2018 Season


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Violet

LA TIMES CRITICS CHOICE! OVATION RECOMMENDED!

Based on “THE UGLIEST PILGRIM” by Doris Betts. The best Tony-nominated musical has wowed critics and audiences with its powerful story and energetic gospel, rock, country and R&B score by Jeanine Tesori…

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Good People

OC PREMIERE! The haves and the have-nots come face-to-face in this Broadway hit. Written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole), this Tony-nominated dramatic comedy…

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Elevada

WEST COAST PREMIERE! What kind of tango partner are you looking for — one that will glide with you above all of life’s messiness, or someone who will stay with you on the ground? It’s only their first date…

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Big Fish

REGIONAL PREMIERE! Adapted from Daniel Wallace’s novel and Tim Burton’s acclaimed film, and featuring spine-tinglingly beautiful music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, Big Fish is a fantastical musical…

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The Other Place

OC PREMIERE! Juliana Smithton’s research leads to a breakthrough as her life takes a disorienting turn. Mystery unfolds when blurred truth and fragmented memories collide…

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Jane Austen’s EMMA, The Musical (2018)

OC PREMIERE! Emma, a beautiful & clever young woman, prides herself on her matchmaking but is clueless to her own feelings of love. This new romantic comedy brings Jane Austen’s masterpiece…

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (2018)

The classic animated television special A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS comes to life in this faithful stage adaptation, in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts Gang discover the true meaning of Christmas.

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Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach

OC PREMIERE! James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags — his odious aunts — and he’s a very lonely little boy indeed. One day, something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden, a peach starts to grow and grow …

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Fancy Nancy, the Musical 2018

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Fancy Nancy and her friends are going to be performing in their very first show, “Deep Sea Dances.” Nancy is positive, that’s fancy for 100 percent sure, that she and Bree will be picked…

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Bedlam

STAGED READING

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Hymon & Parfunkel

STAGED READING

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Gutting

A LAB Workshop of a new play by 2018 Resident Playwright Joanna Garner that investigates the media’s sexualization of violence, feminist relationships to victimhood, and the simmering anger present in so many young men today.

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The Orange Garden

A STAGED READING

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Mommies Anonymous

A STAGED READING

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Laugh Chance

Laugh Chance is what you get you when you combine a group of talented improvisers, an amazing energetic audience, and inflatable dice that decide everyone’s fate. Gathered together from around the OC area in 2010…

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Think of Me, Fred Weasley

Do you ever wish you could hold your teenage self in the palm of your hand, and talk to her just one more time? In 2004, both navigating the troubled waters of public schools in forgotten corners of Northern California,…

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Dog Sees God

Your favorite childhood characters are back with more teen angst and high-stakes drama than ever before. Bert V. Royal reimagines the Peanuts gang as they navigate their way through high school in this hard-hitting drama, Dog Sees God: Confessions of…

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