The Muckenthaler Cultural Center
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No tickets or reservations are required to visit The Muck grounds, the outdoor Sculpture Garden or Sunset Garden. Click here to view the 2026 Season Brochure.
This annual exhibition features the work of 100 talented high school students from La Habra, Fullerton, Troy, Sunny Hills, Sonora, Buena Park, La Visa, and La Sierra. The collection is judged by their own art teachers and is comprised of a variety of mediums: painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, etc.
Performer Hope Levy brings Connie’s haunting songs to life alongside folk classics and her own originals, weaving a poignant story of creativity, identity, and the enduring power of music
Elliot Menard is an opera-maker—a vocal performer, composer, and producer—working at the nexus of opera-theater, new music, and experimental performance.
Peixuan Jiang is a pianist who was born in Shanghai, China and and has won awards in piano competitions at the municipal, provincial, and national levels in China.
Tom Everhart holds a unique position in art history as the only fine artist personally authorized by Charles M. Schulz to reinterpret the iconic Peanuts characters in his distinctive style. What began as an unexpected encounter in 1980 evolved into a creative partnership that continues to captivate collectors worldwide.
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown Based on the beloved Charles Schulz comic strip, Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts bunch explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship.
LA POPS UP is a groundbreaking dance film project celebrating the creativity and individuality of So-Cal based choreographers on screen, spearheaded by Dance Camera West and Hysterica Productions.
The darlings of Disneyland’s “Paradise Garden Bandstand,” this dynamic ensemble presents Celtic Folk with a decidedly bluegrass attitude.
Quique Escamilla is a Mexican Mayan-Zapotec, born and raised in the warm, tropical southern lands of the state of Chiapas, Mexico. He started singing Mexican folk songs at the age of four at his family reunions. Today, Quique is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer, and an international touring artist based in Toronto, Canada.
Chris Cruz & Rae Shirer tap into the warmest of Americana and folk traditions. Cruz (on acoustic guitar and vocals) and Shirer (duet and backing vocals) craft straightforward songs that recall the best of '60s and '70s folk music.
Ken Waldman has drawn on 37 years as an Alaska resident to produce poems, stories, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his. Since 1995 he's toured full-time, performing at leading festivals, concert series, arts centers, and clubs.
Beth Sussman received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the age of twenty-one from The Juilliard School where she was on full scholarship. She has performed throughout North America and Europe including appearances at Lincoln Center, The Ravinia Festival (Summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Royce Hall (UCLA), The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and The Huntington Gardens and Museum. She has also performed on live radio broadcasts on radio stations WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago) and KUSC (Los Angeles).
The Bryatz Duo: Hailed by the press as “virtuosic, stunning musicians”, Denis Zhukov (balalaika) and Guzel Safiullina (domra/keyboards) perform classical and folk repertoire, as well as original interpretations.
The Huu Bac Quintet delivers a true dialogue between Asian, North and South American cultures in a contemporary, original and unique way!
Håkon Kornstad is an award winning Norwegian jazz saxophonist, recognised by jazz critics around the world. In 2009 he discovered his singing voice, and he finished a master’s degree at the Norwegian Opera Academy in 2014. He is now dividing his time between two almost contrasting musical genres — combining them in unprecedented ways.
Alicia Waller is a genre-expanding vocalist, composer, and bandleader recognized for the contemporary fusion ensemble Alicia Waller & The Excursion.
An exhibition that celebrates Ms. Wood’s unrelenting curiosity and passion for art, design, literature, music, family & friends; with rarely seen artwork by Don Bachardy, Henry Jaglom, Margaret Keane, and Natalie Wood herself.
Eclectic, cutting-edge, and contemporary—The Muck’s Jazz Festival returns in Spring of 2026 with new energy.
King Mark of Cornwall is at war; he rules with his head not his heart. But he hasn’t counted on falling head over heels for his enemy’s sister Yseult or the arrival of the enigmatic Tristan.
Nearly three decades deep, the band led by Detroit-born guitar slinger Randy Jacobs and vocal dynamo Jenny Langer comes back swinging with a record that’s all blood, sweat, and soul.
USA-Argentine duo Eleanor Dubinsky and Darío Acosta Teich perform jazz, Latin, French and original songs, inviting audiences to travel the world while discovering underground tributaries that connect us in our shared human experience.
Alfred Monrós, a Spanish artist born on April 10, 1910, was very active in Spanish politics as he was a proclaimed anarchist who was extremely vocal about anti-fascism. After the Francoist victory in the Spanish Civil War, Monrós left for France, where he became friends with Picasso and Dalí. Curated by Daniella Perez.
There are terrible complications wrought by the servant Traffaldino when he gets himself jobs with two different people at the same time. Not all the complications are of his making; one of his 'masters' is in fact a lady in disguise, and the other master is her lover, but Truffaldino doesn't know this. This ECT-centric adaptation will follow a group of underfunded performers as they attempt to pull off this classic comedy with the limited resources they have.
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