Joel Beers

3 weeks ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

Joel Beers16 minutes ago7 min readO.C. punk rock exhibit is the largest, longest in Fullerton Museum Center history.

2 months ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

REVIEW: With a new actor performing every night, each show sparks with hesitations, discomforts and vulnerabilities. The play is called “White Rabbit Red Rabbit,” rabbits are prominently mentioned, and it is probably unlike any play you have ever encountered.

2 months ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

A collapsed roof at SCR’s Santa Ana production facility soaks sets, costumes and more, posing a logistical nightmare, but the theater is confident it can weather the storm. South Coast Repertory ended last week, Saturday, Feb. 1, with a celebration of the life and legacy of its co-founder, Martin Benson, who passed away on Nov. 30. It began the week with a logistical disaster that, had it happened in SCR's early days, Benson would likely have been on point to fix.

Jan 13, 2025 | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

After looking for years for a new location, San Juan Capistrano's community theater finally has found its new home. The team running the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano found out that they would have to move in 2022. They have been looking for a new home ever since and finally, they've found one – just in time. In 2017, the building that has been the home of the Playhouse since the early 1990s was purchased by Dan Almquist with Frontier Real Estate Investments.

Nov 6, 2024 | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

Ticket fraud and mishandling doesn't just impact big acts and their fans. Local performing arts organizations are also feeling the pain and fighting back. With the second anniversary of Ticketmaster’s Nov. 15, 2022 meltdown approaching – the botched release of Taylor Swift tour tickets that outraged the world’s largest fanbase – it’s easy to trace the fallout. Multiple class action and civil lawsuits filed against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment.