Wednesday, November 2, 2016
The La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Jersey Boys” may be saying goodbye to Broadway in January after a glorious decade-plus run, but the Midtown Men keep on carrying the torch for the sh…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
The Old Globe’s holiday favorite “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” has the power to bring J. Bernard Calloway to tears. So, at first, did the rigors of performing in the s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMSunday, October 30, 2016
A painting gives “Art” its name, but friendship gives the play its focus — and its comic ferocity. Yasmina Reza’s 1998 piece, a Tony Award winner as best play, centers on three long…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
La Jolla Playhouse is welcoming a favorite son of San Diego theater back to town for a benefit concert in December. Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Patrick Henry High grad, Broadway veteran and …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMFriday, October 28, 2016
The Old Globe is revisiting a titanic Shakespeare tragedy, and bringing back a top stage and screen actor for another Bard work, as part of its just-announced 2017 summer season. The Balboa…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMThursday, October 27, 2016
In theater, there’s timeliness, and then there’s flat-out weird synchronicity. Witness, in the latter category, San Diego Rep’s blistering production of the Ayad Akhtar play “Disgrac…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
In a bid to clear the air over the dismissals of two popular San Diego Junior Theatre staffers, the organization’s board has issued a more detailed statement on the September firings. Wh…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:10PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
If trick-or-treating’s not your thing, and the average haunted house doesn’t offer quite enough of a narrative arc, San Diego-area theaters might have just the finely staged frights you …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMSaturday, October 22, 2016
At a pivotal moment in “Equivocation,” a key figure in the Bill Cain play comes up with a succinct way to describe theater: “It’s not a way, to lie, you know. It’s a way of tell…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, October 21, 2016
Just about every musical-theater project is a long journey. Not quite so many are about one. But La Jolla Playhouse’s much-buzzed “Miss You Like Hell” is actually rooted in two: a mot…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00AMThursday, October 20, 2016
This moment in history has become so saturated with electoral angst that it can start to seem as if everything is somehow about the presidential contest: sports events, fashion choices, poss…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:15PMIt’ll be a green-peat at the Globe: The theater has just confirmed that J. Bernard Calloway will again play the lead role in the holiday favorite “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Chris…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
When it debuted in 1950, the pioneering TV variety program “Your Show of Shows” became such a sensation that Americans soon felt they knew the performers who crossed their tiny black-and…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMMonday, October 17, 2016
The Old Globe’s touring “Globe for All” program could just about qualify as an Olympic event: Putting up a play in a quick succession of often far-flung locations requires speed, fl…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:25PMThursday, October 13, 2016
Seat belts are not standard equipment at the Lyceum Space, where San Diego Rep is about to stage the San Diego premiere of “Disgraced.” But the way director Michael Arabian and his cast …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
The cast and venues have just been announced for the 2016 edition of “Globe for All,” the Old Globe Theatre’s touring program that takes Shakespeare into diverse corners of the communi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:30PMMonday, October 10, 2016
For the people in August Wilson’s “King Hedley II,” life arrives in bursts — of violence, of regret, of (ever so briefly) hope. So does the play, now receiving a hard-hitting reviva…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSunday, October 9, 2016
The dreams are big but the obstacles always seem a little bigger in “Seven Guitars,” the August Wilson drama that just opened in a potent, sharply acted revival at Cygnet Theatre. And wh…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMFriday, October 7, 2016
La Jolla Playhouse has just announced the 2017 edition of its Performance Outreach Program tour — and this latest world-premiere POP play for young audiences will be staged by a top San D…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMDeep into his arresting and affecting solo piece “The Lion,” Benjamin Scheuer is nearly levitating from a chair on the Old Globe’s White Theatre stage, as he bashes out thick and furi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMThursday, October 6, 2016
The San Diego-based Playwrights Project has just announced the contest-winning playwrights whose works will be staged early next year at the annual Plays by Young Writers festival. The young…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMWilliam Shakespeare was not one to mince words. Or maybe he was — at least in the sense of carving them and parsing them and filleting them into just the right form for the story and me…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
If you’re among those dreaming that The Donald will soon go the way of the dodo, Mike Daisey is here with your wake-up call. And it’s not a jolly one. The playwright-performer, whose com…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
Justin Huertas is a theater artist who seems pretty comfortable in his own skin. Which, by the way, is not scaly and reptilian. It’s true that the title hero Huertas plays in his rock mus…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMMonday, October 3, 2016
It’s a big week for one-man shows in San Diego, with two debuting at La Jolla Playhouse alone. (And that’s not even counting the Old Globe’s “The Lion,” another one-man piece which…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMSunday, October 2, 2016
Bickering, criticizing, second-guessing, sabotaging: Hey, that’s what friends are for. The three longtime pals in Yasmina Reza’s “Art,” now getting a cuttingly funny revival at Intre…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, September 30, 2016
“I slept and was ashamed. I was quiet, I was tamed. / Then they came and stayed and helped me heal inside. / And though I had to learn once more to be a lion without a roar / It’s not …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMThursday, September 29, 2016
This weekend, Coronado Playhouse is making its production of “Seussical The Musical” extra-welcoming for fans whose opportunities to see plays can sometimes be limited. The theater is o…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Cloistered away from the unmannered clamor of downtown crowds and traffic, three men sit in elegant repose on the stage of the Horton Grand Theatre, sipping tea and talking (probably) Proust…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMMonday, September 26, 2016
It’s been a long road for Leo in “4000 Miles,” a play whose title refers (in part) to a cross-country bike ride that put this free-spirited young wanderer in the path of immense traged…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMSunday, September 25, 2016
There are easier places to get into the water than the boulder-strewn cove tucked just south of Pacific Beach Point. But this is playwright Mike Lew’s favorite surf break — and anyway,…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PM 
