Friday, April 29, 2016
The Old Globe's just-announced 2016-17 season may boast two world premieres and the return of a huge entertainment name who's becoming something like the theater's unofficial resident playwr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Five brand-new works by graduate students in the University of California San Diego's renowned playwriting program will unfold in the latest Wagner New Play Festival " the first since the be…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:23PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
Wayne Lemon's caustic seriocomedy "Jesus Hates Me," now getting a committed if over-the-top local premiere at Ion Theatre, is shot through with a sense of the oppressive and judgmental, whet…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
As the Globe gets ready to stage Lawrence Wright's fact-based play "Camp David" (which begins performances May 13), artistic director Barry Edelstein sits down for a chat with the Pulitzer P…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The 2016 New York theater-awards season has officially kicked off with today's announcement of nominations for the Drama League Awards. And while it's looking like an uncharacteristically of…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Gina Gionfriddo's latest play to hit San Diego takes its name from a hard-charging song by Hole called "Use Once and Destroy," on which Courtney Love sings: "Take your rapture blister burns …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
In the certifiably weird world of quantum physics, there's a maxim that says nothing actually happens until someone is there to observe it. (And yes, I'm grossly oversimplifying here; physic…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:13PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey was chatting with her dad at the family farmhouse south of Stockholm, Sweden, one day when he happened to mention that, by the way, he had once dined with Marlene…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Jon Lonoff's 2003 off-Broadway comedy centers on Maureen, a dental hygienist and woman of substance who finds herself on a blind date with a highly unfiltered guy named Joe.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
Even for a play about parallel universes, "Constellations" bears some striking parallels to the lives of the people who are putting up its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe Theatre.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2016
The Old Globe's world-premiere musical "Rain," with a rich and distinctively textured score by Michael John LaChiusa, stays faithful to writer W. Somerset Maugham's idea of the fine (and pot…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
In 1985, the musical adaptation of Mark Twain's epic "Huckleberry Finn" saga became the first show to go from La Jolla Playhouse to Broadway. Now "Big River" comes home again (or close to it…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
A Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse returnee and several top local actors are part of the just-announced cast for the theater's world-premiere play "Hollywood." The season-opening piece,…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2016
A name like "Rain" can come off as deeply metaphorical, stirring ideas of stormy emotions, looming danger, maybe the release of pent-up longings and passions. And then there's that matter of…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:07AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre has had its head in the heavens lately, what with the world premiere of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's "Bright Star" (which just opened on Broadway) and upcoming prod…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
A year and a half after its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, the Steve Martin/Edie Brickell musical "Bright Star" rises on Broadway tonight. The show, which debuted at the Globe in t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:34PM[SHARE]John Leguizamo is just about unstoppable. Also, at this moment anyway, just about unintelligible.The perpetually kinetic performer-playwright is calling from New York with a request to push …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:34PM[SHARE]New Village Arts Theatre is taking cues from this very lively election year to roll out a season lineup it's billing as "The American Experience." The 2016-17 season, the Carlsbad company's …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
At the moviehouse, shouting lines at the screen is just part of the "Rocky Horror" experience. In live theater, "Rocky" talks back " comically, provocatively and with a whole lot of fab atti…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:38PM[SHARE]First things first: Don't get caught in the wrong "Rain." This week, the Old Globe Theatre begins performances of its world-premiere musical by that name. But over at the Balboa Theatre, ano…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:38PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
John Leguizamo's new La Jolla Playhouse solo show is called "Latin History for Dummies," and it's a mashup of history, comedy and its creator's singular strain of playful provocation. The wo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:24PM[SHARE]Our spring theater picks start off with a new musical that seems tailor-made for these El Niño-ized times, and wrap with a couple of sunny, song-filled shows that will take us right to th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:24PM[SHARE]Eden Espinosa is a New Yorker now, but the singer-actor and Broadway veteran grew up as a Southern California gal. In all her many childhood trips from the family home in Anaheim to San Dieg…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:24PM[SHARE]If you've witnessed Bryan Barbarin onstage in one of the two dozen or so shows he has done at Lamb's Players and other local companies, you won't soon forget his rich, resonant, rattle-the-h…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre is announcing it has received a $5 million gift from Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi to support the theater's artistic mission. The donation creates the Erna Finci V…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:23PM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre's local premiere of the Nick Payne play "Constellations" will be populated by a pair of stars from Broadway and London's West End. The Globe has announced that Christia…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:55PM[SHARE]A long, lightless silence pierced by eerie, distant echoes: That's how Lamb's Players Theatre's "The Miracle Worker" grippingly (and fittingly) begins. And a luminous moment of insight " as …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
The touring show that hits the San Diego Civic Theatre this week is one example of the enduring fascination with and affection for the "Oz" saga. The musical, which premiered on London's Wes…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PM[SHARE] 
