Thursday, 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 09:46PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre-bred musical “Bright Star” is blinking out on Broadway. Lead producer Joey Parnes announced Tuesday that the bluegrass-laced show, created by the actor-writer-music…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:46AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
In “Lydia,” a mystery woman with seemingly magical powers drops into a family home and utterly transforms the lives of those inside. As lyrical as Octavio Solis’ play can be, though, �…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:29PMSaturday, June 11, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
Some 25,000 years ago, an advancing glacier carved out the terrain that would one day become New York City. After that, not a whole lot happened in Manhattan until Aug. 6, 2015, when “Hami…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:38PMThe tragedy of “Macbeth” begins with the witches — those three “weird sisters” whose utterances foretell (or do they compel?) the title character’s murderous rise to power. And a…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:42AMThursday, June 9, 2016
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Some young theater companies burst onto the stage scene in a roil of raw ambition and energy. But Intrepid Theatre — as has become its style — did things a little differently. Seven year…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:53PMFriday, June 3, 2016
The Second City will make its first return to San Diego since 2014 this summer, when it brings its election-themed show “Free Speech! (While Supplies Last)” to La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:04PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
The name Henrik Ibsen means a lot in the theater world; what it usually does not mean is “box-office gold.” So David Ellenstein was more than a little surprised back in 2010 when his Nor…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:46PMSunday, May 29, 2016
If streets have feelings (and egos), 41st and 43rd must be crying their asphalts off about now. The movie and musical “42nd Street” have long given that stretch of pavement at the heart …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:47PMFriday, May 27, 2016
Summer is the season for musicals, and San Diego’s theater outlook doesn’t disappoint, with a full slate of song-filled shows. But plenty of promising nonmusical plays are on the way, to…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:28PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
It’s no secret that two of the top graduate theater programs in the country are situated here in San Diego. But a new survey from The Hollywood Reporter reaffirms not just the national but…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:27AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Sent onstage with those famous words, “You’re going out there a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!,” the upstart Peggy Sawyer gets her big Broadway break in what might be…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:11PMSunday, May 22, 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
The law wasn’t all that interested in finding out who killed the film director William Desmond Taylor back in 1922. Neither, in a way, is the new La Jolla Playhouse show about the notoriou…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:40PMThere’s a line the sushi chef Koji utters in “tokyo fish story” that strives to capture the fleeting achievement of his culinary art.“A glistening, edible moment,” Koji calls his c…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:40PMNearly a dozen San Diego County arts and culture groups have earned grants in the latest round of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA awarded a total of $258,000 to the…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:40PMSunday, May 15, 2016
History joined hands with the living, breathing present at the Old Globe on Saturday evening, as the theater welcomed the family of a felled world leader who’s depicted in the play “Camp…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:18PMFriday, May 13, 2016
One of San Diego’s most esteemed and seasoned stage actors will be joining nine others from around the nation — including a Tony Award winner — in a highly selective fellowship program…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:07AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
As the son of a Baptist preacher, Ruff Yeager was raised with vocal harmonies in his bones. “It’s the music of my upbringing — this style of music,” says Yeager, who is directing “…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:44PMMonday, May 9, 2016
“Bright Star,” the Steve Martin/Edie Brickell that had its world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, has just won the Outer Critics Circle Award as best new Broadway musical. Th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:11PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Musical theater has demonstrated it can stretch to accommodate all kinds of difficult subjects. Still, it’s not terribly often that a small company such as San Diego’s Diversionary Theat…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:45PMThe accomplished playwright, performer and monologist Anna Deavere Smith is returning to San Diego in June for a one-night presentation of her latest work, the Old Globe Theatre has announce…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:26PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
The big shocker out of this morning’s Tony Awards nominations: A few other shows besides “Hamilton” also made it into the field. But the blockbuster hip-hop musical about the founding …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:13PMMonday, May 2, 2016
World-premiere play at Lamb’s has memorable moments, but static staging stymies some drama
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:53AMFriday, April 29, 2016
The Old Globe’s just-announced 2016-17 season may boast two world premieres and the return of a huge entertainment name who’s becoming something like the theater’s unofficial resident …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:19PM 
