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Dec 3
‘Jane Austen’s Emma, the Musical’ at Chance
Mandy Foster as Emma Woodhouse (Photo by Benjamin Busch) A Broadway-Style Take on Austen’s Heartwarming 1816 Comedy By Eric Marchese Many...
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Nov 8
“The Children” at The Wayward Artist
Confronting Past Choices, Missed Opportunities, and Haunting Truths in the Wake of a World-Shattering Event By: MaryAnn DiPietro In Lucy...
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Oct 1
“All Shook Up” at Yorba Linda Spotlight Players
Combination of Shakespearean Plots and Characters with Iconic Elvis Tunes is Unbeatable. by Eric Marchese Is there a more eclectic show,...
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Jul 11
“33 Variations” at the Costa Mesa Playhouse
Composed obsession: trying to solve the mystery behind one of Beethoven’s lesser-known masterpieces By Joel Beers The play is called “33...
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Jul 2
'Spelling Bee' at The Wayward Artist
The troupe’s thrust stage space is ideally suited to putting the audience right into the musical’s storyline, action and characters. What...
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Jun 4
“Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life” at Curtis Theatre
Love or philosophy? Head or heart? Age-old questions posed by acclaimed writer Lauren Gunderson under the veil of 18th-century scientific...
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May 10
“Alma” at Chance Theater
A universally relatable mother-daughter drama that is both poignant and relevant. By Anne Reid “Alma'' is a play about a mom and her...
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Apr 13
“The Mother F*cker with the Hat” at The Wayward Artist
Don’t let the title fool you: the show is about people not profanity by Joel Beers The title of the Stephen Adly Guirgis caustic comedy...
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Apr 11
“Tiny Beautiful Things” at Chance Theater
The beautiful, female-centric show is a theatrical hug for turbulent times. By Anne Reid “Tiny Beautiful Things” follows the...
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Feb 3
“Once” at Curtis Theatre
A Bittersweet, Unconventional Love Story Amplified By Music By Shannon Cudd Not all love stories can be placed in a neat box. Some chance...
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Jan 15
“Other Desert Cities” at Newport Theatre Arts Center
Because we all have those relatives… By Dana Hammer Like many of you, I traveled to visit family for the holidays. My husband, my...
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Nov 3, 2023
"Rotterdam" at The Wayward Artist
A Play About Discovering Who You Always Were And Living Your Truth By Shannon Cudd Craig Tyrl, the artistic director of The Wayward...
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Oct 16, 2023
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” at Costa Mesa Playhouse
Riotous comedy, with a Chekovian twist. By Bruce Goodrich The venerable Costa Mesa Playhouse is in its 58th season. Under Michael Serna’s...
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Oct 4, 2023
“Nevermore” at Ophelia’s Jump Productions
A Dark and Whimsical Flight of Imagination comes to life By Libby Nicolay As the curtain rises on this year’s Halloween season, Ophelia's...
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Oct 3, 2023
'The Shape of Things' at No Square Theater
Unraveling the Complex Layers of Love By Eric Marchese The plays of Neil LaBute are stylistically and thematically akin to those of David...
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Sep 27, 2023
“The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time” at Chance Theater
Discovering We Are More Than The Labels Society Puts On Us By Shannon Cudd Christopher Francis Boone, the central character of the play...
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Sep 12, 2023
“Yellow Face” at The Wayward Artist
David Henry Hwang’s Politics of Laughter by Joel Beers Three distinct time periods occupy the world of “Yellow Face,” David Henry Hwang’s...
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Aug 24, 2023
"Beauty Queen of Leenane" @ Costa Mesa Playhouse
Finding the heartbeat in Martin McDonagh’s 1996 dark comedy By Joel Beers What the audience sees in Irish-playwright-turned-Hollywood-sup...
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Jul 20, 2023
“SpongeBob SquarePants” at No Square
Bringing SpongeBob to life on stage in Laguna Beach By Eric Marchese Live theater, as we all know, can wondrously transport us to a world...
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Jul 14, 2023
‘Avenue Q’ at Wayward
Wayward Artist taking patrons on a trip to ‘Avenue Q’ By Eric Marchese When Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty created “Avenue Q,”...
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