these highlights, please click here to read the press release we have shared with media!