COSTA MESA - PLAYS

by Gary Naylor - December 10, 2025

Musically impressive with real high points, the drama does not quite hold together...

by Gary Naylor - December 10, 2025

Musically impressive with real high points, the drama does not quite hold together...

by Jacob Ruscoe - December 10, 2025

I first saw The Book of Mormon in 2011, the year it opened on Broadway. I remember it being ok but disappointed in the overall performance. Years later (in 2022) I gave the show another chance on a trip to NYC and I wondered how my view could have been so different than the first time I saw it....

by Stephen Mosher - December 10, 2025

Your only wish this holiday season should be to see David Archuleta's Christmas show at Joe's Pub....

by Paul Batterson - December 09, 2025

What did our critic think of AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall?...

by Audrey Liebross - December 09, 2025

A DOUBLEWIDE, TEXAS CHRISTMAS is loaded with groaner puns and double entendres, the physical humor is anything but highbrow, and the characters are loony, with the audience frequently howling with laughter, especially during the insane second act....

by Clementine Scott - December 10, 2025

We’re in a room straight out of the pages of Architectural Digest, two couples sipping Scotch on mid-century chaise longues. Like most plays set entirely in someone’s living room, though, fault lines amidst the middle-class domestic bliss soon emerge....

by Mary Lincer - December 09, 2025

What did our critic think of RULES FOR LIVING at Round House Theatre?...

by Carolan Trbovich - December 09, 2025

What did our critic think of WHITE CHRISTMAS at Turner Theater?...

by David Sousa Lopes - December 09, 2025

Last week at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg, Laura Bachman’s new creation Commençons par faire l’amour premiered as an intimate, yet universal meditation on love, memory, and gender....