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“The Lion in Winter,” with stars Gregory Harrison and Frances Fisher, is a part of the new legacy of plays being produced under the helm of Ellen Richard at Laguna Playhouse.
Hal Landon Jr. will play Ebenezer Scrooge for the last time this season at South Coast Repertory. He is the only actor cast to play the role during the entire 40-year annual holiday run of “A Christmas Carol” at the theater.
PREVIEW: Created at a New York City fringe festival, the “unauthorized parody” musicalizes and pokes fun at the intense 1991 suspense thriller “Silence of the Lambs.”
REVIEW: At La Mirada Theatre, acting and musical theater panache turn a standard issue contemporary musical into an enjoyable evening.
David Ivers talks about his plans as SCR opens its first season under his management.
Preview: Hamish Linklater’s 2013 debut play toys with our perceptions and has an eerie, spooky air well-suited to the Halloween season.
PREVIEW: Tall tales about the baseball legend make for interesting fodder for a play about a long forgotten, colorful character.
PREVIEW: At its ninth annual OC-Centric New Play Festival, the Orange County-based playwrights group will unveil original works it touts as ‘compelling,’ written by three playwrights who live in or hail from Orange County.
New Swan Shakespeare Festival wasn’t meant to last, but in it eighth season it’s more popular than ever.
Director Casey Stangl’s scaled-down version of “Ragtime” stages the show as a play-within-a-play inside an abandoned urban warehouse and focuses on today’s divisions of race, immigration and income inequality.
