Posts Tagged ‘Orange County Theater Review’
VIETGONE
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
A couple of Vietnamese evacuees fall in love in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 in Qui Nguyen’s rap-fueled, manga-spiced, profanity-packed Vietgone, now getting an electrifyingly innovative and ultimately quite powerful World Premiere at South Coast Repertory.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Monday, October 12th, 2015
The “creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky” family known as The Addams have arrived in Fullerton as 3-D Theatricals debuts its star-powered Broadway-caliber big-stage production of (snap, snap) The Addams Family.
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A BRIGHT NEW BOISE
Sunday, October 4th, 2015
A man undergoing a crisis of faith attempts to reconnect with the teenage son he gave up for adoption eighteen years ago in Samuel D. Hunter’s dark, gritty tragicomedy A Bright New Boise, now getting an electric Orange County production at Chance Theater.
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PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Alfred Hitchcock meets Beach Blanket Bingo as only Tony-nominated playwright Charles Busch can mash the two of them together in Theatre Out’s deliciously over-the-top Psycho Beach Party, directed with flamboyant flair by Tito Ortiz.
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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Jersey Boy Frankie Valli, Judy Garland, Mandy Patinkin, Julie Andrews, Michael Crawford, and more. They’re all onstage—or close facsimiles thereof—for the next three nights as the Segerstrom Center For The Arts presents the hilarious, legendary off-Broadway revue Forbidden Broadway. (read more)
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015
The year’s most brilliant physical-comedy performance is but one of many reasons not to miss the West Coast Premiere of the West End/Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, now inspiring more laughs per second than any play I can recall seeing at South Coast Repertory.
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Saturday, August 8th, 2015
The longest-running show in Broadway history is back in town, exciting news indeed for Phantom Of The Opera fans who’ve been waiting years for its return, particularly since this North American Tour’s fresh new scenic/lighting designs and choreography give this Phantom a look unlike any other.
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THE DRAGON PLAY
Friday, August 7th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Interspecies love fuels Jenny Connell Davis’ The Dragon Play, a gorgeously designed Chance Theater production most likely to enchant those willing and able to buy into its boy-meets-dragon, boy-loses-dragon conceit.
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