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LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE

606 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

RAPUNZEL AND HER HOLIDAY WISH
RAPUNZEL AND HER HOLIDAY WISH
12/7 - 12/29/2024


RAPUNZEL AND HER HOLIDAY WISH is based on the beloved fairytale, this hair-larious tangled tale undergoes a Holiday Panto makeover. Prepare for a spellbinding journey ...

LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL NIGHT ONE CAROLINE SHAW & FRIENDS


Program to be announced. The Festival’s opening concert features Caroline Shaw joined by a string quartet and chorus. Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves roles, genres, and ...

LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL NIGHT TWO CAROLINE SHAW & SŌ PERCUSSION


Program to be announced. Caroline Shaw and S Percussion dissolve the boundaries between classical and pop, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as James Joyce, ...

LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL NIGHT THREE CAROLINE SHAW & GABRIEL KAHANE


Program to be announced. After more than a decade of musical friendship, composer-performers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane embark on their first large-scale collaboration, orbiting ...


RELATED STORIES

Nominations Announced For the OC Theatre Guild Awards


by Stephi Wild - March 01, 2023

On Saturday, January 21, 2023 during OC Theatre Guild’s membership meeting, the nominees for the second annual OCTG Theatre Awards were officially announced to the public. The awards ceremony, in which the winners will be revealed, has been scheduled for the evening of Monday, April 17, 2023 at the ...

Past Shows

A View From The Bridge
A View From The Bridge
10/30 - 11/17/2024


A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE delves into the complexities of family, love, and justice. Set in a tight-knit Italian-American community in 1950s Brooklyn, the play ...

Don't Dress For Dinner
Don't Dress For Dinner
9/4 - 9/22/2024


This wildly successful comedy was first produced at Laguna Playhouse in 1997 and is back by popular demand! This outrageous farce has all the right ...

HOLMES & WATSON
HOLMES & WATSON
5/29 - 6/16/2024


Prepare yourself for a fast-paced, thrilling, suspenseful story that will keep you guessing until its final moments. In this worthwhile addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon, there are more twists ...

TARTUFFE
TARTUFFE
4/17 - 5/5/2024


For years, Laguna Playhouse has been making audiences laugh with a wide variety of comedies and now they deliver one of the most enduring comedic ...

A SHAYNA MAIDEL
A SHAYNA MAIDEL
3/13 - 3/31/2024


A SHAYNA MAIDEL (which means “a pretty girl” in Yiddish) is a touching memory play about two sisters reconnecting after years of separation and a ...

Laguna Dance Festival
Laguna Dance Festival
2/23 - 2/25/2024


New Zealand to L.A. Three diverse comanpies: BLACK GRACE, Los Angeles Ballet & Syncopated Ladies Black Grace brings the best dancers from New Zealand to ...

Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't Misbehavin'
1/24 - 2/11/2024


It’s 1930’s Harlem, and the joint is jumpin’! Nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom are the playgrounds of high society, and dive ...

A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS
A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS
12/7 - 12/29/2023


This holiday season, put on your glass slippers and join us for our annual Lythgoe Family Panto, A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS!  Based on the traditional British ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
11/17 - 11/19/2023


Laguna Beach Playhouse presents William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM for ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Set in a dystopian world.

The Angel Next Door
The Angel Next Door
10/18 - 11/5/2023


It is 1948 and an unlikely group of characters has assembled in a Newport mansion. An unexpected development threatens to doom a budding romance and ...

THE RAINMAKER
THE RAINMAKER
9/20 - 10/8/2023


THE RAINMAKER  Written by N. Richard Nash Directed by Andrew Barnicle MIRACLES HAPPEN BEGINNING WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20  AT THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE IN LAGUNA BEACH! “The ...

2 Pianos 4 Hands
2 Pianos 4 Hands
7/5 - 7/23/2023


LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE presents the First Show of its 2023-2024 Season… 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS  Written by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt Directed by Tom Frey ...

Murder On The Links
Murder On The Links
5/31 - 6/18/2023


Something’s afoul on the private golf course at Merlinville-Sur-Mer, namely the body of Hercule Poirot’s newest client! Acclaimed playwright Steven Dietz brings the famed Belgian ...

Staged
Staged
1/25 - 2/12/2023


LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE is thrilled to announce that comedienne Rita Rudner will star in the upcoming World Premiere of a hilarious new comedy, STAGED, written by Martin Bergman & ...

Love Among The Ruins
Love Among The Ruins
10/26 - 11/13/2022


When wealthy widow and socialite Jessica Medlicott is sued for breach of promise by her money-seeking ex-fiancé, will her past as an actress help or ...

Kim's Convenience
Kim's Convenience
9/21 - 10/9/2022


LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES THE FIRST SHOW OF ITS 2022-2023 SEASON!The Orange County Premiere Of KIMS CONVENIENCE Written by Ins ChoiDirected by Jon Lawrence RiveraLIMITED ENGAGEMENT ...

Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever
6/29 - 7/17/2022


LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES THE SIXTH SHOW OF ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY SEASONSATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Based on the Paramount/RSO Picture and the story by Nik Cohn Adapted ...

A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line
5/26 - 6/12/2022


A CHORUS LINE is a celebration of those unsung heroes of the American Musical Theatre: the chorus dancers - those valiant, over dedicated, underpaid, highly ...

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!


I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE!is a musical comedy about everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and ...

Folk Legacy Trio
Folk Legacy Trio
1/1 - 1/2/2022


FOLK LEGACY TRIOJanuary 1 - 2, 2022What have you been doing since 1971? Hemming your bell bottoms? Rebuilding your Volkswagen bus? George, Rick and Jerry ...

Rita Rudner's Happy Vaccinated New Years Eve!


