By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) – On Valentine’s Day 1972, a musical opened off-Broadway needing a lot of love. It was already $20,000 in debt and the reviews were mixed […]
“Grease” started very slowly ….
How “Peanuts” made history
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Patrick Orsagos Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – In a series of “Peanuts’’ comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his […]
“Top Gun: Maverick” is on target
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer Early on in “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise hops on his sleek motorcycle, wearing Aviator sunglasses and a leather jacket with patches, and speeds into a time machine. […]
Movies roar back with summer
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer This summer at the movies, Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit behind those iconic aviators. Doctors Grant, Sattler and Ian Malcolm are returning for another round […]
“Dr. Strange” in the “multiverse”
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer Once a superhero franchise goes multiverse, it’s hard to go back. No work of fiction ever needs permission to break the rules or push the boundaries of […]
Here is a “Spamalot” of fun
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune And now, for something completely different. The madcap, irreverent comedy of the groundbreaking — slightly infamous — British comedy troupe Monty Python comes to life at Golden West College […]
“Memory” feels like a flashback
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer “Memory“ is an interesting title for the latest Liam Neeson thriller. Do you remember the last Liam Neeson thriller? Or the one before that? Who was it that […]
Gem’s flamboyant “Dreamcoat”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune A funny thing happened on the way to the Pharaoh… Andrew Lloyd Webber’s neon-hued musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” comes to flamboyant life in this […]
“Oedipus Rex” on the screen
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune In the fall of 2021, while most of Orange County’s theater community were reeling from on-again, off-again safety regulations, Golden West College Theater director Tom Amen came […]
A funny “Fuddy” at the WCP
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Can you tell who you are — or “who” others tell you you are — if you don’t find out for yourself? In Westminster Community Playhouse’s “Fuddy […]
