Wednesday, 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 01:25PMSunday, June 24, 2018
“All the world’s a stage,” as Shakespeare never said in “The Tempest.” That much-quoted line actually is from “As You Like It,” but it would fit nicely into the Bard’s more f…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
As it gets set to launch its sixth edition, San Diego’s sprawling celebration of unorthodox performance might be in danger of an identity crisis. After all, what happens when a fringe fest…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMSaturday, June 16, 2018
A musical with sweet vintage tunes, summer love, steamy Mediterranean nights, some baby-mama drama and a character of random Australian extraction? Hey, let’s call it “Greece!” (Or is …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMFriday, June 15, 2018
In a lifetime spent onstage and on-screen, Kate Burton has done 14 Broadway shows, dozens of movies and TV series and, somewhere in there, plenty of Shakespeare as well. But until now, she h…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse’s latest resident theater company is a troupe whose work on small stages around San Diego has had some outsize impact over the past three years. The Playhouse has announ…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:15PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Shows and artists with links to San Diego weren’t quite so prominent at last night’s Tony Awards as they have been in past years. But there were a few to be found. San Diego-connected no…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMSunday, June 10, 2018
There might be a heavy favorite or two among hopefuls for tonight’s Tony Awards, the annual Broadway theater honors. But only one 2018 honoree is guaranteed to take everyone else to the cl…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:04PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
"School of Rock": When: Opens June 13. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday; 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday. Through June 17. Where: San Diego Civic Theatre, 11…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
It seems entirely right for a musical that’s set amid the splendors of a Mediterranean island to be staged outdoors. Or alfresco, to honor the Italian title of this Greece-set show whose s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMMonday, June 4, 2018
There’s a line from Anita Bryant’s best-known song that goes: Like a big red rose made of paper / There isn't any sweetness in your heart. “Paper Roses” doesn’t appear in “The Lo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMFriday, June 1, 2018
The Old Globe comedy “Native Gardens” showcases some of the most conspicuous botanically centered aggression since that overgrown blossom started snacking on the help in “Little Shop o…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:05PMSometimes, a squirrel is just a squirrel. And sometimes, a play called “The Squirrels” is about just what it sounds as if it’s about. That is the case, insists the playwright Robert As…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMJimmy Buffett’s Broadway party is about to wind down: The singer-songwriter’s musical “Escape to Margaritaville,” which had its world premiere at San Diego’s own La Jolla Playhouse…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:42AMThursday, May 31, 2018
North Coast Rep is staging the West Coast premiere of Florian Zeller’s time-bending, mystery-laced play “The Father,” about an older man whose faltering grip on memory shakes up his li…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
A decade ago, Kerry Meads fell fast for “Falling Slowly,” and for the bittersweet film musical that birthed the song. “I fell in love with the movie when it first came out,” the dire…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:50AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
It was a case of the upstart scoring an upset in 2004 when the scrappy, happily profane “Avenue Q” snagged the coveted Tony Award for best musical, sweeping away the witches of “Wicked…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:10PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
Opera remains intimidating and maybe impenetrable for plenty of people, and so if the celebrated baritone Nathan Gunn’s new stage memoir accomplishes nothing else, it still could help make…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMFriday, May 25, 2018
It’s just four days more until the show that brought us “One Day More” and other beloved numbers lands in San Diego again. “Les Misérables,” the epic musical based on Victor Hugo�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMMonday, May 21, 2018
If “Broadway” and “Audra” don’t quite make a perfect rhyme, it’s not for lack of trying: So closely identified is Audra McDonald with the biggest stage in American theater that i…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMSunday, May 20, 2018
A bridge is usually the province of people in motion, but for the main character in the quietly probing and often surprising new play “The Wind and the Breeze,” it’s a place of repose …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMFriday, May 18, 2018
A sun that’s spun from loops of wire arcs across the Afghan sky, over silhouetted mountains fashioned from fencing and scraps of fabric. The visuals in “A Thousand Splendid Suns” are a…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
In the words of the Clash — a rock band, yes, but one that knew a little about rap: “Should I stay or should I go?” That’s the pressing question (or one of them) at the center of “…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:30AMSunday, May 13, 2018
"The King and I" The onetime San Diego theater maverick Bartlett Sher won a Tony Award in 2008 for the first Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” Now he has dir…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The artistic leader of San Diego’s LBGT-focused Diversionary Theatre and a prominent local Filipino American playwright are among the 2018 recipients of the San Diego Foundation’s Creati…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:15PMMonday, May 7, 2018
A painting isn’t passive. It’s not static or still. A painting, a good one, pulses and vibrates and bursts with life. That’s how Mark Rothko saw things, anyway: To the celebrated abstr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:30PMFriday, May 4, 2018
With two world-premiere musicals and three world-premiere plays, the Old Globe is going big on brand-new work for its just-announced 2018-19 season. And it’s also going big when it comes t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
The 2018 Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning, and in what has long since become an annual occurrence, shows that originated in San Diego were among the picks for the Broadway…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMSunday, April 29, 2018
It takes sacrifice, ambition, a little luck and a ton of raw talent to scale the heights of Broadway. It does not necessarily take a motto. But Brian Stokes Mitchell has one of those, too �…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:14AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Dropped into the middle of “My Shot,” the rousing song from the hit musical “Hamilton” that lays out the hero’s dreams and ambitions, is an odd little line that might nudge the mem…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:45PMNew York critics have some things to say about the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” whose Broadway production opened Monday. And few of those things ap…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:18PM 
