Chance Theater’s recent loss of some grants and foundation support means the Anaheim Hills landmark is in need of help from the local community. For 24 hours straight, the theater is putting on a variety of live entertainment, including musical revues, one-act performances and a magic... More >>

Legendary poets never die old and happy—they go out tragically, seemingly a prerequisite to literary glory. Sylvia Plath put her head in an oven; a freaking dune buggy killed Frank O’Hara; Dylan Thomas died from alcohol poisoning at the White Horse Tavern. It’s a tough... More >>

Chicago's phenomenal sketch comedy theatre company The Second City introduces its unique and famed “Laugh Out Loud Tour” to the Laguna Playhouse. The show combines improvisation, songs and scripted elements in an evening of stomach-pain-inducing laughter. So come experience... More >>

Taking their inspiration from concept albums like The Who’s Tommy and rock musicals Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jesus Christ Superstar, pop punkers Green Day produced their own rock opera American Idiot in 2004 and sent it to Broadway six years later. Following the twisted lives of... More >>

Jennifer Marcus is the heroine of The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, a comedy written by Rolin Jones. The play, however, isn’t about human evolution as conventional wisdom might suggest. Instead, Marcus, an adopted 22-year-old Chinese-American girl and maniacal computer genius, decides... More >>

What if existence was like a comic strip? The boring parts would be white space, every other moment would be a punch line, and the heaviest problems in life would be trying to kick a football held by a mischievous girl. This play, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, wants you to... More >>

There's nothing quite like a drag queen that looks better than you do, with better hair and perkier boobs—and if you're hungover to boot, better make that bloody mary a double. Velvet Lounge, the youngest child in the local family of gay clubs, hosts a fabulous Sunday brunch every week... More >>

In 1975, a film about a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania hit US theaters and a new breed of camp-loving, kitschy freaks was born. Now the longest running theatrical release ever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is everyone's favorite midnight shenanigan, performing regularly... More >>

Filmmaker Peter Jackson could have saved himself a lot of time and money by forgoing his long-winded adaption of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in favor its predecessor, The Hobbit. As we write, we can hear a cacophony of fan boys cursing us in Elvish. Sorry fellas, but The Hobbit was all we... More >>

Leave it to South County's Derby Dueling Piano Bar to make a mid-week karaoke night into an epic test of wit and talent. Backed by a live pianist, contestants try their hand at a favorite karaoke song—only to be mercilessly scrutinized by three judges wielding a mighty gong. If you suck,... More >>

The self-proclaimed “greatest Elvis impersonator in Fullerton, Brea and Whittier,” Kirk Wall knows how to rock a white, sequined jumpsuit like nobody’s business (notice how no one ever mimics the sexy, surfing Elvis of the ’50s? It’s always the fat, tacky Elvis with the... More >>

Get out your Coke-bottle glasses, pocket protectors, suspenders and Star Wars memorabilia because Thursdays just got geek-ified. Nerdy Thursday, presented by Hibbleton Gallery, is not your average variety show—think Jeopardy! meets Revenge of the Nerds. Usually presented in three acts, the... More >>

So you play an instrument. But maybe you're not sure if you're talented. Or you think you are and want other people to know it, too. Or you want to show off a song you just wrote to that cute girl who works behind the counter. Whatever the reason, come to Musician's Open Mic Night every... More >>

The Maverick Theater is known for their "Staged Cinema," theater adapted from or into popular films. Richard Nixon is known for his abnormally large nose. See both at the Maverick this week, where a production of Frost/Nixon is taking place. Directed by Brian Newell and written by Peter Morgan,... More >>

The roots of Improv Shmimprov trace back to the UCI Drama Department; it was there in 1998 that the comedy group’s founders first got their start. Chris "Shaggy" Wolfe, Jacob-Russell-Snyder, Lindsay Hendrickson, and Nathan Makaryk were performing with "Live Nude People (with clothes on),"... More >>

Ever wonder what a jitney is? Well, you're in luck—August Wilson's play is all about them and more. As the '70s dawn upon Pittsburgh, an urban resurgence threatens a storefront station where gypsy cab drivers, known as jitneys, exchange stories about daily fares and snoop in each other's... More >>

Open-mic events always bring out the aspiring teenage folkies, workaday closet emo crooners and ill-conceived joke bands, but OC's best open mics—Gypsy Den's included—come with a cadre of older, more experienced, more awesome amateurs in addition to the twentysomethings. There's a... More >>