The Casebook of C. Auguste Dupin, adapted by John Strysik, is a World Premiere play. It brings together Edgar Allan Poe's three Dupin mysteries — The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter — into a single evening of murder, mayhem, and...
The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the daughter of a tyrannical wealthy man who constantly compares her unfavorably to her late mother. When a young man seeks to marry Catherine, her father suspects him of being a fortune hunter and...
The Ten Tombs of Dr. Styles by Frank Semerano is a World Premiere comedy. Five uninvited and bumbling characters descend on the isolated estate of the late Egyptologist Dr. Winston Styles, searching through his artifact-filled home for clues to an ancient riddle they believe...
The Dream by David Hunt Stafford is a World Premiere production. A woman awakens from a dream in which she sees a dead body lying along a remote roadside and, despite her husband's urging to forget it, reports the vision in detail to the police. When investigators reluctantly...
The Outsider by Paul Slade is a comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy. Ned Newley is terrified of public speaking and has impressively bad poll numbers, making him seem destined to fail as a gubernatorial candidate. His political consultant Arthur Vance, however...
A musical about disenfranchised teenage boys in warring gangs in the middle of the twentieth century has an impossibly high standard to measure up against in the department of subject matter.…
To celebrate the musical's 40th anniversary, South Coast Reportory recreates INTO THE WOODS with a decisively different approach, one that both entices and, at times, triggers an uneasy vibe (at first) that seems to have permeated out from the show's darker second half. Admittedly, something felt of…
There are no easy answers here, but playwright Janine Nabers raises many questions. What happens when something outside your control forever taints your legacy? How to separate art from artist? How to hold someone accountable even when you love them?…
When the US airspace shut down after the attacks of 9/11, what happened to the planes already on their way? Hit Broadway musical Come From Away, penned by Canadian composer-lyricist couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, recounts the story.…
Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.…
The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…
Following a successful world premiere earlier this year, the theatre-hockey romance play Melt stages its encore at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre. Melt agonizes over missed opportunities and the question “What if?”…
Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.…
The show is a swing for the fences like every show at the underrated and underseen Nocturne is.…
To kick-off the 2026-2027 run of their often Broadway-centric Cabaret Series, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa tapped not only a proven Broadway star, but an OC native, too for a triumphant homecoming concert: Krysta Rodriguez. Marking her Center cabaret debut, Rodriguez performed to rap…
Lakefront by Norm Foster is a U.S. Premiere production. Retirees Christina and Robert meet at a wedding and, in an intoxicated moment, decide to rent a lakefront cabin together to test the intimacy waters and rediscover their mojo. Now sober, they must follow through on their...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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Erin Morley & Lawrence Brownlee The Wallis (4/22-4/22) PHOTOS |
