Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Rewind your mind to a time when America was less a country than a concept, a wild surmise birthed in bloodshed and steeped in dreams of sweet freedom. And then consider the unlikely triumph …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMFriday, January 5, 2018
San Diego — and the nation — meet your new Hamilton. Producers of “Hamilton,” the smash-hit Broadway musical that opens a three-week touring engagement at the San Diego Civic Theatre…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMSunday, December 24, 2017
Sometimes the biggest gifts in a work of live theater involve the seemingly smallest moments — a single memorable scene, a fleeting but hard-to-shake visual, a particularly startling perfo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
The latest world-premiere musical at La Jolla Playhouse is about to make a quick dance to Broadway. “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” which is still running at the Playhouse, has just …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Di will have her day at La Jolla Playhouse. The theater announced today that the Princess Diana musical workshopped in New York last summer by Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Teatro Máscara Mágica’s holiday favorite "La Pastorela” was once San Diego’s longest-running theater tradition. Until last year, when it wasn’t — the result of a venue issue that…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMSunday, December 3, 2017
The lighting is subdued, the surprises are dialed back and the sound is toned down for the annual sensory-friendly version of “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” at the Old G…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMMonday, November 27, 2017
Eight months after it opened in New York, the La Jolla Playhouse-launched musical “Come From Away” continues to go strong on Broadway. The latest evidence: The show, which had its world …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
San Diego-area theaters may be serving up Scrooge x 2 this season, as both Old Town’s Cygnet and Escondido’s Welk host old Eb and his infernal humbugs. But in other ways this seems a not…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMMonday, November 20, 2017
It’s entirely possible that no one ever died from disco, no matter how far they might’ve plunged off their platform shoes. But anyone feeling personally injured by the pounding beats and…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMSunday, November 19, 2017
“What have you got to write about that’s so important all the time?,” one of Anne Frank’s fellow refugees asks her a little dismissively in the stage version of her story. Now we kno…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMSunday, November 12, 2017
For those whose lives have not be roiled by autism, the events that unfold in the play “Falling” might prove startling and more than a little upsetting. For those whose daily routines mo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Four new plays — including a world-premiere work from the writer of the button-pushing Broadway comedy “Hand to God” — will be part of the 2018-19 La Jolla Playhouse season, the thea…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSunday, November 5, 2017
Four actors are working their way through a tense scene in rehearsals for the play “Falling” when an unscripted visitor comes loping through the action. It’s a small dog named Ireland,…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMFriday, November 3, 2017
A little over a year after it premiered at La Jolla Playhouse, “Junk” has officially opened on Broadway — and the critics, while they like some of what they see, are hedging a bit on t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
London may have its Changing of the Guard, but San Diego has its own tradition of grand transition: The Conferral of the Fur. That would be the shaggy green getup that graces the title chara…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMMonday, October 30, 2017
We’ll have to take playwright Ernest Thompson’s word for it that the pond in the title of his most famous work is, in fact, golden; we see only a glimpse of its shores through the window…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, October 27, 2017
Donna Summer ruled disco — and, for a time nearly four decades ago, the pop-music universe. Not everyone, of course, was wild about the dance-minded style that Summer helped turn into a de…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Musical theater and horror flicks just go together like tap-dancing and chainsaw maniacs. (Or something.) And they’ve been going together for nearly 15 years now with “Evil Dead — The …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMMonday, October 23, 2017
There’s a moment in North Coast Rep’s arresting “Of Mice and Men” where George Milton details to his pal Lennie Small the dream of someday tending a ranch of their own. As George spe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, October 20, 2017
“Hamilton” fans, here comes your shot.The smash-hit Broadway musical’s touring presenter has just announced that tickets to the show’s much-anticipated Jan. 6-28 engagement at the Sa…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMDr. Seuss, Mr. Shakespeare and some budding playwright named Neil Simon make for the dynamic (if unlikely) trio behind the Old Globe Theatre’s just-announced 2018 summer season. The four-p…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMThursday, October 19, 2017
It seems safe to say that “Diana, The Musical” may be the only Patio Playhouse show this year to be name-dropped by the New York Daily News. The play, which opens Friday (Oct. 20) at the…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Sometimes a creative work can become so familiar that what made it vital in the first place is obscured by the kind of cultural shorthand it acquires. That might be the case with the classic…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Caleb Foote says it was fate that led him to the lead role in the local premiere of everyone’s favorite Broadway play about a potty-mouthed, chaos-causing puppet. But you have to wonder if…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Words of wisdom are where you find them — and for a failed Elvis impersonator turned fledgling Florida drag queen named Casey, they issue from the ruby-red lips of a high-heeled, wisecrack…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
When it comes to “Smoke on the Mountain,” there’s mileage on the musical: Lamb’s Players Theatre is staging Connie Ray’s charmingly down-home show for the seventh time since its We…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:20PMFriday, October 13, 2017
Site-specific performance, immersive drama, interactive art: It’s tough to find one label that fits the riot of creativity that is La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival. But new fe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMThursday, October 12, 2017
To bee or not to bee? Six kids go into linguistic battle in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” the musical comedy from composer-lyricist Bill Finn and writer Rachel Sheinkin, …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMSunday, October 8, 2017
Over the past couple of years, Jennifer Paredes has made an indelible mark as not only of San Diego’s most-sought after young actors, but one of its most fearless. Paredes has played a sev…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
And now, put your hands together for “Almost Like Praying.” In case you haven’t checked it out yet: “Hamilton” and "In the Heights” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s song to benefit…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PM 
