Posts Tagged ‘Chance Theater’
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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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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EDGES
Sunday, July 18th, 2021
The Chance Theater Orange County Premiere of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Edges proves a terrific talent showcase for a quartet of upcoming musical theater stars and the long-awaited chance for audiences to rediscover the thrill of live, in-person performances at the Chance.
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FUN HOME
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Chance Theater’s expansive yet intimate Cripe Stage proves the ideal setting for Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical saga of a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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THE VANDAL
Saturday, September 28th, 2019
A teenager chats up a woman old enough to be his mother (but just barely) at a freezing cold hospital-and-cemetery-adjacent Kingston, NY bus stop and then …
It’s the “and then” that makes Hamish Linklater’s The Vandal a quirkily comedic, profoundly moving 80-minute wonder in its Chance Theater West Coast Premiere.
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