RITA RUDNERS HAPPY VACCINATED NEW YEARS EVE!December 31, 2021Join superstar comedienne Rita Rudner at her HAPPY, VACCINATED NEW YEAR'S EVE,Laguna Playhouse's sixth annualNew Years Eve ...

ROBIN HOOD & MAID MARION: A HOLIDAY PANTO


LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE and BONNIE LYTHGOE PRODUCTIONS benefiting GiveKidsPanto announce the cast of THE WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OFROBIN HOOD & MAID MARION:A HOLIDAY PANTOWritten by Kris ...

SISTER’S CHRISTMAS CATECHISM
SISTER’S CHRISTMAS CATECHISM
12/20 - 12/21/2021


SISTERS CHRISTMAS CATECHISMDecember 20 - 21, 2021It's "CSI: Bethlehem" in this holiday mystery extravaganza from the author of Late Nite Catechism, as Sister takes on ...

Merry Christmas, Darling! Carpenters' Christmas


MERRY CHRISTMAS, DARLING: CARPENTERS CHRISTMASDecember 13 - 15, 2021Long ago and oh so far away the world fell in love with the Carpenters and their ...

SH-BOOM! LIFE COULD BE A DREAM
SH-BOOM! LIFE COULD BE A DREAM
10/13 - 10/31/2021


LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES THE FIRST SHOW OF ITS 2021-2022 100TH SEASON!SH-BOOM!LIFE COULD BE A DREAMWritten and Created by Roger BeanDirection & Choreography by Jonathan Van ...


In the tradition of the “one man composer shows” adding operatic voices when called for, PUCCINI is the story of the great composer’s deliciously scandalous ...


Before the beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof there was Sholem Aleichem and his beloved character of ‘Tevye the Milkman.’ Before the beloved songs, “Tradition,” ...


This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Hailed as “magical” by The Boston Globe and “ fresh ...


As a companion to the Gershwin program from this past March (rescheduled for Spring of 2021), this program is set among excerpts of letters and ...


It is said that Jule Styne published over 1,500 songs in his lifetime, a staggering number that spans decades and includes dozens of collaborators. Beginning ...


The groundbreaking works of Richard Rodgers, most famously in his collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, gave us the foundation of the modern ...


As a celebration of our performers, and the necessary medium of film to tell these stories at this moment in time, this special program presents ...


60 years ago, on May 3, 1960, at the tiny Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, The Fantasticks opened on the sparsest of budgets and ...


Chicago’s favorite leading lady Heidi Kettenring (Wicked, Broadway in Chicago) and her exceptional band present the timeless treasures and holiday hits of Karen Carpenter. A ...

Deathtrap
9/18 - 10/13/2020


eemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has ...

Ann
5/13 - 6/7/2020


Tough as nails. Funny as hell. Holland Taylor brings our brassy blue Governor Ann Richards back to vivid life in a tour-de-force performance direct from ...

To Sir, With Love
1/29 - 2/23/2020


To Sir, With Love was a major film of the 1960s starring Sidney Poitier and with a song made famous by Lulu. This exciting new ...

The Lion in Winter
11/6 - 11/24/2019


"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" asks Eleanor of Aquitaine in THE LION IN WINTER as the royal plots and plans swirl around ...

2018 Laguna Playhouse Gala


The 2018 Laguna Playhouse’ Annual Gala is a black-tie fundraiser on Saturday, May 12, 6 p.m., with special performances by “Phantom of the Opera” star ...

Mrs. Honey Bee's Guide to the Good Life


From Maripat Donovan the creator and star of the award-winning comedy hit, Late Night Catechism, comes a new hilarious interactive comedy, Mrs. Honey B.'s Guide ...

Tickled Pink
Tickled Pink
4/24 - 5/20/2012


Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair! Dreaming of a dancing career on Broadway, she moves ...

Sister's Easter Catechism
Sister's Easter Catechism
3/13 - 4/8/2012


Sister answers age old questions of the Easter season like “Why isn’t Easter on the same day every year like Christmas?”, and “Will my bunny ...

Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler
1/10 - 2/25/2012


“Tom Dooley,” “Goodnight Irene,” “Puff, the Magic Dragon” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “This Land is Your Land.” These songs remind us of a time ...

This Wonderful Life
This Wonderful Life
11/25 - 12/24/2011


Share the hope and humor of Frank Capra’s adored Classic Christmas screenplay It’s A Wonderful Life in this delightful re-imagining. The virtuosic James Leaming portrays ...

Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine
9/27 - 10/23/2011


Shirley Valentine is a middle-aged housewife from Liverpool whose life and marriage is trapped inside humdrum domesticity. She is in a rut. What has happened ...

Rita Rudner Returns
Rita Rudner Returns
8/26 - 8/29/2011


Award-winning comedian and Las Vegas headliner Rita Rudner brings her sophisticated wit and clever one-liners to The Laguna Playhouse for an exclusive engagement. Rudner's sharp ...

I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett


I Left My Heart, a tribute to the man Sinatra called “the greatest singer in the world,” sports a thrilling score of 40 standards all ...

Videos


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Hamilton (Philip Company) in Costa Mesa Hamilton (Philip Company)
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (4/23 - 5/4)
Mamma Mia! in Costa Mesa Mamma Mia!
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (5/13 - 5/18)
Annie in Costa Mesa Annie
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (2/18 - 2/23)
Mean Girls (Non-Equity) in Costa Mesa Mean Girls (Non-Equity)
Fox Performing Arts Center (12/30 - 12/31)
Kimberly Akimbo in Costa Mesa Kimberly Akimbo
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (1/21 - 2/2)
A Beautiful Noise in Costa Mesa A Beautiful Noise
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (7/29 - 8/10)
& Juliet in Costa Mesa & Juliet
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (9/9 - 9/21)
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