THE SECRET GARDEN, THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 4th, 2023
The Secret Garden, The Musical, makes a triumphant holiday season return to Chance Theater in its fourth incarnation, the first to take advantage of the company’s expansive Cripe Stage, and the result is a gorgeously performed, gorgeously designed stunner.
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Sunday, October 1st, 2023
An English teenager on the autism spectrum sets off on the most remarkable of coming-of-age journeys in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, ingeniously directed, gorgeously designed, and excitingly performed by some of Chance Theater’s best and most popular stars (and one very impressive newbie).
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RENT
Monday, July 31st, 2023
Direction, choreography, performance, and design come together to spectacular effect as Chance Theater delivers as perfect a production of Jonathan Larson’s chef-d’ouevre as any diehard Renthead could wish for.
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AVENUE Q
Sunday, July 16th, 2023
The expletive-spouting puppets of Avenue Q are back, as foul-mouthed and fabulous as ever, in The Wayward Artist’s terrifically entertaining intimate staging of the 2003 Broadway smash.
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COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHỞ IS DELICIOUS
Monday, April 10th, 2023
You don’t have to be a Vietnamese food fan to fall for Dustin H. Chinn’s culture clash comedy Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious, now getting a tangy World Premiere production at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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RIDE THE CYCLONE
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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LITTLE WOMEN – THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Sarah Pierce’s revelatory star turn as Jo March tops the list of reasons not to miss the fourth incarnation of Little Women – The Broadway Musical at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY
Monday, October 3rd, 2022
In all my years of theatergoing, I’ve never seen a play or production quite like Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity, at once a hilariously spot-on look at the wild, weird, and wacky world of professional wrestling and a subtly scathing critique of the American Melting-Pot Dream.
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