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The only live variety comedy show in Fullerton, California, Late Night Leftovers is a Saturday Night Live-style comedy show, starring a group of performers with backgrounds in theater, improv and singing, and features local musical guests during the show. See the details section for scheduled guests. Learn more...

Richard Sherman's wife of seven years is on vacation, and he's left to himself in his Manhattan apartment, when an attractive young lady drops a tomato plant onto his patio and comes downstairs to retrieve it. His immediate attraction to the young lady simply called 'The Girl,' proves to be a mental obstacle course for Richard that builds up to the ultimate question: Will he go through with it? Learn more...

Direct from a hit Off-Broadway run, the acclaimed musical Fabulous Divas of Broadway starring Alan Palmer is a rapid-paced show business tale about legendary Broadway divas ranging from Ethel Merman, Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland, to Patti LuPone and Kristin Chenoweth. They're all brought to life with hilarity, songs and gorgeous costumes, showing us exactly why they're all called divas. Learn more...

Staged Cinema Productions presents Reefer Madness: The Musical. This tongue-in-cheek show, based the camp classic 1936 propaganda film, was written by writers from TV's The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives. The story of a boy whose life is plunged into debauchery and chaos by marijuana features a live five-piece band, elaborate dance numbers, zombies, Jesus, and FDR. Learn more...

Treasure Island is an exciting yarn of piracy on the high seas; a classic tale of good and evil, filled with plenty of suspense, action and adventure. Featuring the legendary pirate Long John Silver and young Jim Hawkins, a 14-year-old boy who holds a secret treasure map that every bloodthirsty pirate seeks. Learn more...

In this musical stage adaptation of the hit film The Full Monty, a group of frustrated, unemployed steel workers decide to form a male striptease act to make money and improve their lives. Touching, funny and crowd-pleasing, The Full Monty was nominated for ten Tony awards including Best Musical while on Broadway. Learn more...

Using a cast of three actors to play 40 sharply drawn characters, this bold work is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite six million Jews to Germany and promise them citizenship and jobs. A resulting scenario unfolds that explores the effects of the policy on Jews and Gentiles. Learn more...

Angels in America is regarded as the most important play of the 1990s, and among the most influential of the 20th century. In the mid-1980s a hitherto unknown disease was killing men across the country, striking not only in the New York gay community, but the highest offices of law and government in the nation. With attention not being paid, how did those stricken with the strange disease cope? Learn more...

Below the Belt is a corporate comedy in a corporation that is never named. The work situation may not be physically realistic, but the characters' relationships are starkly, emotionally accurate. To see these three men work together or not work together, especially in the face of the rules that box them in, is the meat of Below the Belt. Learn more...

Returning for its third year, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, tells the retro Christmas yarn about Martians kidnapping Santa Claus to cheer up the sad, listless children of Mars. Based on the cheesy sixties' film with its corny lines, scenery-chewing performances and a fake-loooking robot, these Martians promise a slapstick, B-movie antidote to the typical holiday show. Learn more...

Staged Cinema Productions presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). This beloved comedy classic follows three men as they attempt to perform the Bard's 37 plays and 154 sonnets in under two hours. It's a perennial audience favorite; this is the company's fourth production of the show. Learn more...

Written by comedy legend Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile tells the unusual story of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a legendary tavern on the eve of their biggest innovations in their respective fields. This absurd comedy premiered in 1994 to rave reviews, and has since become a staple of modern American theatre. Learn more...

The Tempest, Shakespeare's most supernatural play, was adapted in 1956 to the sci-fi film masterpiece "Forbidden Planet," where the world first met Robbie the Robot. Return to the Forbidden Planet retains the story of the film, but delivers all of its characters' dialogue in Shakespearean verse, save for when they sing "Good Vibrations," "All Shook Up" and other '50s and '60s chart-toppers. Learn more...

Rising Water is set in New Orleans 2005. When a levee breaks and a city is covered under water, a couple flees to their attic for survival. Based on the events of hurricane Katrina, Rising Water was written by award-winning Southern writer John Biguenet. The Maverick is the first theater west of the Mississippi to perform this powerful play. Learn more...

One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a household name, thanks to a highly successful film version and a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who redefined the animated musical film with Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Learn more...

Edward Streeter's novel Father of the Bride has been adapted for two films (starring Spencer Tracy and Steve Martin), a TV series, and the stage. Now, Staged Cinema Productions and director Dave Chorley present the classic story of George Banks' struggles with his daughter's wedding. Learn more...

Returning for its second year, the Maverick Theatre presents the stage adaptation of the 1964 B movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The Martians are irked that their children spend so much time watching TV shows from Earth that sing the praises of Santa Claus--so they decide to travel to Earth to capture Santa. It's so ridiculous, so absurd, it's entertaining. Learn more...

