Celebrate Cabrillo’s 70th Season With The Play That Started It All By Shannon Cudd Before the existence of the Cabrillo Playhouse, the...

Riotous comedy, with a Chekovian twist. By Bruce Goodrich The venerable Costa Mesa Playhouse is in its 58th season. Under Michael Serna’s...

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...

Stages will strike the funny bone, classic film style By Eric Marchese Plays spoofing show-biz are fairly commonplace, but “The Musical...

Unraveling the Complex Layers of Love By Eric Marchese The plays of Neil LaBute are stylistically and thematically akin to those of David...

Highlight the spooky fun By Eric Marchese “The Addams Family” has triumphed in every medium in which it has appeared, from its origins as...

Discovering We Are More Than The Labels Society Puts On Us By Shannon Cudd Christopher Francis Boone, the central character of the play...

A 1966 thriller, with timeless appeal. by Bruce Goodrich Westminster Community Playhouse has had great success with producing classic...

Delving into the inner strengths of ‘Steel Magnolias’ By Eric Marchese If you’ve never seen “Steel Magnolias” on stage, and only know it...

A fresh take on a timeless tale By Libby Nicolay With the iconic “Phantom of the Opera” just concluding its three-decade run on Broadway,...

David Henry Hwang’s Politics of Laughter by Joel Beers Three distinct time periods occupy the world of “Yellow Face,” David Henry Hwang’s...

Finding the heartbeat in Martin McDonagh’s 1996 dark comedy By Joel Beers What the audience sees in Irish-playwright-turned-Hollywood-sup...

An Intimate Reimagining Of A Groundbreaking Musical Theater Classic By Shannon Cudd It is hard to overestimate the power of “Rent” in...

Come to the Cab…and See What’s on the Slab by Dana Hammer My first experience with “Rocky Horror” was at a house party when I was a kid....

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...

Budding theatre company sets the time-honored classic in a unique outdoor space By Libby Nicolay Oscar Wilde’s Victorian-era classic The...

Wayward Artist taking patrons on a trip to ‘Avenue Q’ By Eric Marchese When Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty created “Avenue Q,”...

A SoCal spin on Jonathan Larson’s cult-classic By Libby Nicolay “We’re living in America At the end of the millennium” At the time, New...

ACTC’s patrons will circle the globe in ’80 Days’ By Eric Marchese If you’ve seen “The Amazing Race” but are unfamiliar with “Around the...

The Revolution Has (Finally) Been Feminized By Joel Beers Uproarious comedy isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of...