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- Sep 24, 2026
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Review: A revamped ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Costa Mesa stays true to its tale (opens the original)
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“Beauty and the Beast” partisans have their treasured moments, and one of them is likely the infectious extended dance sequence in “Be Our Guest.” There’s that who-can-forget overhead camera shot of dancers lying on a bare stage creating geometric patterns. Plus, the memorable breathtaking, stop-the-show extended tap dance sequence. These images not ringing a bell? While Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at Segerstrom Center for the next three weeks still has a Belle — even a lead actress with “Be
Review: Modern dating gets a Shakespearean spin in new Chance Theater show (opens the original)
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A sex comedy, or its polite equivalent, the “bedroom farce,” isn’t typical Chance Theater programming. But a play investigating relationship needs and choices, self-worth and other bewilderments among the young certainly is on the Anaheim theater’s bingo card. And so Keiko Green’s “The Bed Trick” makes quite good sense on this stage. The periodically engaging, and, at one point, riotously funny two-act comedy strains a tad at its seams with an overabundance of thematic energies. But through H. A
Review: South Coast Repertory is well equipped to venture ‘Into the Woods’ (opens the original)
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Highlighted by Stephen Sondheim’s final great score, South Coast Repertory’s galivanting season opening “Into the Woods” delightfully leads audiences through thickets of misadventure ensnaring the show’s fractured fairytale characters. Directed by Peter Rothstein, SCR’s treatment is a briskly paced tramp around the forest, with a largely strong cast of 12 — half doubling up in secondary roles — in a sumptuous staging. In their original story form, fairytale characters were 19th century simpleton
Review: ‘Wild Child’ skillfully sketches teen angst Laguna Playhouse (opens the original)
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A captivating world premiere of the heartfelt contemporary musical “Wild Child” kick started Laguna Playhouse’s fall season Saturday night, Sept. 12. A delve into teen angst and value-of-self struggles, the first public staging of “Wild Child” proved oh-so-well developed and fully realized. The story compels: unknown to each other, six high school age teens, at the insistence of their parents, are led by a pair of social workers on a forced-march northern Utah wilderness hike … lasting 90 days?!
Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ goes down powerfully in Anaheim (opens the original)
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How many personal crises and social plagues can a single jukebox musical contain? Well, in the box opened at Chance Theater in Anaheim now, “Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical” finds a litany of woe stuffed to bursting. During the course of one year from Christmas to Christmas, the upper-class suburban Healy family of four encounter: racism, sexism, classism, workaholic-ism, opioid addiction, porn addiction, helicopter parenting, peer pressuring, gender identity confusion and not
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