Theater

Stephen Ludwig, Key Member of OC Storefront Theater Scene, Dies in France

Irony is a staple of theater, so consider the irony of an indispensable member of Orange County's playrighting community, Stephen Ludwig, traveling to France for a writing vacation,only to die in the place that inspired him so much. Yet, there is also something romantic about both dying in the plac ... More >>

16th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival

South Coast Repertory

Alfred Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps'

Laguna Playhouse

OC-Centric Puts the Spotlight on Local Playwrights

See Also:*John Kraus and the Goers Bring Sea Shanties into the 21st Century*Hopscotch: Downtown Fullerton's New Beer and Whiskey Joint Also Serves Hillbilly Tunes*Kids in the Hall's Scott Thompson Talks Hockey, His Sexy Legs, and His Love for Irvine. It's said that every bad decision results in a g ... More >>

Today in hell freezes over

Perrier is now served in Hades, water is flowing uphill and clocks are running backwards.How else to explain the announcement yesterday that Dave Barton, Orange County's longtime theatrical agent provocateur (and OC Weekly arts writer) will program the 2013 season at Stages Theatre, OC's l ... More >>

Pacific Playwrights Festival

South Coast Repertory

'Quills' Is a Production Full of Santorum

Cal Rep takes Doug Wright's great play and turns it into a frustrating mess

Collaborators

Irvine Barclay Theatre

"OC-Centeric: Orange County's New Play Festival" to Start at Chapman University This Friday

​Back in the day (like in the 1990s), Orange County was a hotbed of new playwriting. Revolving Door Productions in Fullerton, and Stages in Anaheim, were new play foundries, and a lot of good, and some not-so-good stuff came out of each theater. Playwrighting groups also flourished, with at l ... More >>

'Jerry Springer' Vs. Arthur Miller Vs. 'The Underpants'

[SUMMER GUIDE] And more from OC and Long Beach stages this summer

One Era Ends and Another Begins at South Coast Repertory

Scr.orgMartin Benson and David Emmes​It's not exactly a seismic shift, but whenever two main forces behind a major artistic institution decide to step down, it's a very big deal.  And that's what's happening at South Coast Repertory, a theater that (sorry, Will Ferrell and Jenna Haze) is, ha ... More >>

Hunger Artists Theatre Stages a Great 'Godot'

The Fullerton acting troupe's take on the Beckett masterpiece strikes the perfect balance of pathos and bathos

Preview Review Revue

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

Becky Shaw

South Coast Repertory

Just Work It Baby: Three Ways To Experience Theater In Its Rawest Stage

​The Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble is community theater in its finest mode. No, not the kind of stale community theater that churns out tried and true middle-of-the-road fodder, but a theater that cares as much as its surrounding community as it does in getting that community's asses in i ... More >>

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Empire Theatre

Big Names on Local Stages This Year Include Sondheim, Wilson, Shepard and, of Course, Debbie

Edgy and Eggy

The Arab, the Jew and the Chicken

True Lies

As Shipwrecked! shows, playwright Donald Marguulies thinks fabulists can be fabulous

The Farce Is With Him

Moliere in love makes for a worthy tribute

The Play's the Thing

Six reasons to love the Pacific Playwrights Festival

Local, Only

David Wiener is the first Orange County playwright at the Pacific Playwrights Festival

As Good As It Gets

Theatre de la Jeune Lune delivers a masterful Miser

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

Doing it Well

Asian Acting tells eight stories, all of them compelling

Playing for Keeps

365 Days of Dramaturgical Delights

Conflict-of-Interest Summer Theater!

Go to my festival. See my play. Read my column

Snuff Theater

Slab

Bombs, Balls and Broads

Joel Beers theater notes

Staged Attack

Three Great Plays, One Weekend

Is This the Greatest Weekend Ever or What?!

Joel Beers on SCRs new playwrights fest

In New Spaces, No One Can Hear You Scream

Joel Beers theater notes

The Seventh Annual OC Weekly Theater Awards!

Musical Chairman

Jerry Herman says the shows must go on

The OCies Yeeeee-ha!

Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

Hide your Love Away

SCRs The School for Wives

Its a Mans Word

But women dominate SCRs playwrights festival

A New Beckett?

A lot of crap and a genius in our midst

How About a Little Respect?

Grove Theater Center battles for truth, honor and faceless lips

The Rumor Is...

...this play is actually good!

Wherez the Noize?

Wandering Amid the Hollow

A Thing of Beauty

Random Women says something attractive about ugliness

One Good Play

Blurb-O-Matic

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

But Where Are the Giants?

SCR's Play Strindberg is almost brilliant

The Year in Floodlights and Grease Paint

Between the Generations

Sexual politics and moral ambiguity take the stage

Pall in the Family

Dimly Perceived Threats to the System attempts to save the family by killing it

We Couldn't Find 10

Our Top 8 list of the upcoming theater season