O.C.Theatre Guild Award Winners Recognized at Second Annual Ceremony
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...
April 22, 2023
New Ballet ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Prioritizes Storytelling, Acting and Mexican Culture
An exploration of tradition and rebellion will take center stage in “Like Water for Chocolate,” Christopher Wheeldon’s latest full-length ballet for American Ballet Theatre. The work is based on a...
March 26, 2023
Stage Door Closes Its Doors, For Now
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...
February 24, 2023
National Endowment for the Arts Chair Talks in O.C.
When President Biden nominated Maria Rosario Jackson to head the National Endowment for the Arts in October 2021, the appointment was groundbreaking but inevitable. Groundbreaking because Jackson is the nation’s...
February 10, 2023
SCR Plays up the ‘Repertory’ Concept, Pairing Two Similar-themed Plays as ‘Voices of America’
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...
January 31, 2023
