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Joel Beers

Fullerton

Theater Critic at Freelance

Writer, Reader, Explorer, Journalist, Internet ninja, Educator, Reluctant cell user, Catlover, Footsoldier in #waragainsttheimagination #question #dothework

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  • 'Erabus' Conveys Key Concerns of Gun Violence and Teen Suicide

    2 weeks ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

    Joel Beers15 minutes ago6 min readThe play, onstage at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, was written and directed by O.C. School of the Arts faculty, and is being performed by OCSA students. The play is directed by one of the most accomplished professional stage and screen actors to ever work in Orange County. It is written by the county’s most prolific and produced playwright.

  • Nate Jackson Takes Orange County Punk History Personally

    3 weeks ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

    Native son Nate Jackson co-writes first book documenting the history of Orange County's punk rock scene. Nate Jackson didn’t exactly get the red-carpet treatment from the Orange County punk scene. It was the late 1990s, and the Yorba Linda seventh grader had recently discovered punk and was attending one of his first shows at the all-ages venue Chain Reaction in Anaheim. Suddenly, he heard someone drop a loud N-bomb and turned to see two dudes with shaved heads making a beeline for him.

  • How Rocker John Kraus Found a New Musical Direction While Earning His Sea Legs

    1 month ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

    The Fullerton musician, who has played in Orange County bands since the 1990s, has released his second album with his current band, the Goers. It should make sense that last month John Kraus and the Goers dropped “Jug of This,” the ensemble’s second album inspired by sea shanties – except it doesn’t. And not just because these sea shanties sound very little like what you might expect sea shanties to sound like, something akin to a nostalgic collection of chanty choruses and heave-ho harmonies.

  • 'We Have Nowhere Else to Go'

    1 month ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

    Joel Beers17 minutes ago7 min readAfter 59 years in the city of the arts, Costa Mesa Playhouse faces an existential crisis and must find a new home. On the cusp of its 60th season – and nearly a decade into one of the most remarkable artistic transformations in Orange County theater history – the Costa Mesa Playhouse received a most uncelebratory notice last month from its landlord of 40 years: a 90-day lease termination letter, effective June 26.

  • Fullerton Museum Gets a Dose of Orange County's Punk Rock Rebellion

    2 months ago | cultureoc.org | Joel Beers

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

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20 Sep 24

Most incredible thing in Shohei Ohtan's record-making day yesterday happened moments before he hit his third dinger: Chris Taylor got a hit. #50-50 @benmaller

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28 Jul 24

"It’s a lot to process but then you hear what sounds like nine pianos striking an e major chord simultaneously  and you know you’ve peaked and you are primed to feel what may be the finest anthem to ever close a musical, “Midnight Radio.” .https://t.co/VUgPOXqay0

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6 Apr 24

On the diversity beat at Wondercon last weekend for Culture OC https://t.co/y91n19hBiP