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» A Holiday Musical for the Whole Family Returns! Stay tuned for the announcement of a second holiday musical that is back by popular demand ...

Herberger Theater Center: - book: Paul Gordon; lyrics: Paul Gordon; music: Paul Gordon; dir: David Ira Goldstein, Stephen Wrentmore....

On the Cripe Stage…  Jane Austen’s enduring love story is brought to life as a romantic-comedy musical. The story revolves around Emma, a well-meaning, but ...

On the Cripe Stage… Style. Status. Success. A group of twentysomething editorial assistants are pursuing it all at one of New York’s most esteemed cultural ...

From the writer of last season’s Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious comes a brand new play that is so new that we don’t ...

Experience the Magic of Shakespeare's Enchanted Comedy! Dive into the whimsical world of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," where love, magic, and mischief collide under ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is a darkly gripping musical thriller that has garnered numerous accolades, ...

On the Cripe Stage… In a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling pie shop, Sweeney Todd plots revenge on the lecherous judge who wronged him ...

OTR New Play Staged Reading

On the Cripe Stage… This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the seventh time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her ...

Staged reading of a new play by 2024 Resident Playwright Dustin H. Chinn

On the Fyda-Mar Stage… Alma and her daughter, Angel, made sixteen wishes long ago: good health, love, carne asada every day, perfect SAT scores, and ...

On the Cripe Stage… Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed (now a Hulu series, starring Kathryn Hahn), Tiny Beautiful Things follows the relationships ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

On the Cripe Stage… This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash that took Broadway by storm tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

What could be fancier than Christmas? Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles – and who could forget the tree? After ...

Based on the popular children’s book of the same name,  The Secret Garden  follows the story of Mary Lennox, a young British girl born and ...

Fifteen-year-old math whiz Christopher Boone lives with his divorced dad in Swinton, a working-class town west of London. After being falsely accused of killing a ...

Long-married couple Paul and Marie are the center of this moving new play about love, aging, selfishness, and selflessness. As Paul’s illness progresses, he can ...

In July of 1903, famed baseball player Edward “Big Ed” Delahanty was found dead at the base of the Niagara Falls gorge. Now, Ed’s widow, ...

College freshmen Lulu and Marianne test their limits as they party through the school year, in search of their place in the world. Marianne, newly ...

RENT: DOWNTOWN LA takes place in a warehouse in industrial downtown Los Angeles, where an artistic renaissance is underway in the vein of 1990s Alphabet ...

“VIVA LA VIE CHANCE” “extraordinarily well-cast” “the characters are all well-lived-in and the troupe’s chemistry shines with love, giving us many compelling moments” “Director Matthew ...

This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the sixth time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her friends Bree, Rhonda, Wanda, ...

Based on the true story of Abigail Burgess, a young lighthouse keeper’s daughter, living on a rock 25 miles off the coast of Maine, this ...

WORLD PREMIERE! This biting comedy spans centuries, continents, and cultures in its three-part vignette structure. Beginning in 1880s Hanoi, the capital city of French Indochina, ...

Get ready to laugh your Chance off at Stand-Up Tuesdays! Host Mark Christopher Lawrence taps into his extensive list of talented comedian friends and shares ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

When life goes off the rails, we discover what really matters. Chance Theater’s critically-acclaimed California premiere of the bracingly funny, supremely inventive musical journey with ...

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing ...

What could be fancier than Christmas? Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles and who could forget the tree? After all, ...

Little Women, the beloved coming-of-age story by Louisa May Alcott, bursts onto the stage in this heartwarming and captivating full-length musical. Follow the adventures of ...

Little Women, the beloved coming-of-age story by Louisa May Alcott, bursts onto the stage in this heartwarming and captivating full-length musical. Follow the adventures of ...

From the novel that holds a special place in the heart of American literature, comes a new musical that proves this timeless story is still ...

Experience pro wrestling in a whole new light or perhaps for the first time in Kristoffer Diazs Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. Chad Deity follows the life ...

In every artistic context, the imagery of a woman of color in a maids uniform will immediately spark controversy. A Thousand Maids looks at this ...

In every artistic context, the imagery of a woman of color in a maids uniform will immediately spark controversy. A Thousand Maids looks at this ...

We Aint Ever Gonna Break Up: The Hymon & Parfunkel Story is the first jukebox musical about, and featuring the songs of, a band that ...

American Idiot is a sung-through rock musical based on the concept album of the same name by rock band Green Day. After a run at ...

American Idiot is a sung-through rock musical based on the concept album of the same name by rock band Green Day. After a run at ...

Slinging razor guitars, thundering drums, and an anti-hero named Johnny. Not the prelude of typical entries in the canon of musical theatre. But these elements ...

Gifted scientist Dr. Mirian Reyes has discovered a method of using mycelium cells to heal damaged brains. So when her radically progressive son, Dagoberto, is ...

This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the fifth time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her friends Bree, Rhonda, Wanda, ...

Matinicus: A Lighthouse Play is based on the true story of Abigail Burgess, a young lighthouse keepers daughter, living on a rock 25 miles off ...

Dirty diapers, breast pumps and 2 a.m. feedings, are enough to give anyone sleepless nights Not to mention the need for a strong cup of ...

