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This live concert show combines the comedy and hits from the original movie and pays homage to Chicago’s rich history of blues, gospel and soul music. Hear all of The Blues Brothers...
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Sometimes you've got to cut loose, or footloose, if you will. You know, kick off your Sunday shoes. But please keep your shoes on while inside the Laguna Playhouse viewing their live...
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Like many comedians, Louie Anderson has crystallized a lot of his early-life struggles into his stand-up routines, focusing on his childhood grapples with self-esteem and weight issues. In...
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The Second City is opening up their vaults and giving you the ultimate peek behind the curtain! See the best of the best comedy created by some of the biggest names in the biz— mixed...
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Even for those who haven't seen the original Neil Simon play The Odd Couple know the premise very well: Felix Unger, an uptight neat freak, moves in with his free-spirited slob of a friend...
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Truly talented individuals are few and far between—but truly talented individuals who have lived film-worthy, remarkable lives are even more rare and deserving of celebration. In the...
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Hans Christian Andersen's time-honored short story—and, ultimately, contender for most depressing children's tale ever written—about the little girl selling matches on New Year's...
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Everyone handles grief differently. For author Joan Didion, she wrote hers down. The Year of Magical Thinking is an intimate account of the year following Didion's husband's death, and the...
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Some changes are easier to deal with than others. For ladies going through that change, it appears laughter is the best antidote to overcome effects like night sweats, mood swings,...
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Gorgeous—that's one word to describe a performance from Ballet Memphis, a contemporary ballet troupe based in the famous Tennessee town. This is ballet with heart and soul, uninhibited...
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Everyone’s favorite zombie holiday is upon us once again. But this year, instead of celebrating the risen holy dead by painting unfertilized chicken menstruations, why not celebrate...
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The Reduced Shakespeare Company, who brought you the quick-hit comedy masterpieces The Complete History of America (abridged) and The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), present...
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Johnny Cash continues to posthumously inspire an array of art, and this latest production at the Laguna Playhouse is just as anticipated as any film, gallery show or tribute band that's...
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Nothing says Christmas like crying your eyes out over a poignant and sentimental Depression-era tale of a friendship between a young boy and an old woman—and pretty much no one can...
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Val Kilmer didn't let some bad, gossipy press dim his bright light for acting. Over the past seven years, he put together a remarkable production spotlighting one of history's most acclaimed...
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The Halloween season came to a close, but that doesn't mean you can't still get spooked. Washington Irving’s classic tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is equal parts ghost story and...
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When award-winning playwright, composer and actor Noël Coward (that's Sir Noël Peirce Coward, actually) debuted his witty comedy Fallen Angels to London audiences back in 1925, it...
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If you’re not familiar with the name Hershey Felder, don’t worry, this blurb has nothing to do with fetish porn. Rather, the Laguna Playhouse features the Canadian...
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One of the most devoted Beatles tribute bands of this century begins a two-week stint at the Laguna Playhouse tonight. Part theater, part sing-along concert, this foursome takes their...
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Love is sometimes described as "a temporary insanity, curable only by marriage." And, like the long disclaimer in a pharmaceutical commercial, the musical I Do! I Do! explains in detail the...
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For the newest incarnation of Late Nite Catechism, everyone's favorite comically opinionated, wise-cracking nun goes full-fledged Sin City for the church's Las Vegas charity night....
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Poet and author Kahlil Gibran said, "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." In the play The Pianist of Willesden Lane, the...
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“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special,” writes Robert Harling, author of the play and film adaptation Steel Magnolias, the...
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Singles today have it so easy. Join one of those dating websites and instantly meet dozens of people as weird and lonely as you are. But back before profile pictures photoshopped as much as...
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It's a back-from-the-dead success story that frankly puts that whole Easter Sunday thing in the shade. Four guys in a cherry-red Mercury convertible get creamed...
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When a boring, dull man gets lucky enough to take a sexy foreign spy home for the evening, only to later find her murdered (now that's a wicked hangover), he finds himself running for his...
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Down the river, by the sea and into the golden years of this country's musical history, we go on an acoustic journey that honors an element as close to the American core as apple pie,...
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A comedy musical set in the 1950s and 1960s takes (some of) us back to the days of crinoline skirts, radically puffy updos and surface conservatism. That's part of the backdrop to...
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Chicago's phenomenal sketch comedy theatre company The Second City introduces its unique and famed “Laugh Out Loud Tour” to the Laguna Playhouse. The show combines improvisation,...
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Could there be a profession more terrifying than a comedian? Oh, the horror of those blank stares and tortuously awkward silences. How the hell can someone even find the cajones to get up on...
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Smack dab in the middle of the Laguna Dance Festival (considered one of the ten most relevant events to shape the Orange County art scene), comes BalletX. Mixing traditional ballet with...
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Just in time for Easter, the next installment in the Late Nite Catechism series, Sister's Easter Catechism, visits Orange County to answer some of those age-old questions. Will my bunny go...
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Horror story master. Science fiction dabbler. A part-time thriller screenwriter and a full-time dog lover. Yes, internationally acclaimed author Dean Koontz is possibly one of the only...
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For the last 10 years, the Laguna Beach Music Festival takes over the beachside city for a week of showcasing both established and upcoming musicians. The unique aspect is that these...
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Folk music—it's so much more than autoharp-playing hipster dudes at open mic night. Written and directed by the Rubicon Theatre's James O'Neil, Lonesome Traveler takes us on the...
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The man has range, that's for certain. In this re-imaging of the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, actor James Leaming steps into George Bailey's shoes, doing a damn good impression...
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America's come a long way in ensuring the safety of children during its history. Huckleberry Finn isn’t wandering the streets of Newport Beach, asking for change from couples buying...
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This 1989 Tony Award-winner is best known to the masses as a film starring Pauline Collins, who received an Oscar nod for her portrayal of the title character—a witty, streetwise...
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Comedian Rita Rudner doesn't have much in common with post-millennial fart comics, but that doesn't mean her act isn't something to marvel at. Her professional wisecrackery started in the...
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Despite a cocaine overdose and two failed marriages, Tony Bennett’s music career continues to leave even the most prudish of audiences envious. Dubbed by Frank Sinatra as “the...
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While most of us will gather around swimming pools, beaches, barbecues and other places afflicted by the unrelenting fucking glare of the goddamn sun this summer, the cool kids will hunker...
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Tell us there are five women on a wild night out in a bar, getting squiffy, outrageous and loud, singing karaoke and telling jokes about vibrators, body hair and thongs, and we can only ask,...
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Not that the pirate fad seems to be slowing down any time soon—Disney confirms it’s planning to release two more Pirates of the Caribbean movies after next month’s fourth...
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Looking back over 20 years and the dozens of productions he produced as artistic director of the Laguna Playhouse, there's a great deal that makes Andrew Barnicle proud. Plays he...
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It’s probably the most unlikely of situations: Not only do two divorced people (previously married to each other) get rehitched at the same time, but they also take their honeymoons...
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Canadian composer/author/actor Hershey Felder continues his “composer sonata” series with this look at the life and work of one of America’s most talented musicians,...
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From an opera about Jerry Springer to the monumental drama of Willy Loman, the theatrical landscape of 2011 will plumb the highs and lows of the human condition.But rather than a preview...
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There’s nothing Catholics and ex-Catholics love more than to relive their days of nuns and Catholic school. It can even be fun for their atheist and agnostic friends, in...
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Rarely does a children’s story strike a successful balance between the harsh realities of the life and the sugary sweetness of schmaltz. Charlotte’s Web is one of those rare...
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