Sunday, 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 06:00PMKing Hedley II: The name evokes nobility, history, heritage, a certain majesty. As the title of a play, it also hints at the sweeping sagas of William Shakespeare — the royal stories o…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMFriday, September 23, 2016
People who make musicals like to talk of the “I want” song — a crucial first-act number that lays bare the hero’s overriding desire to find a better life, a higher purpose. In ess…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMThursday, September 22, 2016
Here’s to Herbert Siguenza for president. He can even keep wearing the dress. The playwright and actor, who portrays a cleverly meddlesome maid in his new play “Manifest Destinitis,” …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
He’s been a star of the biggest show on Broadway; now Leslie Odom Jr. will headline the biggest fund-raiser of the year at the Old Globe. The former “Hamilton” star (and 2016 Tony Awa…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMMonday, September 19, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre announced Monday that Steve Martin’s world-premiere comedy “Meteor Shower” set an all-time box-office record in the theater’s in-the-round performance space. …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:10PMSunday, September 18, 2016
Something awesome this way comes in Jiehae Park’s “peerless”: college acceptance letters that fall from the sky. (But you might not want to know what the kids in this darkly comic riff…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Steve Martin’s “Meteor Shower” turned out to be a gift from the heavens for the Old Globe: The play, which closed Sunday, has set an all-time sales record for the theater’s second p…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:50PMSan Diego Musical Theatre is rolling out a 2017 season that includes three regional-premiere musicals, two world-premiere projects and the company’s first foray into producing in two thea…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
It’s tempting to say Cashae Monya has come full circle by joining the cast of the world-premiere La Jolla Playhouse musical “Miss You Like Hell.” But Monya probably wouldn’t strike y…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMIf the compulsion to write plays qualifies as a medical condition, please keep any cure far, far away from Herbert Siguenza.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMSunday, September 11, 2016
It’s fitting (for reasons beyond the title) that the people in “The Cocktail Hour” exist in a more or less pickled state.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, September 9, 2016
A hearing had been scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles on Homer H. Hickam Jr.’s request that he be erased from the Old Globe musical “October Sky” — a show whose main character is Hi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMhen Homer H. Hickam Jr. and his friends looked to the sky with a gleam in their eyes and a few homemade rockets in their kit bags back in the 1950s, they weren’t necessarily trying to chan…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMLa Jolla Playhouse audiences will get a look at Donald Trump through the eyes of another provocative (and controversial) public figure, as the theater presents a special engagement of Mike D…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:38PMThursday, September 8, 2016
The Old Globe will open its 2017 summer season with one of the most beloved (and produced) shows in the musical-theater canon. The Balboa Park theater is announcing today that it will stage …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
A lot of what you need to know about Jiehae Park’s “peerless” might be summed up by the name originally bestowed on the play: “Untitled High School Macbeth.”
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
After an 11-year Broadway run, the La Jolla Playhouse-born musical “Jersey Boys” is about to see its final season.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMSunday, September 4, 2016
Is “Sweet Charity” a (head) trip back to the swingin’ 1960s? You bet your sweet bippy, as they used to say on a certain vintage TV show.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMFriday, September 2, 2016
A piece that premiered in La Jolla Playhouse’s 2015 Without Walls Festival will get its own showcase as the theater’s next stand-alone WoW production. The theater has announced that Keit…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:29PMWhen Mike Lew touched down at college after graduating from La Jolla High in 1999, he also arrived at a revelation: Theater was not so very different from the science disciplines he’d been…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMWednesday, August 31, 2016
The distinguished San Diego actor-director Rosina Reynolds stages NCRT’s revival of the comedy of manners by that bard of upper-crusty Yanks, A.R. Gurney.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
hen “The Lion King” rolls into the San Diego Civic Theatre next week for the hit Disney show’s first local visit since 2009, it’ll be arriving with a favorite son. (And no, we’re n…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMSaturday, August 27, 2016
Lamb’s Players Theatre is rolling out a lineup of new plays and returning favorites for the company’s 2017 season at its home theater in Coronado.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:54PMThursday, August 25, 2016
You almost want to believe the Emcee in “Cabaret” when he chirps, “We have no troubles here.” Almost.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMernadette Peters knows a little something about symphonies. Bernadette knows Broadway, too. Those two paths converge this weekend as she performs with conductor Matthew Garbutt and the San D…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:32AMMonday, August 8, 2016
A longtime leader and guiding force at the Old Globe Theatre is departing after 13 years, the Balboa Park institution announced Monday. Michael G. Murphy, the theater’s managing director, …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:10PMFriday, August 5, 2016
One of the simple but profound pleasures of a good jukebox musical is the way it rewinds your mind to a moment when a now-treasured song was heard for the first time. And when it comes to Ca…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:30AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
When the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain (to borrow from a signature lyric) in the latest revival of “Oklahoma!,” it won’t have too far to blow: New Village Arts’ performance sp…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:53PMFriday, July 29, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre has signed up a cast of Broadway veterans (and some San Diego-based actors) for the West Coast premiere of the movie-based musical “October Sky.” The show’s creat…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:15PMThursday, July 28, 2016
It might seem a little cruel to tout a stage show whose entire run has long since sold out. But look at the bright side: If you can’t see Onstage Playhouse’s “Buddy — The Buddy Holly…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:55AM 