You’re not going to want to miss the staged reading of the updated version of this brand new pulpy riot grrrl musical adaptation of The ...

There’s no place like a  No MSG Added  sketch show where we seek to define the BRAIN, HEART, COURAGE, and HOME of being Asian American. ...

There’s no place like a  No MSG Added  sketch show where we seek to define the BRAIN, HEART, COURAGE, and HOME of being Asian American. ...

See the groundbreaking smash hit musical that won the Pulitzer Prize and three Tony Awards during its acclaimed run on Broadway. With a thrilling contemporary ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing ...

Everyones favorite holiday classic comes to life in the all-new stage adaptation! Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the whole Peanuts gang as they ...

Striking 12 is a unique hybrid of riveting musical theater and an electrifying pop-rock concert. It tells the story of a grumpy, overworked New Yorker ...

Chance Theater Anna Ziegler...

The Pulitzer Prize Finalist Yellowman makes its Orange County premiere this Fall at Chance Theater. A celebration of language and the human spirit, Yellowman is ...

Zayn, Nola, and Tia are three friends at Kennedy College who are each having trouble moving past the misery and humiliation of their high school ...

Before they wrote Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dogfight, and many other modern musical classics, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote ...

Professor Leia is befuddled by the task of ushering undergrads into the dramatic principles of playwriting and life lessons simultaneously. When a student brings in ...

Chance Theater has announced that the Orange County premiere of Neil Bertram and Brian Hill's musical, The Story of My Life will be the first ...

Chance Theater will be working with Aurora Theatre Company for the first time to produce a livestream staged reading of Dustin Chinn's Colonialism is Terrible, ...

Little Women, the beloved coming-of-age story by Louisa May Alcott, bursts onto the stage in this heartwarming and captivating full-length musical. Follow the adventures of ...

Chance Theater has announced its next Chance Cyber Chat will be about the critically-lauded What The Constitution Means To Me, written and performed by Heidi ...

Billy Elliot the Musical is a joyous celebration of one young boy’s journey to make his dreams come true based on the smash-hit independent film ...

A Pulitzer finalist, Yellowman is a powerful and fascinating drama about racial prejudice within the African-American Gullah/Geechee culture in the Sea Islands off South Carolina. ...

Fun Home is a Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The musical features music by Jeanine Tesori ...

All of your favorite peanut characters come to life in the this stage production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". When Charlie Brown complains about the ...

book: Joseph Robinette; lyrics: Evelyn D. Swensson; music: Evelyn D. Swensson; dir: Casey Long....

book: John Maclay; lyrics: Danny Abosch, John Maclay; music: Danny Abosch; dir: Darryl B. Hovis....

Hamish Linklater Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre...

Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and ...

by Kim Rosenstock TIGERS BE STILL is a comedy that follows the misadventures of Sherry Wickman, a young woman who has recently earned her masters ...

Roald Dahl's fantastical tale of a boy, his insect friends and their amazing journey across the ocean on a giant piece of fruit. (One-Act Version)...

All of your favorite peanut characters come to life in the this stage production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". When Charlie Brown complains about the ...

Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, BIG FISH centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman ...

Winner of the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical when it premiered Off-Broadway in 1997, and then on to a ...

Billy Elliot the Musical is a joyous celebration of one young boy’s journey to make his dreams come true based on the smash-hit independent film ...

The Tony Award-winning musical drama Parade features the true story of Leo Frank’s trial and lynching in early 20th-century Atlanta. Ostracized for his faith and ...

Flat Stanley, the beloved children's book written by Jeff Brown in 1964 has become a literary and pop cultural phenomenon - delighting readers and travelers ...

Little Women, the beloved coming-of-age story by Louisa May Alcott, bursts onto the stage in this heartwarming and captivating full-length musical. Follow the adventures of ...

The hauntingly beautiful musical, Dogfight, by Pasek and Paul (Edges, James and the Giant Peach, A Christmas Story) and Peter Duchan, was praised by countless ...

Set amidst the charming chaos of a 1930s Budapest perfume shop, She Loves Me blossoms with mistaken identities, witty banter, and heartwarming romance. We meet ...

IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Book by Quiara Alegr...

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON  creators Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers cook up an alternate universe (and draw parallels to today's political/populist landscape) with their musical ...

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON  creators Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers cook up an alternate universe (and draw parallels to today's political/populist landscape) with their musical ...

Based on Louisa May Alcott's own family experiences (and novel), LITTLE WOMEN , follows the adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March as they ...

Based on Louisa May Alcott's own family experiences (and novel), LITTLE WOMEN , follows the adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March as they ...

Little Women: The Broadway Musical brings the classic coming-of-age novel to the stage, filled with drama, romance, humor and song. Rambunctious Jo, practical Meg, sweet ...

“Sex to change the course of the world…” With this line from a personal ad, marine biology grad student Jules lures journalism student Jo to ...

The world's greatest love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of the theatre's finest accomplishments. Shakespeare's Romeo and ...

More than fifty years ago, a show about rival gangs in New York City changed musical theater forever. As powerful and timely today as ever, ...