By Thom deMartino Orange County Tribune If you’re looking for terror, you don’t have to look much further than the glow of your own screen. A world premiere production has opened for […]
Searing ‘Eight Seconds’ at GWC
An hysterical ‘Carol’ at GWC
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune A perfect introduction to the Christmas season, Golden West College and director Tom Amen present their newest production at the GWC Mainstage Theater, “Inspecting Carol.” Rather than […]
It’s a goofy, weird beach “Party”
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 […]
A very scary ‘Exorcist’ at GWC
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune The tranquility of the preceding calm in a horror story is often proportional to the depths of the true horror itself. This show is no exception. In […]
“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 lean and modern “Hamlet”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune From the once implacable darkness, the creeping melancholy tones of an indigo sky stir — casting down upon the uneasy scene below, unfolding beneath the spectral visage […]
It’s a fiery “Pan” at Golden West College
By Thom deMartino Great art is not produced without great sacrifice: and the greatest art digs deep, even at the risk of opening old wounds – in a hunt to find the […]
It’s a new “Dracula” for a new era
By Thom deMartino But who wants to live forever, really? The immortality glorified in fiction — in reality, wouldn’t it be more of a curse, to watch the world you know fall […]
“Orphans” shines as funny family drama
By Thom deMartino “I admire violent men,” said the kidnapped fellow in the Golden West College production of “Orphans.” “They don’t stop at nothin’.” Living alone together, in the disheveled home of […]
