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A Christmas Carol
11/29 - 12/28/2025


South Coast Repertory celebrates its 45th annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, returning to the Segerstrom Stage from November 29 to December 28. ...

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


The New York Times described this American classic as “wry and electric!” In Edward Albee’s landmark drama, George and Martha invite a young couple to ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
1/23 - 3/21/2026


In gentrified Brooklyn, a playground fight between 11-year-old boys brings four parents together to resolve their sons’ conflict. At first, diplomacy rules. But as each ...



Photos: 45th Annual A CHRISTMAS CAROL At South Coast Repertory


by A.A. Cristi - December 03, 2025

South Coast Repertory is celebrating 45 years of bringing Orange County the timeless tale of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Check out photos of the production....

Sklar Brothers Open South Coast Repertory's Samples From The Lab Season


by Stephi Wild - September 23, 2025

South Coast Repertory announced a presentation reading of The Born Identity created, written and performed by the Sklar Brothers, and co-created and directed by Evan Shapiro. ...

Cast and Creative Team Set for FREMONT AVE. at Arena Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 08, 2025

Arena Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for Fremont Ave., a searing and soulful new dramatic-comedy where three generations of Black men face off against masculinity, identity, and the weight of silence passed down....

OneRoot Foundation Awards Special Grant to South Coast Repertory Following NEA Funding Withdrawal


by A.A. Cristi - June 11, 2025

In a powerful act of philanthropic support, the OneRoot Foundation has awarded a special grant to South Coast Repertory (SCR) to offset the sudden and unexpected withdrawal of a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for SCR’s production of The Staircase by Noa Gardner....

FREMONT AVE. By Reggie D. White To Have World Premiere a South Coast Repertory


by A.A. Cristi - April 14, 2025

South Coast Repertory has announced two of the country's most prestigious regional theatres are coming to together to produce the world premiere of Fremont Ave. by Reggie D. White....

Finalists Revealed for 2025 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 17, 2025

The American Theatre Critics and Journalists Association has revealed six finalists for the 2025 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing the playwrights who produced the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2024....

Lineup Set For 27th Pacific Playwrights Festival


by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2025

South Coast Repertory has announced the lineup for the 27th Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF), anchored by two world premieres of fully staged productions. Learn more here!...

THE HEART SELLERS Comes to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley


by Stephi Wild - February 25, 2025

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present the new play The Heart Sellers by 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!...

THE INCREDIBLE BOOK EATING BOY Begins This Month at South Coast Repertory


by A.A. Cristi - February 20, 2025

South Coast Repertory celebrates the joy of reading with a hilarious musical almost good enough to eat in The Incredible Book Eating Boy. The Incredible Book Eating Boy runs Feb. 28-March 16 on the Julianne Argyros Stage....

Stage and Screen Actor Bruce French Dies at 79


by Stephi Wild - February 10, 2025

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen actor Bruce French has passed away at age 79 due to complications of Alzheimer's disease. French is best known for his recurring role as Father Lonigan on the NBC daytime drama Passions....

Past Shows

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
9/13 - 10/11/2025


On Dec. 4, 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gathered for one night to play music—and ended up making history. ...

Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here
1/12 - 2/2/2025


1978. Protests break out across Iran as five close girlfriends plan weddings, trade dirty jokes and try to live their young lives. As the revolution ...

JOAN
JOAN
10/27 - 11/24/2024


Comedian. Trailblazer. Force of nature. From Greenwich Village nightclubs to “The Tonight Show” to Hollywood’s red carpets, Joan Rivers made and remade her career through ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
9/21 - 10/19/2024


Down-on-his-luck Seymour pines for the beautiful Audrey. When he stumbles across a strange new plant, Seymour may get everything he’s ever wanted.

The Old Man and the Old Moon
The Old Man and the Old Moon
7/20 - 8/11/2024


We’re back for a fourth summer of theatre under the stars at Mission San Juan Capistrano! An epic adventure across land, sea and sky–all in ...

APPROPRIATE
APPROPRIATE
1/28 - 2/26/2023


Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg Arkansas, present day. The estranged members of the Lafayette family gather at their late father’s crumbling ...

THE LITTLE FOXES
THE LITTLE FOXES
1/29 - 2/26/2023


 The Little Foxes  By Lillian Hellman                                        ...

Amos & Boris
Amos & Boris
5/18 - 6/3/2018


While all the mice in Mouse Town dance the night away, Amos would rather sit alone dreaming of the ocean. When he goes on a ...

The Sisters Rosensweig
The Sisters Rosensweig
5/5 - 6/2/2018


They’re each extraordinary in their own way. Sara, the successful banker. Pfeni, the globe-trotting journalist. And Gorgeous, the irrepressible radio host. Not bad for three ...

Little Black Shadows
Little Black Shadows
4/8 - 4/29/2018


“We is shadows. And shadows is seen, not heard.” In pre-Civil war Georgia, Toy and Colis spend long days on the plantation silently serving adolescent ...

Shrew!
Shrew!
3/24 - 4/21/2018


In Shakespeare’s battle of the sexes, The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio wins. But, what if a 16th century woman had written it? In Amy ...

Cambodian Rock Band
Cambodian Rock Band
3/4 - 3/25/2018


Part comedy, part mystery, part rock concert, this thrilling story toggles back and forth in time, as father and daughter face the music of the ...

Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook


The world’s funniest grade-school know-it-all is back! And Junie B. is convinced that someone stole her furry black mittens at recess. So, when Junie B. ...

Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love
1/13 - 2/10/2018


oung Will Shakespeare is desperate. He has writer’s block and owes two demanding producers a new comedy—a half-baked mess titled Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/24 - 12/24/2017


Nineteenth-century London comes to life when your family joins the SCR family for the holidays. Recapture the spirit of an old-fashioned Christmas with this timeless ...

Sugar Plum Fairy
Sugar Plum Fairy
12/3 - 12/24/2017


The Madwoman in the Volvo is back—and Scrooge isn’t the only one bitter about the holidays! With signature irreverence, NPR superstar Sandra Tsing Loh recounts ...

Ella Enchanted: The Musical
Ella Enchanted: The Musical
10/27 - 11/12/2017


As a baby Ella is given the “gift” of obedience by a misguided fairy, and cannot disobey any order. Now a teenager, the strong-willed Ella ...

Gem of the Ocean
Gem of the Ocean
10/14 - 11/11/2017


1904. Many former slaves and descendants venturing north find themselves at Aunt Ester’s door in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. A renowned cleanser of souls claiming to ...

Curve of Departure
Curve of Departure
9/24 - 10/15/2017


On the night before Cyrus’ funeral, the family he left years ago gathers in a hotel room. Linda, his ex-wife. Felix, his grown son. Rudy, ...

Once
Once
9/2 - 9/30/2017


“Glorious and inspiring” (Time Out New York), “fun and heartfelt” (The New Yorker), Once tells the story of a Dublin street musician about to abandon ...

A Year with Frog and Toad
11/6 - 11/22/2015


Spend The Summer With Frog and Toad Kids will love A Year With Frog and Toad, a musical based on Arnold Lobel’s popular children’s book ...

Smokefall
3/29 - 4/28/2013


Segerstrom Stage: - Noah Haidle; dir: Anne Kauffman....

The Whale
3/10 - 3/31/2013


Argyros Stage: - Samuel D. Hunter; dir: Martin Benson....

Anastasia Krupnick
2/8 - 2/24/2013


Anastasia is opinionated, sassy and really funny. This 10-year old has a different take on life that is both amusing and refreshing. Her world is ...

Chinglish
1/25 - 2/24/2013


Segerstrom Stage: - David Henry Hwang; dir: Leigh Silverman....


Argyros Stage: - Stephen Adly Guirgis; dir: Michael John Garc...

Snow Angel
Snow Angel
5/19 - 6/27/2012


David Lindsay-Abaire...

Cattywampus
Cattywampus
6/22 - 6/24/2012


In this darkly comic reinvention of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, writer/director Robert Cucuzza distills an essential tale of class and sexual power dynamics and transports it ...

Anton's Uncles
Anton's Uncles
6/8 - 6/10/2012


A fresh, funny, and physical look at Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. In this original work—winner of an Outstanding Theatre Award at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival—only ...

Jane of the Jungle
Jane of the Jungle
5/25 - 6/10/2012


May 25 - June 10, 2012 Jane of the Jungle: book and lyrics by Karen Zacarias music by Deborah Wicks La Puma World Premiere directed ...

Inside - Jitney
Inside - Jitney
3/7 - 6/9/2012

Cloudlands
Cloudlands
4/15 - 5/6/2012


Just as she struggles to find her own way in love, Monica accidentally makes a startling discovery about her mother, which throws her whole life ...

pool (no water)
pool (no water)
5/4 - 5/6/2012


A famous artist invites several old friends to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group of artists is back together. Celebrations ...

Smokefall
Smokefall
4/29


This time-bending tale of an eccentric Midwestern family on the verge of upheaval is at times fanciful, at times ineffably beautiful—and always unpredictable. Performing on ...

The Prince of Atlantis
The Prince of Atlantis
3/30 - 4/29/2012


Things aren’t going so well for Joey Colletti, one of the biggest seafood importers in the East. He got into a little trouble with his ...

I And You
I And You
4/27 - 4/28/2012


On the night before a class assignment is due, Caroline and Anthony plumb the mysteries of a Whitman poem…unaware that a deeper mystery has brought ...

The Few
The Few
4/28


Four years ago, Bryan skipped town, leaving his girlfriend to run a failing truckers' newspaper. Now he’s come back to discover everything has changed. Except ...

Warrior Class


They’re already calling him “the Republican Obama,” but when Julius Weishan Lee makes a bid for Congress, he must decide how far he’ll go to ...

You Are Here


In this fierce comedy of urban manners, six New Yorkers look for connection and fulfillment, as youth slips away and edginess begins to lose its ...

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
3/24 - 4/1/2012


It’s a fantastical world that’s totally hip! But this urban kingdom has a big problem—a curse has been put on its royal princess. There’s no ...

The Borrowers
2/10 - 2/26/2012


In this enchanting new play based on an award-winning classic of children's literature, Arrietty lives a quiet life with her parents in a warm and ...

Topdog/Underdog
1/8 - 1/29/2012


This electrifying drama about the gritty lives of two street-savvy hustlers resonated through the theatre world. The New York Times led the way, calling it ...

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God of Carnage in Costa Mesa God of Carnage
SOUTH COAST REPERTORY (1/23 - 3/21)
SIX in Costa Mesa SIX
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (3/10 - 3/15)
The Notebook in Costa Mesa The Notebook
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (1/27 - 2/8)
The Great Race in Costa Mesa The Great Race
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (1/31 - 2/1)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Costa Mesa Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (7/5 - 7/25)
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Costa Mesa Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
SOUTH COAST REPERTORY (1/24 - 3/21)
Doodle POP in Costa Mesa Doodle POP
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (3/14 - 3/15)
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