Culture OC StaffSep 423 min readEVENT ROUNDUPSFall Preview 2024: Our Writers Have Chosen Their Top Arts and Culture PicksWe’re excited to share with you our writers’ picks for notable events in theater, dance, visual arts, food, culture and music for fall...
Eric MarcheseJun 108 min readTHEATERIs a Deluxe Performing Arts Center in the Cards for Mission Viejo?Multiple moving parts will keep proposed project in the air for years – but ‘starter theater’ is likeliest stop-gap solution. Aliso Viejo...
Paul HodginsMay 108 min readTHEATERClassical Music is Booming. Theater? Not So Much.We look at what ails theater, still struggling to recover four years after the pandemic. The dark days of the pandemic are several years...
Irvine Barclay TheatreMay 725 min readPRESS RELEASESIrvine Barclay Theatre Announces 2024-25 Season With Grammy Winners, Notable Speakers and Other Renowned ArtistsThe following is a press release from an organization unaffiliated with Culture OC. The information provided has been written by the...
Peter LefevreApr 106 min readMUSICUkulele Against the MachineThe Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performs Saturday, April 13 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. Consider the ukulele. It’s not exactly...
Kaitlin WrightMar 254 min readDANCEHometown Hero Backhausdance Returns to the Irvine Barclay Theatre The company celebrates 21 years as one of very few professional dance companies in Orange County. Backhausdance returns to the Irvine...
Paul HodginsJan 244 min readMUSICPhilharmonic Society’s 2024-25 Season Represents a Return to NormalcyThe line-up includes seven orchestras, top-tier soloists, Grammy-winning composer. The Philharmonic Society of Orange County announced...