Posts Tagged ‘Chance Theater’
JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 9th, 2024
The meddling matchmaker you can’t help but love has returned to Chance Theater for the holidays—and in finer, feistier fettle than ever—in Mandy Foster’s incandescent star turn as Emma Woodhouse in the captivating return engagement of Chance’s 2018 holiday treat, Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical.
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GLORIA
Monday, October 7th, 2024
Everyone’s out for their fifteen minutes of fame in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher Gloria, now being given an electrifying Orange County premiere at Chance Theater.
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SWEENEY TODD
Sunday, July 21st, 2024Late 18th-century London is a living nightmare in Chance Theater’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and while the scaled-down revival’s pitch-black tone and bare-minimum number of players do not make it the best introduction to this Stephen Sondheim classic, there’s still a lot for Sondheim aficionados to applaud.
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BLACKBIRD
Sunday, June 16th, 2024
Dakota Wolf and Ron Hastings deliver powerhouse performances as a 20something woman and the decades-older man who had sex with her when she was only 12 in David Harrower’s Blackbird, a harrowing, disturbing, utterly compelling guest production at Anaheim’s Chance Theater.
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TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Dear Abby and Ann Landers could learn a thing or two from Sugar, the advice columnist whose empathetic, profound, deeply moving responses to folks in dire need of counsel make Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things the most heartstrings-tugging show in town.
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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Monday, February 5th, 2024
Performances don’t get any more sizzlingly sensational than Tom Avery’s powerhouse star turn as Hedwig in Chance Theater’s 2024 supercharged season opener, Hedwig And The Angry Inch.
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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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