Eric Marchese
Contributing Writer
Eric Marchese is a veteran writer on theater, performing arts and cultural events in and around Orange County. For more than three decades, he amassed a total of more than 2,000 articles – reviews, features, news stories and profiles – for The Orange County Register. He has worked as a theater critic for Backstage and as a news and features writer for a wide variety of local news organizations.
Stories by Eric Marchese
ReviewsSCR’s ‘Quixote Nuevo’ is an Enjoyable Feast Marred Only by Too Many Thematic IngredientsOctober 9, 2023ReviewsSCR’s ‘Quixote Nuevo’ is an Enjoyable Feast Marred Only by Too Many Thematic IngredientsOctober 9, 2023
MusicJazz Legend Monty Alexander Brings His Swingin’ Musical Talents to the BarclaySeptember 25, 2023 REVIEW: While uneven, the ambitious, visually and aurally elaborate contemporary update of the Don Quixote tale is well worth seeing. “Don Quixote” has been around for more than 400 years,…
REVIEW: While uneven, the ambitious, visually and aurally elaborate contemporary update of the Don Quixote tale is well worth seeing. “Don Quixote” has been around for more than 400 years,…
The 2023-24 lineup includes ‘Quixote Nuevo,’ ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ and a musical version of ‘Prelude to a Kiss’ – but the pandemic exerts the same unwanted forces on…
The world over knows June 6, 1944 as the historic date known as D-Day, when the Allied Forces invaded Nazi-occupied France. Something else occurred on that date, across the Atlantic,…
The 2023 OCTG Theatre Awards are in the books, and like the inaugural awards ceremony a year ago, they confirmed the dedication and determination of Orange County’s theater community in…
The theater landscape is littered with the corpses of small-sized companies forced to close for a variety of reasons – for example, running out of steam creatively or losing manpower…
While South Coast Repertory was in the process of creating its 2023 season, David Ivers, SCR’s artistic director, decided that the opening slot on this year’s schedule could and should…
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