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 […]
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 […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Love moves in mysterious ways. (Though lust is reasonably predictable.) In the marvelous new Martie Ramm-directed “A Little Night Music” at Golden West College’s Mainstage Theater, it’s […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Golden West College’s Mainstage theater is having a *crazy* beach party, and you’re invited. (And maybe “crazy” is a little insensitive, all things considered…) Director Tom Amen […]
By Thom deMartino /Orange County Tribune From the stygian shadows of the wings, the players creep into the unyielding glare of the stage lights, playing there among the bare, skeletal set: beginning […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Ah, to have all the benefits of a relationship, with none of the messy commitments (well, not as far as his other girlfriends know, anyway…) Westminster Community […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Good things come to those who wait. After a notable absence in 2022, a beloved yuletide musical returns by popular demand to Garden Grove’s own Gem Theater. An […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune The things we do for the ones we love. In a sensational new staging from The Gem Theater, the curtain rises on the fabulous production of “La Cage […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune She was a vivacious, headstrong girl on the precipice of adulthood, with dreams of one day becoming a writer: it is a beautiful, tragic irony that it […]
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune It’s all fun and games until your presumed dead first wife shows up. Along with ringing in the new year, the Westminister Community Playhouse is coming out […]
