REVIEW: “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM" by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE — Golden West College Theatre
Once upon a time, on a warm, Midsummer’s night, four young lovers find themselves wrapped in the dream-like arms of an enchanted forest...
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- Mar 12, 2023
REVIEW: “INVENTING VAN GOGH” — GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE THEATER ARTS
MARCH 11, 2023 — HUNTINGTON BEACH "Inventing Van Gogh" by Steven Dietz is one of those theatrical experiences where, at the end of the...
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- Nov 22, 2022
REVIEW: "IRVING BERLIN'S HOLIDAY INN" — Vanguard University Drama
COSTA MESA — NOVEMBER 22, 2022 The Christmas season seems to start earlier every year. Even before Halloween. Even before our Black...
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- Nov 15, 2022
REVIEW: "THE DROWSY CHAPERONE" — Golden West College Theater Arts
It's Got a Little of Everything! Show Tunes, Tycoons, Mafia Goons and Looney Tunes! NOV15, 2022 HUNTINGTON BEACH — The Drowsy Chaperone...
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- Mar 24, 2022
REVIEW: "Oedipus Rex"— Golden West College Theater Arts
"Yearning For The Truth at Any Cost..." Classical theater needn’t be tedious, as Golden West College reminds us each season. If properly...
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- Mar 11, 2022
REVIEW: "HAMLET"— Golden West College Theater Arts
"Of all the ways to catch a killer, few are as psychologically devious as the trap set by Hamlet." Her face gleams keenly under an...
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- Feb 28, 2022
REVIEW: "Mamma Mia!—Vanguard University Lyceum Theater
Come Take a Chance on this Irresistible "Mamma Mia!" It's time to break out the platform shoes and feather boas one more time! Vanguard...
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- Jan 10, 2022
REVIEW: "Cabaret"— Academy for the Performing Arts, HBHS
"Right this way, your table's waiting..." Fifty-five years ago, the musical “Cabaret” took Broadway by storm, winning eight Tony Awards...
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- Oct 25, 2021
REVIEW: “The Addams Family” — Orange Lutheran High School
"...A character-fueled comedy that aches to be seen!" There they are, lined up like tombstones, and looking as if they had just stepped...
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- Mar 9, 2020
REVIEW: "Acting: The First Six Lessons" — Golden West College Theatre Arts
Golden West College Theatre Arts Department presents “Acting: The First Six Lessons,” playing March 6th through March 15th, and directed...
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- Jan 22, 2020
REVIEW: "Tarzan, The Stage Musical"— (OCCT) Orange County Children's Theatre
"Teach me to speak the language of men!" — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes OCCT’s "Tarzan, The Stage Musical," based on the 1999...
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- Jan 14, 2020
REVIEW: "Sweeney Todd" – Academy for the Performing Arts, Huntington Beach
This ‘Sweeney Todd’ Really Gets In Your Face A weathered vessel sails into 19th century London's bleak and dreary harbor carrying a...
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- Nov 18, 2019
REVIEW: "Mary Poppins" — Arts and Learning Conservatory, Costa Mesa
Life’s a Jolly Holiday with ALCs “Mary Poppins!” At the Arts and Learning Conservatory in Costa Mesa this month, the 2019-20 season was...
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- Oct 28, 2019
REVIEW: "Gypsy, A Musical Fable" – Academy for the Performing Arts, Huntington Beach
..."I’m not a stripper. At these prices, I’m an ecdysiast!” Easily one of my favorite Broadway musicals, I have seen “Les Miserables”...
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- Oct 10, 2019
REVIEW: "Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)" — Golden West College Performing Arts
"I Ought to be Thy Adam, But I am Rather the Fallen Angel..." At the North Pole, gun in hand, an angry creator confronts his anguished...
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- Aug 16, 2019
REVIEW: "Big Fish" — Orange County Children's Theatre (OCCT), Huntington Beach
"A Masterwork With a Moral" HUNTINGTON BEACH: Where fantasy wages war with reality in “Big Fish, a New Broadway Musical,” a delightful...
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- Apr 25, 2019
REVIEW: "Heathers, The Musical" - Young Theatre, CSUF
Heather Chandler: “…God, Veronica. My afterlife is so boring. If I have to sing Kumbaya one more time.” “Heathers The Musical,” the...
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- Apr 12, 2019
REVIEW: "Footloose" - Plummer Auditorium, La Habra Theater Guild
Ariel: [Chuck mimics a fire engine's siren and grabs Ariel around the waist; she laughs] You'd never guess your daddy's a fire chief!...
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- Mar 21, 2019
REVIEW: "The Cherry Orchard," - Young Theatre, Cal-State Fullerton
“…A Delicate Balance of Comedy and Tragedy” Chekhov is arguably the second-greatest dramatist in history. In this, his most biographical...
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- Mar 20, 2019
REVIEW: "The Phantom of the Opera," - Academy for the Performing Arts
“…Close Your Eyes and Surrender!” In celebration of their 25th Silver Anniversary, APA proudly presents the most popular musical of all...
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