Red Scare on Sunset

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When:
October 2, 2016 @ 2:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Where:
Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse
661 Hamilton St.
Costa Mesa
California 92627 United States

Costa Mesa Playhouse continues its 52nd season with Charles Busch’s Red Scare on Sunset, a campy spoof of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist and the anti-communist paranoia of the McCarthy era, September 9 – October 2, 2016.

The time: the fifties; the place: Hollywood, where film star Mary Dale finds the Red Menace invading her own Beverly Hills backyard. When she discovers that her husband has been lured into the local Communist party by way of a method acting class and that there is a left wing plot afoot to abolish the star system, Mary wages a private war to save her husband, her country and billing over the title. The McCarthy era is turned on its head in this novel take on a serious subject.

Red Scare on Sunset is directed by playhouse president Michael Dale
Brown, and stars Jon Sparks as Mary Dale, with Julia Boese, Bill Carson, Angel Correa, Drew Fitzsimmons, Alexandra Moniz, Robert Moniz, Michelle Pedersen, and John Sturgeon.

Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $20 general admission and $18 for students and seniors. Discounts available for groups of 10 or more.