Thursday, 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 06:55AMStraight outta Chicago, those improv impresarios in The Second City comedy troupe are back at La Jolla Playhouse with another new show. This time, the laughs zero in on the coming election i…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:55AMf all the songs in “Beautiful,” the jukebox-musical tribute to the singer-songwriter Carole King, the words to one in particular have been getting to Abby Mueller lately. Over the phone …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:55AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Monday, July 25, 2016
Yes, “Gypsy” gives top billing to a burlesque bombshell, and not to her spectacularly pushy parent. But Mama Rose knows what it’s really all about. And so will you, after witnessing Li…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:34AMSaturday, July 23, 2016
In theater, it’s a rare blessing for actors to have the luxury of the playwright’s company in the rehearsal room every day. Of course, “Sometimes they have the luxury of the playwright…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:59AMOnStage fires up the perennially popular 1989 jukebox musical, with Noah Zuniga-Williams starring as the bespectacled rock pioneer who churned out such enduring classics as “Peggy Sue,” …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:59AMFriday, July 22, 2016
The La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Come From Away” has confirmed its Broadway cast — and two San Diego-based actors are part of it.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:32AMLast week’s big San Diego Pride celebrations may have given way to this week’s Comic-Con onslaught, but a trio of still-running plays continue to explore and pay tribute to the LGBT expe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:32AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
One of the most beloved family-friendly sagas in musical theater takes to the stage — and the air — this week as Moonlight rolls out “Peter Pan,” the company’s second summer produc…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:10AMSunday, July 17, 2016
In the spring of 1961, as the civil rights movement heated up, Americans of diverse races and backgrounds boarded buses bound for the Deep South in a bold show of protest against segregation…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:38AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
There’s enough love gone wrong and life gone haywire and family gone around the bend in Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” to fill several novels, or (alternatively) a single coun…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:53AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Steve Martin may not be appearing in his world-premiere play “Meteor Shower” at the Old Globe (unless it’s in an uncredited role as one of the meteors), but he soon will be taking the …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:34PMSunday, July 10, 2016
There’s nothing toothless about “Ruthless! The Musical,” coming up next at Moxie Theatre. The 1992 musical spoof by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird has some wicked fun with everything from…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:26PMFrom the moment Cygnet Theatre moved into its present digs eight years ago, the Old Town company has been big on Stephen Sondheim.But never before has Cygnet done a production of Sondheim (o…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:26PMBoth an ode to the art of storytelling and a probing, potent example of it, Jeff Augustin’s fiercely lyrical “The Last Tiger in Haiti” haunts like the mythical figure of its title.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:26PMBaseball all-stars don’t get much starrier than Ted Williams: The late San Diego native and prodigious hitter still holds or shares seven single-game and career records in Major League Bas…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:24PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
The Old Globe is fast becoming the official regional branch office for Steve Martin’s playwriting exploits. So it just kind of makes sense for the writer-musician-comic to bring in a star …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:57PMSunday, July 3, 2016
Light. Balance. Tension. Harmony. Those help compose the litany of artistic principles the painter Georges Seurat recites as bookends to the musical “Sunday in the Park With George.” Ele…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:35PMSaturday, July 2, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” is a story of people who manage to make a virtue of deprivation. So, in a way, is the tale of how a musical came to be made from the novel.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:54PMThursday, June 30, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre’s upcoming production of the movie-based musical “October Sky” has been pulled into the orbit of a $20 million lawsuit brought by the man at the center of the sho…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:31PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
The Jimmy Buffett musical that’s headed to La Jolla Playhouse next year now has an official title — and you will not be shocked to learn it involves a certain frosty beverage.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:22AMMonday, June 27, 2016
Toil and trouble don't simply bubble in the Old Globe’s bracing new staging of “Macbeth”: They detonate like a succession of grenades. Even the words of the play’s famous witches com…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:07AMFriday, June 24, 2016
Before Jeff Augustin puts the first words of a play on the page, he sends a little song out into the universe. “It’s always the same (melody). I don’t know why. But it’s as if I’m …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:52PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Diego International Fringe Festival kicks off this week with some 90 shows that will unfold over the festival’s two-week run, totaling more than 400 performances at 17 venues aroun…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:46PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Summing up the whole of world drama when you’re an upstart theater company that’s just gone pro? Nothing like starting small.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:41PMThursday, June 16, 2016
Even if you don’t agree that disco is, in fact, the eighth deadly sin, you’ve got to admit it has done some unholy things in the name of music. (Two words: “Funky Town.”) So it’s s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:46PM 
