Wednesday, September 14, 2011
an of La Mancha arguably marked a turning point in American musical theatre. It opened in 1965, at the peak of that decade's idealism where everyone wanted to "dream the impossible dream."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50PMMonday, September 12, 2011
Hey, everyone, let’s put on a show. What’s it about? Nothing. I know, Jerry Seinfeld did that already, but hear me out.
There’s this show playing in Carlsbad called Thom…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSunday, September 11, 2011
Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe, is considered to be one of the early British “history” plays, perhaps the first one. Like many of these plays (and Shakespeare would become fam…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, September 9, 2011
In 2008, 17 students at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts became pregnant at the same time, leading to speculation that some of the teens had made a “pregnancy pact.” The …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
New Village Arts Theatre, which is presenting "Ah, Wilderness!" through August 28, has launched a season built around an ensemble of actors, designers and techs who will work together for a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
Little Shop of Horrors, at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town, is a hoot and a holler filled with chutzpah. It’s also the most solid “audience show” you’re likely to see in …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSaturday, July 23, 2011
Like a great rock concert, San Diego REP’s The Who’s Tommy explodes off the Lyceum Stage, at points leaving the audience in a state of awe.
After last summer’s successful c…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, July 11, 2011
Diversionary celebrates theatre that is written by lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender authors or work that features LGBT characters. MOXIE does the same for women of all sexual orientatio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Think Peer Gynt – and I know that most people don’t – and what do you get? Ibsen, Norwegian, heavy, long, with music by Grieg. Now, throw out all of those conceptions and s…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSunday, July 3, 2011
"Sigh no more, ladies." Well, not exactly. The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing has plenty of melancholy to go around.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:05PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Jean Paul Sartre famously said that hell is "other people," and Dante created a special section in the eighth circle of hell for those who were fraudulent and deceivers. But who might pity a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:51AMWednesday, June 22, 2011
The company had a hit with last year's Shakespeare Festival, so it rehired the artistic director, former Royal Shakespeare Company chief Adrian Noble, who, in turn, hired back many of the sa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:50PMSunday, June 19, 2011
It might be said that an outsider’s perspective is the best way to get to know a place, a group of people. In fact, it might even be true that someone who might be from the margins of…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSunday, May 29, 2011
There are three types of potential audience members for San Diego Musical Theatre’s production of A Chorus Line, now playing at the Lyceum Stage through June 12. Type 1 should love th…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSaturday, May 28, 2011
Perhaps the truest test of a play's staying power comes when new creative teams rethink and reshape it. By that standard, the Old Globe's production, running through June 12, shows August: O…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:19AMDirector Christopher Ashley's production tries to overcome the plot with theatricality and charm, and it almost turns the trick. David Zinn's clever scenic design outdoes the excellent set h…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18AMMonday, May 9, 2011
Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright whose The Norman Conquests was given a distinguished production by Cygnet Theatre last late summer/early fall. Mr. Ayckbourn's 74th play, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:42PMSaturday, May 7, 2011
Triad Productions has an admirable mission. The company of recent theatre graduates (mostly from San Diego State) aims to bring younger audiences into the theatre while at the same time pro…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, April 29, 2011
It’s not every day that the powers that be declare a performer to be a hit prior to opening night. But, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders proclaimed April 29 to be “Anna Deavere Smi…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PM 
