Keith Mitchell News

A pair of plucky orphans fall into the clutches of a greedy couple in the final installment of SCR's 2009-2010 Theatre for Young Audiences season. Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, adapted by Bathsheba Doran from a Chinese folk tale, has its world premiere May 21 through June 6 on the Julianne Argyros stage.

A pair of plucky orphans fall into the clutches of a greedy couple in the final installment of SCR's 2009-2010 Theatre for Young Audiences season. Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, adapted by Bathsheba Doran from a Chinese folk tale, has its world premiere May 21 through June 6 on the Julianne Argyros stage.

A pair of plucky orphans fall into the clutches of a greedy couple in the final installment of SCR's 2009-2010 Theatre for Young Audiences season. Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, adapted by Bathsheba Doran from a Chinese folk tale, has its world premiere May 21 through June 6 on the Julianne Argyros stage.

In South Coast Repertory's truly excellent World Premiere play DOCTOR CERBERUS (with performances continuing through May 2), playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa takes us back to the mid-1980's to witness the witty coming-of-age tale of one young awkward teen who is just a tad smarter than his years will allow. This, like in all misfits, causes him to be quite anguished by the very nature of his uniqueness in the world. Factor in a standard-issue dysfunctional family that can't quite understand him, and you have the makings of a winning narrative that has plenty of laughs, pathos and enough poignant moments that has us rooting for our hero to make it through to the end unscathed. Growing up different is scary. More broadly, life itself is scary.

Goblins, ghouls and ghosts of the 1980s haunt SCR's latest world premiere, Doctor Cerberus, which makes its debut April 11 - May 2 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

The casting for Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's DOCTOR CERBERUS, which will run on the Julianne Argyros Stage from April 11 through May 2, has been announced.

Goblins, ghouls and ghosts of the 1980s haunt SCR's latest world premiere, Doctor Cerberus, which makes its debut April 11 - May 2 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

South Coast Repertory will present Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business as part of its Theatre for Young Audience series Nov. 6 - 22 on the Julianne Argyros stage. Directed by Casey Stangl, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing, the musical is based on the second in Park's Junie B. Jones series. Low-priced previews are available from Nov. 6 -13. Opening day is Nov. 14.

South Coast Repertory will present Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business as part of its Theatre for Young Audience series, runs through November 22 on the Julianne Argyros stage.

South Coast Repertory will present Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business as part of its Theatre for Young Audience series Nov. 6 - 22 on the Julianne Argyros stage. Directed by Casey Stangl, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing, the musical is based on the second in Park's Junie B. Jones series. Low-priced previews are available from Nov. 6 -13. Opening day is Nov. 14.

South Coast Repertory will present Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business as part of its Theatre for Young Audience series Nov. 6 - 22 on the Julianne Argyros stage. Directed by Casey Stangl, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing, the musical is based on the second in Park's Junie B. Jones series. Low-priced previews are available from Nov. 6 -13. Opening day is Nov. 14.

Broadway favorite Tituss Burgess, who recently starred as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in GUYS AND DOLLS, presented 'How I Hear It' featuring the Tight-Ass Band at Birdland (315 West 44th Street) on Monday, July 27th at 7pm. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to cheer him and band on!

Growing up in a coastal community, dreams of swashbuckling and great sea adventures floated around throughout my adolescence, and thanks, in part, to Disney recently giving a much needed boost to the pirate adventures series, tales of the high seas are back in vogue. Subsequently, what was once the toast of Victorian England, Louis de Rougemont's wild stories of a life out at sea, has come full circle and once again shines as bright as the North Star at South Coast Repertory...

Retro farce, if done well, can prove laugh out loud funny, and playwright Frank Salisbury has accomplished just that in his comedy Balancing Act, in its American debut at the Falcon Theatre...