Orange County stages are the playgrounds of such performers as, from left: Frank Tryon from Maverick Theater’s “The King,” Donald Sage Mackay and Christy Yael from Shakespeare Orange County’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” David Allen Jones from “The Beckett Project II,” “Krapp’s Last Tape,” Shelleen Kostabi from “The King,” Steven Lamprinos from “Rube!” at the Orange County Theater Festival, and Jessica Beane from Insurgo Theater Movement’s “Richard III.” (Allen J. Schaben / LAT)