Saturday, 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 04:00PMThursday, March 16, 2017
As promised last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed up for a performance of the La Jolla Playhouse-bred Broadway musical “Come From Away” on Wednesday. And he brought a …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:30AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
The play “Awake and Sing!” has been hitting American stages in all its effusively punctuated glory since 1935. Everywhere, it seems, except San Diego — a fact that deserves its own exc…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMMonday, March 13, 2017
The words that rang out over a brooding blues-guitar riff at the Horton Grand Theatre on Sunday told a story of both struggle and resilience: “She ain’t seen peace for a while, but you c…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMThe reviews are in for the Broadway premiere of the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Come From Away,” and this uplifting show set on one of modern history’s darkest days seems to have …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Not quite two years ago, the musical “Come From Away” had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. Now, after stops in three other cities and lots of fine-tuning, the show is poised for…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
For a stage actor, appearing in a Broadway show can be a dream come true. Appearing in the road production of a Broadway show? That can be fun, too — but you still don’t hear many theate…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMThursday, March 2, 2017
A couple of hot new comedies, a durable musical favorite and a fully immersive (and fully San Diego-ized) world-premiere play will highlight San Diego Rep’s 2017-18 season. The lineup, a t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
The cast of La Jolla Playhouse’s Jimmy Buffett musical “Escape to Margaritaville” will be topped by an actor who’s a familiar face to Playhouse audiences. The Playhouse is announcing…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMMonday, February 27, 2017
“A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking" When: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. Where: Point Loma Playhouse, 3035 Talbot Street, Point Loma. Tickets: $16-$18. Phone: (619) 800…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMTwitter was still something birds did when the first La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour show, “Silent Edward,” debuted in 1987. But the ideas behind that musical for young audiences — writte…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMSunday, February 26, 2017
A spell of the fantastic suffuses the fable-like world of “The Illusion,” Tony Kushner’s lush (and funny) love letter to language and theater. “Fantastic,” in the sense of enthusia…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, February 24, 2017
When Divine Ngabire thinks back on her first impressions of the United States, one image in particular seems to stick with her: “The beautiful lights,” she says, recalling that moment th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
More than 25 years after “Angels in America" premiered, that monumental saga of America’s agonies amid the AIDS crisis remains playwright Tony Kushner’s signature work. And yet it turn…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
You might know him as the casual-cool Apple fan in the “Get a Mac” ads. You might know him for his roles in more than 50 movies and TV shows, starting with his turn as a young sci-fi gee…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
If “2.5 Minute Ride” is Shana Wride’s first time performing a solo show, maybe she should try some other daunting debut pursuits as well: alligator wrestling, the running of the bulls,…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, February 17, 2017
There’s a specific — and sadly familiar — kind of tragedy at the heart of Nick Gandiello’s play “The Blameless,” which is about to receive its world premiere at the Old Globe The…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:45PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
One has six actors; the other is a solo piece. One centers on the playwright’s mom; the other focuses mostly on her father. One had its world premiere in San Diego two decades ago; the oth…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
“Freaky Friday” will live to hit the stage another day. (Or week, actually.) La Jolla Playhouse announced today that it’s adding one more extension to the run of the Disney-connected …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMMonday, February 13, 2017
Hannah Logan is known to local audiences as an accomplished and versatile actor (and a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle award-winner for her 2014 turn in Ion Theatre’s “Bug”). But she…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMSunday, February 12, 2017
“Life could be a dream,” a doo-wop singer croons over the opening moments of “Perfect Arrangement” — and as the lights go up on the smiling faces and glossy environs of this stylis…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:30PMFriday, February 10, 2017
The two most prominent characters in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” don’t have back stories so much as fore stories. Which must make this Steve Martin comedy, if you will, a fore play. (…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle last night honored artists and productions from 10 local companies at the latest edition of the annual Craig Noel Awards. The Old Globe Theatre, Cygnet T…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMJoy Yandell knows all about the 9-to-5 grind. Or, in her case, more like 6 to 2 (a.m.), as this working mom juggles parenting and acting and her non-theater professional life. “It's a torn…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMMonday, February 6, 2017
As the La Jolla Playhouse-launched musical “Come From Away” prepares for its Broadway debut in less than two weeks, another Playhouse-developed work has just been announced for a Broadwa…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSaturday, February 4, 2017
The body-swapping mom and daughter of “Freaky Friday” may get into each other’s heads more deeply than they ever dreamed. (Or dreaded.) But the heart of this La Jolla Playhouse musical…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, February 3, 2017
In 1989, Christopher Ashley teamed with a couple of other young New York theater artists to stage “Buzzsaw Berkeley,” a late-night musical spoof about a deranged choreographer with chain…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMThursday, February 2, 2017
Ah, that Matilda. So spoiled. She has the ultimate helicopter parents, in the sense that they’d love nothing better than to dump her out of one. Serves her right, the uppity little blighte…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Downtown’s Lyceum Theatre complex, home to San Diego Rep, is staging a grand reopening — and the public is invited to join the festivities. The event takes place Tuesday (Feb. 7), starti…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:45PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
A story made famous by a 1981 Henry Fonda/Katharine Hepburn film hits the stage as the season-opener for Vista’s Broadway. Randall Hickman directs Ernest Thompson’s “On Golden Pond,�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMIt may be set some 60 years ago, but “Perfect Arrangement” arrives with what seems perfect timing at Intrepid Theatre this week. Just weeks ago, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PM 
