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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ALADDIN
Friday, March 8th, 2019
A tale as old as A Thousand And One Arabian Nights, not only is Disney’s Aladdin an entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, it just might be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Segerstrom Center For The Arts stage.
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LIZZIE
Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
You’ve seen the movies and read the biographies (or at the very least, you’ve heard the rhyme). Now, wielding her axe to a punk rock beat, LIZZIE ignites the Chance Theater stage like it’s never been ignited before.
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COME FROM AWAY
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
Heroism, humanity, and heart triumph over terror in Come From Away, the 2017 Broadway Tony winner that turns the most unlikely of subject matters into the most feel-good of musicals. (That it’s also the best-directed, most powerfully performed show now touring the country is icing on the cake.)
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