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The Costa Mesa Playhouse is a 73-seat, not-for-profit, Community Theater that has been serving greater Orange County for over 40 years. The Playhouse is dedicated to presenting affordable, quality, live theater in a comfortable and intimate setting, and to offering the talented actors, singers, dancers, and stage craftspeople of Orange County a welcoming environment in which to practice their … Morecraft. With a season running from September through June and five productions per season, the Playhouse offers a diverse array of plays and musicals to our theatergoing public. Less
In the semi-autobiographical play Jake's Women, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon takes a comic and moving look at the relationships between men and women. Successful but narcissistic writer Jake, who is obsessed with his deceased first wife, faces a marital crisis with his second wife as he imagines encounters with the important women from his past and present -- his two wives, his daughter, his boisterous and bossy sister and his less-than-supportive analyst. Learn more...
The long-running British play based on Susan Hill's horror novel comes to the Costa Mesa Playhouse. The spine-chilling, atmospheric The Woman in Black centers on a lawyer who hires an actor to help him re-enact a ghostly event which befell him many years earlier, with the hope of exorcising his past demons. Learn more...
The Costa Mesa Playhouse presents Lend Me a Tenor. Chaos erupts behind the scenes at an opera house fundraiser when the legendary tenor booked to sing Otello can't perform. Ken Ludwig's famous farce earned three Tony Awards. Learn more...
Costa Mesa Playhouse presents Jeffrey Hatcher's Compleat Female Stage Beauty. It's the hilarious yet poignant story of Edward Kynaston, a 17th-century actor famed for playing women. When actress Margaret Hughes persuades the King to allow actual women to take the stage in England, Kynaston finds his career cut short. Learn more...
With a book by prolific Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H, Tootsie), lyrics by David Zippel and music by Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, The Will Rogers Follies), the musical City of Angels tells the "real" world of a writer adapting his book into a screenplay, and the "reel" world of his detective story which constantly changes as the writer gets notes from his producer. The same actors play their real-life and fictional counterparts in each story. Learn more...
Edward Albee savagely strips away the masks and pretenses that hide the devastating truths of his characters when, at a drunken late night party, sharp-tongued but ineffectual university professor George and his profane wife, Martha, humiliate and degrade themselves and their guests with a series of increasingly revealing "fun and games." Learn more...
Ripped from the headlines of the supermarket tabloid Weekly World News, this hilarious rock and roll musical tells the story of half-human, half-bat Edgar, raised in a West Virginia cave by bats until captured by spelunkers and taken in by the local veterinarian and his family, who harbor a dark, disturbing secret about Edgar's origins. Learn more...
The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) delivers a comedy that was nominated for more than 30 awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas. Learn more...
She Loves Me is the story of two feuding clerks in a European perfume shop who are unaware that they are each other's anonymous romantic pen pals. This charming show from the composer-lyricist team behind Fiddler on the Roof was adapted from the play Parfumerie, which also inspired the James Stewart classic "The Shop Around the Corner" and the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film "You've Got Mail." Learn more...
The Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse presents Rick Abbot's hysterical play-within-a-play farce, Play On!. This is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Learn more...
The Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse presents a stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's celebrated novel about a battle of wills in a mental institution. Bad boy Randle P, McMurphy - lover of life, liquor and women - fakes mental illness to get himself transferred from prison to a state mental institution. Confronted with a repressive regime, he challenges the domineering Nurse Ratched to bring defiance, laughter and liberation to his fellow inmates. Learn more...
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the theatre, not a person was stirring...that is except for Peter. When Peter Marshall doesn't receive his Christmas bonus, he finds that he does not have enough money to buy his family a Christmas tree. And, so with the help of four singing bums, a talking fox and a Christmas Angel, he sets off to find a tree and save Christmas. Learn more...
The Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse presents 10-time Tony Award-nominated musical The Full Monty. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, it's the raucous, heartfelt story of six unemployed steelworkers who, inspired by how much their wives and girlfriends dig watching a traveling male strip show, create their own Chippendales-style group in order to raise some hard-needed cash. Learn more...
From the LAGUNA BEACH/ SAN DIEGO Area
* 405 North to the 55 South Exit Victoria turn right to Harbor
* Turn Left on Harbor to Hamilton
* Turn Right on Hamilton
* 1/4 mile down on Left hand side in the REA School, 661 HamiltonÂ
From THE LONG BEACH/ LOS ANGELES AREA
* 405 South to the 55 South Exit Victoria turn right to Harbor
* Turn Left on Harbor to Hamilton
* Turn Right on Hamilton
* 1/4 Mile down on Left hand side in the REA School, 661 Hamilton
From The RIVERSIDE AREA
* 55 South Exit Victoria turn right to Harbor
* Turn Left on Harbor to Hamilton
* Turn Right on Hamilton
* 1/4 mile down on Left hand side in the REA School, 661 Hamilton
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