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

Family secrets will be unearthed…literally. By Dana Hammer It’s a new year, and we are all addled and brainfogged from too many Hallmark...

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

Prepare for a Fanciful Farce at a Nice, Safe Altitude   By Dana Hammer Like many of you, I will be flying on an airplane this holiday...

Director Frank Minano has a marked affinity for Ken Ludwig’s works – and for the farce genre that is the playwright’s specialty. By Eric...

Gold Rush: Bandits of the high seas meet Irish legends in first children’s play at Santa Ana theatre By Joel Beers True story: The person...

Past and present connect in Chance Theater’s redesigned holiday classic By Libby Nicolay In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season,...

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

The ‘immortal’ Count returns, this time with a female Dr. Van Helsing in pursuit. By Bruce Goodrich Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847-1912)...

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...