By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Imagine sitting in a darkened venue: you’ve been looking forward to this play or musical, when a voice from the darkness erupts – “I hate theater!… well, […]
“Chaperone” a clever musical
“Pillowman” is raw, jarring
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune These days, the question “what’s in the box?” tends not to end well. Bold and challenging productions are frequently a hallmark of Golden West College: a tradition […]
“Avenue Q” is not for kids
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Be forewarned: this ain’t no kids’ show. If “Sesame Street” was kindergarten, consider “Avenue Q” college: complete with late-night parties, early morning hangovers, freshman mistakes, bohemian friends, […]
“None” is dark fun at WCP
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune How capricious the whims of fate, how lacking in equilibrium, symmetry! If only justice had a sense of rhythm, of poetry – or, perhaps … of blackest […]
“42nd St.” back at Rose Center
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Hard times come, hard times go: but it is those dreams we desperately cling to that sustain us. The Rose Center Theater in Westminster harkens back to […]
Undersea fun with “SpongeBob”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Who would have thought so many rock icons loved SpongeBob SquarePants? Garden Grove’s own lauded Gem Theater and the One More Production Company are at it again […]
“Artifice” really fun, revealing
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune It’s not about the art, it’s about moving on. And money. Definitely about the money, In the Westminster Community Playhouse’s hysterical new offering “Artifice,”directed by Jim Katapodis, […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Epic journey “Into the Woods”
By Thom DeMartino Is there really such a thing as “happily ever after”? What comes after the happy ending? In its first full production in some time, the Rose Center Theater in […]
