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3 Must-See Orange County Museum Exhibits
Orange County Museum of Art
The Orange County Museum of Art is the premier visual arts organization in Orange County, California. In 1984 the museum launched the California Biennial, which has grown to become the premier exhibition for emerging artists in California. Opening February 26th, 2012, Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series is the first major museum exhibition to explore the artist’s Ocean Series. Featuring 80 works including paintings, prints, drawings and collages, the exhibition will eventually tour to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series will run from February 26 to May 27, 2012 at the Orange County Museum of Art.
Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
949-759-1122 Read More
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Behind-the-Scenes at Costa Mesa’s Gorgeous Art Complexes
Baffles, bravos and bows. Sometimes it takes seeing something you take for granted through someone else’s eyes to remind you of how remarkable it really is.
On a recent excursion to Costa Mesa’s burgeoning Theater & Arts District with a group of travel writers, several members of the Costa Mesa Conference & Visitor Bureau team had the opportunity to tag along on an insiders’ tour of two of its amazing concert venues: The Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ and the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Also in the Segerstrom Center is the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory Theatre. Read More
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Free Movie Mondays at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
Center’s Free Movie Mondays are Back – Bigger and Better Than Ever
2010 summer movie line-up includes five films:
- The Wizard of Oz – July 12
- Some Like it Hot – July 19
- Oliver! – July 26 with media sponsor KCRW
- Dirty Dancing – August 2
- Mad Hot Ballroom – August 9
The Orange County Performing Arts Center’s Free for All series continues this summer with the enormously popular and eagerly awaited return of free Movie Mondays on the community plaza. This year’s line-up will be the biggest and best ever with five great movies: the timeless classic The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland; the screwball comedy Some Like it Hot starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon; the Dickensian musical Oliver! being presented in partnership with public radio station KCRW-Santa Monica (89.9 FM and www.KCRW.com); the coming-of-age story Dirty Dancing featuring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze; and the inspiring documentary about New York City school students learning to dance in Mad Hot Ballroom, which was chosen in an audience poll last summer. The Center has always been “the place” in Orange County to experience Broadway’s best and brightest, and Movie Mondays offers audiences the most fun and exciting musical and dance films under the stars and all for free. Read More
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Arts and Shopping in Costa Mesa
Saturday, Joseph and I drove up to Orange County to stay with Allison, and help her with her fashion show on Sunday. On the way, we stopped at South Coast Plaza. It is the premiere shopping center in Southern California and Orange County.
Since it wasn’t open yet, we parked and decided to walk around a bit. Luckily, there was a walking bridge that extended from the shopping center into the city! Everything was so cool and artistic, but interestingly strange. As you can see, I got “lost” in all of these bush shrubs. Read More
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A Brief Affair with the South Coast Reperatory
There’s a bizarre sense of innate realism that accompanies a work centered on the comfortably awkward relationship between a mom and her kids. Richard Greenberg’s “Our Mother’s Brief Affair” acknowledges this, as the title alone suggests.
Trickled in this family drama about a dying mother presenting the story of an affair she had years ago to her two now-grown children is unique bouts of humor, both present in the content itself as well as in the manageable portrayal of the struggling, realistic characters.
The show is small, with only four actors present and a single, unchanging set. Though each of the four actors hold their own and offer extremely convincing performances, Jenny O’Hara’s portrayal of Anna, the mother, arguably steals the spotlight. The depiction of her character’s genuine naivety produces both sympathy and discontent (though that may be too harsh a term).
The narrative is conveyed straightforwadly at times, as well as in flashback-form. Sometimes these two deliveries are independent of the other, while sometimes they’re intertwined. The fact that this maneuver works well and doesn’t get confusing speaks volumes of the writing, set-direction and abilities of the actors.
Don’t miss Our Mother’s Brief Affair at South Coast Repertory through May 3.
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