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Rose Center Theater To Present One Night ROSE TRIBUTE CONCERT

Rose Center Theater To Present One Night ROSE TRIBUTE CONCERT

by BWW News Desk — December 10, 2025

The Rose Center Theater will present Rose Tribute Concert, a one night gathering that will bring returning performers and special guests back to the stage in celebration of two decades of music, storytelling, and community impact.

Photos: Laguna Playhouse's A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS

Photos: Laguna Playhouse's A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS

by BWW News Desk — December 7, 2025

Check out production photos from Laguna Playhouse's newly revised A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, as they celebrate their 10-year anniversary at the Playhouse with the return of the panto show that started it all.

ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15

ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15

by BWW News Desk — November 23, 2025

BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage, Broadway's biggest national competition for high school and college students, returned to reveal the Top 15 performers in both age groups.

Review: Pun-tastic SHUCKED Harvests Laughs at Segerstrom Center

Review: Pun-tastic SHUCKED Harvests Laughs at Segerstrom Center

by Michael Quintos — November 14, 2025

Filled with a seemingly non-stop parade of awww-shucks delivered puns—of both super naughty and super corny varieties—the show, for lack of a more eloquent description, is so frikkin silly and stupid in the best possible ways a comedy can get.

Review: Laughs Fly High in PETER PAN GOES WRONG at La Mirada

Review: Laughs Fly High in PETER PAN GOES WRONG at La Mirada

by Michael Quintos — November 9, 2025

Now presenting an even more over-the-top follow up compared to their first go-round in THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG staged here last February, the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment revisit the earnestly bumbling folks at the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Socie

Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL Returns to OC’s Segerstrom Center

Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL Returns to OC’s Segerstrom Center

by Michael Quintos — October 30, 2025

After making a splash when it first visited the OC back in 2022, MOULIN ROUGE! - THE MUSICAL—the dazzling, Tony Award-winning 2019 Broadway stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's groundbreaking 2001 movie musical—is back full throttle at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa for a limited wee

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS Opens in November at Cal State Fullerton

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS Opens in November at Cal State Fullerton

by BWW News Desk — October 23, 2025

Caridad Svich's “The House of the Spirits” is a poetic adaptation of celebrated Chilean author Isabel Allende's haunting novel, which centers on the women of the Trueba family as they rise from rags to riches in the shadow of social and political turmoil.

Review: Musical Theatre West Welcomes Back HELLO, DOLLY!

Review: Musical Theatre West Welcomes Back HELLO, DOLLY!

by Michael Quintos — October 22, 2025

During the recent opening night performance of Musical Theatre West's vibrant new production of the 10-time Tony Award-winning 1964 musical HELLO, DOLLY!, the enthusiastically appreciative audience might as well have chanted 'Hello, Tami!' judging from the reactions during the show's finalé bows.

Review: Tony-Winning SOME LIKE IT HOT Musical Adaptation Amuses at Segerstrom Center

Review: Tony-Winning SOME LIKE IT HOT Musical Adaptation Amuses at Segerstrom Center

by Michael Quintos — October 14, 2025

Nominated for 13 Tony Awards, the 2022 musical adaptation SOME LIKE IT HOT is a surprisingly delightful, hilariously fun, and gleefully silly musical comedy that also has an endearingly open-minded new twist that re-contextualizes the movie's main raison d'être into something more empowering and th

Review: Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga Makes Glorious Return to Segerstrom Center

Review: Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga Makes Glorious Return to Segerstrom Center

by Michael Quintos — October 7, 2025

Blessed with undeniable vocal talents and an endearingly charming persona, Tony and Olivier Award winner and Disney Legend Lea Salonga recently returned to Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center for the Arts for the one-night-only Orange County stop of the North American leg of her brand-new, perfectly-cura

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