SHEEPDOG
Monday, April 22nd, 2019UNARMED 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, 2019Few 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, 2019The 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, 2019Vietgone’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, 2019Lucy, 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, 2019A 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, 2019You’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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