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Normally, when a performing art organization announces a new season, the main order of business is talking about the subject at hand: all the shows that will tempt the public over the next year. This year, of course, is different.
UPDATED DAILY | A list of postponements, cancellations, and closures at arts institutions in Orange County.
Pacific Symphony’s 2020-2021 season is announced, marks the beginning of music director Carl St.Clair’s fourth decade with the orchestra.
BREAKING NEWS: After a few tumultuous years of trying to keep Shakespeare Orange County alive, the current leadership is shuttering this long-standing Orange County institution.
This year, revelers had three major Tet festivals to choose from to help ring in the lunar new year. Parades in Garden Grove and Westminster, with the Garden Grove parade new this year, were the result of a split in leadership, but not a split in loyalties by the community.
South Coast Repertory is teaming with New York’s Playwrights Horizons to create a major commissioning program for new plays. The Pinnacle Commission, announced today, will award $60,000 on a recurring basis to a major American playwright.
A donation from Julianne Argyros will provide funds for SCR to develop a new production of “A Christmas Carol.”
Stars of the ballet world will join Skylar Campbell in creating a new dance company – what they are currently referring to as a collective – which will premiere their work together for the first time in Orange County in June 2020 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
BREAKING NEWS: Casey Reitz has been named the new president of Segerstrom Center for the Arts. He comes from Second Stage Theatre in New York, replacing Terry Dwyer who abruptly left the post in February 2019 after a 13 year tenure at the Center.
After decades of planning, OCMA finally begins to build it’s new permanent building on the Segerstrom Center campus in Costa Mesa.