Tennessee Williams

'Ginger & Rosa': BFFs At the End of Time

Sally Potter reveals young women—and a world—on the verge

The Glass Menagerie

Long Beach Playhouse

'Orson's Shadow' Is Citizen Screwed-Up

The Long Beach Playhouse production fictionalizes Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier playing each other for one big gig

God, Gays and Trolls on Local Stages

The Cantor's Tale​​Maybe there's something in the air, but two plays at local storefront theaters got that old-time religion all over them. Well, maybe it's not so old-timey. Both pieces, Keith Bunin's A Busy World Is Hushed, which opens Friday at Theatre Out, and Fengar Gael's The Cantor's ... More >>

Preview Review Revue

A look at what STAGES, Theater Out, Monkey Wrench Collective and other great OC theater companies will stage in 2011

Was King Edward II Gay?

​Theatre Out is Orange County's lone theater devoted exclusively to presenting plays about the gay and lesbian experience. (It says so right on their webpage!) Previous productions at the Santa Ana theater ( located in the space formerly occuped by Rude Guerrilla) include such landmark gay-the ... More >>

STAGEStheatre Gala Fundraiser

STAGEStheatre

[Special Screenings] Movie of the Week: 'Xanadu!'

Feline Pity

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Arts and Other Highfalutin' Stuff

Actors, troubadours, campfire singers, cowboy poets & purty pictures (Please don’t  shoot the piano player!)

The Kids Are Not Alright

From Dakota Fannings rape to John Cusacks daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about the kiddie porn

New Reviews

Black Christmas; Kabul Express; Night at the Museum; We Are Marshall

How Stella Got Her Groove in the First Place

CSUF dishes up a little-known Tennessee Williams play

Paul Lynde Was Gay?

And other questions raised by the emergence of OCs first gay/lesbian theater company

Meet Tennessee

Rude Guerrillas five one-acts show a playwright you may not know

Life in Hell

UC Irvines Orpheus Descending takes you down with it

Shaggy But Sophisticated

He Learned It By Watching Pulp Fiction

Noah Haidle is 26 and a genius of new theaterand his newest production already has the old folks stomping out of SCR

Death of a Salesman

Ronald Reagan, 19112004

I Got The Bullets!

Brando and Dean re-define the tight, white T-shirt for a generation of macho, delinquent lunks

Letters

Not So Soiled Rose

Sand Traps

Avoiding summer movies that sound like fun

Rock & Roll Detox

The Sharp Ease are an apocalyptically charismatic band for these apocalyptically Republican times

Streetcar Crash

More testosterone, please, in this Streetcar Named Desire

He Gets on Your Nerves

GTC tries to stay close to Sam Becketts twisted vision

How About a Little Respect?

Grove Theater Center battles for truth, honor and faceless lips

Blurb-O-Matic

Sneak peeks at a season of theater that is breathtaking, passionate, entertaining!

McNally McReal

Straight America's favorite gay playwright still deals in stereotypes