The Show Will Go On at Camino Real Playhouse
After looking for years for a new location, San Juan Capistrano’s community theater finally has found its new home.
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Ticket Trauma: How Local Performing Arts Organizations are Affected
Ticket fraud and mishandling doesn’t just impact big acts and their fans. Local performing arts organizations are also feeling the pain and fighting back.
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Eric Eberwein Nurtures Orange County’s Community of Playwrights
This local playwright loves OC theater; does it love him back?
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Keeping the (Museum) Center Intact
Fullerton institution’s battle for survival relies on hard work, commitment and cold beer at a reasonable price.
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South Coast Repertory is Heartbroken That It’s Losing the Mission
Its successful partnership with Mission San Juan Capistrano for summer productions unexpectedly ends. Is there another place for SCR’s summer outdoor season?
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SCR at 60, Part 2: The Investment in New Plays Pays Off
Editor’s Note: This is PART 2 of a two-part series recognizing SCR’s 60th anniversary season, which continues through August. South Coast Repertory founders David Emmes and Martin Benson had every reason…
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Conventional Conversations: Diverse Voices Find Their Place at WonderCon
Diversity and representation were major talking points in upstairs meeting rooms at WonderCon last weekend, but what did they look like on the exhibition floor? It didn’t take long for…
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Massive Asian Comics Exhibit on View at the Bowers
Over the past 20 years, the Bowers Museum has hosted some of Asia’s most timeless artifacts and art, from Tibetan treasures and Japanese samurai art to relics of the Silk…
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SCR at 60, Part 1: Committing to New Plays, Eventually
Editor’s Note: This is PART 1 of a two-part series recognizing SCR’s 60th anniversary season, which continues through August. “Twenty-four years ago … two young men set out to start…
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Hey Brother, Can You Spare an Empty Space?
Checking in with Orange County’s theaters without a home. Remove the high school and college theater programs, as well as those venues that mainly host and don’t create theater, and…
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Cabrillo Playhouse Catches a Second Wind
It’s a 71-year-old community theater inside a 95-year-old house located at the southernmost tip of Orange County, which has one of the highest percentages of older adult residents in the…
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Chance Theater Gets to the Heart of the Matter to Find Its Voice
PART 2: Over 25 years, through trial and error, Chance Theater discovers the plays – and musicals – that connect to its community. (Go to PART 1 to read the first…