It’s FREE for All Movie Monday night at OCPAC!  Tonight, you can catch the OG (aka original) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (you know, the one that doesn’t give you nightmares?) projected onto the side of the OC Performing Arts Center (OCPAC) for FREE!  Set-up begins at 5:30pm and movie will show at 8pm.  The best short animated films from this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival will be shown just before the movie.  Guests are allowed to bring their own snacks and picnic suppers (Patina Catering will have assorted snacks and beverages …

Elle Woods will be telling her story in song and dance from September 8th – 20th, 2009 in Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center!  Yep, Legally Blonde, the Musical is on tour and hitting up Orange County right after it’s brief stint at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.  You’ve seen the movie (oh, come on.  Admit it, you totally did the “bend and snap”)!  Luckily, the Musical follows the movie’s storyline pretty closely.  I’ve been listening to the soundtrack for months in anticipation of this tour!  The songs …

From the award-winning team of Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown is an emotion-filled story of a high school valedictorian struggling with life-changing decisions about sex, love, college and the impact the paths she chooses have on the rest of her life.  The new musical is being developed by Beth Williams, Laurel Oztemel and Broadway Across America, and is directed by Daniel Goldstein.
This is a unique opportunity for those who love theatre to be a …

Avenue Q at OCPAC
It seems that everything I write about includes something that is at least a little bit taboo, or something that involves breaking laws. This review is no different. I mean, who can resist watching Lucy the Slut perform on stage?
If you haven’t heard of Avenue Q before, it is a Broadway musical that features puppets on stage, and teaches the audience about the real life struggles and situations that we face fresh out of college.
I know what you’re thinking… Puppets? Real life “struggles”? It sounds …