Founded in 1964, the Segerstrom Stage is the flagship of Orange County theater. Artistic directors David Emmes and Martin Benson decided in the early 1980s to make a national mark by commissioning and producing new plays; South Coast Repertory (SCR) won the 1988 Tony Award as best regional theater. SCR-spawned plays that have won acclaim include Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain Rolin Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow and Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories and Sight Unseen.

The Segerstrom Stage seats 507 and no seat is more than 13 rows from the stage.