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Eric Marchese
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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.
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Dec 11, 2024
The King's Singers Are Making a Holiday Stop at the Irvine Barclay
The well-traveled a cappella ensemble will celebrate the season, Disney’s centennial and hallmarks of its history. The Cambridge,...
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Nov 4, 2024
SCR World Premiere Paints A New Portrait of Joan Rivers
REVIEW: Tessa Auberjonois’ uncanny, tour-de-force realization of the icon elevates Daniel Goldstein’s script. Even if you think you...
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Nov 1, 2024
Bernadette Peters Opens Pacific Symphony's 2024-25 Pops Season
The iconic star returns to Costa Mesa for the first time since 2015 for a concert with a bounty of Sondheim works. Think Bernadette...
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Oct 2, 2024
Who is ‘Gloria,’ and is the Price We Pay for Success in the Workplace, and in Society, Too High?
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2015 play, in its Orange County premiere at Chance Theater, homes in on the world of publishing. While movies...
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Sep 11, 2024
Asian Hall of Fame Coming to the Great Park in Irvine
OC Music and Dance is giving the Pasadena-based cultural institution entrée into an 800-seat multipurpose venue slated to open at the...
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Aug 5, 2024
Outdoor Plays and Concerts Will Deliver a Last Blast of Summer That’s Fun and Exciting
Under-the-stars theater productions and concerts – of both the classical and pop music variety – are singular ways to enjoy the breezes...
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Jul 29, 2024
'Hallmark Movie Musical' is Supercharged with an Immersive Audience Experience
Irvine Theater Company is combining the O.C. premiere of ‘My (unauthorized) Hallmark Movie Musical’ with ‘Dr. Love’s Rom-Com Experience’...
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Jul 26, 2024
Festival of Tabla Takes Center Stage at Soka
The Aliso Viejo university is billing the event as ‘the largest gathering of Indian classical musicians on the West Coast’ and calling it...
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Jun 10, 2024
Is 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...
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May 15, 2024
Four Productions – Two Plays, Two Musicals – Grab the Lion's Share of O.C. Theatre Guild Awards
Curtis Theatre’s ‘Gentleman’s Guide…,’ Costa Mesa Playhouse’s ‘Clybourne Park’ and Chance’s ‘Ride the Cyclone’ and ‘Curious Incident…’...
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Apr 22, 2024
With 'Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical,' SCR Adds New Wrinkles to the Play it Originated 36 Years Ago
REVIEW: Playwright Craig Lucas and company have, for better or worse, wrought a different theatrical animal, seemingly missing key...
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Apr 19, 2024
Biblical Times, a Musical 'Prelude' and More at the Pacific Playwrights Festival
The Costa Mesa company’s 26th showcase unveils two standalone productions of new shows, plus a quintet of staged readings. If new plays...
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