Friday, 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 08:00PMLeonard Pelkey is gone. Leonard Pelkey is everywhere. In the playwright-actor James Lecesne’s quietly moving solo show about a missing teen-ager, a few motley objects — a backpack, a bro…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:40PMThursday, September 28, 2017
Broadway has come calling, and Jason Mraz’s answer is: “I’m yours.”The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter-guitarist, who launched his career in San Diego’s coffeehouse scene, h…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Here’s some of what’s coming up on the San Diego performing-arts scene for October: 10.6-11.19: "Smoke on the Mountain" Down-home and up-tempo and folksy all over: Lamb’s dusts off thi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMHere’s some of what’s coming up on the San Diego performing-arts scene for October: Down-home and up-tempo and folksy all over: Lamb’s dusts off this much-revived musical about the fic…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMSunday, September 24, 2017
More than 150 years after the Civil War ended, America still seems to be fighting that bloody conflict’s battles, over and over again.Confederate monuments remain flash points of this coun…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMSunday, September 17, 2017
From a puppet-centric Broadway hit to a world-premiere musical about a disco diva, here are some promising shows to look for on San Diego stages this season. "Father Comes Home From the Wars…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMSome of Edred Utomi's fondest memories of growing up revolve around two musicals: “The Sound of Music,” and the South African-made “Ipi Ntombi,” a huge favorite of his dad’s. Long …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
The title of the Jordan Seavey play now hitting the stage at Diversionary Theatre is an eye-catching one — not just for its loaded first word but for the questions the rest of it raises ab…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Karen Hartman was just 16 and a San Diego high-school student when her first play was produced, but she already had some strong ideas about the power of theater. "A play can be a more accura…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
There’s a phrase from a certain musical that has become a rallying cry for diversity as a source of American strength: “Immigrants — we get the job done.” That line is not from “In…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
There’s plenty that’s prone to feel unfamiliar to most playgoers about “Wild Goose Dreams,” the Hansol Jung play that’s about to receive its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. F…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMFriday, September 1, 2017
There’s a lot more to the movie-turned-musical “Benny & Joon” than those character names can convey, from a focus on the broader meaning of family to a frank consideration of mental il…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMThursday, August 31, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse has unveiled the full lineup for the 2017 Without Walls Festival, the third edition of the theater’s celebration of immersive and site-specific art. As announced previou…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMSunday, August 27, 2017
A few months back, Richie Ploesch was excitedly tossing ideas to Gary Kramer, the artistic director of San Diego’s National Comedy Theatre, on how improv might benefit teen-agers with auti…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMThursday, August 24, 2017
With his solo show “Latin History for Morons,” John Leguizamo is about to repeat some history of his own: It will be the second piece the actor, playwright and comic provocateur has take…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:15PMSunday, August 20, 2017
A San Diego landmark that was once alive with crowds and music every year at this time has been dormant for seven summers now. But organizers of the latest effort to reopen Balboa Park’s h…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
With apologies to Winston Churchill: If the British Empire should last a thousand years, people will still say the Victorian Era was its funniest hour. Not that those decades of repressive m…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:55PMThursday, August 17, 2017
As musical odes to roadways go, “Sunset Boulevard” is in a whole different area code from, say, “42nd Street” or “Avenue Q.” And not just as gauged by GPS. Based on the classic 1…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
At ease, San Diego #HamFans: There’s no word yet on an on-sale date for the local engagement of “Hamilton,” the megahit musical that runs Jan. 6-28 at the Civic Theatre downtown. (We�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMSunday, August 13, 2017
Sprawled belly-down on a bed, scrawling in a notebook as he ponders the prospect of a “consummation” with the grave; in the Old Globe's powerful new staging of Shakespeare’s greatest t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Don’t cry for Eva Perón, theatergoers, because the musical about her is definitely not about to do it.Or maybe you should shed a tear or two — although at this point it’s a little lat…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
A Tony Award-nominated star of a major Old Globe-connected Broadway hit is bound for San Diego to join the Globe’s world-premiere musical “Benny & Joon.” The Balboa Park theater is ann…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
The U.S. presidential race was still raging last year when San Diego Rep and its artistic director, Sam Woodhouse, chose a show that seemed ideal for the times: “Evita.” After all, Woodh…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, July 28, 2017
A few things can be said for certain about “Hamlet”: It’s a work of almost incalculable influence, the lodestone of Western literature. It has served — for centuries now — as a gol…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMThursday, July 27, 2017
Next up at InnerMission Productions: Adam Gwon’s 2009 chamber musical “Ordinary Days,” about the intersecting paths of four young New Yorkers struggling to sort out their hopes and dre…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
The 1990s had the blistering grunge of Nirvana and the bubblegum of the Spice Girls; the cultural explosion of hip-hop and the curious implosion of Milli Vanilli; the tragedy of Princess Di …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMFriday, July 21, 2017
On a cool evening in early June, as auditions get under way for the play “Falling,” the conversation onstage is as subdued as the lighting in the intimate “black box” theater. But as…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Now that he has spent almost two years on the road, Jacob Haren is about to wrap up his “Mormon” mission. “It’s super-Method,” jokes the North County bred-actor at how his stint wi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMMonday, July 17, 2017
The next line to be delivered at this evening’s performance by a hapless but passionate Eastern European theater troupe promises to be heart-stopping. Not for the audience. For the actor. …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, July 14, 2017
The Old Globe has found its Prince of Denmark to lead the Balboa Park theater’s first revival of “Hamlet” in a decade. The Globe is announcing that Grantham Coleman will take on the ti…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PM 
