Now on stage:
King Lear – Garden Grove’s Festival Amphitheatre.
Through 18 September, 2010
Renowned Shakespearean actor and teacher Dennis Krausnick brings the ages, raging king to life on a large outdoor stage, Garden Grove’s Festival Amphitheatre.
Through 18 September
Through 19 September
The Clean House - Long Beach Performing Arts Center.
Comedy. Four markedly different, yet intimately connected women grapple with order, cleanliness, and the messy ambiguities of life in a quirky and unexpectedly moving comedy about love, loss and the power of a good joke.
Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief - Hunger Artists Theatre, Fullerton.
The events of Othello are retold through the eyes of the women of Venice. Desdemona, the promiscuous wife of Othello; Emilia, the reluctantly faithful wife of Iago; and Bianca, Cassio’s lover, a painfully naive prostitute. Sat.-Sun., $12-$15.
Our Town - Stages Theatre, Fullerton
“There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”
Heart-warming and humorous, this classic American play celebrates the everyday and is a powerful call to appreciate life while we are in it.
Through 19 September, 2010
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Hunger Artists Theatre, Fullerton.
Tom Stoppard’s modern classic about two of Shakespeare’s minor characters as they wrestle with their philosophies of fate and destiny, all the while struggling to keep up with the fast-paced events of Hamlet, of which they have no control. Anthony Galleran has previously directed “The Shape of Things” and for the “Beyond Convention” festivals. Fridays- Sundays, $15-$18.
Through 19 September, 2010
Oklahoma! – Musical Theatre Village, Irvine.
A story about high-spirited rivalry in Western turn-of-the-century America is combined with one of the best-known and most-loved musical scores. The first collaboration between American musical theatre legends Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma! was originally produced in 1943 and was a box office smash hit that saw an unprecedented 2212 performances before closing. It is now considered the birth of the modern American musical. Rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys for the gals they love provides a colorful backdrop against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Ado Annie and Will showcase their comedic romantic tale while Aunt Eller tries to keep peace in the territory, declaring “the Farmer and the Cowman should be friends!” Fri.-Sun., $14-$16.
Through 25 September, 2010
Clownzilla: Illegal Aliens - Rude Guerrilla Theater Company, Fullerton
Hilarious new family-friendly show! With their unique blend of outrageous comedy and social satire, CLOWNZILLA’s new extravaganza begins on Clown Planet. When their world is destroyed, the survivors fly to Earth and discover that the brave new world is anything but. Fridays-Sundays, $10.00 – $20.00
SOON!
24 September- 24 November, 2010
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? – The Chance Theater, Laguna Hills.
Winner of the Tony, New York Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards for Best Play, as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this bold tragicomedy concerns an architect who – in the same week that he receives an international prize, wins a lucrative contract, and celebrates his 50th birthday – is forced to confess to his family that he’s involved in a love affair that may destroy his life. Fri.-Sun.
