Laguna Playhouse welcomes the Canadian Netflix hit to the local stage By Libby Nicolay When Director Jon Lawrence Rivera signed onto this...

Move over Moby, there’s a new addition to literary tales involving whales by Joel Beers ​​Like many actors, Peter Hilton has a list of...

Maverick fans will go ape over ‘King Kong’ By Eric Marchese When it comes to the biggest Hollywood stars of all time, you can’t get much...

The Tony Award-winning punk rock opera gets an intimate revival that focuses on the personal and the political Sound the alarms and...

(The play, not a group of frightening, enraged people) By Dana Hammer When I was in high school, I took Drama. Not because I wanted to...

‘The Toxic Avenger’ will do his irreverent thing at Wayward Artist By Eric Marchese How many musicals can you think of that are...

The 2017 comedy from the acclaimed creator of Netflix’s Maid has its Orange County premiere at Chance Theater. by Dana Hammer Before I...

The Maverick Theater takes on the most produced play of the decade by Joel Beers The murder mystery is one of theater’s sturdiest staples...

The Brilliance of Normal Chance Theater stages “Next to Normal,” the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical about a suburban...

'Striking 12' implores audiences to remain hopeful this holiday season Chance Theater proudly presents GrooveLily’s rock concert-musical...

'The Nether' depicts the evolution of virtual reality The Wayward Artist serves up Jennifer Haley’s 2011 play, a sci-fi crime drama that...

There’s a universal tinge to the colors of ‘Yellowman’ Theater’s Orange County premiere of the 2002 play, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, will...

‘Silent Sky’ speaks volumes about our (dis)regard for women Costa Mesa Playhouse brings Lauren Gunderson’s history-based drama about an...

‘The Crucible’ parallels witch hunts from two eras Maverick Theater mounts an all-new staging of Arthur Miller’s historical drama, an...

‘Great Gatsby’ speaks volumes to our times Maverick Theater’s Brian Newell finds that the 2020s have a lot in common with The Roaring...

Fun Home puts the FUN in FUNeral. And dysFUNction. And FUNdamental rights for gays. The first Broadway musical to feature a lesbian as...

Looking at ’40s ‘Yonkers’ through a 21st-century lens Costa Mesa Playhouse’s artistic director, Michael Serna, and director Wendy Ruth...