Thursday, 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 05:00PMMonday, May 15, 2017
You don’t have to be a close friend of Freud to believe that dreams can be a kind of core sample of one’s closest-held hopes and fears — or know that they’re often driven by a feel o…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMFriday, May 12, 2017
The moon is losing its light. Its caretaker has hurried off to find his wayward wife, leaving no one to refill the cosmic orb with liquid illumination each night. That’s the story — or p…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMSunday, May 7, 2017
For all the talk in “The Music Man” of big brass bands and boatloads of trombones, what’s remarkable about this never-gets-old show is the way some of its best musical moments spring f…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMFriday, May 5, 2017
The song “Margaritaville” will forever call to mind a mystical land where the frosty beverages are as plentiful and necessary as the flip-flops (if only slightly less treacherous than th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMA world-premiere musical about love and mental illness, a brand-new play about mariachis, plus some classic Chekhov, Wilde and Shakespeare and an epic set in Afghanistan. That’s just the s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:30AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Des McAnuff still laughs when he recalls what the writer Marshall Brickman once said of “Jersey Boys”: “If it were about four physicists, there wouldn’t be any songs.” That remark …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Two La Jolla Playhouse-bred shows will be right in the mix for the 2017 Tony Awards. The nominations for the top annual Broadway theater honors were announced today, and “Come From Away”…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:10AMMonday, May 1, 2017
Peering at glass plates to divine the secrets of the cosmos, Henrietta Leavitt managed to crack the glass ceiling of astronomy. Lauren Gunderson’s play “Silent Sky” honors the starry a…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Predicting the Tony Award nominations is easy: “Hamilton” for everything! Hang on … now we’re being told that “Hamilton” is not, in fact, eligible to compete for the Broadway the…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMThursday, April 27, 2017
Two Broadway shows with La Jolla Playhouse origins are making plenty of noise in the annual round of New York theater-award nominations, boosting chances they’ll be in contention for the T…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:45PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Dreams — of the “trippy visions while you slumber” variety — play a big role in “Ballast,” the world-premiere play that’s about to hit Diversionary Theatre’s stage. And dream…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMFriday, April 21, 2017
After brief La Jolla visit, singer-songwriter has been all over the globe as his musical gets ready to debut
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:35PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
The just-announced pick as host of the 2017 Tony Awards is definitely not one of the usual suspects. The organizers of the annual Broadway theater honors revealed this morning that stage and…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:30PMMonday, April 17, 2017
To top its 2017 gala, the Old Globe Theatre is trotting out a “Rock” star. That would be Jane Krakowski, cast member of the former NBC hit “30 Rock” (and current Netflix hit “Unbre…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMThursday, April 13, 2017
Before they co-founded the Roustabouts, Phil Johnson and Ruff Yeager’s most high-profile collaboration was on a trippy, B-movie-inspired comedy about alien spider people. But it turns out …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:30PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Three hundred seventy-seven thousand two hundred minutes. No, that’s not how the lyric from that big song in “Rent” will go once the new presidential administration’s funding cuts be…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PM'The Man Who Came to Dinner' When: 1 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 1 and 8 p.m. Saturdays. Through April 30. Where: Premiere Productions at the Welk Resorts Theatre, 8860 Lawre…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMThursday, April 6, 2017
The Border Patrol agent thinks it’s a con when Nayeli, the young Mexican heroine of “Into the Beautiful North,” tells him why she has just crossed into the U.S. illegally. “You wanna…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:45PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
The Old Globe is about to go green with a big Dr. Seuss musical once again — but this time it has nothing to do with the Grinch. The Balboa Park theater is announcing that it will co-prese…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:45AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
‘First Date” gets its first local dates starting this week, as San Diego Musical Theatre stages the area premiere of the Broadway-tested musical comedy. It’s not the first go-round for…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMMonday, April 3, 2017
The new musical “The Geeze and Me” delves into a litany of indignities that can come with age, from night sweats to incontinence to loss of sleep from contemplating that irreversible con…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, March 31, 2017
The African-American actor Ira Aldridge broke an imposing color barrier in theater. The play “Red Velvet” portrays a moment when the theater also nearly broke him. Lolita Chakrabarti’s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMThursday, March 30, 2017
With his 2009 novel “Into the Beautiful North,” Luis Alberto Urrea took a familiar story — of would-be immigrants traversing the U.S.-Mexico border — and turned it on its head. Urrea…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
“Peter Pan” is the story of a gravity-defying young renegade who teaches others that they, too, can fly. “Finding Neverland” is the (more or less) real-life account of how that story…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSunday, March 26, 2017
The people in “Awake and Sing!” can sling a quip or an insult like nobody’s business — although pretty much everyone is up in everybody else’s business in the cramped and often com…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMSpring brings a major crop of musicals to San Diego’s stages — including a high-profile world premiere that showcases the songs of Jimmy Buffett. But there are some plays worth watching …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMThe dictionary lists a colorful clutch of definitions for “roustabout”: deckhand, odd-jobber, circus worker, oil-field grunt. Now you can add another one to that motley roster: drama-sli…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
When San Diego’s National Comedy Theatre marked its 5,000th show last weekend, the celebration was pretty low-key: a small pre-performance reception, the unveiling of a proclamation from t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMSunday, March 19, 2017
You can forgive the scheming producer Oscar Jaffe his extravagant fibs in the musical “On the Twentieth Century.” After all, the name of the very train he’s riding on is a lie. It’s …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
It’s the kind of line you don’t always hear an actor voice in the workaday world of rehearsing a new play: “I want truth to inform the depths and heights of what we do.” Still, it’…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PM 
