The Costa Mesa Playhouse’s 56th season concludes with the Samuel D. Hunter’s celebrated drama, The Whale.

Soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Brendan Fraser, “The Whale” is the story of a man's last chance at redemption, and of finding beauty in the most unexpected places. Big-hearted and fiercely funny, the play tells the tale of a six-hundred-pound recluse hiding away in his apartment and slowly eating himself to death. Desperate to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter, he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued and wildly unhappy teen.