Recently Lane and I were treated to a private backstage tour of the impressive Orange County Performing Arts Center facilities (more on that in a future post). Today I wanted to highlight a program through which the center is giving back to the community that has supported it for so many years: Free Movie Mondays. This summer [...]

In 1981 Beth Henley became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 28 years. Almost as many years later, you can now see a revival of her award-winning, and first, full-length play, Crimes of the Heart at South Coast Repertory. Crimes of the Heart centers around three sisters from Hazlehurst, Mississippi, [...]

I was once again invited by the lovely and talented folks at South Coast Repertory to see a new work by Yale-educated playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Doctor Cerberus. It starts off as the typical coming-of-age in the 1980s story that we have all come to know and love (loathe?), but each of the seemingly stock characters show themselves to [...]

I was lucky enough recently to witness an opening weekend performance of The Language Archive, penned by Jennifer Cho, at South Coast Repertory.  The work centers around George (Leo Marks), a linguist at a university who struck me as a cross between Henry Higgins and Bill Nye The Science Guy.  We quickly meet the two [...]

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you are talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams. – Robert A. M. Stern
Saturday night I was treated to an opening weekend performance of In A Garden, a world premiere play at our own local [...]

It was a rare Saturday with no plans and no obligations.  What to do?  “We haven’t been for a drive in awhile.  Let’s go somewhere,” my husband said.  We did not have any particular place we wanted to go, so we opted to pick a direction and drive in it.  Soon enough we found ourselves [...]

Usually when my better half and I want to get away, we hop in the car and go.  We do not always have time for a weekend or full day trip, however, and just want to find something to do for a few hours that will give us a break from the working grind.  One [...]

Tales from the Crush

I recently got a phone call from the Brea Improv offering me free tickets to their upcoming Re-fried Tuesday comedy night. Several years ago I attended a show there and entered my name into a drawing for free tickets (see image below).  Ever since then, about once a year I get a call offering [...]