Category: Arts

Local Artist Explores Living with MS

In her new show, “Invisible,” at the Josephine Joan Gallery in Fullerton, mixed media artist and photographer Leanne Sargeant explores illness through a personal lens. Sargeant uses the camera to examine hidden […]

Film Review: “The Farewell” gets Two Hits

Tenacious about keeping an all-Asian cast and using dialogue that is 70% Mandarin (with subtitles), writer/director Lulu Wang was rewarded when “The Farewell” emerged from the Sundance Film Festival as an audience […]

News From a Passionate Printmaker

The fine art of printmaking (lithography, serigraphy, etching, woodcuts) is astonishingly well-represented in two galleries in Fullerton at the same time. Fullerton College displays their collection of fine art prints, accumulated over […]

“Rube!” @ Brea Curtis Theater

From September 13-29th, the Brea Curtis Theater presents “Rube!” a play by local author Joel Beers. “Rube!” is a dramatized account of the legendary Rube Waddell, a Major League Baseball pitcher at […]

Film Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Gets Two Hits

Writer/director Richard Linklater, described as “one of the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance,“ still works outside mainstream Hollywood. A Texan, Linklater built his own […]

O-centric New Play Festival

O-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival stages four compelling works from OC playwrights that tell stories you don’t typically see in local theatre, stories that need to be told. This year’s festival […]

“Puffs” @ Stages Theater

“Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic” by Matt Cox is a Potter-inspired comedy for anyone who has ever felt like a secondary character in […]

American Landscape Paintings @ The Muckenthaler

The California Art Club continues over a century of tradition, presenting America’s stunning and varied landscapes in paintings for a special group exhibition dedicated to the Fall Season, entitled “Autumn Impressions: Painting […]

Restoration of “Ninos Del Mundo” Mural

Restoration began this week of the iconic “Ninos Del Mundo” mural painted in 1994 by famed Chicano artist Emigdio Vasquez and his son Higgy. Back in May, Fullerton City Council voted to […]

Utility Box Murals in Downtown Fullerton

Downtown Fullerton recently got a little more beautiful, as local artists recently completed paintings of four city-owned utility boxes. The public art program was organized and sponsored by city and the Fullerton […]

FMC Film Series presents: Style Wars

On Friday, July 26, the Fullerton Museum Center Film series will be screening the film “Style Wars.”  Style Wars is regarded as the definitive documentary about Graffiti and Hip-Hop culture, an indispensable […]

Richard III @ Maverick Theater

The story of Shakespeare’s most murderous, malicious and mesmerizing king comes to the Maverick Theater in Fullerton. Witness a tale of the psychopathic Richard’s bloody and manipulative rise to the throne and […]

Fullerton Comes Alive On the Day of Music

A second-line boombox parade. Pirate radio of the non-buccaneer variety. Hordes of free Hohner harmonicas. A video shoot for Disney’s Encore! Crosswalks painted as piano keys. Make Music Day’s global live feed. […]

“Into the Woods” @ Stages Theater

Stages Theatre presents Into the Woods, the first of two musical offerings in their 27th season directed by Jill Johnson. With music by Stephen Sondheim, this show takes everyone’s favorite storybook characters […]

Film Review: Rocketman gets “Two Hits”

Both biopic and musical, “Rocketman” creates a genre of its own that invites the audience to immerse itself in the motivations, the moods and the magic that make for the genius that […]

Day of Music Returns on June 21

Over 150 Free Outdoor Music Making Events to be Held across Fullerton as Part of Annual Global Celebration Day of Music will return for its 5th year with a wild and wonderful […]

The Power of Hip Hop: A Panel Discussion

On Sunday, June 9 The Fullerton Museum Center hosted a panel discussion entitled “The Power of Hip Hop” in conjunction with its current exhibit “Custom Beats: The Art of Hip Hop” which […]

June 7th Downtown Fullerton Art Walk

The Downtown Fullerton Art Walk happens the first Friday of every month from 6-10pm at various venues around downtown. Here are a few of the art exhibits happening at the June 7th […]

Film Review: “Amazing Grace” Gets Two Hits

Aretha Franklin had already established herself as the number one R & B singer in America with singles like “Respect,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Natural Woman,” and “Bridge over Troubled Waters.” She had made […]

Friends of the Library Book Sale June 8th

The Friends of the Library will host a one-day book sale on Saturday, June 8 at the Fullerton Public Library (353 W. Commonwealth Ave.).  Please come and bargain hunt between 10 a.m. […]

Tigers Be Still @ Chance Theater

Chance Theater announced that four performances have been added to the regional premiere of Kim Rosenstock’s comedy, Tigers Be Still. Originally scheduled to close on June 2nd, the show will now run […]