By Thom deMartino Orange County Tribune While we might not be able to always see the big picture, we are all part of something bigger, greater and more beautiful than just ourselves. […]
Extraordinary ‘Ordinary Days’
‘A Beautiful Garden’ at GWC
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Sometimes, from the ashes of great tragedy, something beautiful can grow… even blossom. Based on the novel “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this beloved musical […]
‘Family’ is a fantastic farce
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune The doctor is in – trouble. Deep trouble. Director Stephen Gomer and the Westminster Community Playhouse are presenting the classic 1987 Ray Cooney farce, “It Runs In […]
The dark world of ‘Nether’
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Unfettered, in a world without consequences, how dark might the games we play become? How corrupted our imaginations? Director Tom Amen and the Golden West College Mainstage […]
Enchanting ‘Arsenic & Old Lace’
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Ah, family. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t do away with ‘em., amirite? Westminster Community Playhouse’s 2024-2025 season is going strong with their production of “Arsenic & Old […]
A bewitching ‘Cinderella’ on stage at Garden Grove’s Gem
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune There will be no “Bibbity Bobbity Boo”, here. (And that’s just fine.) Closing out their spectacular 2024 season, director Damien Lorton and the One More Productions troupe […]
‘Rumors’ a colorful comedy
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune It’s my party, and I’ll die if I want to. (Or accidentally shoot myself in the earlobe, anyway.) Now playing at the Westminster Community Playhouse is the […]
Flashbacks, fun in “Seussical’
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune You may wonder or think – if thinks you do – whether “Seussical” at the Gem Theatre in Garden Grove may be just for you… well, never […]
Giovanna Martinez charismatic as a Gem luminary in “Evita”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend” … isn’t that how the saying goes? The Gem Theater and One More Productions troupe in Garden Grove takes […]
A haunting, timely “Cabaret”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune The road to fascism is a damnable, slippery slope: paved with the perilous, slick cobblestones of indifference, rationalization, equivocation and lethargy. And when one’s started the steep […]
