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Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

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CHRONO TRIGGER Orchestra Concert: Melodies Across Time — Dolby Theatre

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CHRONO TRIGGER Orchestra Concert: Melodies Across Time — Dolby Theatre

In 11 days · Oct 18 Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd…

You were maybe twelve, it was late, and you had gotten to the part where the music changes and the screen goes quiet, and you sat there with a controller in your hands feeling something you did not have words for yet. Thirty years later you still do not have the words. You do still have the melody. The 30th anniversary concert that ran in Japan this January comes to Hollywood for one night, conducted by Nicholas Buc, with a full orchestra playing Yasunori Mitsuda's score the way it was always arranged in your head but never actually sounded through a console speaker. Chrono Trigger is the game people cite when they argue that the form can do what a novel does, and its soundtrack is the evidence they reach for first. What makes the room worth it rather than the recording: you will be surrounded by several thousand people who all went quiet at the same moment in the same game, alone, decades ago, in different bedrooms. When the first notes of a particular theme land, you will hear the entire theatre react at once. That sound — the collective recognition — is not on any soundtrack. Sunday, October 18, 8 p.m. Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd. No recording of any kind permitted.

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Outlander in Concert

Nov 14, 2026 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

You feel the kick drum before you hear it. That is what a proper theatre does to live sound and what an arena never manages — the room is small enough that the low end reaches your chest instead of dissolving into a concrete bowl, and the people around you are close enough that their reactions become part of the mix. Dolby Theatre in Hollywood is built for exactly that kind of listening: a room designed for occasions rather than for volume, where the sound engineer is not fighting the architecture. Everyone in it is doing the same thing at the same time, which is the oldest reason there is to leave the house. All ages, on a November evening in Hollywood. The people who were there will describe it differently than anyone who only heard about it later, and that difference is what you are actually buying. Bring the person you always want beside you when the lights go down.

Los Angeles Ballet: The Nutcracker — Dolby Theatre

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Los Angeles Ballet: The Nutcracker — Dolby Theatre

Dec 22, 2026 Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd…

By the third week of December the city has already spent a month trying to make you feel something. The lights went up in November. The ache that shows up anyway — the one that wants December to mean more than errands before it runs out — has a two o'clock matinee waiting for it. Los Angeles Ballet dances its Nutcracker downtown with a live orchestra in the pit rather than a recording, which is rarer in this city than it should be and is the whole difference in the snow scene. The thing worth knowing is that the Dolby run is the back half of a tour: the company opens the production at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in mid-December, plays four performances there, then moves to Hollywood Boulevard for the holiday stretch. The dancers who walk onto the Dolby stage have already lived inside the piece for a weekend, and it shows in the second act — the party scene is looser, the Sugar Plum variation is steadier. Matinees at 2, evenings at 7:30, December 22 through 24.

Academy Awards 2027 — Red Carpet + Oscars Night

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Academy Awards 2027 — Red Carpet + Oscars Night

Mar 14, 2027 Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd…

For one night the boulevard stops belonging to tourists and belongs entirely to the movies. Traffic gone. Barricades up. Four blocks of Hollywood under the attention of most of the planet at once. People forget the ceremony has an outside. The fan zone along the carpet approach is a real thing you can stand in — registered spectators watch the arrivals from designated areas, and registration opens on the Academy's site weeks ahead and fills within hours. The street shuts to through traffic that morning, the Dolby's entrance becomes the carpet, and the surrounding blocks turn into perimeter and infrastructure. The whole neighborhood takes on the particular charge of a night the world is watching your city block. Downtown Hollywood, Metro to Hollywood and Highland, free to observe from the public areas outside the perimeter. Go with the person who has a strong opinion about every Best Picture winner of their lifetime.

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Attack on Titan - Symphony from Paradis

Apr 17, 2027 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

Shinzo wo Sasageyo. If reading that raised something in your chest, you already know why this matters, and you can stop reading right here. For everyone else: this score did an enormous amount of the emotional work in a story about impossible choices, and until now there has never been an officially licensed orchestral performance of it anywhere on earth. Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto curated new symphonic arrangements for more than a hundred musicians and a full choir, with the series projected on a giant screen behind them, so the whole arc runs while the music that scored it fills a real room instead of your headphones. There is a particular thing that happens when a live choir comes in on music you have only ever heard compressed through earbuds at one in the morning. It is not subtle. Hollywood, a proper theater, one night only. Dedicated to the hearts. Bring the person you watched the last season with — the one who still refuses to discuss the ending.

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Attack on Titan - Symphony from Paradis

Apr 18, 2027 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

The first piano notes land and a theater full of strangers stops breathing at the same instant, because every one of them carried this story home years ago and never quite put it down. This is the officially licensed orchestral concert, with new symphonic arrangements curated by the original composers, Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto, played by more than a hundred musicians and a choir while projection scales the series up to the size it always deserved. Shinzo wo Sasageyo in a room like that stops being a song. It is a full theater offering up its hearts for a freedom none of them were ever sure existed, out loud, most of them in a language they do not speak. The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with tickets through Ticketmaster. If you have been waiting for the day this music became something you could stand inside, it is finally on a calendar.

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Summer Game Fest 2026

Jun 5 – Jun 8, 2026 Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd…

Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA. June 5th, 2026. Summer Game Fest takes the building where the Oscars happen and fills it with the games industry's mid-year announcement moment. Every major publisher and many independent studios use this event to release trailers, gameplay reveals, and release date announcements to a room that is simultaneously the most attentive gaming audience in the world. SGF is where the E3-shaped hole in the gaming calendar now lives. The show streams globally, but the audience in the Dolby Theatre experiences the announcements before the internet processes them — the reactions happen in real time, with the people around you, before the takes arrive. A trailer reveal in that room is the announcement, not the broadcast of it. If you're in the industry, this is the room where the year's games landscape becomes visible. If you follow gaming closely, attending in person is the experience that the stream approximates but doesn't replicate. summergamefest.com for registration options and the associated public events that run throughout the June 5th-6th window in Hollywood. The conversation that happens in the hours after the show is part of it.

De Yun She 2026 World Tour 30th Anniversary

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De Yun She 2026 World Tour 30th Anniversary

May 27, 2026 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood. May 27th. De Yun She's 2026 World Tour 30th Anniversary — three decades of cross-talk performance, the traditional Chinese performance art that combines rapid-fire dialogue, wordplay, and comedic timing at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. De Yun She is the Beijing cross-talk troupe that has brought xiansheng — the traditional two-person comedic dialogue form — to arenas and theaters for thirty years. The anniversary tour lands at the Dolby Theatre, which is one of the grandest performing arts venues in Los Angeles, and the juxtaposition of a traditional Chinese art form in the building that holds the Oscars is its own kind of statement. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 27th. The Chinese community in Los Angeles has been following De Yun She for decades, and the 30th anniversary is the occasion the troupe has been building toward. The Dolby is sold out for similar events — book early. Cross-talk rewards knowing the references, but the timing and the commitment to the form is legible without the cultural context. This is performance at the highest level of a tradition that goes back centuries.

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PaleyFest LA: The Pitt

Apr 12, 2026 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

A theater screen makes a different argument for a film than a laptop — Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on April 12, 2026 is where that argument gets made properly. PaleyFest LA: The Pitt screens at Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, on April 12, 2026. The people who experience a film in a theater carry a different relationship to it than the ones who watched it at home.

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