A Chorus Line opened on Broadway on July 25, 1975 and quickly proved to be a success. The musical secured 9 Tony awards that year (including Best Musical) and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 15 years at the Shubert Theatre. Now, just over 40 years since it opened, A Chorus Line is building the same kind of buzz at the Bette Aiken Theater Arts Center. The Chance Theater Company recently extended the production’s run to August 7 to meet the overwhelming demand. Continue Reading
A Singular Sensation in Anaheim : A Chorus Line @ The Chance Theatre – Review
AMB Theatre Podcast #56 presented by OCR : A Chorus Line @ The Chance Theatre in Anaheim – Podcast
(photo credit:Doug Catiller, True Image Studio)
In an empty theater, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 23 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It’s what they’ve worked for—with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of their lives. It’s the one opportunity to do what they’ve always dreamed—to have the chance to dance. Taken from the website
July 1- August 7 2016
Shakespeare Double Feature in Laguna Hills – TWELFTH NIGHT & MACBETH
On the Edge Theatre Productions in cooperation with the Laguna Hills
Community Center presents SHAKESPEARE IN THE HILLS 2016. This year we will
be running two shows over a period of 3 weeks. Continue Reading
New Swan Shakespeare Festival Presents : Hamlet @ University of California, Irvine – Review
Written by Daniella Litvak
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark[1],” but things are looking nice at the fifth annual New Swan Shakespeare Festival. Located on UC Irvine’s Gateway Commons, the New Swan Theater is a movable two-tiered Elizabethan style stage, and it’s a pretty picture to look at. Just sitting in the theater itself is its own experience. Thanks to its amphitheater style each seat in the house offers a unique vantage point–although there may be a few times when you have to crane your neck to see everything occurring onstage, because it is a very busy set with actors popping in and out on both levels. Continue Reading
Shakespeare OC presents : Hamlet @ The Strawberry Bowl in Garden Grove – Review
Written by Alina Mae Wilson
The visual beauty. The talented cast. The perfectly straightforward technique that does not simply present but improves upon the Shakespearean script though utilization of the “show-don’t-tell” method of storytelling. It is the experience so many of us have been waiting for —Hamlet –and it’s over in Garden Grove. Continue Reading