Casey Long News

On Monday night, the Orange County theater community gathered once again to celebrate excellence in live performance at the 4th Annual OC Theatre Guild Awards.

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.

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 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.

Experience the return of JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA, THE MUSICAL at the Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center from November 29 - December 22, 2024.

Featuring a humorous yet surprisingly poignant original story from John Cameron Mitchell and piercing, high-octane tunes from composer Stephen Trask, the gloriously ribald glam-rock musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is currently flipping its wigs out in a brand new extremely engaging production at the Chance Theater continuing thru February 25.

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!

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, has announced an encore presentation of “The Secret Garden, The Musical,” presented as part of Chance Theater's Holiday Literature Series. Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, and music by Lucy Simon.

Chance Theater, Anaheim’s official resident theater company, will be honoring Bette Aitken with its inaugural Legacy Arts & Humanitarian Award for her Visionary Leadership on Saturday, October 7th at Chance Theater’s Gala Fundraiser. Learn more about Bette Aitken 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.

Chance Theater, Anaheim’s official resident theater company, has announced a special LGBTQIA+ Community Night for the revolutionary Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical “RENT,” directed by Matthew McCray. 

On Saturday, January 21, 2023 during OC Theatre Guild’s membership meeting, the nominees for the second annual OCTG Theatre Awards were officially announced to the public. The awards ceremony, in which the winners will be revealed, has been scheduled for the evening of Monday, April 17, 2023 at the Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.

Chance Theater, Anaheim’s official resident theater company, will remount the poignant and captivating “Little Women - The Broadway Musical”. Book by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein; directed by Casey Long, with music direction by Gabrielle Maldonado. Check out photos here!

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, has announced its 2023 Season, which includes four musicals, three plays, and five staged readings of new shows.

Chance Theater, Anaheim’s official resident theater company, announces the regional premiere production of the 2009 rock musical “Green Day’s American Idiot.” Check out the first photos!

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced today its December OBERON programming, the final shows at A.R.T.’s club theater located at 2 Arrow Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge before A.R.T. releases its lease at the conclusion of 2021. 

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre has announced its livestreaming benefit performance of the musical play 'I Do! I Do!' A montage of 50 years of marriage, the play is told in song, story and dance by actors from IVRT, Ophelia's Jump Productions, Center Stage Fontana, 3D Theatricals, and the Chance Theater.

Chance Theater has announced its next Chance Cyber Chat, this time about the chilling one-woman show, On The Exhale, which stars Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland (Broadway: Reasons to be Pretty, TV: “The Umbrella Academy”).

Chance Theater has announced its 21st Chance Cyber Chat, this time about the one-woman show, ANN, which was written by and stars Emmy Award-winner Holland Taylor (TV's “Two and a Half Men”).

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, is sad to announce that the upcoming production of Little Women - The Broadway Musical has been officially canceled.