The Chance Theater

5552 E. La Palma Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92807

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ROOMS: A Rock Romance

Sat., February 4, 8:00pm

While most rock musicals tend to blow (like that upcoming atrocious film adaptation starring Tom Cruise), this however, is a musical about rock. To...

2011 | Best Play

It was a play about an apparently happily married man and loving father who falls in love with a goat. Yes, a real goat. But in the hands of American theater's most idiosyncratic writer, Edward Albee, the 2002 play The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?... More >
2009 | Best Theater Programming

The Chance Theater's 2009 season began with a show called Jesus Hates Me, set at the Blood of the Lamb miniature-golf course, and it'll end with the perennial alternative-Christmas show The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. In between, there was the... More >

OC Weekly Reviews and News

The 12 OC Plays to Watch in 2012

By JOEL BEERS | Thu, January 05, 2012

If the Mayan long-form calendar is right (and, obviously, any civilization that hit its peak 1,000 years ago was right about everything . . .) the world ends Dec. 21. Good thing we've got sexualized puppets, Orson Welles, Richard M. Nixon, a homoe... More >
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

By Michael Chin | Thu, December 01, 2011

Did you ever wonder what it would be like if Santa Claus’ eight reindeer leveraged sexual harassment accusations against him? Yeah, we didn’t either—but that’s all part of the intrigue of this annual production. Turns out the old man’s got a few m... More >
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By AMANDA PARSONS | Thu, September 22, 2011

In 1982, a man named Larry Walters got tired of life on earth. So he sat his ass in a lawn chair, tied 45 helium-filled weather balloons to its back and arms, and gradually wafted to an altitude of 15,000 feet over Long Beach armed with just a pel... More >
'Jerry Springer: The Opera' Is Very Merry!

By JOEL BEERS | Thu, July 14, 2011

As of last Sunday, the Chance Theater had received more than 19,000 emails and letters from outraged Catholic-leaning citizens protesting its production of Jerry Springer: The Opera. Apparently, none of these people has actually seen the show, sin... More >
'Jerry Springer: The Opera'

By Bethania Palma Markus | Thu, June 30, 2011

It’s hard to imagine a night at the opera combined with the flying chairs, cat fights and maniacal chanting of The Jerry Springer Show, but now trashy daytime television and high art collide in Jerry Springer: The Opera. The award-winning, eclecti... More >