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Mar 13, 2019
REVIEW: "The Great God Pan" - Golden West College Theater Arts Mainstage
"...A seed of doubt is planted, and from it sprouts an agony that edges into anguish." In “The Great God Pan,” the haunting play by Amy...
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Feb 26, 2019
REVIEW: In The Heights - Marina High School Theatre
"...Hey! Can I help it if my soul loves a kickin' beat?" “In the Heights,” the hit musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda...
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Feb 20, 2019
REVIEW: Winnie the Pooh KIDS - Morgan-Wixson Theatre's Y.E.S. Program
"...With all the warmth and comfort of a big bedtime storybook!" It’s hard to concentrate when there’s a rumbly in your tumbly. No one...
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Feb 2, 2019
REVIEW: The Adventures of Pinocchio, - Mission Viejo High School Drama
The children’s musical, “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” adapted from the Carlo Collodi folktale by local writer Diane Doyle, with music...
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Jan 13, 2019
REVIEW: Side Show - Academy for the Performing Arts, Huntington Beach
"Step right up and prepare to be amazed!" “Come look at the freaks, Come gape at the geeks, Come examine these aberrations, Their...
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Dec 8, 2018
REVIEW: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" - Mission Viejo High School Drama.
"...To enter this high-stakes world of middle-school brainiacs and misfits is to immediately be infected with a giddy sense of lingering...
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Dec 4, 2018
REVIEW: Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play - Cal State Fullerton College of the Arts
The earth is barren, society has collapsed, and America as we know it has come to an end. Gathered around a fire in the woods, a group of...
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Nov 13, 2018
REVIEW: Children of Eden - CSUF Clayes Performing Arts Center
"...A feast for the eyes - half musical and half Cirque du Soleil!" "Children of Eden," a joyous weave of fable and Biblical allegory,...
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Nov 10, 2018
REVIEW: Bad Seed - Academy for the Performing Arts, Huntington Beach
"...this still-shocking play is causing audiences to gasp in disbelief!" Novelist William March definitely struck archetypal gold when he...
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Nov 9, 2018
REVIEW: Romeo & Juliet - LBHS Drama and Park Avenue Players
"...This story is both Timely and Timeless!" It’s hard to imagine that even the Bard himself would not be in awe of Laguna Beach High...
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Nov 5, 2018
REVIEW: The Foreigner - Fullerton Theatre
"...a funny-bone-breaking good time!" Thank God for actors. They make us feel emotions, make us think, make us identify with their...
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Nov 3, 2018
REVIEW: The Crucible - Mission Viejo High School Drama
…Beware the bewitching power of lies. Mission Viejo High School Drama’s spectacular and engrossing show, "The Crucible," opened Thursday...
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Oct 28, 2018
REVIEW: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress - Golden West College Stage West Theater
"... walks the line between boisterous comedy and tragedy." Playing October 26-28th at the Golden West College Stage West Theater, “Five...
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Oct 27, 2018
REVIEW: Angel Street - FUHS Academy of the Arts
"... If you like melodrama, then this is the show for you." In 1939, Patrick Hamilton's thriller ''Gas Light'' opened in London, and in...
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Oct 23, 2018
REVIEW: Mary Poppins - The Academy for the Performing Arts
"...an eye-popping musical delight for all ages!" At the Huntington Beach Union High School Historic Auditorium and Bell Tower this...
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Oct 14, 2018
REVIEW: 13 Past Midnight - Fullerton College Theatre Arts
"A totally fun mystery who-dunnit" SETTING: An evening in the game room of Victor Winslow’s lavish mansion in Beverly Hills. The walls...
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Oct 10, 2018
REVIEW: Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” - Golden West College Mainstage
"... a madhouse feeding frenzy with a vengeance" As someone who has never driven through the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania (and...
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Sep 24, 2018
REVIEW – “One Man, Two Guvnors” – LA HABRA THEATER GUILD
Few theatergoing experiences are as joyously liberating as being part of a packed house roaring with laughter at low comedy. “One Man,...
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Sep 11, 2018
REVIEW - "Move Over, Mrs. Markham," Academy for the Performing Arts
"A show full of sexual innuendo, mistaken identities, deliberate absurdity, with a fast-paced plot." APA Theatre’s first play of the...
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Jun 9, 2018
REVIEW – “AMERICAN IDIOT,” UC Irvine
Tonight, after six mind-bending performances, the one-act, sung-through stage musical, “American Idiot,” takes its final bow at UCI’s...
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