Monday, October 1, 2018
If you think about it — that is, if you care to think about it, because it’s not the happiest thought — every relationship is kind of one long breakup. It’s pretty much assured that …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:15PMSunday, September 30, 2018
“Diana” has crowned its princess: La Jolla Playhouse is announcing today that Jeanna de Waal will play the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in the theater’s world-premiere musical about …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:42PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
There’s a certain conversation that transpires time and again, says the writer Douglas McGrath, when a woman who has just seen “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” approaches him about…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMMonday, September 24, 2018
Right from the start, “Bull in a China Shop” makes it clear that if this is a period piece, it’s one that comes with an exclamation point. (Not to mention plenty of &%@#’s.) At Diver…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Warren Leight has been a go-to creative force in television for long enough — including five years as show-runner of the hit series “Law & Order: SVU” — that it might be easy to forg…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
From the moment Shaun and Abigail Bengson met 11 years ago, there was a third wheel in their relationship — a matter for no small measure of stress and apprehension. In fact, the matter wa…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
To paraphrase the title song: Here we go again. The never-say-die musical “Mamma Mia!,” whose movie sequel hit theaters over the summer, has landed at Escondido’s Welk, about three mon…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
When you’re at a Huey Lewis and the News musical, you don’t necessarily see a wrap number coming. But early on in the Old Globe’s world-premiere production of “The Heart of Rock and …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:45PMFrom Jane Austen to Frankenstein to sweet cherry pie: There’s a little bit of everything on San Diego’s fall theater menu. Here’s a look at what’s cookin’: "Hundred Days" This folk…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMBefore she ever set foot in the United States, Naomi Iizuka lived in three different countries scattered around the globe. But when her family finally settled in Washington, D.C., during her…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMFriday, September 7, 2018
For Amanda Naughton, the memories of seeing “Fun Home” for the first time are still vivid three years later: “The lump in my throat, a swelling in my heart, and tears. And my brain jus…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, August 31, 2018
If you want to get to the heart of rock ’n’ roller Huey Lewis’ love for theater, you’ve gotta go pretty far back in time — to the drama club of New Jersey’s Lawrenceville School,…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Huey Lewis, the hit singer-songwriter and harmonica ace whose scads of pop hits include “I Want a New Drug,” “Hip to be Square” and “The Power of Love,” is about to test the powe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:10PMMonday, August 27, 2018
A decade ago at La Jolla Playhouse, Will Power memorably put a hip-hop charge into Greek tragedy with “The Seven.” Now comes the playwright’s often caustic take on Shakespeare: “The …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
‘The Phantom of the Opera” is a musical shot through with emotional fireworks. Also, actual pyrotechnics: Those in the front rows of the touring production that just hit the Civic Theatr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:30PMWednesday, August 22, 2018
As the song goes: You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. Also: You don’t make a play for the Phantom’s mask. Not that it would make Quentin Oliver Lee particularly upset if you did, neces…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:15PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
A shift in artistic staffing is under way at La Jolla Playhouse, as the theater’s associate artistic director departs and a new producing director is hired. The Playhouse has announced tha…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMSunday, August 19, 2018
Further evidence that Shakespeare did not actually write all those plays: “Much Ado About Nothing” is clearly derived from the diaries of the mean girls (and boys) at Stratford Middle. W…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:15PMMonday, August 13, 2018
For more than 400 years, theater people have been trying to get a bead on the volatile bond between Beatrice and Benedick, the epic frenemies from Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMThursday, August 2, 2018
A Dublin bus conductor with a passion for the works of Oscar Wilde is at the center of the latest show from the ever-ambitious Coronado Playhouse. Manny Bejarano directs the 2002 musical —…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMFriday, July 20, 2018
For the newlyweds in Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park,” the ups and downs of settling into married life are more literal than usual: The pair have moved into a sixth-floor Manhattan …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Plenty of entertainers court controversy; Kathy Griffin, though, has been in something like a long-term relationship with it. And yet maybe nothing could have quite prepared the Emmy- and Gr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
The peppy sorority anthem “Omigod You Guys” is the first song in the movie-inspired musical “Legally Blonde.” And “Omigod you’ve gotta be kidding” was pretty much Kristianne Ku…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMMonday, July 16, 2018
The actors in North Coast Rep’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” work up enough antic comic energy to levitate a fleet of chariots. All that exertion (and talent), thou…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMFriday, July 13, 2018
Theater is often at its best and most powerful when it says to those who feel overlooked, misunderstood or invisible: You are seen. Of course, theater doesn’t always manage to do that — …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMSunday, July 8, 2018
If you go see “Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax” expecting an environment-minded variation on the Old Globe’s “Grinch” musical, get ready for a darker shade of green. Both shows feature lim…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMSaturday, July 7, 2018
In a more than 40-year career on the San Diego arts scene — including a 22-year stint as local chief of the touring-show presenter Broadway/San Diego — Joe Kobryner has witnessed enough …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:12PMThursday, July 5, 2018
As tales of theatrical baptism go, Martyna Majok’s is pretty hard to top: She saw her first play, “Cabaret” on Broadway, with money she won playing pool while still a teen-ager. Actual…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMFriday, June 29, 2018
The exotic Truffula tree may not exactly be native to San Diego — its natural habitat being books instead of back yards. But the story that surrounds the tree is very much of our town: It …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:50PMThursday, June 28, 2018
The intimation of intimacy in the title of “The King and I” belies the sheer size of the sumptuous touring production that just opened at the San Diego Civic Theatre. With its scads of c…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Performances taking the stage this July in San Diego include Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, Disney's Newsies, Legally Blonde the Musical and On Your Feet!
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:25PM 
