Coleman ’72 @ South Coast Repertory – Review

Photo Credit: Jenny Graham

Jenn, Michelle and Joey look back at the summer of 1972, when their Korean American family piled into the Buick for an All-American road trip—spontaneously orchestrated by their father. From Milwaukee to Los Angeles and back again, they hit the open plains, stocked with kimchi, banchan and lemon drops, rickety Coleman camper in tow. But Korean parents and American kids hold conflicting ideas of what they’re looking for and the real purpose of their journey comes to light. A funny and touching world premiere by an exciting new voice. Taken from the website. 

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7.7 Overall
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Set & Design8
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Above Average! April 23 – May 14, 2023.

Appropriate @ South Coast Repertory – Review

(Photo credit: Jenny Graham/SCR)

Arkansas, present day. The estranged members of the Lafayette family gather at their late father’s crumbling plantation to prepare for the estate sale. But decades of resentment have a way of bubbling to the surface, and a shocking discovery in the piles of clutter sends them spiraling as they confront repressed histories, regrets and each other. Winner of the Obie Award for Best American Play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ crackling comedic drama is called “subversively original…remarkable and devious” by The New York Times. Taken from the website.

Jan. 28 – Feb. 26, 2023

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8.9 Overall
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Excellent Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended!

Clybourne Park @ Costa Mesa Playhouse – Review

(photo credit: Kerrin Piché Serna)

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, “Clybourne Park” is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry&s “A Raisin In The Sun,” “Clybourne Park” is a provocative comedy/drama set in the same house but before and after the events of Hansberry&s play. Act one takes place in 1959 when Russ and Bev are moving to the Chicago suburbs, selling their home to the neighborhood&s first black family. Act two is decades later when a young white couple buys the same property. Now a predominately black community battles to protect the historic qualities of the community in the face of gentrification. Taken from the website.

Jan 20 – Feb 12, 2023

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8.7 Overall
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The Whale @ Costa Mesa Playhouse – Review

(photo credit Kerrin Serna)

The story of a man’s last chance at redemption, and of finding beauty in the most unexpected places. Taken from the website.

Sep 2 – 25,2022

Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended!
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9.4 Overall
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Set & Design10
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Noises Off @ Costa Mesa Playhouse – Review

(photo credit: Mike Brown)

Brimming with slapstick comedy, Noises Off is a delightful backstage farce, complete with slamming doors, falling trousers, and — of course — flying sardines! Taken from the website.

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9 Overall
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July 8 – 31,2022

Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended!

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare @ Costa Mesa Playhouse in Costa Mesa – Review

All 37 plays in under two hours! Three madcap actors weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. London’s longest-running comedy. Taken from the site.

May 13th – June 5th  2022

 

 

Above Average!
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7.5 Overall
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These Tiger’s Got Claws! : Tiger Style! @ South Coast Repertory – Review

What happens when “tiger parenting” goes wrong? Meet Albert and Jennifer Chen— brother and sister, once brilliant students and musicians, now epic failures leading unfulfilling lives. The problem? Their parents set unrealistic standards. The solution? Escape from Irvine and go on an “Asian Freedom Tour” to Shenzhen, China.  Taken from the website.

May 15 – June 5,2022

 

Excellent Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended
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8.9 Overall
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Acting8.5
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Our Town @ South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa – Review

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Life has begun in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Milk is being delivered. Breakfast is on the stove. We meet the town gossips, the boys who play baseball and the choirmaster with a secret sorrow. And soon teenagers George Gibbs and Emily Webb will go from friends to puppy love to wedding day and beyond—two families forever joined together. And as they come to terms with the meaning of their lives, this Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic beautifully celebrates our own shared humanity.  Taken from the website

May 14-June 4, 2022

 

 

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8.5 Overall
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Lost in Yonkers @ The Costa Mesa Playhouse – Review

Neil Simon’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memory play, set in Yonkers in 1942, is a tale of family dysfunction at its best. Arty and Jay, two teenage brothers are forced to live with their mentally-challenged aunt and stern, bitter grandmother while their ne’er-do-well father takes to the road as a traveling salesman to pay off his debts to a loan shark. Taken from the website. 

GREAT SHOW!
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8.7 Overall
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January 24th – February 16th, 2020

Life Under A Microscope : Photograph 51 @ South Coast Repertory – Review

(Photo by Jordan Kubat/SCR)

Rosalind Franklin was a British pioneer in science in the early 1950s, yet her groundbreaking role in the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure is still often overlooked. Based on a true story, Photograph 51 presents an intriguing portrait of a complex, courageous woman making her way in a male-dominated field. While rival teams of researchers compete for a breakthrough, Rosalind, focused and unbending, is locked in a race of her own.  Taken from the website. 

March 3-24, 2019 

 

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8.8 Overall
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