Staged Cinema Productions brings back their wildly successful stage adaptation of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, a true cult classic, and one of the scariest movies of all time. A group of panicked survivors are barricaded in a deserted farmhouse while an army of flesh-eating zombies hovers outside their door. After the show's success last year, the theater has brought it back from the dead, staging a revival for this Halloween season. Learn more...

By popular demand, The Maverick Theatre brings back for the third time The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a hilarious show in which three men and one woman's wig perform all 37 plays and 154 sonnets in under two hours in front of a two-story-tall bust of the Bard. Learn more...

The Maverick Theater presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular works Four young lovers flee into the woods, where the King and Queen of the fairies battle over a child and a group of well-meaning laborers bumbles through rehearsals for a play. Shakespeare's greatest comedy triumphantly entwines passion, poetry and the lunacy of love. Learn more...

A tribute to Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. What better way to celebrate the greatest spy series than with drinks, theme songs, Bond girls, and burlesque? Inspired by the opening title sequences of the Bond films, The Burlesque of Bond is a visually rich production featuring beautiful dancers, in lavish attire, underscored by a live orchestra. The kind of entertainment found in the showrooms of Las Vegas--without the nudity. Learn more...

Before the award-winning film with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson came the Broadway play, written by acclaimed film and television writer Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing," "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"). It's an electrically charged tale -- filled with intense courtroom drama -- about honor, duty and one's own moral code. Learn more...

Winner of 3 Tony Awards (including Best Book and Best Score), Urinetown is a surprise smash Broadway musical set in a Gotham-like city overwrought by ecological disaster. It's a tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in a time when water is worth its very weight in gold! Learn more...

Noises Off tells the story of a third-rate theater troupe as it tours the third-rate farce "Nothing On." The actors create a first-rate farce of their own--forgetting lines, dropping trousers, and losing countless plates of sardines. Love triangles, sweet revenge and flying props make this madcap adventure a great comedy--about life on the stage itself! Learn more...

Faced with disappointing comic book sales, benefit packages and retirement, four superheroes take a break in their secret cafe to reminisce about the good old days. But when an unexpected tragedy hits the town, they are forced to deal with being powerless for the first time in their lives. Learn more...

Inspired by the campy Japanese Monster Movie Genre, Giant Green Lizard: The Musical is a ridiculous farce about three American tourists in a Tokyo Karaoke bar on New Years Eve when a famous monster lizard crashes the party. Performed on both of The Maverick's stages, audiences will have the unique opportunity to witness a grown man dressed in a lizard suit crushing buildings on a miniature-scale set of Tokyo. The production has eleven original songs, one of which a giant green lizard gets to sing. Learn more...

The Maverick's production of Cabaret, the Kander and Ebb musical about an English singer and American writer who meet at a nightclub in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise, uses in-your-face staging to break down the fourth wall by turning the entire theater into the Kit Kat Klub. Theatergoers actually sit at cafe tables, which implicates the audience in the frenetic escapism, and coming horror of 1930's Berlin. Learn more...

The Graduate, presented by Staged Cinema Productions at the Maverick Theater, is the first west-coast production since the close of the Broadway tour. The stage hit that became a movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft is about a recent college graduate who is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, only to find himself falling in love with her teenage daughter. Learn more...

The Maverick Theater invites you to experience a one-of-a-kind production that reunites audiences with one of the greatest performers of our time. The King is a rock-n-roll comedy about the return of Elvis, featuring a sampler of all that is Elvis, suitable for all ages. Learn more...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is one of Shakespeare's best-known and most oft-quoted plays. The Maverick has gone all out with a large scale medieval castle set on stage and lavish costumes of the period. Learn more...

The Maverick Theatre presents this comedy-drama about American G.I.s planning a escape from a German prison camp on Christmas Eve 1944, but there's a problem: one of them is a German spy. With colorful characters and a riveting plot, this is a great alternative to the usual Christmas staples. Learn more...

Winning family entertainment on a spectacular scale, Alexander Dumas' classic story of The Three Musketeers comes to new life on stage at the Maverick Theater. This legendary adventure features Athos, Porthos and Aramis, plus the young upstart D'Artagnan, doing battle with the forces of the evil Cardinal Richelieu in 17th-century France. Learn more...

See Richard O' Brein's sinfully twisted salute to horror, sci-fi, B-movies and rock n roll the way its creator intended...on stage! Aficionados who first experienced the play with Tim Curry at The Roxy in Hollywood will appreciate the Maverick's cabaret style offering. If you weren't around to enjoy the show back then, here's your chance to catch this new version. Extended by popular demand. Learn more...

He not only fights crime, he sings too! See the 1969 Broadway sensation revived in the first local public production of this show in almost 20 years. The Man of Steel is larger than life with musical numbers like "It's Superman," "So Long, Big Guy" and "Pow! Bam! Zonk!" Learn more...