The crowd at the theatre always tells you something about the show. The audience at Stages changes for the different types of plays they perform. Last Saturday’s audience for their production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” was an adventurous, bright-eyed crowd. They look...

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An important play is being staged as the last month of the Monkey Wrench Collective’s existence in Fullerton fades. It is actually a sequence of 8 short pieces, all of them US premieres, by prominent playwrights from the United Kingdom. The plays are important because they were all written...

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The Monkey Wrench Collective will be performing its last show at the end of December to make the big move to Los Angeles. In their short time in Fullerton they have produced some of the most novel, experimental and cutting edge theater in North Orange County. The theater has garnered critical accl...

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High school sucks in England too. That is the second thing you might notice in the Monkey Wrench Collective’s production of “Cockroach”. The first thing you will notice is the tension in the opening scene that makes mimed door pounding sequence seem as real as an episode of &ldqu...

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The Stages Theater succeeds in their production of "Death of a Salesman", a controversial play that debuted in 1949 and quickly won a Pulitzer Prize. This review is in two parts; the production and performance of the play, and because the 61 year old play focuses on a topic that is still quite relev...

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I was delighted to be invited to see “The Screwtape Letters” at the Barclay Theater with OCWeekly theater critic Joel Beers, who recently interviewed Max McLean, the co-director who stars in the play and also conceived of the production. McLean has excellent elocution but his words were tinny even i...

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How did Secret City Comics Society decide to perform in Fullerton? Many improv groups start in shared locations like restaurants and coffee shops. While looking for rehearsal space, we stumbled upon the Stage One Dance Studio (141 W Wilshire, #A) and they offered to rent out their space to us on t...

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Under the direction of Stages legend Darri Kristin Stages Theater has unlocked a door with their imagination and embarked on an journey through… The Twilight Zone. Through mid July they will be staging a sequence of Twilight Zone shorts, two at a time. This week we saw “The Man in the Bottle” and...

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Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb’s famous play “Chicago” is being performed at the Maverick Theater. The play is set in Chicago during the high-rolling, roaring 20’s and explores the ethical turmoil the country was going through at that time. America’s Second City was a hub of vaudeville artists and jazz mus...

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Two weeks into it’s 6 week run The Maverick Theater’s production of “The Count of Monte Cristo” is an enjoyable performance of this classic tale. A professional cast and mostly good direction by Nathan Makaryk guide the performance in an easy to follow telling of the complex story. The Maverick alw...

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