Review: THE OUTSIDERS at Hollywood Pantages Theatre
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.…
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Review: South Coast Repertory Presents A Revamped INTO THE WOODS
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…
Review: THE PETERSON SHOW at Echo Theatre Company
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?…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater
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.…
Review: SPIDER’S WEB at Group Rep At Lonny Chapman Theatre
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.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Delights at La Mirada Theatre
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…
Review: MELT : THE PLAY returns triumphantly to The Marilyn Theatre
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?”…
Review: BEGIN AGAIN at the Old Globe Theatre
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.…
Review: FRANKENSTEIN: RESURRECTION at Nocturne Theatre
The show is a swing for the fences like every show at the underrated and underseen Nocturne is.…
Review: Krysta Rodriguez Makes OC Cabaret Debut at Segerstrom Center
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…
Past Shows
14 total · showing 1–10
The Swan
After a swan crashes through Dora's window, the rescued bird transforms into a young man who understands nothing about the inconsistencies of human emotion.
Elves 1989
Things getting too hot for you this summer? Come cool off at The Garage Theatre, where snow is predicted because it’s Christmas at the world premier of Elves 1989, a surreal, horror, comedy directed by Diana Kaufmann. Sick of her family, crass commercialism, and her lame job at...
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
On March 6th, The Garage Theatre proudly kicks off their 26th season with Our Dear Dead Drug Lord , a dark and feverish coming-of-age comedy written by Alexis Scheer and directed by Skylar Alexis. Suspended high above 2008 reality in a Florida treehouse, four girls will do all...
Long Beach is Sinking! (Or, Hard Times are Better than a Lifetime of Injustice)
Get ready to cheer for the hero, boo the villain, and throw a lot of tomatoes because it’s time for The Garage Theatre’s annual melodrama!
Predictor
PREDICTOR is the real-life story of Margaret Crane who, in 1967, defied all odds to become the inventor of the first home pregnancy test.
Witch
This witty, irreverent drama explores power & agency, love & respect, home & despair. Which will you choose when the devil is at your door?
The Call List
Don't miss The Garage Theatre's first One-Woman Show! This poignant dark comedy that invites the audience to reflect on the complexities of the human experience.
Tragedy Giftshop
We follow the folks of Townesville USA as they grapple with the hard facts - and intersections - of grief & consumerism in modern-day America.
The Steam-Powered Rocket Ride to The Moon Or... Ground Control to Guillo and Rod
Join our heroes Rod McGirdlebutt and Guillermo Fao as they take on dastardly villains threatening to destroy Long Beach’s Pike, in this beloved children's melodrama.
In The Blood
In The Blood, the tragic tale of a homeless black woman and her five children struggling to make themselves a better life.
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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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Aymeric Hainaux and François Chaignaud, Mirlitons UCLA Nimoy Theater (10/23-10/24) |
