Monday, December 2, 2024
ACTORS LOOKING FOR WORK: GOD BLESS THEM, EVERYONE! La Jolla Playhouse is presenting the world premiere of a play for the holiday season, and beyond, with the extensively titled Your Local Th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:28PMThursday, November 14, 2024
YOU’LL BE GRINCHING FROM EAR TO EAR For the 27th year The Old Globe is presenting its hit musical Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, continuing its position as one …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:51PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
INCIDENT AT NORTH COAST REP IS ANOTHER IN A LINE OF HITS THAT NEED NO HELP Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a nostalgic domestic comedy drama now on view in an illuminating and high…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:34PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
THIS IS GREAT THEATER. TRUST ME. Reviewers across the country have honored the 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Primary Trust with many positive adjectives, like “touching” and “deepl…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
ATTEND THIS TALE: IT’S MURDER Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical filled with gore, brutality, hate, and vengeance. But the show, as composed by the great Stephen S…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:57PMSunday, September 29, 2024
DRAC-OOH-LA-LA The play Dracula, in its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe is subtitled A Comedy of Terrors. It’s unlikely that viewers will be terrified by the show, but as for “Comed…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:27AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING THIS IMPORTANCE Is there a funnier comedy in the English language than Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest? Since it opened in London in 1895 the play ha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMBOY, OH JERSEY BOY, IS THIS SHOW EVER GREAT In 2004, a new musical called Jersey Boys quietly debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse. It transferred to Broadway the next year, running for 12 year…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMThursday, September 19, 2024
A BRIDGE TO GREAT THEATER Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge may be a small play physically, with a single drab set and just five significant characters. But it builds from a sympathet…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:50PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO THE PLOT, AND YOU’LL HAVE A BLAST In 1973, a rock musical called The Rocky Horror Show opened in London and ran until 1980 as other productions of the show blossom…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:54PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
ALL ABOARD FOR MURDEROUS FUN Agatha Christie fans rejoice! There is a new Christie adventure in a terrific production at The Old Globe, a novel/play hybrid of one of the Dame’s most popula…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:51AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
DRAGTACULAR Velour at the La Jolla Playhouse subtitles itself “A Drag Extravaganza” and for 105 uninterrupted minutes it validates the label with a smorgasbord of song, dance, film, proj…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:11PMMonday, August 19, 2024
The Coronado Playhouse is currently presenting Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a one-act 80-minute play by American dramatist Lauren Gundersen. who is one of the most successful writers on the Amer…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:27PMMonday, August 5, 2024
YOU CAN GO HOLMES AGAIN! The world obviously cannot get enough of Sherlock Holmes. Since the first story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appeared in 1887, the immortal fictional private detective …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, August 1, 2024
LONG MAY THIS PRODUCTION REIGN Since its first production opened in Balboa Park in 1935, the Old Globe Theatre has built a national reputation for ambitious and stimulating productions, but …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:29PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
DON’T BOTHER FOR DINNER The North Coast Repertory Theater is offering two hours of exceedingly lightweight summer theater in the French farce Don’t Dress for Dinner. And being a typical …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, June 6, 2024
ROB MCCLURE IS ON FIRE AS MRS. DOUBTFIRE Mrs. Doubtfire started its theatrical life as the hit 1993 film starring Robin Williams. As happens so often with hit movies, it was adapted into a s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:07PMMonday, June 3, 2024
A BRIEF SHINING MOMENT AT NORTH COAST REP Sometimes less can be more in the arts. Consider the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. The show set a record for the biggest advance sale in Broadwa…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:58PMFriday, May 31, 2024
FAT HAM HATH POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE American playwright James Ijames has written a funny and thoughtful play based on the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet. The work carries the unlikely …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:48AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
JUST A SENSE The North Coast Repertory Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Sense of Decency, a psychological drama adapted from a 2013 book by American author Jake El-Hai t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:45AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
GREAT COMET! Who would have thought that a paltry 70 pages from a mammoth novel by 19th-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy would inspire one of the hits of the recent off-Broadway and Broadw…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:38AMSunday, April 7, 2024
RIDE ON! Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was a late 19th-century young English working-class woman who wanted to upgrade her life. So she tried to earn money and recognition as well as elevating her …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:16AMSaturday, March 16, 2024
WINNING ASSIST Big hits can come in small packages. The wonderful production of King James — which opened last night at the Old Globe Theatre — has only two characters and runs only abou…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMTuesday, March 12, 2024
NORTH COAST REP DOESN’T JUST HEIGHTEN TARTUFFE, IT LEVITATES IT Let’s not bandy words. The North Coast Repertory Theatre revival of Molière‘s comedy Tartuffe is a brilliant success. T…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:48PMThursday, March 7, 2024
IF YOU WANNA BE STARTIN’ SOMETHIN’, COME FOR THE MUSIC AND DANCE The musical biography of Michael Jackson (tersely titled MJ) is playing a brief one-week run at the San Diego Civic Theat…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:24PMFriday, February 16, 2024
ALL THAT JAZZ AND MORE The national tour of Chicago at the San Diego Civic Theater — now through Sunday — reaffirms what generations of theater fans have recognized. This musical ranks a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:46AMMonday, January 22, 2024
THE HOUR HAS COME The Trinity Theatre in Mission Valley is currently presenting a too-brief revival of A. G. Gurney‘s comedy-drama The Cocktail Hour. The show originally debuted in 1988 at…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55AMMonday, January 15, 2024
THE THREADS THAT BREAK The African-American playwright Lynn Nottage sits atop the honor role of American playwrights from the first two decades of the 21st century — she has written a doze…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:42PMThursday, January 11, 2024
I WISH I COULD SAY “NO BAD NEWS” BUT… The large opening night audience at the San Diego Civic Theatre last night seemed to be having a good time watching the the musical revival of The…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:20PMThursday, December 7, 2023
A REALLY BIG SHOW The San Diego area does not lack for productions of A Christmas Carol this holiday season. Fortunately, fans of the Charles Dickens classic who would welcome a more hip ver…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:25AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
SOMEONE MUST HAVE CLIPPED THE WINGS, BECAUSE THIS ANGEL DOESN’T FLY There are times when a reviewer is tempted to recuse himself (or herself) from publicly commenting on a comedy because h…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:43PM 
