FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
If you’ve any doubt that Fiddler On The Roof is a true musical theater masterpiece, check out the dazzling National Tour now playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts for proof positive that the Broadway classic is as great as it gets.
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SKYLIGHT
Sunday, April 28th, 2019
Skylight, David Hare’s postmortem look at an adulterous couple’s unexpected reunion, gets a terrific 24th-anniversary Chance Theater revival under Oanh Nguyen’s incisive direction.
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SHEEPDOG
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
UNARMED BLACK TEEN SHOT, KILLED BY POLICE The headline happens to come from the June 20, 2018 issue of USA Today, but it could just as well describe the shooting experienced first-hand by Cleveland police officers Ryan and Amina in Kevin Artigue’s conversation-provoking Sheepdog, a gut-punching South Coast Repertory World Premiere.
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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Few High School Musicals guarantee as much dark and twisted fun as Heathers: The Musical, a terrific talent showcase for the Musical Theater BFA majors who’ve made Cal State Fullerton their pre-professional training grounds.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, April 14th, 2019
The Wayward Artist opens its second season with a flawless intimate staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal, as dramatically moving and emotionally potent a musical as you’ll see all year.
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POOR YELLA REDNECKS
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Vietgone’s Quang and Tong are back at South Coast Repertory and facing their not quite happily ever after in Qui Nguyen’s laugh-and-rap-packed World Premiere comedy Poor Yella Rednecks.
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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Sally, Snoopy, and that adorable blockhead Charlie Brown provide a terrific triple-threat talent showcase for six Cal State Fullerton Musical Theater BFA majors in the delightful song-and-sketch cycle You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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PHOTOGRAPH 51
Monday, March 18th, 2019Playwright Anna Ziegler shines a revelatory light on a hitherto hidden figure in the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure in Photograph 51, the latest from South Coast Rep.
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