Bruce Goodrich News

On Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026, during the OC Theatre Guild’s membership meeting, nominees for the fifth annual OCTG Theatre Awards were officially announced.

Chance Theater will present THE MESSENGER, a new play by Jenny Connell Davis, exploring themes of memory and resistance, from March 27 to April 19, 2026.

Chance Theater will present SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the Albert Finney film featuring book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. See photos of the production.

A truly delightful escape, this must-see production is a bit of charmed magic, a fanciful and evocative whimsy.

Chance Theater has announced that its World Premiere production of Such Small Hands has been extended due to demand. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!

On Saturday, February 22, 2025, during the OC Theatre Guild's membership meeting, the nominees for the fourth annual OCTG Theatre Awards were officially announced. Check out the full list here!

Chance Theater will present the World Premiere of Such Small Hands, written by Adam Szymkowicz and directed by Matthew McCray (Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Rent). See photos from the production.

Chance Theater will present the World Premiere of Such Small Hands, written by Adam Szymkowicz and directed by Matthew McCray (Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Rent).

Chance Theater has announced the highly anticipated production of Tick, Tick... Boom!, directed by H. Adam Harris (Boat Show). Running on Cripe Stage from February 1, 2025, through February 23, 2025, with previews beginning January 24, 2025.

Chance Theater has announced the highly anticipated return of Jane Austen’s Emma, The Musical, directed by Chance Theater Founding Resident Artist Casey Long. This enchanting adaptation by Paul Gordon brings Austen’s timeless tale of romance and matchmaking to life on the Bette Aitken theater arts Center’s Cripe Stage from November 29, 2024, through December 22, 2024.

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, is kicking off its 2024 Season with the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning musical, 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music & lyrics by Stephen Trask. Check out production photos here!

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH will kick off Chance Theater's 2024 Season. Learn more about the production details here!

Run, don’t walk, to the Laguna Playhouse’s production of the classic 1954 hit play The Rainmaker. I absolutely love this show. It's impossible to leave the theater after watching The Rainmaker without feeling lifted up by its transcendent joy and restorative optimism. 

Check out production photos from Laguna Playhouse's The Rainmaker, which opens Sunday, September 24, here!

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, has announced that “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” will be the fifth show in its 25th Anniversary Main Season. Based on Mark Haddon's best-selling 2003 novel, the play is written by Simon Stephens and will be directed by resident artist Darryl B. Hovis.

Laguna Playhouse will present the second show of its 2023-2024 season, THE RAINMAKER, written by N. Richard Nash and directed by Andrew Barnicle. 

Rogue Machine Theatre has produced several of the Samuel D. Hunter's works and in A GREAT WILDERNESS, director Elina de Santos, knows exactly which gears to pull.

Now having its Orange County premiere performances at Chance Theater in Anaheim through May 1, 2022, CRY IT OUT is a poignant slice-of-life that takes an eavesdropper's look at the hopes, fears, and lessons that come with new motherhood in our current times, and just how different each new mother chooses to handle the balancing act.

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, announces the Orange County premiere of Cry It Out, Molly Smith Metzler's comedy that takes a sharp and honest look at the double-edged sword of motherhood in all its joys and perils.

'The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley' is Jane Austin fanfiction that allows her popular characters life after the end of the novel. By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, The Wickhams is harmless entertainment that transports the audience back to England of the early 1800s.