Orange County's oldest theater company; staged its first production in 1922 and was a highly regarded community theater for more than 70 years. Attained fully professional status in 1995 under current directors Richard Stein and Andrew Barnicle. Eclectic programming includes popular fare, but emphasis is on presenting plays previously unseen in Southern California, including Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things," Rebecca Gilman's "Spinning Into Butter" and Lonnie Carter and the Ma-Yi Theatre Company's "The Romance of Magno Rubio."