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Jan 20, 2025 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
2:17 am•
Review, South Coast Repertory, Theater, Uncategorized
photo credit: Robert Husky/SCRWritten by Patrick ChavisWish You Were Here will be playing at South Coast Repertory from Jan 12 to Feb 2, 2025. A compelling concept interweaves into this narrative around identity, friendship, and what bonds us to a particular place—a satisfying beginning and powerful ending is unfortunately held back by an unengaging middle.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
1:35 am•
Newport Beach, Newport Theatre Arts Center, Review, Theater, Uncategorized
Photo Credit: Sarah WhitewellWritten by Patrick ChavisNeil Simon’s Rumors will be playing at Newport Theatre Arts Center from Jan 17 to Feb 9, 2025. While the delivery of this quick-witted farce has some issues, the talent of this ensemble of veteran actors and Joe Lauderdale’s tight and informed direction make this rendition well worth a viewing.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
8:09 pm•
Camino Real Playhouse, News, Press Releases, San Juan Capistrano, Uncategorized
(Source: https://caminorealplayhouse.org/,https://www.cultureoc.org/post/the-show-will-go-on-at-camino-real-playhouse)Written by Patrick ChavisAfter a few years of searching, the Camino Real Playhouse has found a new location in the San Juan Capistrano area. According to the website, the Camino Real Playhouse’s new location will be 31896 Plaza Drive, Suite C, San Juan Capistrano.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
Photos by Laura Lejuwaan Written by Patrick ChavisJoseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace is playing now at the Westminster Community Playhouse January 10 – 26,2025. The show contains some funny, moving parts and multiple fantastic performances sprinkled throughout but lacks a cohesive vision. Arsenic and Lace is a farce.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
Photo by Doug Catiller. Written by Patrick ChavisEmma, the musical, is playing now at the Chance Theater November 29 — December 22, 2024. It is the season for holiday plays. The Chance Theater brings back the production of the Jane Austen classic, Emma, in musical form. This is the same Emma they put on in 2018 for those looking for something different around the holiday season.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
Courtesy of the UC Regents, photo by Jeanine HillWritten by Patrick ChavisUC Irvine Claire Trevor School of Arts presents 9 to 5, the musical, now playing at The Irvine Barclay Theater in Irvine on November 21-24, 2024. Claire Trevor’s production of 9 to 5 is a fun and farcical romp. It highlights many of the struggles women faced in the late 1970s and early 1980s, even with the critical federal laws implemented in the 1960s.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
12:39 am•
Uncategorized
Photo credit: Kerrin Piché Serna, David RodriguezWritten by Patrick Chavis Killer Joe at the Costa Mesa Playhouse Nov 1 – 24, 2024. Tracey Lett’s southern fried thriller, directed by Chris Mertan, may not be the classiest piece of theater on the stage, but it is the oyster piece of chicken in the basket that makes you want to dig in the bucket for more. Story:Killer Joe is set in 1999.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis |Santa Ana
(photo credit: Jordan Kubat/gala 2017/founding resident artist)Written by Patrick Chavis(Conversation over Zoom)It seems sudden, but the Wayward Artist, a theater that has run in downtown Santa Ana for the last eight years, will close on December 31st. According to Co-Artistic Director Sydney Raquel, this is not a sudden decision; it has been an issue in discussion for the last two years.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
.PHOTO CREDIT: Jason Niedle/TETHOSWritten by Patrick ChavisA View from the Bridge is playing now at Laguna Playhouse from October 30 – November 17, 2024. Laguna Playhouse brings back the Arthur Miller classic, A View from the Bridge, with a top-tier production and cast that was nothing less than masterful. Story:A View from the Bridge follows the character of Eddie Carbone, an Italian American with Sicilian heritage who lives and works near the docks in Red Hook, Brooklyn, sometime in the 1950s.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theorangecurtainrev.com | Patrick Chavis
photo credit: Alissa RoseboroughWritten by Patrick ChavisEverybody is playing now at Chapman University, Waltmar Theatre, November 1 – 9, 2024. Chapman University’s Amanda McRaven-directed production of Everybody explores the concept of death through a fresh, modern retelling of an ancient piece called Everyman. Everybody included a couple of fun, let’s call them, mechanisms that help tell the story.
