Posts Tagged ‘Orange County Theater Review’

THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY


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


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


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


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


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


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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WAITING IN THE WINGS: THE MUSICAL

A Montana gay boy with stardom in his eyes gets accidentally cast in an off-off-off-Broadway male strip show and multiple complications ensue in the stage adaptation of Jeffrey A. Johns’ 2016 movie musical hit Waiting In The Wings, now getting its World Premiere at Westminster’s Rose Center Theater.
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EDGES


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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