THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
What would the Halloween season be without the camp classic Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, the science fiction/horror movie spoof that has become so iconic, it now includes its creator’s name in its official title?
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HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
I wonder if any son has ever paid greater tribute to his mother than Bill Cain does in How To Write A New Book For The Bible, his extraordinary new play about her death—and her life, told extraordinarily well in its Southern California Premiere at South Coast Repertory.
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HAIRSPRAY
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
When I tell you that 3-D Theatricals’ big-stage, big-budget production of “Broadway’s Big Fat Musical Comedy Hit” is the best Hairspray I’ve seen since catching both the original Broadway production and its First National Tour in 2004, trust me that having seen now nine different productions since then (all in the space of two and a half years), this is the Hairspray not to be missed.
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ORDINARY DAYS
Friday, October 12th, 2012
The lives of the four young New Yorkers featured in Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days may well be nothing out of the ordinary, but the same cannot be said about the exquisite chamber musical which Southern Californians first discovered in 2010 in its big-stage West Coast Premiere at South Coast Repertory.
Now, director Patrick Pearson and a talented cast of Cal State Fullerton Musical Theater BFA majors bring Gwon’s musical back to its intimate theater roots at CSUF’s off-campus black box, Santa Ana’s Grand Central Theatre, and what a gem of a production it is.
OVERLOOKED
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
Playwright Brian Nelson skewers the pretentious Ways Of The (Art) World in his acidic new comedy Overlooked, now getting its World Premiere at Orange County’s award-winning Chance Theater.
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EURYDICE
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl’s magical, mystical, poetic retelling of the Orpheus myth from the point of view of his bride has arrived at South Coast Repertory in a production that, in addition to being exquisitely acted and directed, is likely to be remembered as one of the most stunningly designed SCR productions ever.
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ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
South Coast Repertory opens its 2012-2013 season with a 40th Anniversary revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, a terrifically directed and performed production which spotlights what Orange County’s premier regional theater and the “British Neil Simon” do best.
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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Sunday, August 19th, 2012NOT RECOMMENDED
A smart, funny, sophisticated, incisive satire of old-school Orange County conservatives vs. the progressive LGBT minority in their midst would make for a terrific World Premiere production at Santa Ana’s Theatre Out. Unfortunately, Andy Black and Patricia Milton’s Strange Bedfellows is not that play.
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