Friday, 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 04:00PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
In Rachel Bond's gently affecting new play; HEIDI ("Angie") ARMBRUSTER's low-key performance gives her character the authentic feel of a lost but resilient soul who gains a sense of self.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:24PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Randall Hickman is the kind of actor who loves to wrap his arms around an acting challenge. So what could be better than a character who has eight arms? (Not to mention some very serious mak…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMMonday, July 10, 2017
Poetry is an abiding presence in Rachel Bonds’ “At the Old Place.” And her gently affecting new play calls to mind a line from a poem that’s not actually in the piece: “I learn by …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMSunday, July 9, 2017
Nothing’s done halfway in Cygnet Theatre’s slaphappy (and slapstick-y) revival of the Marx Brothers musical “Animal Crackers”: Even Groucho’s plus-sized mustache looks as if a semi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:10PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Bogus beggars, plunderous nuns, cops on the take, gamblers on the make: The fine people of “Guys and Dolls” work so many angles you have to plot their progress with a protractor. And tha…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMFriday, July 7, 2017
A good stage director is always thinking 10 steps ahead. And from the sound of things, Moxie Theatre executive artistic director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg — one of San Diego’s most accom…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
To those who know Leslie Odom Jr. for his Tony Award-winning turn in the world-conquering musical “Hamilton,” the dashing singer-actor might seem some kind of overnight success. The trut…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMTuesday, July 4, 2017
It was 62 years ago this summer that Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi — an appalling racial crime that helped ignite the civil rights movement. This week, Ion Theatre revisits his s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, June 30, 2017
The matchless 1950 musical “Guys and Dolls” has been revived to within an inch of its life over the decades, with a whole lot more than a bushel and a peck (to borrow from one of its son…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:15PMSunday, June 25, 2017
The San Diego International Fringe Festival, whose fifth edition is now in full (and often freaky) flower here and in Tijuana, is a definition-defying mix of theater, dance, music and multip…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMFriday, June 23, 2017
The windows of Dea Hurston’s high-rise condo frame sweeping views of San Diego, from Balboa Park to Coronado to the blue Pacific beyond. And when Hurston purchased the place with her husba…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMThursday, June 22, 2017
It seems pretty certain that if the novelist Emily Brontë had her druthers — or is that drithers? — the people behind the play “Withering Heights” would be tossed off the nearest (H…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:50PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
What had seemed inevitable for Mo`olelo Performing Arts Co. has officially come to pass: The socially engaged San Diego theater company is calling it quits after 13 years. But the once-thriv…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMMonday, June 19, 2017
It’s been some week for Will Shakespeare, what with the uproar surrounding the Public Theater’s Trump-ian depiction of Julius Caesar in the play about the ill-fated Roman. So maybe it’…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, June 16, 2017
For its third festival incarnation, WoW is heading south. The Without Walls Festival — La Jolla Playhouse’s celebration of immersive, site-specific and otherwise boundary-busting perform…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMThursday, June 15, 2017
If theatrical overkill could, you know, kill, you might need a bodyguard for protection from the excesses of “The Bodyguard.” Not that bombast is all there is to this movie-based musical…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
As Moonlight Stage Productions rolls out “Aida” — the Vista company’s first production of the 2017 summer season — it’s also announcing the lineup for its 2018 season, which offe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMQuick — name that Disney-originated Broadway musical with the songs by Elton John and Tim Rice and the story about African royalty. If you said “The Lion King,” you’d be right — bu…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
The Tony Awards took a surprise direction for two La Jolla Playhouse-bred shows last night — with “direction” being the operative word. While the musical “Come From Away” and the p…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:37PMIt’s true that the Tony Awards chose an unusual suspect to host the 2017 edition of the annual Broadway theater honors. But the anointing of Kevin Spacey — the Oscar-winning actor (“Th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:37PMMonday, June 12, 2017
It’s a little startling when, toward the end of the darkly poetic “Blacktop Sky,” the young homeless man Klass suddenly turns to us and observes: “You may not be fully aware of the t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMMonday, June 5, 2017
It takes nine players to make a baseball team, which means San Diego Musical Theatre could field an entire five-club division with the mob of actors and musicians the company suits up for it…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMFriday, June 2, 2017
The story of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” revolves around two men who would be king. The story of the Old Globe Theatre’s return to the darkly poetic history play, though, revolves aro…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMMonday, May 29, 2017
Margaritaville is both a place and state of mind. Word is that it’s also — and we’re working to confirm this now — the title of a popular song. Seriously, though, it seems a genius m…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMSunday, May 28, 2017
They faced chauvinism, ridicule, oppression and the gleaming blade of the guillotine. Nevertheless, they persisted. And in Lauren Gunderson’s inventive, history-inflected “The Revolution…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, May 26, 2017
From rock to pop-opera to classic show tunes, musicals rule San Diego’s stages this summer. But there’s still room for some promising plays, too. Here’s a look at what’s likely to he…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
Acting is many ways an exercise in seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. For Paul Eddy, though, there’s been the added matter of trying to see through Buddy Holly’s glasses. Ho…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMFriday, May 19, 2017
On its surface, Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” — the story of a man fixated on, and frustrated by, matters of health care — would seem a pretty apt choice of play for this mome…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMThe news keeps on coming for “Come From Away,” the 9/11-connected Broadway musical that had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse two years ago in a co-production with Seattle Rep. Ju…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:40PMThursday, May 18, 2017
With barely three weeks until the Tony Awards ceremony, the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Come From Away” — which is nominated for seven of the Broadway theater honors — continues…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PM 
