Sunday, March 13, 2016
The touring show that hits the San Diego Civic Theatre this week is one example of the enduring fascination with and affection for the “Oz” saga. The musical, which premiered on London�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMCygnet Theatre artistic director Sean Murray directs and stars in “The Rocky Horror Show,” a musical that looms large in his theatrical history.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMInnerMission rolls out the San Diego premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s biting comedy (whose 2011 Broadway production starred the late Alan Rickman) about four aspiring novelists who sign up for…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMThe magic of farce usually resides in low deeds done at high speeds, complemented by confused identities and a whole lot of brutally abused doors. Georges Feydeau’s “Now You See It” ha…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMThe characters in Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar,” now getting a razor-sharp San Diego premiere at InnerMission Productions under Kym Pappas’ direction, seem to concur with the idea of wr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMBeth Henley is still best-known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Crimes of the Heart,” a play that dates clear back to 1978.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMAs San Diego Rep celebrates its 40th birthday this year, it’s revisiting a work that looms large in the life story of the theater, which has long since become one of the region’s biggest…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMTwo prominent Old Globe returnees (including a familiar face from both television and the stage) will be part of the just-announced cast of the Old Globe Theatre’s “Camp David,” which …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMThe long-awaited San Diego visit by the First Folio, the 17th-century volume that introduced Shakespeare’s collected works to the world, is now barely three months away. And the Old Globe …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMBefore Broadway stardom and a Tony Award and a thriving TV and movie career, BD Wong was a young New York actor working to earn his union card by doing a traveling play for young people. Som…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMThe French just have a way with farce — and so does North Coast Rep, which has staged some memorably over-the-top examples of the form.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:25PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Friday, February 19, 2016
Like the staid traditions the poor milkman Tevye celebrates (and debates), “Fiddler on the Roof” feels as though it’s been with us since the beginning of time.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:02PMThursday, February 18, 2016
The “Book” is back — and if you haven’t yet been entertained/dazed/scandalized by this raunchy scriptural satire, now might be the time. Almost two years after its first tour visit t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:42PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Technically, it’s a three-act play. For audiences and actors, though, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” goes all 15 brutal, knock-down rounds. That is emphatically, dramatically and …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:22PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Local stage artists weigh in on the status of companies and plays that explore the black experience
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:49AMThursday, February 11, 2016
At the risk of telling a story so sweet it’ll make your teeth throb, let’s acknowledge a few dangerously adorable truths about the Old Globe’s production of “The Last Match.” First…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:11PMYou wouldn’t call “Guards at the Taj” bloodless, exactly — even without the puddles of crimson liquid the actors slosh and slip around in about halfway through Rajiv Joseph’s play.…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:11PMThere are a few fresh twists to La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA New Work Series, whose 2016 edition (kicking off Feb. 18) is the fourth go-round for this showcase of promising plays in developmen…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:33AMIntrepid's 'Quality of Life' joins Playhouse show among big winners at ceremony honoring local theater.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:33AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
It might be time the vice squad paid a little visit to the Old Globe: The place is crawling with people getting openly high on rhymes. Not just actors, either (what would you expect from the…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:29AM“Fiddler on the Roof” is enjoying a hit revival on Broadway just now (with University of California San Diego grad Danny Burstein as its star). But the Welk Resorts Theatre version shoul…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:29AMIndia’s greatest architectural landmark looms large in Rajiv Joseph’s “Guards at the Taj” — and in the life of the playwright, too. Just ask Facebook. “Literally one year ago we …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:14AM 
