Composed obsession: trying to solve the mystery behind one of Beethoven’s lesser-known masterpieces By Joel Beers The play is called “33...

The troupe’s thrust stage space is ideally suited to putting the audience right into the musical’s storyline, action and characters. What...

Love or philosophy? Head or heart? Age-old questions posed by acclaimed writer Lauren Gunderson under the veil of 18th-century scientific...

A universally relatable mother-daughter drama that is both poignant and relevant. By Anne Reid “Alma'' is a play about a mom and her...

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...

The beautiful, female-centric show is a theatrical hug for turbulent times. By Anne Reid “Tiny Beautiful Things” follows the...

A Bittersweet, Unconventional Love Story Amplified By Music By Shannon Cudd Not all love stories can be placed in a neat box. Some chance...

Because we all have those relatives… By Dana Hammer Like many of you, I traveled to visit family for the holidays. My husband, my...

A Play About Discovering Who You Always Were And Living Your Truth By Shannon Cudd Craig Tyrl, the artistic director of The Wayward...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

“The Killer Angels: Revisiting a past that feels closer than ever By Joel Beers Those familiar with the Maverick Theater in Fullerton can...