Tuesday, January 31, 2017
It 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 12:00PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Here’s the (lightly edited) transcript of James Hebert’s Union-Tribune interview with Steve Martin about the Old Globe Theatre revival of Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” (Al…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMThursday, January 26, 2017
San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre has been picked to host a national gathering of artists and administrators dedicated to bringing Shakespeare to people behind bars. The 2018 Shakespeare in Pr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:30PMMatt Harrington’s theatrical homecoming has been a long time coming: It’s been 18 years since the actor and Point Loma High grad won a prestigious national Shakespeare competition and th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
A mysterious poet, cast adrift in space and time, wanders through the centuries, bearing witness to the endless cycle of human suffering. This poet, who first found voice in the Trojan War m…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMSunday, January 22, 2017
It seems just a throwaway phrase, uttered at the top of “Bad Jews” with a shrug and a smile: “Feelings, right?” Ah yes, feelings — those cute little things that wind up biting peop…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Broadway/San Diego’s just-unveiled 2017-18 season of touring shows includes several big musicals that will hit town for the first time. But the biggest news might be about a show that’s …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:45PMIts Disney-movie pedigree and high comic concept don’t exactly paint “Freaky Friday” as the stuff of solemn drama. And yet Bridget Carpenter says those who settle in for the musical-st…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:30AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
A classic musical comedy, a reprised Sondheim favorite and a freshly commissioned new work: All are part of Cygnet Theatre’s 2017-18 season, the Old Town theater’s impressive 15th. Besid…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMMonday, January 16, 2017
The next liaison is never far away in New Fortune Theatre’s revival of that ode to romantic barbarity “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” The danger, though, seems a bit more scarce. Or, if no…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMSaturday, January 14, 2017
The central figure in “Beau Jest” is a young woman who proves to be making do with her present boyfriend until a better beau comes along. As hard as the six committed actors at Lamb’s …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, January 13, 2017
For three decades now, the San Diego-based Playwrights Project has been championing top young dramatists by producing their work in an annual festival. And in that time, no one has seen more…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMThursday, January 12, 2017
With its pay phones and pagers and end-of-the-millennium angst, “Rent” can’t help but feel at times like a ’90s rewind. And yet the show, whose potent 20th-anniversary tour just land…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Hershey Felder’s past shows about famous composers have frequently been probing and poignant. Seldom, though, have they been deeply political. It’s a different story, though, with “Our…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMSunday, January 8, 2017
In “My Fair Lady,” Henry Higgins is a wealthy and self-congratulatory buffoon who treats women — well, treats everybody — as toys and would stick a third foot in his mouth if he ha…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, January 6, 2017
On a Wednesday evening in Manhattan’s East Village, 21 years ago this month, Christopher Ashley was attending the final dress rehearsal of a new rock musical called “Rent,” and revelin…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMWednesday, January 4, 2017
Lamb’s launches the year with a return to the James Sherman comedy “Beau Jest,” which centers on mistaken identity and romantic subterfuge. The piece, which plays off the title of the …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMTuesday, January 3, 2017
There’s nothing modest about “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” Certainly not the play’s scope — nor the conduct of its characters. “It’s a beast,” says Richard Baird, who’s bot…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMSunday, January 1, 2017
Five very different shows from across the San Diego theater spectrum tied for the most nominations in the just-announced field for the Craig Noel Awards, presented annually by the San Diego …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Between its often-toxic politics and its seemingly endless string of sad passings (beginning with David Bowie, always a pioneer), 2016 hardly appears destined to land on anyone’s Top …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMFriday, December 30, 2016
For artists and audiences, a new year brings a blank canvas, a fresh page, a wide-open stage upon which to start building from the blueprint of creative dreams. With that opportunity for a b…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
The presents may all be put away and the Christmas tree contemplating retirement, but as far as San Diego theater is concerned, the holidays ain’t over yet. Not quite so many yuletide show…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMCarrie Fisher, who died today at age 60, is destined to be known now and forever as Princess Leia Organa from the “Star Wars” saga. But Fisher’s creative exploits stretched well beyond…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:30PMFriday, December 23, 2016
San Diego’s theater scene staked its claims far and wide in 2016, with the Old Globe Theatre-bred “Bright Star” (dreamed up in part by some guy named Steve Martin) landing on Broadway…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
It’s that time of year again when the forces of good gear up for a throwdown with those pesky legions of evil, in a last-ditch bid to save the galaxy/republic/aging entertainment franchise…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMSay this about the ever-festive Marshall family of Lamb’s Players Theatre’s “An American Christmas”: They know how to do the holidays in style. For 25 years now, they’ve been the (…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMThursday, December 15, 2016
Late in Deborah Stein’s play “The Wholehearted,” the central character is recounting a horrific attack at the hands of her own husband when a TV-documentary host asks: “What did you…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMA look at some top local productions of “The Nutcracker,” that holiday ballet staple: California Ballet California Ballet returns to the Tchaikovsky favorite for an impressive 46th seas…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:45PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Intrepid Theatre is shaking up its season and launching an ambitious community-outreach project as the rising company heads into the new year. First, Intrepid has announced that it will repl…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
If San Diego’s Hafso siblings ever do the musical “White Christmas” together, someone will have to rework the beloved duet “Sisters” to accommodate a party of three. As it happens…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMLa Jolla Playhouse has picked its lead duo for “Freaky Friday,” the stage-musical take on the movie-based saga of switched personalities. And the theater didn’t have to look far: The t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PM 
