Costa Mesa Playhouse


2023-2024 Season

Costa Mesa Playhouse celebrates its 58th season with a bold, diverse selection of plays - the kind of electrifying theater that has become our signature.

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The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Aug 25 - Sep 17 2023

Martin McDonagh's darkly comic "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," which premiered at the Galway's Druid Theatre in 1996, tells the tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother. Mag's interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a chain of events that are as tragically funny as they are horrific.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Oct 20 - Nov 12 2023

A wildly funny comedy centering on the reunion of glamorous film star Masha with her two middle-aged siblings, Vanya and Sonia at the family homestead, where old tensions arise. With wit and absurdity, Christopher Durang blends characters and themes from the works of Anton Chekhov with the modern-day toils and troubles of celebrity, social networking, and age. Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play.

Buried Child

Jan 26 - Feb 18 2024

An alternately funny and macabre look at a Midwestern family with a very dark secret, weaving a twisted family drama of epic proportions. When a grandson brings home his girlfriend to meet the family, he uncovers the destructive nature of family secrets. Winner the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Art

Mar 22 - Apr 14 2024

Three friends, Serge, Marc and Yvan, find their previously solid 15-year friendship on shaky ground when Serge buys an expensive painting that is completely white. As the friends argue over what constitutes "art," they are forced to ask questions not only about the nature of art, but about the nature of friendship. Winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play.

Fences

May 17 - Jun 9 2024

Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded from the major leagues during his prime, Troy's bitterness takes its toll on his relationships with his wife and son, who now wants his own chance to play ball.
The sixth play in Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of ten plays which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.

33 Variations

Jul 12 - Aug 4 2023

A mother coming to terms with her daughter, a composer coming to terms with his genius.
A musicologist becomes obsessed with why Beethoven was compelled to write thirty-three distinct piano variations on a simple theme. Drama, memory and music combine to transport you from present-day New York to nineteenth-century Austria in this extraordinary play about passion, parenthood and the moments of beauty that can transform a life. From the award-winning playwright/theater director Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project)


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