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What happens when an elderly patient with dementia goes missing in a northern Idaho blizzard, leaving his wife and others behind to face the unknown? The story is Rest, a heartbreakingly funny and tender play commissioned by South Coast Repertory from Samuel D.

Festival Ballet Theatre presents Giselle at Irvine Barclay Theatre March 22 and 23, featuring Guest Artists from American Ballet Theatre Gillian Murphy and Cory Stearns.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts announces the dynamic cast of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returning to Segerstrom Hall in Orange County from April 8 - 13, 2014.

Cabrillo Music Theatre announces the next in a series of fundraising and entertainment events in the recently renovated Founders' Room of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

MenAlive pays tribute to The Beatles' timeless songbook in The Beatles at the beautiful Irvine Barclay Theater.

South Coast Repertory has announced an exciting lineup of shows from March to June.

Global music sensation Celtic Woman returns to Segerstrom Center for the Arts on April 1 & 2, 2014 with its newest show, The Emerald Tour, in support of the simultaneous new album and DVD releases, both titled EMERALD: MUSICAL GEMS.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts announces its 2014 - 2015 Season, a year of extraordinary artists in captivating performances that will give audiences one unforgettable experience after another.

Experience something(s) new: Three world premiere productions and four new play readings during South Coast Repertory's 2014 Pacific Playwrights Festival, April 25-27.

The producers of the national tour of the THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts announced today that single tickets will go on sale Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 10 a.

As South Coast Repertory's 50th Season celebration continues, look at its past, get a preview of its future and take a peek behind the scenes to see how the magic of theatre happens during a special Open House.

Jack and the Giant Beanstalk by Linda Daugherty, directed by Mercy Vasquez, will be presented by South Coast Repertory's Junior Players April 22-23 and April 29-30 in the Nicholas Studio.

During my first taste of the show last fall, I was certainly wowed by its technical wizardry and its talented cast, but was sadly underwhelmed by how much of the original film's stirring, emotional magic and innocent fantasy had been stripped away in favor of easy, high-camp laughs, dazzling onstage

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts concludes its 2013-14 Programs for Young Audiences series with the exciting adventures of JIM HENSON'S SID THE SCIENCE KID LIVE! This 75-minute, wildly entertaining show is the live stage adaptation of the Emmy®-Award nominated series 'Sid the Science Kid'

Memories aren't always reliable as three high school buddies try to reconnect after a high school reunion.

A "5, 6, 7, 8," the countdown begins for Segerstrom Center's popular Six Days of Broadway musical theater summer camps returning June 23 through July 6.

The 2014 Studio SCR series at South Coast Repertory continues in February with the one-man show St.

The International Dance Series at Segerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes the return of The Hamburg Ballett with the American premiere of John Neumeier's Liliom, February 7 - 9, with four performances at Segerstrom Hall.

Kids' Night on Broadway will be held during The Wizard Of Oz's run at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts, tonight and tomorrow, February 12 & 13, 2014.

John Maeda, author of the best-selling book Redesigning Leadership, will be the featured speaker at the fifth annual Creative Edge Lecture on Wednesday, March 26 from 9-10:30 a.

The Segerstrom Center for the Arts will offer pre-show activities for audiences and munchkins attending THE WIZARD OF OZ, today, February 11 through the 23rd, 2014.

Do the Arts Make Us Better People? That is the question at hand when The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, Getty Trust President and CEO James Cuno and Segerstrom Center for the Arts President Terrence W.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents the Orange County engagement of the first North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ.

A big hit with audiences during the 2006-07 season, James and the Giant Peach in 2014 will offer a memorable experience for new and returning playgoers as a part of SCR's Theatre for Young Audiences series.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts continues this season's Programs for Young Audiences series with American Family Theater's original telling of the musical favorite, The Wizard of Oz.