Monday, September 18, 2017
In the end, though, Mr. Pinkham and his castmates are weighed down by an overstuffed story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:23PMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote a sweet, street-smart, and somewhat sentimental book for the musical In the Heights, so naturally there is considerable interest in her book for the La Jolla Play…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:26PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
It's a sturdy, entertaining, mystery set in the heyday of silent filmmaking and in the early days of the Hays Code, which limited how commercial filmmakers would tell their stories
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:37AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Ms. Cho turns her attention to a conversation in which one person ostensibly refuses to communicate. It's a touchy, timely, potentially high-stakes subject, and were it not for a thoughtful …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Starting at the top, we have Robert Lopez, who is the youngest person to have achieved EGOT status�that is, he's won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. And spouse Kristen Ander…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Falsettoland meets Spelling Bee. Think of the possibilities. Can't? Cat got your tongue? Then you might have some idea of the unmitigated disaster that is Little Miss Sunshine, playing throu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
There's classic source material from the author of Les Mis�rables, music and lyrics by two current kings of Broadway, a book by a noted playwright, an excellent production by cast and creati…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:51AMMonday, October 20, 2014
... it uses powerful and poetic language and visual symbolism to show a black boxer's struggle to find his power by overcoming a myriad of expectations from the audiences he helped to creat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:47AMFriday, October 3, 2014
Bright Star expertly wears its heart on its sleeve, and as long as you're willing to take it on its own terms you'll be won over.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34AMMonday, September 15, 2014
Sheri Wilner's play, about a high school staging of The Crucible in a conservative Missouri town, tries to be fair to all sides of the conversation�and in doing so diminishes its coherence.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:59PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
These are the dog days of summer, and the Old Globe is marking the occasion by performing not-too-taxing Shakespeare in the pleasant outdoors, where the human performers are almost upstaged …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMSunday, July 20, 2014
In short, productions of Into the Woods can get bogged down in details of the various fairy tales and relationships that become mashed up while the characters are "in the woods." Not here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
[Barry Edelstein's] brought key elements of the New York model to the Old Globe's long-running Summer Shakespeare Festival, and if his production of Othello is any indication, that model sho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12AMSunday, June 8, 2014
Is it possible to write a successful musical where there's almost no character arc for the leading couple? If you answered no to that question, you might find that Dog and Pony, a world prem…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:31AMSunday, February 23, 2014
San Diego's two largest theatre companies, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe, recently hosted major openings within days of each other. Turns out that both plays were about the variet…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:19PMSunday, February 2, 2014
The Globe's current production, Laura Marks' Bethany, deals with homelessness, particularly among women.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:09PMMonday, November 18, 2013
Side Show will probably always have a cult popularity, but now the rest of us can better see what the fuss was about.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PMWednesday, October 9, 2013
e late Jeff Buckley provides the music. The resulting mash-up is surprisingly effective and contemporary.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
The problem, of course, with Sideways is the movie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:44PMWhat is it about summer that we're willing to lock ourselves up in the dark and watch people try to get away with murder?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PMSunday, July 21, 2013
If you can make it to San Diego before the end of September, make it a priority to see one or more of these absolutely first-rate productions.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:09PMHope and hopelessness engage in an unfair debate in the Old Globe's revival of N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:09PMSunday, July 14, 2013
This production, which features the work of the cast and creative team of the Off-Broadway version, wouldn't be nearly so effective in less skillful hands.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
In the right hands, journalism can be fun. The trick is to define the right hands.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Jon Robin Baitz's play Other Desert Cities is, perhaps, ideal for San Diego audiences. Even though it's set in the desert playground northeast of us, we know Polly and Lyman Wyeth.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:34PMMonday, March 18, 2013
The 2013 San Diego theatre season shifts into high gear with the West Coast debut of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and Darko Tresnjak's fast-paced and whimsical production will be …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:49PMThursday, January 24, 2013
Hershey Felder has made a name for himself doing solo performances about musicians (Gershwin, Chopin, Beethoven, Bernstein). His new project, An American Story, marks a departure from that p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:32AMMonday, November 26, 2012
... my vote for best new musical of 2012 goes to the just opened Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, performing through December 16 at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:28PMFriday, October 5, 2012
There is very little right with this lugubrious production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson potboiler, starting with the work itself. Mr. Bric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:13PMMonday, August 6, 2012
God of Carnage makes its San Diego premiere at the Old Globe's White Theatre, an intimate, in-the-round, space.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32PMMonday, July 16, 2012
. In Michael Kramer and D. S. Moynihan's play, Divine Rivalry, playing through August 5 at San Diego's Old Globe, there's lots of proof of the difficulty of creation and not nearly enough bi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:33PMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Hoodoo Love is interesting primarily for its detailed portrayal of a place and time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Los Angeles-based playwright Zsa Zsa Gershick won some awards for diversity in theatre for her play Bluebonnet Court. She's riffing on the same themes in Coming Attractions, which is making …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PMMonday, May 14, 2012
What could have been a vanity project for a young actor has turned out to be a serious venture, one worth supporting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMMonday, May 7, 2012
The Scottsboro Boys is making its West Coast premiere in a co-production by San Diego's Old Globe and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Despite being deeply flawed, the musical …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:31PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Topdog/Underdog is an old story, as old as Cain and Abel, as old as Tom ("Mom loved you best") and Dick Smothers, as old as two of Sam Shepard's brothers dueling out their sibling rivalries …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PMMonday, April 16, 2012
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor goodWe'll do the
best we know. We'll build our house and chop our woodAnd make our
garden grow.
--from Candide, music by Leonard Bernst...
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PM 
