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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Thom deMartino In a season of ghosts and ghouls, tricks and treats, sometimes the scariest monsters are growing right in our very backyards… The day is long and unforgiving, in the […]
By Thom deMartino Baa baa black sheep, have you any… jewels? Or maybe some stacks of $100 bills? In “Three Bags Full”, directed by Chris Coleman and now playing at the Westminster […]
By Thom deMartino In a culture that elevates uniqueness, to suppress one’s individuality for the sake of the greater good can take courage and vision: especially when surrounded by the thundering cacophony […]
By Thom deMartino Carl (Eduardo Mora) is stressed out. He’s back home for the family Thanksgiving, but totally unprepared for it: dreading his brother mocking him about his truck driving to make […]
By Thom deMartino The barrel of the pistol trembles. The aged Victor Frankenstein (Scott Keister), gun in unsteady hand, sways deliriously upon an icy plateau in the emptiness of the frozen northern […]
By Thom deMartino Fear of “the other” is not inborn — but rather, learned through our society: we are carefully taught by culture. In the current Westminster Community Playhouse production of “South […]
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