RIDE THE CYCLONE
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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LITTLE WOMEN – THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Sarah Pierce’s revelatory star turn as Jo March tops the list of reasons not to miss the fourth incarnation of Little Women – The Broadway Musical at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY
Monday, October 3rd, 2022
In all my years of theatergoing, I’ve never seen a play or production quite like Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity, at once a hilariously spot-on look at the wild, weird, and wacky world of professional wrestling and a subtly scathing critique of the American Melting-Pot Dream.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Disaffected 20somethings let out their anti-establishment rage to a punk-pop soundtrack in Chance Theater’s electrifying summer staging of Green Day’s American Idiot.
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THE TOXIC AVENGER
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
A power-hungry, moneygrubbing New Jersey mayor, a beautiful, blind librarian, and a bespectacled nerd turned hulking green superhero give bad taste a good name in The Toxic Avenger, the outrageously funny (and very politically incorrect) off-Broadway musical now earning an abundance of “I can’t believe they actually said/sang that!” laughs at Santa Ana’s Grand Central Theatre.
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CRY IT OUT
Sunday, April 10th, 2022
Stay-at-home nursing moms rarely get a center-stage spotlight, which is just one reason to cheer the arrival of Molly Smith Metzler’s funny, compelling, deeply touching dramedy Cry It Out to Orange County’s Chance Theater.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Chance Theater treasure Jocelyn A. Brown delivers one of the year’s most stunning performances as a woman battling bipolar disorder in Next To Normal, earning much-deserved tears and cheers in the Chance’s 2022 season opener.
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STRIKING 12
Sunday, December 5th, 2021
Rock, folk, jazz and pop get fused to exhilarating effect in Striking 12, the most uniquely original Chance Theater holiday musical to date.
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