Tuesday, February 9, 2016
India’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 04:14AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Almost 20 years ago, Jay Donnell saw the musical “Ragtime” and, to hear him tell it, suddenly knew his place was on the stage instead of in the audience. Now Donnell is about to star as …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:10PMSunday, January 31, 2016
It takes a pretty strong marriage to portray one that’s sinking like a sabotaged battleship in a sea of gin and recriminations.But Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth, the married pair …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:10PM“Outside Mullingar” is a play laced with misgivings and disappointments and the specter of death. And if San Diego Rep’s production of the John Patrick Shanleypiece doesn’t make you …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:10PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Headstrong heroes (and heroines) highlight Broadway/San Diego’s just-announced lineup of touring musicals for 2016-17, with classic shows and a few newcomers all figuring into the mix for …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:11AMThere’s poetry within the lines of “The Metromaniacs,” and poetry within the minds of the verse-happy people who populate the play. So drenched, in fact, is this David Ives-adapted com…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:11AMFriday, January 22, 2016
A play that features a witty, even slightly heroic drama critic as a key character? If I’d known that about “The Nerd” beforehand, I might’ve made like Axel (the theater scold in Lar…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:39PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
In theater circles, the struggle of female playwrights to get their work produced on America’s stages has been a hot topic of late. At Playwrights Project? Not really an issue. At least no…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:53PMSunday, January 17, 2016
It’s a long way from London to the wilds of Alaska, and in North Coast Rep’s folksy and often funny new Sherlock Holmes mystery, suspense is a little slow to make the trip.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:23PMFriday, January 15, 2016
Green is the color of renewal. It’s also the color that defines Ireland. And OK, it might also be the color of greed and envy and bile. Those aren’t quite the shades that San Diego Rep i…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:50PMThursday, January 14, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre has just announced the cast for its upcoming world premiere of “The Last Match,” and love figures into this tennis-centric play in more ways than one (yes, we just …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:40PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
Idina Menzel was in excellent form for the start of the Civic run (one of only seven cities in which she is reprising her Broadway role). And “If/Then” offers plenty of opportunity to se…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:52AMThursday, January 7, 2016
The Old Globe Theatre-developed musical “Allegiance” will close on Broadway in February, just over three months after it began performances there. Producers of the show, which features t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:36AMFriday, January 1, 2016
Critics Circle announces field for annual celebration honoring local theaters and artists.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:29PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
In the musical “If/Then,” Idina Menzel plays the lead role of a divorced woman whose life diverges on alternate paths after she moves to New York. It’s a fitting showcase for this Tony…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:58PMTuesday, December 29, 2015
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
There’ll be drink, merriment, music, sketch comedy and even some last-minute shopping opportunities (for local crafts) as the grass-roots San Diego theater troupe Circle Circle dot dot ser…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:56PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
The Old Globe Theatre has announced the cast for the West Coast premiere of “The Metromaniacs,” the latest comic “translaptation” from playwright David Ives.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:11PM 
