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655 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa, CA 92626

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655 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa CA 92626

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The best theater in OC, hands down. Provocative shows like the multi-layered conflict between Midwestern creationism and bicoastal liberal science in How the World Began and the profanity-laden Elemeno Pea really are a nice counter to the high-brow, sophisticated setting of the South Coast Rep. It would be super easy for SCR to play it safe and be totally vanilla, but they don’t, and we love them for it. It's also really affordable for students. Between $5 drinks, and free parking across the bridge at South Coast Plaza (don't be lazy), its mind blowing that a night out with professional live theater can be cheaper than a boring movie date.








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  • 16th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival

    16th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival

    By JESSICA FORD | Thu, April 25, 2013

    In a span of three days, South Coast Repertory introduces seven new plays during the 16th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. The showcase features five staged readings and two full productions, attracting theatergoers from across the nation.... More »

  • \'Smokefall\': The Noise Between the Silence

    'Smokefall': The Noise Between the Silence

    By JOEL BEERS | Thu, April 18, 2013

    It's fitting that South Coast Repertory is staging the world premiere of Noah Haidle's heartbreaker of a play, Smokefall, because years earlier, Jerry Patch, SCR's former literary manager, told me that every great play, in some fashion, has to do... More »

  • The Parisian Woman

    The Parisian Woman

    By JESSICA FORD | Thu, April 11, 2013

    Beau Willimon’s latest play, The Parisian Woman, makes its world premiere at South Coast Repertory this month—but you already know his work. Willimon is the writer-producer who brought the epic political drama series House of Cards to Netflix,... More »

  • Smokefall

    Smokefall

    By ERIN DEWITT | Thu, March 28, 2013

    Playwright Noah Haidle (Mr. Marmalade, Rag and Bone) debuts his new story at the South Coast Repertory—and after the egg hunts and chocolate-induced sugar rushes and subsequent meltdowns have subsided, perhaps you'd like to spend the rest of the... More »

  • \'The Whale\' Has No Tale

    'The Whale' Has No Tale

    By JOEL BEERS | Thu, March 21, 2013

    Samuel D. Hunter's play The Whale might as well be called The Wail. The sad sack of bitchers and moaners assembled in this tale would make a series of Facebook status updates seem optimistic. One guy is morbidly obese; another is a Mormon... More »

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  • 2012 | Best Actress

    Under director (and OC Weekly arts writer) Dave Barton's direction, every character in Mark Ravenhill's wickedly funny pool (no water) carried his or her own bright torch. But the one who shined the brightest in this Monkey Wrench Collective production at South Coast Repertory was Lamprinos, in the lead role of a successful visual artist whose fame drives her once-close-knit friends bat-shit crazy. Lamprinos was mesmerizing throughout, but probably most so when she didn't say a word. For... More »

  • 2012 | Best New Play

    The world premiere of Catherine Trieschmann's play at South Coast Repertory drew more attention for putting the battle between creationism and evolution in public schools under the dramaturgical lens. But, while filled with some juicily packaged polemics about the rather warped views of anti-science Middle America, How the World Began was about things personal as much as political. An Ivy League-educated teacher seeks to rebuild her life in a small Kansas town that's trying to rebuild after... More »

  • 2012 | Best Play

    Shitty plays generally don't earn Pulitzer Prizes, so it wasn't astonishing that Suzan-Lori Parks' 2002 Topdog/Underdog kept viewers' attention. But this Susan Seret-directed piece, staged at South Coast Repertory, didn't just make you pay notice; it grabbed you by the throat and forced attention. The two-person character study about brothers trying to reject--and embrace--street-level hustling offered a rich perspective on life in inner-city black America, something sorely lacking... More »

  • 2012 | Best Theatrical Ensemble

    Any play featuring an actor as recognizable as Charlie Robinson (who played court clerk Mac on the long-running TV show Night Court) already has a strong lineup. Robinson's proud, patriarchal Becker was the central character in August Wilson's poignant, gripping play Jitney, set in an independent cab station in Pittsburgh in 1977. But the seven actors surrounding him more than stood their ground. Effortlessly directed by Ron OJ Parson, each performer captured what is perhaps the most... More »

  • 2011 | Best New Play

    Though playwright Gina Gionfriddo wrote it in 2008 and productions had been mounted on the East Coast, Becky Shaw was new to Southern Californian eyes and ears when South Coast Repertory staged it in October and November 2010. It was a deceptively deep play titled after the most elusive and, arguably, unimportant character. A great cast, led by a splendidly detailed and belly-laugh-inducing Brian Avers as Max, perfectly captured the ambiguity of Gionfriddo's masterfully executed script. As... More »

  • 2011 | Best Theatrical Ensemble

    A play about beginning acting students taking a course taught in a small Vermont town by a former hippie would seem to fall into the kind of self-congratulatory martyrdom that many plays about theater slip into. But not this Annie Baker-penned jewel: There was a reason Circle Mirror Transformation won the 2010 Obie award for Best New Drama, and the ensemble collected for South Coast Repertory's January production emphatically showed why. The five actors (the always-mesmerizing Linda... More »

  • 2010 | Best New Play

    Though she has been on the radar of the kind of people who keep track of these things for several years--she's had productions at major theaters such as NYC's Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons, as well as South Coast Repertory in 2007 with The Piano Teacher--it was this world premiere at SCR that established Cho's credentials as one of the most brilliant lights in new American drama. The tale about a brilliant linguist incapable of communicating with his wife, his... More »

  • 2010 | Best Actor

    Primarily a film and TV actor--he is the teacher in Election who delivers the unforgettable line about a high-school beauty queen, "Her pussy gets so wet"--and quite a busy one at that, Harelik only appears in about one play per year. But he has graced South Coast Repertory's boards five times in the past 20 years, from Howard Korder's riveting Search and Destroy (1990) to his monumental turn as a megalomaniacal explorer in Korder's The Hollow Lands (2000) and... More »

  • 2009 | Best Actress

    Another ensemble effort, and another example of one cast member shining so brightly she nearly eclipsed the rest of the cast. Many an actress salivates over the chance to play Noises Off's blond, myopic, dumb-as-a-post bombshell. Jennifer Lyon looked the part, and she certainly possessed a deer-in-the-headlights demeanor. But what she accomplished with this fairly stock, if fun, character, was truly outstanding, transforming simple-minded Brooke into a ravishingly executed... More »

  • 2009 | Best Play of the Past 12 Months

    Perhaps it was a bit lowbrow for a theater that has long prided itself on producing literate, sophisticated fare, but anyone who doubted that South Coast Rep (SCR) couldn't wallow in adrenalin-infused farce was schooled by this production. Directed by Art Manke and graced with a phenomenally talented ensemble, the show benefited from SCR's ample resources and top-drawer production values. In this troupe's capable hands, Michael Frayn's hilariously complicated script shone as... More »

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