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 […]
A moving, powerful ‘Anne Frank’
Madcap wedded mess in “Wife”
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 […]
“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 […]
“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, […]
A funny “Fuddy” at the WCP
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Can you tell who you are — or “who” others tell you you are — if you don’t find out for yourself? In Westminster Community Playhouse’s “Fuddy […]
Pandemic didn’t kill this theater
By Shanya Rod It’s March 2020 and Westminster Community Playhouse is two weekends into its production of “Murder Runs in the Family.” But two weekends is all it got before production was […]
It’s “Three Bags Full” of fun
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 […]
“Murder” most fun at WCP
By Thom deMartino They say where there’s a will there’s a way — but they never stipulated the ways some might scheme to revise a will… In the new (renewed?) Westminister Community […]
Get away with “Murder” at WCP
By Thom deMartino “It was a dark and stormy night…” Isn’t that always how it starts? Lightning blazing, thunder crashing, underscoring the menace of the moment? And what better setting for a […]
Conscience and “Inspector Calls”
By Thom deMartino Each and every one of us hides behind a mask of civility in our culture: to hide our flaws, our transgressions, our shames … those regrettable traits within ourselves […]
