Posts Tagged ‘Orange County Theater Review’
THE GRADUATE
Monday, March 5th, 2018
Melanie Griffith delivers a superstar turn as befits a Best Actress Oscar nominee, director Michael Matthews once again proves himself an L.A. theater superstar, and newcomer Nick Tag reveals emerging-star power in Laguna Playhouse’s The Graduate, a production so stellar you might just think you’re seeing a Broadway show.
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THE KING AND I
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
No matter how many The King And I’s you’ve seen, you have almost certainly never seen, nor will you likely ever see one more brilliant than the 2015 Bartlett Sher-directed Broadway revival whose First National Tour has arrived in Costa Mesa to thrill audiences this week and next at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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VIOLET
Monday, February 12th, 2018
A physically scarred young woman takes a road trip towards healing and redemption in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet, streamlined for Broadway in 2014 and now opening Chance Theater’s 20th-anniversary 2018 season in an intimate staging that is as imaginatively directed as it is powerfully performed.
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KINKY BOOTS
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
The 2013 Tony–winning Best Musical Kinky Boots is back in town at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts, crowd-pleasing, transformative, and packing enough emotional punch to bring even the hardest-hearted theatergoer to tears and cheers.
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
Shakespeare’s got the hots for Viola, only this time round it’s not on the silver screen but live and on stage as South Coast Repertory enchants audiences with Billy Elliot screenwriter Lee Hall’s theatrical adaptation of Marc Norman and legendary playwright Tom Stoppard’s 1998 seven-Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love.
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JERSEY BOYS
Saturday, January 20th, 2018
Jersey Boys (aka The Story Of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons) is back in town in a streamlined staging that may trim its cast by 21% but stints hardly an iota on entertainment value, its new-for-2017/18 National Tour stopping this weekend only at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL
Wednesday, December 20th, 2017
Twenty-five years of Motown history and nearly five-dozen Top 40 hits performed by twenty-two triple-threats to rival Broadway’s best make for one fabulous Motown: The Musical, now playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH
Friday, December 15th, 2017
Aladdin rubs his lamp and holiday magic gets made as Laguna Playhouse presents its third-annual Lythgoe Family Panto, the absolutely fabulous Aladdin And His Winter Wish.
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