Tuesday, March 11, 2025
A HOUSE DIVIDED, A MUSICAL UNITED La Jolla Playhouse has struck gold with 3 Summers of Lincoln, a bold world premiere musical that dives into the three critical summers—1862, 1863, and 186…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:47AMMonday, February 10, 2025
LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE DESERT Jon Robin Baitz‘s Other Desert Cities—which opened at Cygnet Theatre last weekend—portrays about 24 hours in the upscale home of the Wyeth home in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:44PMSunday, February 2, 2025
Isn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? — John Leonard, American critic Appropriate won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the 2024 Tony Award for Best Rev…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:47PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
ONCE UPON AN AMAZING TIME Once is back at the Lamb’s Players Theatre for an extended run through March 30, glorious news for area playgoers. This is one of the must-see musicals of the ea…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:10AMTuesday, January 21, 2025
NO ONE EATS, BUT THERE’S PLENTY TO CHEW ON IN THE DETERMINEDLY DECEPTIVE BARBECUE Robert O’Hara has been a significant contributor to the American theater scene since his first play debu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:17AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern American city in 1973. Luna, the talka…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:09PMMonday, 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 05:24PM 
